Top 10 Anime: Sci-Fi
The highest-graded sci-fi anime we have reviewed, best first.
Cowboy BebopTwenty-six sessions of jazz, bounty work and unfinished business, and not one of them is wasted.Read the review
Steins;GateEleven slow episodes buy the best second half in the medium, and the payoff justifies every minute.
The End of EvangelionAnno answers his own television ending with the angriest film in the medium, and it is magnificent.
Neon Genesis EvangelionThe mecha show that turned its own genre inside out, then ran out of money and got stranger for it.
AkiraDecades on, still the benchmark for what hand-drawn animation is physically capable of doing.
Legend of the Galactic HeroesA hundred and ten episodes of politics, fleet tactics and rival ideologies, barely animated and brilliantly written.
Cyberpunk: EdgerunnersTrigger took a broken video game's setting and made the best thing to carry the Cyberpunk name.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the RebellionMelodrama with a chess metaphor and a body count, and an ending worth the two seasons it takes.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone ComplexThe best version of this material, with fifty-two episodes and the time to actually argue the politics.
PlutoEight hour-long episodes that turn a robot murder mystery into the sharpest case against war anime makes.