Anime like Solty Rei

Kanata no Astra

Also known as ASTRA LOST IN SPACE.

Studio: Lerche , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Itʼs the first day of Planet Camp, and Aries Spring couldnʼt be more excited! She, along with eight other strangers, leave for Planet McPa for a weeklong excursion. Soon after they arrive, however, a mysterious orb appears and transports them into the depths of space, where they find an empty floating spaceship…



Note: The first and last episode aired with a runtime of ~48 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.

Tags: Space , Clone , Conspiracy , Survival , Found Family , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Travel , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Politics , Shounen , Crime , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Kuudere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender , Assassins , Tanned Skin , Aliens , Royal Affairs , Guns , Revenge , Nudity

Black Jack (TV)

Studio: Tezuka Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Black Jack is an "unregistered" doctor with a clouded, mysterious past. He works with his little assistant Pinoko (who has a massive crush on the doctor), dealing with medical cases not very well known, which can be strange, dangerous, or not known at all. But he is a genius, and can save almost any of his patients' life (as long as they have the money for it, that is), and is known to many around the world, especially to those of medicine and science. He's a man of science himself, and does not believe much until he has seen it, yet it is many times he is surprised by love and nature often overpowering the science he bases his life in.



Tags: Medicine , Work , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Shounen , Philosophy

Brigadoon: Marin to Melan

Also known as Brigadoon.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Visual , TOKYOPOP
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Marin is a typical junior high school girl with a sunny disposition and a loving adoptive family. Her life takes a drastic change when a mysterious mirage is seen in the sky above the entire earth. Killer androids called Monomakia descend to earth from the formation in the sky called Brigadoon and begin to hunt down little Marin. She discovers a blue bottle in a shrine as she seeks escape and from the bottle comes a protector, a sword carrying gun slinging alien called Melan Blue, together they must save the earth and deal with family crisis, school prejudice and the police and come to an understanding of Marins past and Melans unexplained mission, as well as learn to trust each other. Set in 1969 Japan with a colorful cast of friends and enemies.



Tags: Super Robot , Female Protagonist , Robots , Historical , Aliens , Conspiracy , Found Family , Time Manipulation , Bullying , Slapstick , School , Disability , Post-Apocalyptic , Age Gap , Delinquents , Adoption , Orphan , Nudity , Revenge , Primarily Child Cast , Food , Isekai , Guns , Twins , Fugitive

NO.6

Also known as No.6.

Studio: bones , Aniplex , Fuji TV , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

In a near future world, after the last great war, most of mankind lives in a handful of city states. There, for the privileged elite, life should be perfect. But for young Shion, the only thing perfect has been the nightmare his life has become since letting a strange boy called Rat spend the night in his apartment.

Banished to the outskirts of the city and stripped of all privileges for helping the mysterious stranger who has since disappeared, Shion now finds himself in even worse danger as his inquiry into a new series of mysterious deaths results in his being arrested on suspicion of murder!

But even as Shion is being sent to the city's Correctional Institute, the long-missing Rat reappears to rescue him! Now on the run, the two young men have only one chance at survival: uncover the mysterious secrets that lie at the sinister heart of No. 6!



Tags: Dystopian , Conspiracy , Time Skip , Cyberpunk , Boys' Love , Fugitive , Memory Manipulation , Animals , Revenge , Male Protagonist , Survival , Shoujo , Urban , Classic Literature , Gender Bending , Tragedy , Agender , Love Triangle , Crossdressing , Yandere

R.O.D -THE TV-

Also known as R.O.D -THE TV-.

Studio: J.C. Staff , Aniplex , Rakuonsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Five years have passed since the occurrence of the incident known as the "Human Annihilation Mission." In Japan, a novelist is dealing with writer's block after her friend has gone missing. In Hong Kong, three sisters, masters in the use of paper, run their own detective agency to solve cases that involve books. When these people are brought together, a bond greater than blood is formed - a bond that will be sorely tested by the evil powers intent on taking over the world.

Join Anita, Maggie, Michelle, and Nenene as they travel the globe in order to save the world from the evil mastermind, Mr. Carpenter! Of course, that's if they can find the time to put down the books they're reading...



Tags: Super Power , Found Family , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , Ensemble Cast , Alternate Universe , Conspiracy , Writing , Memory Manipulation , Nudity

HeatGuy J

Also known as Heat Guy J.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Satelight , Funimation , Dentsu , TBS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In the city of Judoh, Claire Leonelli has inherited leadership of the Mafia group "Vampire" following the death of his father. To keep Claire's and other criminal activities in check, the city's Bureau of Urban Safety has Special Services Division operative Daisuke Aurora and the super android codenamed "J" (whose identity is apparently kept in secrecy, as androids are banned in the city). With both of them around, crime now has little room to breathe in Judoh.



Tags: Police , Mafia , Urban , Guns , Episodic , Revenge , Robots , Werewolf , Artificial Intelligence

Kaleido Star

Also known as Kaleido Star.

Studio: GONZO , Production I.G , TV Tokyo , Hal Film Maker , ADV Films , Funimation , G&G Entertainment , Horipro , MediaNet
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports , Supernatural

Sora, a young girl from Japan, comes to America in search of her dream. She wants, with all her heart, to be a member of the Kaleido Stage, a world famous circus, with a combination of musicals, acrobatics and magical effects. With the help of her friends, she struggles to make this dream come true.

Tags: Circus , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Acting , Coming of Age , Work , Acrobatics , Fairy Tale , Ghost , Dancing , Animals , Primarily Teen Cast , Musical Theater , Idol , Police , Cosplay

planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume

Also known as Planetarian.

Studio: David Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Hoshino Yumemi is a companion robot working at an abandoned planetarium. It’s been thirty years since her last customer, but she continues to wait. When a customer finally appears, she enlists his help to fix the planetarium so she can show him the stars.



Tags: Robots , Post-Apocalyptic , Artificial Intelligence , Astronomy , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Mythology , Urban , Survival , Guns , Tsundere

Koukaku Kidoutai: STAND ALONE COMPLEX

Also known as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Studio: Production I.G , Kodansha , Trilogy Future Studio , Bandai Entertainment , Tokuma Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

In the not so distant future, mankind has advanced to a state where complete body transplants from flesh to machine is possible. This allows for great increases in both physical and cybernetic prowess and blurring the lines between the two worlds. However, criminals can also make full use of such technology, leading to new and sometimes, very dangerous crimes. In response to such innovative new methods, the Japanese Government has established Section 9, an independently operating police unit which deals with such highly sensitive crimes.

Led by Daisuke Aramaki and Motoko Kusanagi, Section 9 deals with such crimes over the entire social spectrum, usually with success. However, when faced with a new A level hacker nicknamed “The Laughing Man”, the team is thrown into a dangerous cat and mouse game, following the hacker’s trail as it leaves its mark on Japan.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Police , Politics , Episodic , Robots , Philosophy , Crime , Artificial Intelligence , Cyborg , Work , Urban , Military , Detective , Seinen , Conspiracy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Dystopian , Memory Manipulation , Real Robot , Ensemble Cast , Guns , CGI , Kuudere , Body Swapping , Gore , Bisexual

Dimension W

Also known as Dimension W.

Studio: Studio 3Hz , Orange , Q-Tec , Bandai Visual , Funimation , Lantis , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Bushiroad , Cospa , Square Enix , TOKYO MX , Good Smile Company
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

In the year 2071, the world's energy problems seem solved by a network of cross-dimensional electric-field inductors- "coils" -that extract energy from a seemingly infinite source. That source is the W dimension, a fourth plane that exists beyond the X, Y, and Z dimensions.

In this world, unofficial "illegal" coils harness powers that the police can't hope to counter. Dealing with these coils is the job of coil-hating repo man Kyoma, whose run-in with the unique coil android Mira leads the two to form a reluctant partnership.



Tags: Seinen , Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Cyberpunk , Amnesia , Female Protagonist , Urban , Ghost , Male Protagonist , CGI , Memory Manipulation