Shows Like Gurren Lagann

If you liked Gurren Lagann (2007), a animation and action & adventure series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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Eureka Seven (2005)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
Renton Thurston desires to leave his home behind and join the mercenary group known as Gekkostate, hoping to find some adventure. When a robot crashes through Renton's garage the meeting sparks the beginning of…
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Knights of Sidonia (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and animation
An alien race called Gauna has destroyed Earth. leaving humanity struggling to survive aboard the spaceship Sidonia. Even though it’s been a century since the last encounter with the Gauna, military service is…
3
EDENS ZERO (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and action & adventure
Aboard the Edens Zero, a lonely boy with the ability to control gravity embarks on an adventure to meet the fabled space goddess known as Mother.
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Aldnoah.Zero (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and action & adventure
In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission discovered a hypergate to Mars on the surface of the moon. Soon a war breaks out between Earth and Mars, and Martian soldiers begin to descend from the sky, riding steel giants, intent on…
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and animation
Cosmic Era 71. Mankind has developed into two subspecies: Naturals, who reside on Earth, and Coordinators, genetically enhanced humans capable of withstanding the rigors of space who inhabit orbital colonies known as…
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Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and action & adventure
What would you do if you suddenly found yourself in the middle of a war? Teenager Amuro Ray sees his life shattered when war comes to his home. During the chaos, Amuro finds himself inside the mobile suit Gundam, the…
7
Great Mazinger (1974)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and action & adventure
After Koji Kabuto and Sayaka Yumi leave to the USA, it's up to the rash orphan Tetsuya Tsurugi to pilot the next Mazinger robot: the Great Mazinger. Under the direction of Dr. Kenzo Kabuto and helped by his adoptive…
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DARLING in the FRANXX (2018)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
The distant future: Humanity established the mobile fort city, Plantation, upon the ruined wasteland. Within the city were pilot quarters, Mistilteinn, otherwise known as the “Birdcage.” That is where the children…
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Date A Live (2013)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Thirty years ago a strange phenomenon called a "spacequake" devastated the center of Eurasia, claiming the lives of at least 150 million people. Since then, smaller spacequakes plague the world on an irregular basis…
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Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also action & adventure and animation
The year is 2199. The human race has been crushed in their war with the Gamilos, driven into underground cities by the invader's assault. Scientists estimate they have only a year left. The young officers Susumu Kodai…
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
On a terraformed post-disaster Mars, a group of child security agents rebel against the adults who betrayed them and the oppressive Earth government.
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Macross Frontier (2008)
★ 8/10Also animation and action & adventure
A human space colony fleet is trying to find a habitable planet near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The story focuses on three young adults and the events that occur around them as the fleet faces a crisis of…
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Deca-Dence (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and action & adventure
Many years have passed since humanity was driven to the brink of extinction by the sudden emergence of the unknown life forms Gadoll. Those humans that survived now dwell in a 3000m-high mobile fortress Deca-dence…
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Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture (2024)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and action & adventure
Year Seven of the Kowa Period, in the former Hokkaido Block, live brothers known as the Nameless Mercenaries. The Emperor, Callis al Britannia, tries to plunge the world into chaos with the help of his servant…
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
A. S. (Ad Stella) 122 ― An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system. Suletta Mercury, a lone girl from the remote planet Mercury, transfers to the Asticassia School of…
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995)
★ 7.9/10Also action & adventure and animation
After Colony (A.C.) 195. Mankind has moved into space. Thousands of people live on giant orbiting space colonies called "Sides." However, the Earth Government, which rules the colonies, is unjust and cruel. A group of…
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Gunbuster (1988)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In the near future, humanity has taken its first steps towards journeying into the far reaches of the galaxy. Upon doing so they discover a huge race of insectoid aliens known as "Space Monsters." These aliens seem…
18
Re:Creators (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and action & adventure
Humans have created many stories. Joy, sadness, anger, deep emotion. Stories shake our emotions, and fascinate us. However, these are only the thoughts of bystanders. But what if the characters in the story have…
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NieR:Automata Ver1.1a (2023)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
The distant future, 5012. The sudden aerial invasion of Earth by ＜Aliens＞ and their creations ＜Machine Lifeforms＞ led mankind to the brink of extinction. The surviving number of humans who took refuge on the moon to…
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Full Metal Panic! (2002)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Kaname Chidori’s one of the most popular girls at her high school – unfortunately, it’s her growing popularity off campus she should be worrying about. Unbeknownst to Kaname, terrorists are plotting her abduction…