Anime like Soreyuke! Uchuu Senkan Yamamoto Youko (1999)

Metal Fighter MIKU

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Media Blasters , Nippon Victor , TV Tokyo
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi , Sports

In the near future, the sports world is dominated by Neo Wrestling, a new spectacle in which Metal Fighters challenge each other to be named champion. The story follows the girls of the Pretty Four; Miku, Ginko, Sayaka, and Nana, as they face off against the current champions, Team Sapphire. With a burnt out drunk named Eiichi Suo for a coach the girls must not only contend with problems in the arena but also unforseen circumstances that arise in day to day life. Only through protecting their friends, understanding their enemies, and eventually challenging their idol Aquamarine, can Miku and the girls understand Eiichi's purpose and the shady secrets behind Neo Wrestling.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Wrestling , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Mopeds , Martial Arts , Cyberpunk , Urban , Idol , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Age Gap

Vandread

Also known as Vandread.

Studio: GONZO , GDH , Dentsu , Media Factory
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

Life sucks for Hibiki. Intergalactic society has broken into civil war between males and females; he's stuck on the assembly line for war mecha, relentlessly teased by his co-workers and unable to pursue his dreams of building his own mecha one day. He finally decides he's had enough though, and attempts to break in and steal a mech for his own purposes; this turns out to be a bad idea, thrusting him into the middle of a fever-pitch space battle that brings him face to face with the enemy and launches him into an adventure that will change his mundane life forever.



Tags: Space , Primarily Female Cast , Super Robot , Male Protagonist , CGI , Pirates , Space Opera , Primarily Adult Cast , Military , Ensemble Cast , Tsundere , Artificial Intelligence , Unrequited Love , Travel , Tanned Skin , Heterosexual , Female Harem , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Kuudere , Gender Bending , Tragedy

Kidou Senkan Nadesico

Also known as Martian Successor Nadesico.

Studio: Xebec , Starchild Records , ADV Films , Yomiko Advertising
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

Akito doesn't want to fight. Despite a childhood spent on the anime Gekiganger 3, a Mecha show, he'd rather cook than pilot a Mecha. Fate intervenes when his home on Mars is destroyed, and he is transported instantly to the Earth, mysteriously. He has questions no one can answer fully, but follows a girl from a chance meeting in hopes to discover any. The girl, Yurika, is captain of the private battleship Nadesico, and in order to follow her, he enlists as their cook. Possessing the nanite implants that allow to control mechas, he's a handy backup pilot for the mechas of the Nadesico. He joins a crew bent on revenging Mars and composed of misfits, otakus, and ditzes. But in reality they are handpicked experts. They take their own private war back to Mars to face the harsh reality that life may not always be like a Giant Mecha Series.



Tags: Space , Love Triangle , Parody , Time Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , Real Robot , Female Harem , Meta , Food , Otaku Culture , Kuudere , Primarily Adult Cast , Space Opera

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

Generator Gawl

Studio: ADV Films , Tatsunoko Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi

Ryo, Gawl and Koji are 3 young boys who travel back into the past with only 1 objective: change history. In their time they discover that their country, Kubere, uses genetically enhanced persons called generators as a military tool. These generators are the cause for the Third War which kills most of the human population. Now Koji, Ryo and Gawl are there to change all the events.



Tags: Time Manipulation , Henshin , Tokusatsu , School

Tenamonya Voyagers

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Bandai Visual , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Paraila was an agent for a war organization in the space, but suddenly the supreme court of planets accused her of betrayal and she was forced to be a fugitive to escape from jail. Now she forms a team with a clueless school teacher, a bazooka lover girl and Paraila's former sidekick. They will battle against Paraila's enemies, and try to go to earth to escape from space justice.



Tags: Parody , Space , Female Protagonist , Real Robot , Fugitive , Primarily Female Cast

Kiddy GiRL-AND

Studio: Satelight , Kadokawa Shoten , gimik
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Twenty-five years after Éclair and Lumière, (from the flagship Kiddy Grade series), rescued the galaxy from destruction's doorstep, the GTO (Galactic Trade Organization), created after the defeat of the GOTT (Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs), act on behalf of universal peace by combating criminal activity.

Their special ES division mirrored after the GOTT's ES (Encounter of Shadow-work) force, now includes publicly acknowledged ES member candidates. The series follows two such trainees, Ascoeur and Q-feuille, as they work their way to ES membership.



Tags: Super Power , Space , Military , Real Robot , Primarily Female Cast , Robots , Female Protagonist

Top wo Nerae 2! DIEBUSTER

Also known as Gunbuster 2: Diebuster.

Studio: Gainax , Bandai Visual , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

While Gunbuster's final mission destroyed the space monsters' star system, the intergalactic war still continues. Earth's only hope lies in the hands of "TOPLESS", an elite mecha group with children possessing supernatural powers and new Buster Machines. Among their ranks is a rookie named Nono and the ace pilot Lal'C - whom Nono looks at as a "big sister". Together with their teammates Nicholas and Chiko they must aim for the top and protect all of mankind from the wrath of the space monsters.



Tags: Super Robot , Space , Female Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Coming of Age , Kaiju , Tragedy , Artificial Intelligence , Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Space Opera , Henshin , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , CGI , Mopeds , Yuri , Military , Twins , Tomboy , Tanned Skin