Anime like Macross Zero

Macross Frontier

Also known as Macross Frontier.

Studio: Satelight , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Music , Romance , Sci-Fi

After being threatened by extinction at the hands of alien invaders called the Zentradi, humanity undertook the task of guaranteeing itself a future by launching fleets of colony ships into space. On Macross Frontier, one such fleet, high school student Saotome Alto's life is changed forever: the fleet is suddenly attacked by unidentified creatures while he is performing aerial stunts for a concert by the wildly popular idol Sheryl.

Alto quickly finds himself in the cockpit of a new-model fighter struggling to protect Ranka Lee, a young girl he met only hours earlier, from the invaders' swath of destruction. Noting his performance during this incident, the S.M.S. Skull Squadron private military company invites Alto to join their organization, where he continues protecting his friends and Macross Frontier.



Tags: Space Opera , Love Triangle , Idol , Military , Real Robot , Space , Aliens , Anti-Hero , Amnesia , Cosmic Horror , Estranged Family , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , War , CGI , Cyborg , Body Horror

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 , Primarily Female Cast , Magic , Dragons , Anachronism , Tanks , Elf , Language Barrier , Otaku Culture , Medieval , Kemonomimi , Slavery , Kuudere

RahXephon

Also known as RahXephon.

Studio: bones , ADV Films , Asatsu DK , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Music , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

In the year 2012 Japan was invaded by the Mu. Human-like beings from another dimension with blue blood.

In the year 2015 Tokyo is attacked by invaders, who are repelled by a humanoid weapon called a Dolem. During the chaos, Ayato Kamina meets Reika Mishima, a classmate.

During that same day, he is attacked by government officials but a woman named Haruka comes to his rescue, informing him that she was sent to get him by the Organization TERRA, and that Tokyo had been sealed in a time rift where time flows one third as fast as the outside world.

He flees from Haruka onto a train where he sees Reika once more. Arriving at the Room of Rah, he follows her to a tremendous egg where the Dolem RahXephon is hatched from, and upon her singing his mother appears atop the Dolem that had stopped the TERRA Invasion. In the battle Ayato's mother is injured, and Ayato flees Tokyo Jupiter with Haruka upon seeing his mother's blue blood.

Tags: Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Mythology , Philosophy , Time Manipulation , Post-Apocalyptic , Military , War , Super Robot , Aliens , Amnesia , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Age Gap

Fantastic Children

Also known as Fantastic Children.

Studio: Nippon Animation , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Romance , Sci-Fi

A group of enigmatic white-haired children has been spotted at different times and places in Europe for over 500 years. Always with the appearance of 11-year-olds, they behave far more mature than they should be, never grow old, and seem to have supernatural power. What they have been seeking is a girl, and the only clue they have is a picture with a crescent moon. Now, in the year of 2012, an athletic boy named Tohma is about to be involved in this centuries-long mystery.



Tags: Foreign , Reincarnation , Tragedy , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Lost Civilization , Historical , Philosophy , Detective , Urban Fantasy , Space , Rural , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Amnesia , Orphan , Age Regression , Astronomy , Heterosexual , Fugitive , Guns , Robots , Torture

Suisei no Gargantia

Also known as Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet.

Studio: Production I.G , Bandai Visual , Yomiuri TV , Lantis , Viz Media , Nitroplus , Bushiroad , Hanabee Entertainment , Manga Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The story begins in the distant future in the far reaches of the galaxy. The Human Galactic Alliance has been constantly fighting for its survival against a grotesque race of beings called "Hidiaazu." During an intense battle, the young lieutenant Ledo and his humanoid mobile weapon Chamber are swallowed up into a distortion of time and space. Waking from his artificially induced hibernation, Ledo realizes that he has arrived on Earth, the planet on the lost frontier. On this planet that was completely flooded by the seas, people live in fleets of giant ships, salvaging relics from the seas' depths in order to survive. Ledo arrives on one of the fleets called Gargantia. With no knowledge of the planet's history or culture, he is forced to live alongside Amy, a 15-year-old girl who serves as a messenger aboard the Gargantia fleet. To Ledo, who has lived a life where he knows nothing but fighting, these days of peace continue to surprise him.



Tags: Environmental , Lost Civilization , Artificial Intelligence , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist , Ships , Real Robot , Isekai , Language Barrier , Military , Aliens , Pirates , Super Robot , Tanned Skin , Space , Heterosexual , CGI , Philosophy , Guns , Disability , Cult , Revenge

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

Koukyoushihen Eureka Seven

Also known as Eureka Seven.

Studio: bones , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Ashi Productions , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

Renton is a teenager trapped working as a mechanic in a backwater town. He dreams of joining up with a daredevil group of pilots known as Gekkostate and following in his father's heroic footsteps.

When a mysterious beauty named Eureka shows up asking for a tune-up, Renton soon finds himself drawn into a high-flying mecha dogfight that makes him a target of the military. When the dust settles on the spectacular battle, Renton is invited to join Gekkostate, but he soon discovers that even a dream come true has a dark side.



Tags: Environmental , Coming of Age , Politics , Super Robot , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Surfing , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Real Robot , War , Military , Cohabitation , Ensemble Cast , Terrorism , Kuudere , Aviation , Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Aliens , Bullying , Guns , Clone , Ships , Tanned Skin , Unrequited Love , Parenthood , Football , Nudity , Suicide

Area 88

Also known as Area 88.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Romance

In a cruel twist of fate, talented young pilot Shin Kazama is tricked into serving as a mercenary for Area 88. A hell on Earth where men survive by gunning down anyone who stands in their way. To return home, Shin must sell his soul to the battlefield and pave the road back to Japan with the corpses of his fallen opponents.



Tags: Tragedy , Military , Aviation , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Foreign , Survival , Male Protagonist , Ojou-sama , Orphan

Sky Crawlers

Also known as The Sky Crawlers.

Studio: Production I.G
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

The Sky Crawlers is based on a Japanese novel series by Hiroshi Mori. First published by Chuōkōron-shinsha in June 2001 and spanning five books, it follows the journeys and tribulations of a group of young fighter pilots involved in dogfight warfare, and is set during an alternate historical period.

Tags: Military , War , Philosophy , Tragedy , Dystopian , Clone , Male Protagonist , Aviation , Foreign , Reincarnation , Heterosexual , Amnesia , Kuudere , CGI

Rocket Girls

Studio: Mook Animation , Bandai Entertainment , Happinet Pictures , Sentai Filmworks , DLE
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

A high school girl Morita Yukari visits Axia of the Solomon Islands in order to look for her father who became lost during his honeymoon trip. There, she meets a man named Nasuda of Solomon Space Agency, and she is hired to work part-time. That job is an astronaut. She is chosen as one of the crews of the first Japanese manned spaceship only because she is little and light. Where is her future going to?



Tags: Space , Work , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Astronomy , Educational , Coming of Age , Parody , Language Barrier , Indigenous Cultures