Shows Like Planetes

If you liked Planetes (2003), a animation and sci-fi & fantasy 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.

1
The Orbital Children (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In 2045, two children born on the moon and three kids from Earth try to survive after an accident on their space station leaves them stranded.
2
Battle of the Planets (1978)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
G-Force, a five-member superhero team, fights to defend Earth and its space colonies from the threat of the planet Spectra.
3
exception (2022)
★ 7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In a distant future where humans are forced to leave Earth, a spacecraft carrying a 3D-printed crew of specialists is sent to terraform a new planet.
4
Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX (1982)
★ 7/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and animation
Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX is an animated television series created by Leiji Matsumoto. It's the sequel to the 1982 animated film Arcadia of My Youth. However, like many of the stories set in the…
5
Birdy the Mighty: Decode (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
While pursuing fugitives the Space Federation police officer Birdy Cephon Altera finds herself on Earth.
6
Final Space (2018)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
An astronaut named Gary and his planet-destroying sidekick Mooncake embark on serialized journeys through space in order to unlock the mystery of “Final Space,” the last point in the universe, if it actually does exist.
7
Stargate Universe (2009)
★ 7.4/10Also sci-fi & fantasy
The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to…
8
Space Cobra (1982)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Cobra lived an adventurous life until his enemies began to hunt him down. He surgically altered his face and erased his own memory in order to hide from his foes and lead a normal life. Eventually, he regains his…
9
DNA² (1994)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Karin, a DNA operator from the future, is on a mission to change the course of History by stopping Junta Momonari from becoming the Mega-Playboy who fathered 100 children and led to the overpopulation of the world. But…
10
Futurama (1999)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary…
11
Dragon Ball Super (2015)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
With Majin Buu defeated, Goku has taken a completely new role as...a radish farmer?! With Earth at peace, our heroes have settled into normal lives. But they can’t get too comfortable. Far away, the powerful God of…
12
Urusei Yatsura (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Tokyo, Tomobiki Town. Lum, the gorgeous princess of the invading alien race of Oni is smitten with high school student Ataru Moroboshi. A dedicated womanizer, Ataru is unfazed by Lum’s fierce electric shock attacks and…
13
Martian Successor Nadesico (1996)
★ 7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Only one ship stands between earth and total annihilation! The High Mobile Battleship Nadesico is the most formidable fighting machine ever conceived, but due to a shortage of trained soldiers, the crew is a little…
14
Steins;Gate (2011)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel…
15
KILL BLUE (2026)
★ 7.9/10Also animation
Legendary hitman Juzo Ogami has never failed an assignment. But after a mission, he’s stung by a mysterious wasp and wakes up in the body of a 13-year-old boy! And to make things even weirder, he receives a bizarre new…
16
Girls' Last Tour (2017)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Civilization is dead, but Chito and Yuuri are still alive. So they hop aboard their beloved Kettenkrad motorbike and aimlessly wander the ruins of the world they once knew. Day after hopeless day, they look for their…
17
Urusei Yatsura (1981)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
The invasion of an alien race known as the Oni begins a new life for Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous trouble-making tenth grader in the small town of Tomobiki. After unwittingly proposing to the Oni princess Lum Invader…
18
Last Exile (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
A richly romantic action-adventure fantasy, set in a world where retro-futuristic vehicles permeate the skies. Against this lavish background are the lives of young and heroic van ship sky porters - Claus and Lavie…
19
Synduality Noir (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
The year is 2242. Kanata wants to be a Drifter and meets Noir, who is a dud Magus with no memories. However, because Noir excels in battle against the Enders, Kanata partners with her and discovers exactly what it…
20
The Villager of Level 999 (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In Earthclear, everyone is born into a fixed role, and villagers are the weakest of all. Most never rise above Level 5—except Koji Kagami, who is Level...999?! On a monster hunt, he meets Alice, the Demon King's…