Are there any animes about Engineers or Engineering?

Oct 29, 2015 7:27 AM

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Well? I'm just wondering.

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Oct 29, 2015 7:37 AM

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Classroom☆Crisis, although half of it is politics.

Oct 29, 2015 7:42 AM

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Robotics Notes
Summer Wars
Planetes

Oct 29, 2015 8:16 AM

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MC for Space Brothers is an engineer. But yeah, other anime mention don't really have enough engineering concept.

But it's important to remember that a movie review is subjective;it only gives you one person's opinion.

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Oct 29, 2015 8:43 AM

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Thanks for the recs guys!

Zapredon said:
But yeah, other anime mention don't really have enough engineering concept.

Totally agree with this!
I don't think anime has a story that's on the level of the movie "3 Idiots"
If you haven't seen it guys, you should really watch it. Perfect show for Engineers. It's Bollywood BTW.

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Oct 29, 2015 8:54 AM

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Heavy object recently, thou the explanation of it is shit. only "one of mc is those mecha engineer".

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Oct 29, 2015 8:55 AM

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The Wind Rises

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Oct 29, 2015 9:25 AM

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Kaze Tachinu

Oct 29, 2015 9:27 AM

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Well, Mahouka has magical engineering.

Oct 29, 2015 9:43 AM

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One Piece. The Water 7 arc is full of engineer

Oct 29, 2015 10:50 AM

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Yup,

Meet Shirou "The Jackhammer" Emiya, a young and determined construction engineer. It's from Fate stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (the movie, not the lackluster ufotable series).

Oct 29, 2015 5:50 PM

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Surprise not to see Steamboy mentioned here. That's literally an anime that is all about engineering. Kaze Tachinu is another engineering anime.

Oct 29, 2015 8:31 PM

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illivinni said:
Kaze Tachinu

Oh yeah, Wind Rises. That is closest to anime about engineer. Can't believe I forget about that.

But it's important to remember that a movie review is subjective;it only gives you one person's opinion.

Oct 29, 2015 8:58 PM

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Well, there's always Planetes.
Quite on the same line, you could try Shinkai's Beyond the Clouds, the Pomised Place.
These are the only ones I can remember that really develops the concept of modern engineering.
Most series like many mentioned here just used concepts to setup a plot but the storyline isn't directly related to the dos and don'ts of an engineer.

mlcdl said:
Surprise not to see Steamboy mentioned here. That's literally an anime that is all about engineering. Kaze Tachinu is another engineering anime.

Yep, agreed. These are great.
Same for already mentioned Robotics;Notes and Last Exile.

Now if you want an animu about engineering students, just watch anything with a lot of suffering, broken dreams, shattered vacation plans and crying little girls. Yea. That sums it up.

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Oct 29, 2015 10:41 PM

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xbobx said:
Well, there's always Planetes.
Quite on the same line, you could try Shinkai's Beyond the Clouds, the Pomised Place.
These are the only ones I can remember that really develops the concept of modern engineering.
Most series like many mentioned here just used concepts to setup a plot but the storyline isn't directly related to the dos and don'ts of an engineer.

mlcdl said:
Surprise not to see Steamboy mentioned here. That's literally an anime that is all about engineering. Kaze Tachinu is another engineering anime.

Steamboy: has a lot of cool steam powered contraptions. Can't recall much so long ago.
Classroom Crisis: room/shed full of engineering students, teacher, boss, pitted against drama, engineering decisions, cost down, efficiency, politics, funding, lovely failures etc. It doesn't go into much depth on mechanical engineering, but any more & it'll bore even more watchers than it already has. It starts slow with boring world exposition, but the story & characters really grow afterwards.
Robotics;Notes: discussions on some real mechanics + scifi elements. Realistic "science fair" small battle bots, semi-real large robots. I find their process of building these, talking about limitations really interesting. Also use of AR/phones/internet. But everything else was painful, mud pacing, broken expectation-resolution threads, & poor characters (except Frau).

Oct 30, 2015 2:14 AM

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I'd add Rocket Girls to the list of marginally-engineering anime.

Oct 30, 2015 3:00 AM

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Heavy Object, this season. How to send your engineers to sabotage the enemy mecha.

Sep 20, 2017 7:38 PM

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Knights and Magic. Read the bold if you want a brief summary.

Don't let the title fool you though, it is far more technical than one would think based on the title. Ernest is a genius programmer from Earth that reincarnated in this world with magic. Back on Earth, he was a major mech fan. Here on this new world, mechs have been created using magic, though they are called knights instead of mechs.

Since the first time they were made two hundred years ago, there have been no major improvements. Of course, a mecha maniac wouldn't stand for that. The 6 year old Ernest immediately starts learning so that he can pilot his own mech, one custom made.

He essentially takes over the kingdoms mech development and changes the entire worlds way of thinking about mechs. Ex) Centaur mechs, flying mechs, mini-mechs, etc. If you wanted to see mechs being created from the groundup, almost no politics, massive mecha wars, overpowered mechs bashing in primitive ones, or even a mech slinging fireballs, this is your anime.

Sep 20, 2017 7:42 PM

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The Wind Rises is about an aeronautic engineer, but the movie is more focused in his personal life-story and context rather than his particular scientific work.

Sep 20, 2017 7:43 PM

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Zazie122 said:
Classroom☆Crisis, although half of it is politics.

Every workplace has its politics. Anyway Classroom Crisis is the closest thing to real engineering I've ever seen displayed in a show so I'm gonna have to also suggest it.

Sep 20, 2017 7:47 PM

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I'd like to re-iterate Space Brothers. It's very good and I think it would be up your alley if you want something that focuses on career development and progress. It's not massively engineering focused but the main character basically becomes an engineer and develops some creative stuff, I think an engineer would appreciate it.

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