 If you liked
Simoun
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 ...then you might like
Blue Drop: Tenshi-tachi no Gikyoku
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Simoun and Blue Drop offer a mix of shoujo-ai and giant flying ships, a combination that does not occur all that often. In both cases there is a mostly female cast and a war backdrop that fuels the plot is balanced by the interaction between the several characters. Simoun is set in a somewhat fantastical world and follows the clash between religion and military accomplishments while Blue Drop takes place in a world that is more or less realistic
Both titles are the Yuri/SF highlights of their respective years, though Simoun is the more obviously sexually transgressive, being set in a world where everyone is born female and has to choose whether to become male at adulthood (the inter-species romance in Blue Drop between a human girl and an alien from an all female species doesn't look that way). Both are about relationships, tentative and tempestuous, against a background of war. And both transcend the lure of mere fan-service.