Anime like Heavy Object

Toaru Majutsu no Index

Also known as A Certain Magical Index.

Studio: J.C. Staff , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Square Enix , Funimation , AT-X , ASCII Media Works , Kadokawa Contents Gate
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Set in a city of scientifically advanced superhuman students, but in a world where magic is also real. Touma Kamijou’s right hand, the Imagine Breaker, will negate all magic, psychic, or divine powers, but not his own bad luck. One day he finds a young girl hanging on his balcony railing. She turns out to be a nun from the Church of England, and her mind has been implanted with the Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum - all the magical texts the Church has removed from circulation.

Tags: Magic , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Tsundere , Male Protagonist , Nun , Amnesia , Female Harem , Artificial Intelligence , Kuudere , Slapstick , Gore

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

Also known as A Certain Scientific Railgun.

Studio: J.C. Staff , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Funimation , Movic , AT-X , ASCII Media Works , Project Railgun
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Academy City is a highly developed place in terms of technology. It is said to be 20 to 30 years ahead of the rest of the world, and 80% of its 2.3 million residents are students. The focus of studies here is directed towards esper powers. Misaka Mikoto, one of the top level espers in town, shares a room with Kuroko Shirai, another high level esper who is a member of Judgement, a law enforcing agency composed of students. Both attend Tokiwadai, a private school reserved for the high-leveled and the rich. Kuroko's partner at Judgement, Kazari Uiharu, is a low level esper who studies at Sakugawa middle school. Her best friend and classmate there is Ruiko Saten, a level zero, one who has no esper powers. Together, the four encounter several adventures in the exciting scientific town.



Tags: Super Power , Urban , Primarily Female Cast , Urban Fantasy , Tomboy , Female Protagonist , Gyaru , Boarding School , Superhero , Robots , Ojou-sama , Slapstick , Bisexual , School , Ensemble Cast , Artificial Intelligence , Tsundere , Kaiju , Shounen , Heterosexual , Gangs , Police , Orphan , Super Robot , Crossdressing , Maids

Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator

Also known as A Certain Scientific Accelerator.

Studio: J.C. Staff , A.C.G.T.
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

The espers of Academy City are classified into six levels, where "Level 0" lacks power while "Level 5" possesses an overwhelming amount. Of the several million espers residing in Academy City, only seven of them have attained Level 5, and ranked highest among them is the one known as Accelerator.

Toaru Kagaku no Accelerator focuses on the strongest Level 5 after he protects the cheerful Last Order at the price of much of his power. Recovering at the hospital, Accelerator has led a relatively quiet life until he ends up saving the life of Estelle Rosenthal, a mysterious girl carrying a photo of Last Order. Unfortunately, Accelerator now finds himself dragged into a new conflict in the form of a sinister organization called Disciplinary Action which plots to use Last Order for a dangerous mission. Now that they have set their plan into motion and are in pursuit of the young girl, it's up to the world's most powerful esper and his newfound companion to protect Last Order and defend Academy City in the process.



Tags: Anti-Hero , Super Power , Necromancy , Urban Fantasy , Crime , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Magic , Military , Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Gore , Guns , School

GATE: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri

Also known as Gate.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Genco , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

The military fantasy series begins when a gate appears in Tokyo's Ginza district sometime in the 21st century. From the gate pours out monsters, knights from middle-age Europe, and other fantasy-like beings, and they kill many of the citizens of Tokyo. This event is known as the Ginza Incident.

The government sends a small group of soldiers from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (a replacement for Japan's military) to the alternate world beyond the gate. Led by otaku soldier Youji, they find that the villages in the world are being attacked by a dragon. An elf girl who is a survivor from the dragon's rampage joins the group in their travels across the dangerous new world.



Tags: Military , Isekai , War , Alternate Universe , Politics , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Dragons , Elf , Anachronism , Tanks , Otaku Culture , Language Barrier , Slavery , Kemonomimi , Kuudere

Senyoku no Sigrdrifa

Also known as Warlords of Sigrdrifa.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex , Good Smile Company , BS11
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy

When the Pillars suddenly appear on Earth, threatening all life, it's only the act of the god Odin that offers humanity salvation. Providing a means of fighting back, he gives Earth the Valkyries, young female pilots with supernatural powers and spirit fighter planes. These skilled troublemakers, all young, risk their lives in a long-running war—but the final battle is fast approaching!



Note: The first episode aired with a runtime of ~48 minutes.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Aviation , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Gods , Mythology , Tragedy , Magic

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

Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon

Also known as Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere.

Studio: Sunrise , Lantis , Sentai Filmworks , ASCII Media Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

In the far future, humans abandon a devastated Earth and traveled to outer space. However, due to unknown phenomenon that prevents them from traveling into space, humanity returns to Earth only to find it inhospitable except for Japan.

To accomodate the entire human population, pocket dimensions are created around Japan to house in the populace. In order to find a way to return to outer space, the humans began reenacting human history according to the Holy book Testament. But in the year 1413 of the Testament Era, the nations of the pocket dimensions invade and conquer Japan, dividing the territory into feudal fiefdoms and forcing the original inhabitants of Japan to leave.

It is now the year 1648 of the Testament Era, the refugees of Japan now live in the city ship Musashi, where it constantly travels around Japan while being watched by the Testament Union, the authority that runs the re-enactment of history. However, rumors of an apocalypse and war begins to spread when the Testament stops revealing what happens next after 1648.

Taking advantage of this situation, Toori Aoi, head of Musashi Ariadust Academy's Supreme Federation and President of the student council, leads his fellow classmates to use this opportunity to regain their homeland.



Tags: Female Harem , Politics , Ensemble Cast , Anachronism , Super Robot , Dystopian , Historical , Kuudere

Aldnoah.Zero

Also known as ALDNOAH.ZERO.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , TROYCA , Aniplex , MAGES. , Nitroplus , TOKYO MX , Movic , Houbunsha , Nippon BS Broadcasting , Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission found a hypergate to Mars on the surface of the moon. Upon landing, astronauts discovered a enchanted utility later referred to as 'Aldnoah', giving the astronauts a status of superiority. Soon, many humans have relocated to Mars, and have adapted to the name 'Martians'. After Princess Asseylum, a royal Martian princess, descends onto Earth in an attempt to create a treaty between both planets, a war breaks out between Earth and Mars, and Martian soldiers begin to descend from the sky, riding steel giants, intent on exterminating humanity.



Tags: Military , War , Conspiracy , Space Opera , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Real Robot , Guns , Lost Civilization , Politics , CGI , Revenge , Torture

Full Metal Panic!

Also known as Full Metal Panic!.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Sousuke Sagara, a seventeen year old military specialist working for the secret organization MITHRIL, has been assigned to protect the latest "Whispered" candidate Kaname Chidori. To complete this task Sousuke will have to deal with enemies from his past as well as the occasional panty thief. Unfortunately for Sousuke, the toughest part of his mission isn't only protecting Miss Chidori but also getting used to living an average High School students life, no easy task for someone raised on the battlefield.



Tags: Military , Guns , Real Robot , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , School , Super Power , War , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Ensemble Cast , Terrorism , Ships , Artificial Intelligence , Politics , Work , Alternate Universe

Starship Operators

Studio: J.C. Staff , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi

For the 73rd class of cadets of the Defense University of the small planet Kibi, a shakedown cruise on the fleet's new starship "Amaterasu" is a fitting lead-up to graduation. As they are returning to their home planet, however, they are shocked to hear news of a declaration of war by the aggressive Kingdom against Kibi. When their planetary government surrenders without a struggle, the cadets decide to launch their own war, aboard the "Amaterasu". To gain funding, they make a deal with a galactic news network - and find themselves the "stars" of their own "reality show". Unfortunately, this is the kind of reality show that can get you killed...



Tags: Military , Space , War , Space Opera , Female Protagonist , Politics , Ensemble Cast