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Science fiction anime and manga

The guide lists 1,101 titles tagged science fiction. The genre peaked in the 2000s (273 titles). Studios with the most science fiction titles: Sunrise (46), Madhouse (36) and Toei Animation (32). It often comes paired with action, adventure and comedy.

Best-known science fiction anime

• Digimon Adventure 1999
• Dragon Ball Super 2015
• Dragon Ball Z 1989
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED 2002
• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam 1985
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny 2004
• Dragon Ball GT 1996
• Dragon Ball 1986
• The Irregular at Magic High School 2014
• Date A Live 2013
• Yu-Gi-Oh! GX 2004
• Serial Experiments Lain 1998
• Stitch! 2008
• 86 2021
• Sonic X 2003
• Psycho-Pass 2012
• Space Battleship Yamato 1974
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water 1990
• Turn A Gundam 1999
• Blood+ 2005
• Gurren Lagann 2007
• Space Battleship Yamato III 1980
• Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo 2004
• My-HiME 2004
• Star Blazers 2199 2013
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2002
• Marvel Anime 2010
• Ergo Proxy 2006
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 2006
• Starzinger 1978

Best-known science fiction anime films

• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984
• Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children 2005
• Howl's Moving Castle 2004
• Castle in the Sky 1986
• Akira 1988
• Ghost in the Shell 1995
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006
• Psycho-Pass: The Movie 2015
• Resident Evil: Degeneration 2008
• Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance 2009
• Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV 2016
• Pokémon: The First Movie 1998
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence 2004
• The End of Evangelion 1997
• Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone 2007
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth 1997
• Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew 2005
• The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya 2010
• Batman Ninja 2018
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2001
• Batman: Gotham Knight 2008
• Harlock: Space Pirate 2013
• Pokémon 3: The Movie 2000
• Sakura Wars: The Movie 2001
• Paprika 2006
• Cowboy Bebop: The Movie 2001
• Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo 2012
• Pokémon Heroes 2002
• The Place Promised in Our Early Days 2004
• Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys 2004

Best-known science fiction manga

• Doraemon 1969
• Fist of the North Star 1983
• A Certain Scientific Railgun 2013
• Sgt. Frog 1999
• Elfen Lied 2002
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Urusei Yatsura 1978
• 86 2018
• Gintama
• Made in Abyss 2012
• Mahoromatic 1998
• Captain Harlock 1977
• Akira 1988
• Angelic Layer 1999
• Galaxy Express 999 1977
• To Love Ru 2006
• Tokyo Revengers 2017
• Astro Boy 1952
• Aria 2002
• Chobits 2000
• Planetes 2001
• Assassination Classroom 2012
• Gunslinger Girl 2002
• Cells at Work! 2015
• Inazuma Eleven 2008
• Seraph of the End 2012
• The Promised Neverland 2016
• Tokyo ESP 2010
• Gantz 2000
• Battle Angel Alita 1990