Top 18 Space Anime of All Time

Battleships, bounty hunters, debris collectors and a steam train to the stars: orbit has been anime's favourite stage since the 1970s.

1. 1
   Cowboy Bebop

   Bounty hunters drift between Mars, Venus and Ganymede in a jazz-scored 2071.
   1000pts
2. 2
   The Orbital Children

   Mitsuo Iso's 2022 thriller about children caught in a disaster on a space station.
   606pts
3. 3
   Astra Lost in Space

   A 2019 survival mystery about students stranded light-years from home.
   605pts
4. 4
   The Super Dimension Fortress Macross

   A 1982 mix of space war, transforming fighters and pop music.
   537pts
5. 5
   Outlaw Star

   A 1998 space adventure about a mercenary, a stolen ship and a girl in a suitcase.
   537pts
6. 6
   Space Battleship Yamato 2199

   The 2012 remake that rebuilt the classic voyage for a new generation.
   454pts
7. 7
   Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

   The 2022 Gundam series set in a space academy run by arms corporations.
   454pts
8. 8
   Mobile Suit Gundam

   The 1979 war drama that moved giant robots into realistic orbital colonies.
   454pts
9. 9
   Planetes

   A 2003 hard-sci-fi drama about debris collectors in low Earth orbit.
   454pts
10. 10
    Space Dandy

    Shinichiro Watanabe's 2014 comedy about an alien hunter roaming the galaxy.
    353pts
11. 11
    Gunbuster

    Hideaki Anno's 1988 OVA about pilots whose missions near light speed cost them decades at home.
    353pts
12. 12
    Knights of Sidonia

    A 2014 CG series about a seed ship fleeing alien Gauna across space.
    353pts
13. 13
    Space Battleship Yamato

    The 1974 series about a resurrected battleship's voyage to save Earth, known in the US as Star Blazers.
    0pts
14. 14
    Gurren Lagann

    A drill-powered mecha story that grows from an underground village to galaxy-sized battles.
    0pts
15. 15
    Space Pirate Captain Harlock

    Leiji Matsumoto's 1978 tale of a rebel captain sailing the Arcadia against Earth's corrupt rulers.
    0pts
16. 16
    Galaxy Express 999

    A 1978 series about a boy riding a steam train through space toward a mechanical body.
    0pts
17. 17
    Martian Successor Nadesico

    A 1996 parody of space-war anime aboard a private battleship.
    0pts
18. 18
    Legend of the Galactic Heroes

    A 110-episode space opera about two strategic geniuses on opposite sides of an interstellar war.
    0pts

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