What is the best steampunk anime?

Airships, steam trains, clockwork dolls and one automail arm. Ghibli classics share the field with cult TV series.

1. 1
   Castle in the Sky

   Hayao Miyazaki's 1986 Studio Ghibli film about two children, a gang of air pirates and a legendary floating city, full of airships and mining-town machinery.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Howl's Moving Castle

   Hayao Miyazaki's 2004 Studio Ghibli film, adapted from Diana Wynne Jones's novel, about a wizard's walking castle in a country at war with flying battleships.
   862pts
3. 3
   Steamboy

   Katsuhiro Otomo's 2004 film set in Victorian England, where a boy inventor guards a 'steam ball' that powers a giant steam-driven fortress.
   596pts
4. 4
   Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

   Wit Studio's 2016 series in which survivors cross a zombie-overrun island aboard armoured steam locomotives.
   517pts
5. 5
   Metropolis (2001)

   Rintaro's 2001 film, scripted by Katsuhiro Otomo from Osamu Tezuka's manga, set in a retro-futurist city built around a giant tower called the Ziggurat.
   517pts
6. 6
   Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

   Bones' 2009–2010 adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's manga, set in an industrial, early-20th-century-style country where state alchemists serve the military and the hero has a steel automail arm and leg.
   517pts
7. 7
   Unbreakable Machine-Doll

   Lerche's 2013 series set at a magic academy in an alternate Britain, where students duel with combat automaton dolls.
   517pts
8. 8
   Appare-Ranman!

   P.A. Works' 2020 series about a Japanese engineer and a samurai who build their own car to enter a race across America.
   423pts
9. 9
   Sakura Wars (2000)

   Madhouse's 2000 TV series based on Sega's game, following a theatre troupe that pilots steam-powered armour in an alternate Taisho-era Tokyo.
   423pts
10. 10
    Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

    NHK's 1990 series directed by Hideaki Anno and animated with Gainax, loosely inspired by Jules Verne, following a young inventor and a circus girl who end up aboard Captain Nemo's Nautilus.
    310pts
11. 11
    Last Exile

    Gonzo's 2003 series about two young vanship pilots carrying messages through a war fought by fleets of airborne battleships.
    0pts
12. 12
    Samurai 7

    Gonzo's 2004 science-fiction retelling of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, in which farmers hire samurai to fight mechanised bandits.
    0pts
13. 13
    Princess Principal

    Actas and Studio 3Hz's 2017 spy series set in a steampunk London divided by a wall, where five schoolgirls work as agents.
    0pts

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