# Anime: locations in space cities **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-locations-in-space-cities/579472 "2011-04-23T17:33:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pinguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@pinguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinguin)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-locations-in-space-cities/579472/1 "2011-04-23T17:33:54Z")
I don’t know much about anime, but I would like to know what anime series have you seen that are located in an advanced and realistic worlds of the future, particularly in space cities. I have seen Planetes, and I would like to know if there is other similar series. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-locations-in-space-cities/579472/2 "2011-04-23T21:01:23Z")
Cowboy Bebop? Also, would this be more for Cafe Society than GQ? ---
**Author:** ![Odaran09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Odaran09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odaran09)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-locations-in-space-cities/579472/3 "2011-04-24T00:11:52Z")
Kiddy Grade [Kiddy Grade - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiddy_Grade) The story takes place in a future where the human race has expanded and inhabits a multitude of planets in the universe with fantastic technology. Unsurprisingly, crime has grown alongside technology, and thus the GOTT, Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs, is formed as a sort of universal police force. Martian Successor Nadesico [Martian Successor Nadesico - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadesico) The series takes place in the year 2196. Earth is at war with a race of alien invaders called the “Jovian Lizards”. A company called Nergal designs a space battleship, the ND-001 Nadesico. While the ship is powerful and its crew consists of the top civilian experts in their fields, these individuals tend to have “some slight personality disorders”.[3] ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-locations-in-space-cities/579472/4 "2011-04-24T00:33:16Z")
Most anime has teenagers in major roles and a lot less realism than Planetes, alas. Two good ones that might meet your criteria at least somewhat and are not mentioned yet are: Banner of the Stars (Seikai no Senki) – far future space opera that has FTL travel but that otherwise is quite down to earth. Infinite Ryvius (Mugen no Ryvius) – a bunch of teenaged pilot students get stranded inside a weird spaceship after a terrorist attack. Has a Lord of the Flies thing going on, no FTL travel but the world’s not quite realistic. ---
**Author:** ![pinguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@pinguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinguin)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-locations-in-space-cities/579472/5 "2011-04-24T01:52:01Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-locations-in-space-cities/579472/6 "2011-04-24T17:14:28Z")
Moving to Cafe Society from GQ. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-locations-in-space-cities/579472/7 "2011-04-25T10:51:21Z")
IIRC most of the old Gundum series revolve around a war between Earth based humans and those living in massive “O’Neill Cylinder” type space station colonies orbiting the Earth. In particular the 08MS series they showed on Cartoon Network about a decade ago was fairly realistic as it told the story of a typical armored “Mobile Suit” platoon piloting generic mass-produced “Gundams” (giant fighting robots). As opposed to say, superstar ace pilots driving super-powerful custom robots. ---
**Author:** ![chaosshifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@chaosshifter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaosshifter)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-locations-in-space-cities/579472/8 "2011-04-25T11:17:55Z")
well I can think of a few not including the ones listed Stellvia which mostly takes place in an orbiting satalite and is a neat little romance feel to it. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellvia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellvia) almost anything for the “Macross” series which is a neat mecha show also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macross](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macross) a bit of a classic IMO would be “outlaw star” which has a space age pirate feel to it and had some decent comedy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw\_Star](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_Star) Hope that some of these helped you find what you want. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-locations-in-space-cities/579472/9 "2011-04-25T11:25:55Z")
second to Outlaw Star as well as Cowboy Bebop (one of my personal favs (but honestly, who is into anime and doesn’t count this as a personal fav?)) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-locations-in-space-cities/579472/10 "2011-04-25T11:30:30Z")
**Sora Kake Girl** , which goes by the title **The Girl Who Leapt Through Space** (no doubt to cash in on the name-recognition of _The Girl Who Leapt Through Time_, which unrelated), features a future with people living in what appear to be O=Neill-type space colonies. You can see lights from the other side up in the "sky’ at night, and the background looks appropriately weird during the day. I just saw a couple of episodes of this over the weekend.The background isn’t entirely clear, and the internet pages don’t completely clear it up. People have apparently been living in these colonies for over 300 years, but it’s not clear how far in the future that is. > **[The Girl Who Leapt Through Space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sora_Kake_Girl)** > > The Girl Who Leapt Through Space (Japanese: 宇宙をかける少女, Hepburn: Sora o Kakeru Shōjo, lit. "The Spacefaring Girl" and also abbreviated as "Sora Kake Girl") is a Japanese anime television series, created and produced by Sunrise. Based on the original concept by the Sunrise animation staff, the series is directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Jukki Hanada, overseeing a team of animators noted for their previous work on My-HiME and My-Otome. > The anime began airing in Japan on the TV Tokyo televisi... [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10272](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10272)