Rocket Girls

Stuff that is either obscure/unpopular, janky, wildly inconsistent or noticeably cheap (pick any combination), but somehow makes things work and be good anyway (typically against the odds). Characterized by having a MAL average under 7.

As far as I'm concerned there's an anime about pretty much everything if you look hard enough: diving, underwear design, insurance investigation (yup!) and don't even get me started on cooking. So there, picked titles with main characters directly involved and at least some focus on whatever they're doing for a living or a hobby or both.

Part two^ https://myanimelist.net/stacks/30206 (it's a work in progress though)

An ongoing collection of science-fiction works that feature "realistic" space travel.

Though often featuring some vague advancement that allows for more efficient and practical spacecraft, the works listed all feature technology similar to what we know of today, and face similar issues. Instead of darting around hyperspace dressed in colourful shirts, much activity is done in orbit with bulky spacesuits. Instead of spacecraft being as common and affordable as cars, they're still rare and expensive rockets.

All works shown are in the present, near-future, or, in the case of one, an alternate past. Anything involving other worlds having been previously colonised, wars being waged across the stars or otherwise being outside the realm of possibility for the species within the next few decades do not qualify.

Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. The heart of the "hard science fiction" designation is the relationship of the science content and attitude to the rest of the narrative, and the "hardness" or rigor of the science itself. One requirement for hard SF is procedural or intentional: a story should try to be accurate, logical, credible and rigorous in its use of current scientific and technical knowledge about which technology, phenomena, scenarios and situations that are practically or theoretically possible. For example, the development of concrete proposals for spaceships, space stations, space missions, and a US space program in the 1950s and 1960s influenced a widespread proliferation of "hard" space stories.

(Note: not all of these works are considered hard sci-fi, but I decided to put them here due to them being potentially interesting to people that love logical space-themed stories as much as I do)

463-550. Rip. Only like 30+ anime left to check from for the next part, which means it'll be small. ;-;. Oh well. Still gonna be fun. :D


First part: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18851
Second part: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18950
Third part: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18951
Fourth part: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18954
(And now 2 in-between. Neat.)

Medical Anime + Anime based on Science

Shows that have elements of hard science within them, such as chemistry, biology, physics, and astronomy.

Anime with absolutely no supernatural elements and at most minor breaks from reality. Modern and Period are allowed, as is "Alternate History" or "Fantasy" if they stringently avoids both paranormal and speculative plot elements.