Space Opera anime offers grand adventures and thrilling space battles. In this article, we will explore ten space opera anime filled with excitement and drama.
1. Legend Of The Galactic Heroes
The anime is set in the distant future, where two major empires exist: the Free Planets Alliance and the Galactic Empire. Each of them has their own beliefs. On the imperial side, there is Reinhard Von Lohengram, who is a military genius, and on the other side, in Free Planets, there is Wen-Li, who wants to become a historian.
2. Space Battleship Yamato
In the future, Earth is being conquered by aliens called Gamilas. They attack Earth with radioactive bombs. Iscandar Planet offers to help Earth. Therefore, to save humanity, humans from Earth sent the battleship Yamato to retrieve resources and technology from them. The battleship Yamato has only one year to travel to Tscandar and back to Earth. Otherwise, humanity will come to an end.
3. Knights Of Sidonia
Gauna is the alien race that destroyed the Earth many years ago. The survivors escape into the galaxy on a giant spaceship. Gauna attacks the spaceship. The pilot, Nagate Tanikaze, and his friends are the last hope for the remaining humanity.
4. Super Dimensional Fortress Macross
Humans realize that they are not alone when an alien spaceship crashes on South Ataria Island. Ten years later, they reconstructed that spaceship and named it SDF-Macross. Then, the Zentradi alien race made its appearance, which led to Space War I. The war will change the future of both aliens and humans.
5. Outlaw Star
It is the story of two friends, Gene Starwind and Jim Hawking, who run the business on a backwater planet. One day they get hired by Hilda as bodyguards which changes their life completely. Now, they are always running from cops, pirates, and aliens. The only good thing is that they have the most advanced spaceship in the galaxy, Outlaw Star.
6. Toward The Terra
The anime is set in the distant future, where humanity is under the control of supercomputers. Supercomputer controls the government, produces babies in artificial wombs, and assign them to random parents. Some of the humans have evolved into Mu, who has incredible psychic abilities. The Mu wants to return to their home Earth.
7. Tytania
The empire of Titania is the most powerful and controls most of the parts of the galaxy, attacking the empire of Euria. A soldier named Fan Hyurlick runs away from his empire and seeks safety from a group of rebellions that have formed since the battle between the two empires.
8. Planetes
In this sci-fi anime, humanity has made such progress that traveling to the moon is now part of humans' daily life. However, this causes problems of debris in space which damages spacecraft. Ai Tanabe joins Technora's Debris Collecting section which removes debris and junk from space.
9. Crest Of The Stars
Earth is taken over by the galaxy's largest Abh Empire. Jinto Lin's father, who is president of their planet, trades their planet to Abh Empire in exchange for being part of Abh Empire. Due to this, Jinto became a member of the aristocracy and was shipped for Abh's education. Along the way, he meets Lafiel, princess of the Abh Empire, and he befriends her despite being cold.
10. Voices Of A Distant Star
It is the story of two high school students named Mikako Nagamine and Noboru Terao. When aliens attacked, Mikako volunteered to become a pilot for the space force to protect humanity. They try to remain in contact through text messages. However, with each battle, Mikako goes farther from Earth, due to which messages take longer to receive and deliver.
