Anime like Simoun

Last Exile

Also known as Last Exile.

Studio: GONZO , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , GDH , Funimation , TV Tokyo Music , Victor Entertainment , TV Tokyo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

It's the dawn of the Golden Age of Aviation on planet Prester, and retro-futuristic sky vehicles known as vanships dominate the horizon. Claus Valca – a flyboy born with the right stuff – and his fiery navigator Lavie are fearless racers obsessed with becoming the first sky couriers to cross the Grand Stream in a vanship. But when the high-flying duo encounters a mysterious girl named Alvis, they are thrust into the middle of an endless battle between Anatoray and Disith – two countries systematically destroying each other according to the code of chivalric warfare. Lives will be lost and legacies determined as Claus and Lavie attempt to bring peace to their world by solving the riddle of its chaotic core.



Tags: Aviation , War , Post-Apocalyptic , Steampunk , Female Protagonist , CGI , Ensemble Cast , Lost Civilization , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Cult

Mai-Otome

Also known as My-Otome.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Visual , Lantis , TV Tokyo Music , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy

Arika Yumemiya has traveled far in search of her goal: the prestigious Gualderobe Academy. This is the school where young girls are trained to become Otomes, protectors of royal leaders throughout the lands. Here, Arika makes plenty of friends, but some enemies know something about her past that she does not. Nevertheless, her spirit and determination will keep pushing her forward.

Adapted from its predecessor, Mai-HiME, this series is not a direct sequel, but an alternate universe setting featuring some of the Mai-HiME cast (though with different personalities).



Tags: Magic , Henshin , Kuudere , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist

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 , Military , Post-Apocalyptic , War , Super Robot , Female Protagonist , Aliens , Amnesia , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Age Gap

So Ra No Wo To

Also known as Sound of the Sky.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

In a lonely corner of the world, on the edge of No Man’s Land, sits Clocktower Fortress. It’s home to the 1121st Platoon of the Helvetian Army, and their newest member is a 15-year-old volunteer named Kanata Sorami, who enlisted to learn how to play the bugle. When she was a child, Kanata was saved by a beautiful soldier and found inspiration in the clear, golden sound of her trumpet. From that day forward, Kanata decided music would be her life.

As the other platoon members train her how to be a bugler and a soldier, Kanata's enduring optimism will inspire them to look for happiness and beauty, even in a world haunted by war.



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Military , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Lost Civilization , Episodic , Primarily Female Cast , Steampunk , Iyashikei , Kuudere , Philosophy , War , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , CGI , Tsundere , Nun , Tanks , Language Barrier

Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo

Also known as Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon.

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

Betrayed, stripped of her birthright, and declared less than human. Everything that Princess Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi of the Misurugi Empire thought she knew about her world was a lie. Now, for the crime of not being able to use magic, she’s been sentenced to certain death as a slave-soldier. The girl now known as Ange is no longer an innocent Princess: she’s learning how to kill draconic invaders, defending the same traitors who stole her life. However, they made a fatal mistake: they gave her access to an incredible weapon.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Dragons , Dystopian , War , Military , Super Robot , Meta , Nudity , Guns , Alternate Universe , Philosophy , Real Robot , Isekai , Bisexual , Heterosexual , CGI , Love Triangle , Body Horror , LGBTQ+ Themes , Magic , Gore , Swordplay , Bullying , Tragedy , Tsundere , Kuudere , Female Harem , Lacrosse , Polyamorous , Shounen

11-nin Iru!

Also known as They Were 11.

Studio: Kitty Film , Central Park Media , Magic Bus
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Romance , Sci-Fi

In the distant future, ten space cadets embark on a survival test that sets them adrift in a derelict spacecraft from which they must find their way home. Terror strikes when the cadets discover eleven of themselves aboard the ship. Who is the imposter, and what is his (or her) purpose? Paranoia runs rampant and lives hang in the balance as the cadets scrutinize one another for any wrong move. Can they identify the spy before it’s too late?



Tags: Survival , Space , Aliens , Ensemble Cast , Agender , Super Power , Amnesia , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Shoujo , Gender Bending , Transgender , Memory Manipulation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Medicine , Eco-Horror

Shoujo Kakumei Utena

Also known as Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , TV Tokyo , The Right Stuf International , Central Park Media , Yomiuri Advertising , SoftX
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Psychological , Romance

Just after Utena's parents died, she was consoled by a prince who gave her a ring with a rose crest on it. Utena was so impressed by the Prince that she vowed to become one herself one day. A few years later, Utena is attending Ohtori Academy where she gives all the teachers headaches because she dresses in a boy's uniform so she can be like the prince she met long ago.

After Utena's friend is insulted by a member of the Student Council, Utena fights in a duel for her friend's honor. Utena's rose crest allows her to enter the dueling arena, where Utena wins the duel and becomes engaged to the Rose Bride. Unknowingly, Utena is pulled into a series of duels with other members of the Student Council for the possession of the Rose Bride. As she becomes fond of Anthy, the Rose Bride, she must fight to keep her friend safe and to discover the horrifying secret behind Ohtori Academy.



Tags: Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Philosophy , Fairy Tale , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tomboy , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Incest , Swordplay , Yuri , Tragedy , Psychosexual , Bisexual , Surreal Comedy , Age Gap , Witch , School , Conspiracy , Memory Manipulation , Ojou-sama , Meta , Henshin , Love Triangle , Fencing , Episodic , Crossdressing , Magic , Time Loop , Bullying , Kuudere , Boarding School , Cheating , Twins , Suicide , Boys' Love , Astronomy , Aliens , Athletics , Body Swapping , Politics

Terra e... (TV)

Also known as Toward the Terra (TV).

Studio: Aniplex , Tokyo Kids , Mainichi Broadcasting System , SKY Perfect Well Think , Bandai Entertainment , Minami Machi Bugyousho
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

In the future, humans are living on colonized planets and are controlled in every aspect of their life by a system of computers. Evolution has resulted in the birth of people with extraordinary powers. This new race is called Mu. Hated and feared by the humans, the Mu dream of a place to live in peace: Earth - a mystical far away planet - for humanity had to leave their home long ago as pollution and destruction increased and made it impossible to stay there any longer.

Jomy is a boy excitedly awaiting his birthday, the day he will enter the world of adults. Yet he knows nothing about the unknown powers sleeping in him and the shared dream of returning to Earth one day.


Tags: Space , Shounen , Fugitive , Space Opera , Super Power , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Memory Manipulation , Time Skip , Tragedy , Disability , Military , War

Soukou no Strain

Also known as STRAIN: Strategic Armored Infantry.

Studio: Studio Fantasia , Funimation , Happinet Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In the distant future, mankind is divided into two factions: Union and Deague. They have waged a war against each other for so long that no one remembers when it first began. The backbone of the Union military is the manned weapons system Strain, while the Deague uses an unmanned version, the Tumoru.

Sara Werec, the daughter of a respectable family, is a 16-yearold girl who attends Grapera Space Armed Soldier Academy located in the Cranial Solar System, where she is training to become a full-fledged Reasoner (a Strain pilot).

Her brother, Ralph Werec, had been sent to the frontline 130 light-years away to accomplish a special mission when she was 11 years old, a distance that requires 400 years of objective time to traverse by even the fastest Union spacecraft. However, in accordance with the theory of relativity, this corresponds to only two subjective years (time as experienced by those within the spacecraft).

The two of them had lost their parents when they were young and the bond between the two is very close. It is Sara’s dearest wish to be reunited with her brother. To do that, she must travel to the battlefield where he is.

One day, Sara’s planet is suddenly assaulted by Deague forces. To her surprise, her brother, Ralph, turns out to be one of the raiders who successfully kidnap a mysterious girl sleeping in a capsule.

In order to find the truth, Sara gets in a Strain and chases after him. However, she is attacked by Ralph, and the Mimic, a copy of the pilot’s brain which is essential to controlling the Strain, is damaged.



Tags: Real Robot , Military , Space , War , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Time Manipulation , Yuri , Bullying

BLUE DROP: Tenshi-tachi no Gikyoku

Also known as Blue Drop.

Studio: GONZO , BeSTACK , Sentai Filmworks , Memory-Tech , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi

Five years ago, something horrifying happened on Kamioki Island. Something so nightmarish that it stripped all memory from Mari Wakatake's mind even as it left every other human on the island dead in its wake! Now enrolled against her will at an isolated girl's academy, Mari is unaware that hidden eyes are watching her, waiting for her memory to return.

Buried in her psyche is the most terrifying secret of all: while Mari was the only human who lived, she may not have been the only survivor! As something in a female skin invades Kaihou Academy, Mari's only hope may lie in a strange girl to whom she is inexplicably drawn yet cannot trust.



Tags: Coming of Age , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Amnesia , Aliens , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Space , Kuudere , Primarily Female Cast , Shounen