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Anime rankingsTop Sci-Fi anime of 2023
What happens when invention moves faster than our understanding of ourselves? Explore the top sci-fi anime of 2023, where advanced technology, unfamiliar societies, and bold possibilities open up new questions. Find your next glimpse of a future that might inspire or unsettle you.
#10SSSS.Gridman Movie
SSSS.Gridman: Recap Movie
Yuta Hibiki awakens without his memories and begins seeing Gridman, a mysterious giant who speaks to him through an old computer. When enormous kaiju suddenly attack his city, Yuta joins with Gridman and his classmates Sho Utsumi and Rikka Takarada to defend everyone, even as each battle leaves strange gaps in the world around them.While the group searches for the truth behind the attacks, they uncover Akane Shinjo's connection to the monsters and the hidden power controlling her. Saving the city will require Yuta to understand who he truly is and to reach the lonely person at the center of the destruction.
#9Ultraman Final
Ultraman: Final
Shinjiro Hayata's abilities begin slipping beyond his control, and his nightmares become reality when his power causes destruction that injures the very people he wanted to protect. Public opinion rapidly turns against him, and Ultraman is increasingly seen as a danger to humanity rather than its defender. Losing confidence in himself and in those around him, Shinjiro becomes isolated at the worst possible moment.The chaos is not accidental. An alien force is moving in secret and exploiting the growing fear of Ultraman. Shinjiro must discover who is pushing events toward collapse and regain control of his power before the conspiracy succeeds in turning the hero into exactly the enemy his opponents need.
#8Gintama on Theater 2D: Baragaki-hen
Silver Soul on Theater 2D: Thorny Arc
When Tetsunosuke Sasaki, the unwanted son of a prestigious family, is forced into the Shinsengumi, Hijikata takes responsibility for the lazy and undisciplined recruit. Tetsunosuke wants to prove he has value, but the presence of his older half-brother Isaburo, commander of the rival Mimawarigumi, turns every mistake into another reason to humiliate him.The conflict escalates when Tetsunosuke becomes a pawn in a confrontation between the two police forces, forcing Hijikata to face an opponent who knows how to weaponize law, status, and honor. As Gintoki and the Yorozuya become involved, wounds from Hijikata's own past rise to the surface, and protecting this troublesome young recruit becomes a battle over what it truly means to belong to a group that refuses to abandon its own.
#7NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
NieR: Automata - Version 1.1a
In the year 11945, Earth no longer belongs to humanity. An alien invasion and its army of Machine Lifeforms forced humans to retreat to the Moon, from where YoRHa android soldiers now wage a long war to reclaim the planet. Combat unit 2B descends alongside scanner 9S to carry out missions for the Council of Humanity and work with the resistance still fighting on the surface.The machines they encounter do not always behave like mindless enemies. Some learn, speak, form communities, and imitate humanity in increasingly unsettling ways. Each mission exposes new contradictions in a war they were taught to see as simple. Between orders, forbidden memories, and buried truths, 2B and 9S move closer to answers that may change what their mission means and what they understand about their own existence.
#6Di Yi Xulie
The First Sequence
After a nuclear winter, mutated species and dwindling resources have stripped humanity of its former dominance. Fortified settlements offer protection to those allowed inside, while countless others survive beyond the walls by hunting and trading in a wilderness where both animals and people can become deadly threats.Ren Xiaosu lives outside the fortresses with his younger brother Yan Liuyuan, bound to him by family despite sharing no blood. When Ren unexpectedly awakens a supernatural ability, protecting their fragile household becomes even more complicated. A journey toward Jingshan Mountain puts him against wolves, human-faced insects, mutants, and dangerous survivors, pushing him to discover how far his new power can carry the people he refuses to abandon.
#5Zhe Tian
Shrouding the Heavens
Ye Fan and his former classmates reunite at Mount Tai years after graduation, only for an impossible sight to tear them away from ordinary life: nine enormous dragon corpses descend from the heavens carrying an ancient bronze coffin. When the group is swept inside, they are transported far beyond Earth and forced to survive a journey tied to relics and powers older than human civilization.Their path eventually opens onto the vast world of Beidou, where cultivation can extend life and strength determines who may pursue immortality. With no easy route home, Ye Fan steps onto a path filled with ancient sects, forbidden lands, and secrets surrounding his own unusual body, beginning a struggle that reaches far beyond the life he once knew.
#4Trigun Stampede
Trigun: Stampede
Reporter Meryl Stryfe and her partner Roberto De Niro cross the deserts of No Man’s Land searching for Vash the Stampede, the legendary outlaw carrying an enormous bounty. The man they find is nothing like the image of a murderous terrorist: Vash is cheerful, stubbornly peaceful, and determined not to kill even when everyone else is shooting at him.The trouble is that disasters truly do follow him. Behind his reputation stands his twin brother Millions Knives, whose ruthless vision for the future places humanity against the beings that keep this harsh planet alive. Between bounty hunters and settlements struggling for precious resources, Vash keeps trying to save everyone without betraying his principles, until running from his brother is no longer possible and he must face the origin of the tragedy that shaped them both.
#3Gridman Universe
Gridman Universe
A year has passed since the battle that restored the world, and almost no one remembers Gridman, the kaiju, or Akane Shinjou. Rikka and Utsumi alone retain those memories, while Yuuta Hibiki lives normally despite once being the host who merged with Gridman.When a new kaiju appears, cracks return to reality and Yuuta is given a chance to understand the missing part of his own past. The crisis soon expands beyond his world as people and events connected to Dynazenon begin crossing into the same struggle and the boundaries between memories and worlds start to fail. This battle is not only about recovering what happened, but protecting the relationships born from those impossible events even if the world itself has forgotten them.
#2Tengoku Daimakyou
Heaven's Great Demon Realm
After a catastrophe destroys civilization, man-eating creatures roam the ruins of Japan. Through this broken world, Maru and Kiruko travel in search of a place called “Heaven,” guided by little more than a mysterious image and scattered promises while passing settlements that reveal different ways people have learned to survive.Elsewhere, children live inside an isolated facility that appears safe and almost perfect, surrounded by walls that keep the outside world completely hidden. Their curiosity grows as contradictions begin appearing in the life adults have designed for them. As the two journeys unfold, clues start connecting the ruined world to the sealed sanctuary, and the truth about what happened to humanity may prove more disturbing than the monsters wandering its remains.
#1Pluto
Pluto
Android detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate the murder of Montblanc, one of the world's most powerful robots and a former war hero. Soon after, a human robot-rights activist is killed in a similar manner, followed by another elite machine, convincing Gesicht that the murderer is choosing targets with a specific purpose.The robot victims were among seven extraordinary machines who took part in a devastating past war, and Gesicht himself is one of them. He turns to Atom, an advanced robot boy, for help understanding an enemy that may be able to violate society's most important rule: robots do not kill humans. As the name Pluto emerges, memories of war and buried guilt return, turning the hunt for a serial killer into a deeper question about hatred and whether machines can inherit it from the people who created them.