Sci-fi anime about the future

Science fiction is where anime asks its biggest questions: what happens to people when machines think, when cities never sleep, when the next frontier is the sky. These are stories set in futures that look nothing like today, and often say a lot about it.

The list follows the sci-fi and mecha genres and tags such as cyberpunk, space, robots and artificial intelligence, and ranks the most popular matches. It covers everything from giant-robot battles to quiet stories about what it means to be human.

Most popular matches