Anime like Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled From Paradise

Harmony

Studio: Studio 4°C , Kansai TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

In the future, utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration.

This utopia isn't perfect, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn't work, but one of the girls—Tuan Kirie—grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet...from itself.



Tags: Philosophy , Yuri , Dystopian , Female Protagonist , Cyberpunk , Suicide , LGBTQ+ Themes , Augmented Reality , CGI , Terrorism , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Conspiracy , Urban , Politics , Military , Police , Guns , Nudity

Summer Wars

Also known as Summer Wars.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Yomiuri TV , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten , Warner Bros. Japan , GKIDS , D.N. Dream Partners , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family's Nagano home for a summer job, he agrees without hesitation.

Natsuki's family, the Jinnouchi clan, dates back to the Muromachi era (1336 to 1573), and they've all come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers his "summer job" is to pretend to be Natsuki's fiance and dance with her at the birthday celebration.

As Kenji attempts to keep up with Natsuki's act around her family, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can't resist solving. As it turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes Oz, the program that controls nearly every aspect of life to be hacked into, it's up to Kenji and his new "family" to stop the hacker before it's too late.



Tags: Family Life , Virtual World , Artificial Intelligence , Ensemble Cast , Software Development , Rural , Male Protagonist , Terrorism , CGI , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Card Battle , Heterosexual , Military , Alternate Universe , Robots , Tanned Skin , Fake Relationship , Work , War , Kemonomimi , Matriarchy , Anthropomorphism , Estranged Family , Space , Baseball , Revenge , Gods

HELLO WORLD

Studio: Graphinica
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

In Kyoto in the year 2027, Naomi Katagaki, a male high school student encounters a person who is claiming to be Naomi from 10 years in the future. Together, they must change the future and save a classmate, Ruri, whom the younger Naomi starts to date in three months.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Virtual World , Alternate Universe , Full CGI , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Augmented Reality , Age Regression , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Urban , Rehabilitation , School , Kuudere , Female Protagonist , Magic , Seinen

Eden

Also known as Eden.

Studio: Qubic Pictures , CGCG Studio Inc. , Netflix
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Sci-Fi

Thousands of years in the future, a city known as “Eden 3” is inhabited solely by robots whose former masters vanished a long time ago. On a routine assignment, two farming robots accidentally awaken a human baby girl from stasis questioning all they were taught to believe -- that humans were nothing more than a forbidden ancient myth. Together, the two robots secretly raise the child in a safe haven outside Eden.



Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Female Protagonist , Full CGI , Family Life , Robots , Post-Apocalyptic , Environmental , Coming of Age , Real Robot , Found Family , Tanned Skin , Memory Manipulation , Lost Civilization

Koukaku no Pandora

Also known as Pandora in the Crimson Shell Ghost Urn.

Studio: Studio Gokumi
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

In an age when large-scale natural disasters frequently happen all over the world, when cyborgs and autonomous robots are beginning to appear on the market in technologically advanced nations, and major world powers compete for technology and resources, the divide between rich and poor grows and the future for the poor looks bleak. In this transitional stage, everyone wanders around in a self-indulgent daze and the way out isn't clear... This is the story of how two cybernetically enhanced girls meet.

Tags: Cyborg , Cyberpunk , Robots , Female Protagonist , Yuri , Henshin , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Seinen , Maids , Nekomimi

Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: The Movie

Also known as Patlabor: The Movie.

Studio: Production I.G , Bandai Visual , Touhouku Shinsha , Shouchiku , Bandai , Maiden Japan , Studio DEEN
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The year is 1999 and Tokyo's Mobile Police have a new weapon in the war on crime – advanced robots called Labors are used to combat criminals who would use the new technology for illegal means. The suicide of a mysterious man on the massive Babylon Project construction site sets off a cascade of events that may signal the destruction of Tokyo.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Noir , Police , Real Robot , Terrorism , Detective , Philosophy , Urban , Guns , Software Development , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Cosmic Horror

PSYCHO-PASS

Also known as PSYCHO-PASS.

Studio: Production I.G , Fuji TV , Nitroplus , Sony Music Entertainment , KYORAKU , Toho , Funimation , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Justice, and the enforcement of it, has changed. In the 22nd century, Japan enforces the Sibyl System, an objective means of determining the threat level of each citizen by examining their mental state for signs of criminal intent, known as their Psycho-Pass. Inspectors uphold the law by subjugating, often with lethal force, anyone harboring the slightest ill-will; alongside them are Enforcers, jaded Inspectors that have become latent criminals, granted relative freedom in exchange for carrying out the Inspectors' dirty work.

Into this world steps Akane Tsunemori, a young woman with an honest desire to uphold justice. However, as she works alongside veteran Enforcer Shinya Kougami, she soon learns that the Sibyl System's judgments are not as perfect as her fellow Inspectors assume. With everything she has known turned on its head, Akane wrestles with the question of what justice truly is, and whether it can be upheld through the use of a system that may already be corrupt.



Note: In the Summer 2014 season, Psycho-Pass was rebroadcast and re-edited to fit into an hour time-slot, ending up in 11 one-hour episodes. This edit included added scenes at the beginning and middle of the episodes, as well as fixing and improving animation.

Tags: Detective , Police , Dystopian , Cyberpunk , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Urban , Female Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Conspiracy , Revenge , Augmented Reality , Fugitive , Guns , Anti-Hero , Terrorism , Male Protagonist , Gore , Class Struggle , Tragedy , Robots , Body Horror , Nudity ,

Ryuu to Sobakasu no Hime

Also known as BELLE.

Studio: Studio Chizu , Cartoon Saloon
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Mystery , Sci-Fi

The protagonist of this story, Suzu, is a 17-year old high school girl living with her father in a rural town of Kochi — their town is a textbook definition of depopulation in the Japanese countryside. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world, “U,” and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U’s eyes are fixed on Belle (Suzu), when one day the mysterious and infamous Dragon-like figure appears before her.



Tags: Virtual World , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Augmented Reality , Coming of Age , Found Family , CGI , Tragedy , Fairy Tale , Idol , School , Heterosexual , Rehabilitation , Anthropomorphism , Dragons , Fugitive , Cyberpunk

Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song

Also known as Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-.

Studio: WIT STUDIO , Aniplex of America , Aniplex
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Music , Sci-Fi , Thriller

An AI named Matsumoto appears before Vivy, the world’s first autonomous humanoid AI. Matsumoto’s mission is to rewrite history together with Vivy, in order to stop the war between AI and humans that will happen one century later.



Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Robots , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Time Skip , Philosophy , Terrorism , Primarily Adult Cast , War , Guns , Dystopian , Musical Theater , Cyberpunk , Primarily Female Cast , Anthropomorphism , Kuudere , Memory Manipulation , Conspiracy , Idol , Amnesia , Politics , Dissociative Identities , Rehabilitation , Martial Arts , Suicide , Body Swapping , Space , Nudity , Heterosexual , Marriage , CGI , Gangs

86: Eighty Six

Also known as 86 EIGHTY-SIX.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex , KADOKAWA , BANDAI SPIRITS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Called “Juggernaut,” these are the unmanned combat drones developed by the Republic of San Magnolia in answer to the attacks by the autonomous unmanned drones of the neighboring Empire of Giad, the “Legion”. But they’re only unmanned in name. In reality, they are piloted by the Eighty-sixers—those considered to be less than human and treated as mere tools.

Determined to achieve his own mysterious ends, Shin, the captain of Spearhead Squadron, which is comprised of Eighty-sixers, continues to fight a hopeless war on a battlefield where only death awaits him.



Tags: War , Class Struggle , Military , Tragedy , Dystopian , Survival , Politics , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Robots , Guns , Proxy Battle , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Real Robot , Primarily Teen Cast , Philosophy , Memory Manipulation , Achronological Order , Artificial Intelligence , CGI , Necromancy , Unrequited Love , Gore , Lost Civilization , Suicide , Travel , Kuudere , Super Power , POV , Body Horror , Nudity