Anime like Stratos 4

What is Stratos 4 about?

Studio: Studio Fantasia
Status: Finished

The Earth has developed a defense system against large meteorites that are on a collision course with it. This protection system is made up of the Comet Blasters based in several space stations as the 1st line of defense, using nuclear warheads launched by spaceships. The 2nd line of defense consists of the Meteor Sweepers launching from ground airbases using hypersonic planes with special missiles to deal with the resulting debris from the blasts. Mikaze is a troubled girl that is a trainee pilot for a Meteor Sweeper team that dreams of becoming a prestigious Comet Blaster pilot. Stratos 4 revolves around Mikaze's and her teammates' challenges to become real pilots, while the Earth faces the threats that come from space.

Tags: Military , Aviation , Work , Space , Aliens , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast

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Strike Witches

Also known as Strike Witches.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten , KLOCKWORX , NTT Docomo , 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

The year is 1944 and the world lives in fear of unidentified flying objects called Neuroi. With the old-boy old guard unable to thwart this deadly menace, humanity turns its desperate eyes to an aerial attack force with much nicer legs. Meet the girls of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, better known as the Strike Witches. These darlings of the great blue yonder may not have standard issue uniforms, but they do have all the right stuff. Where the average flyboy falters, these dolls blast aliens to bits in the bat of an eyelash. With a little magic and a whole lot of leg, the girls of the 501st are winning the war on pants, and aliens!

Tags: Kemonomimi , Aviation , Female Protagonist , Magic , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Nudity , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , War , Yuri , Tsundere , Kuudere , CGI

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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

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HIDIVE

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Kantai Collection: KanColle

Also known as KanColle.

Studio: diomedéa
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Set in a world where humanity has lost control of the oceans to the “deep sea fleet,” the only hope to counter this threat are the Kanmusu, a group of girls who possess the spirit of Japanese warships. The story revolves around Fubuki, a destroyer who comes to the Chinjufu base to train with other Kanmusu. Watch as their stories unfold!

Tags: Ships , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , School , CGI , Tragedy , Kuudere

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Crunchyroll

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Houkago no Pleiades

Also known as Wish Upon the Pleiades.

Studio: Gainax , Showgate , Sentai Filmworks , Subaru
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mahou Shoujo , Romance , Sci-Fi

Subaru is a young girl who discovers that her best friend Aoi is part of a magical group trying to gather engine fragments so that a little being from Pleiades can return to his home. Subaru considers joining them as she was chosen by the Pleiadian, president of this afterschool club.

Tags: Magic , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Space , Astronomy , Henshin , Aliens , School Club , Alternate Universe , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Kuudere , CGI , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Manipulation

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

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Tubi TV

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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 , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Travel , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Politics , Shounen , Crime , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Kuudere , Assassins , Transgender , Tanned Skin , Aliens , Royal Affairs , Guns , Revenge , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity

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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

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Crunchyroll

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Rinne no Lagrange

Also known as Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne.

Studio: Production I.G , Bandai Visual , Xebec , Yomiuri TV , Viz Media , flying DOG , Dwango
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha

Madoka Kyouno is an energetic girl who is full of passion. As the proud, and only, member of the Kamogawa Girls' High School Jersey Club, she goes around helping people in need.

Madoka's life is turned upside down when she is suddenly asked by a mysterious girl named Lan to pilot a robot. Motivated by her desire to protect the people and city of Kamogawa, Madoka agrees to pilot the resurrected Vox robot to fight against extraterrestrials that have come to attack Earth.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Aliens , School Club , Female Protagonist , Real Robot , CGI , Kuudere , Time Skip , Crossdressing

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RetroCrush

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Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo

Also known as The Girl Who Leapt Through Space.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The story is set in the year 311 of the Orbital Calendar, when humanity has migrated to countless colony clusters in space. A space colony girl named Akiha Shishidou encounters a malevolent artificial intelligence named Leopard that has been installed on a colony.

Akiha is joined by an Inter-Colony Police officer named Itsuki Kannagi, a taciturn young girl named Honoka Kawai, and a robot named Imoko "Imo-chan" Shishidou.

Tags: Space , Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Real Robot , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Kuudere , Nudity

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Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo

Also known as Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Namco Filmworks , Sotsu , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

A.S. (Ad Stella) 122

An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system. A lone girl from the remote planet Mercury transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology, run by the Beneritt Group which dominates the mobile suit industry.

Her name is Suletta Mercury. With a scarlet light burning in her pure heart, this girl walks step by step through a new world.

Tags: Real Robot , Female Protagonist , Space , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Yuri , Revenge , Politics , Clone , Artificial Intelligence , Class Struggle , Super Robot , Cyborg , Guns , Conspiracy , Terrorism , Tsundere , Boarding School , Love Triangle , Mixed Gender Harem , Bisexual , Cyberpunk , Kuudere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Witch , Bullying

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