Shows Like Bubblegum Crisis

If you liked Bubblegum Crisis (1987), a action & adventure and animation 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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Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (1998)
★ 6.7/10Also action & adventure and animation
MegaTokyo 2040: Tokyo’s workforce is riddled with robots that tend to go on destructive killing sprees. Four young women gear up in cybernetic suits to battle an evil corporation’s bionic pawns while its grip on the…
2
Guilty Crown (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
The story revolves around Shu Ouma, a high school boy who inadvertently obtains an ability called "The Power of the Kings" that enables him to draw out items called "Voids" from other people. He is then thrown into the…
3
Mazinger Z (1972)
★ 8/10Also action & adventure and animation
Mazinger Z, known briefly as Tranzor Z in the United States, is a Japanese super robot manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from…
4
Synduality Noir (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and action & adventure
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…
5
HEROMAN (2010)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and animation
An American kid named Joey lives in Center City, USA & has always wanted to become a hero. Unfortunately, he's just an orphan working part-time to support his grandma and himself. After he watched a commercial of a new…
6
Patlabor: The TV Series (1989)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
Patlabor: The TV Series is an anime television series, created by Headgear, animated by Sunrise, and based on the Patlabor anime franchise.
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Gatchaman Crowds (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also action & adventure and animation
Tachikawa, Japan, is a "second metropolis" of Tokyo, protected by the Gatchaman, warriors who fight in special reinforced suits powered by the manifestation of their spiritual powers called NOTE. When the energetic and…
8
Birdy the Mighty: Decode (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
While pursuing fugitives the Space Federation police officer Birdy Cephon Altera finds herself on Earth.
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Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991)
★ 7.4/10Also action & adventure and animation
It is the year 0083 of the Universal Century. The rebellious Principality of Zeon has been defeated in the One Year War by the Earth Federation. However, a faction of Zeon remnants led by Aguille Delaz fled from the…
10
Tokyo Override (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
When a lonely hacker gets entangled with a group of underground couriers, they uncover the dark truth lurking beneath Tokyo's seemingly perfect facade.
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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…
12
Steel Jeeg (1975)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and action & adventure
Hiroshi Shiba is a car racer who is mortally wounded in a laboratory accident, but restored to life by his father, Professor Shiba.
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Samurai Jack (2001)
★ 8.4/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
A great warrior is displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. The world has become a bleak place under the rule of Aku, segregated into fantastic tribes and ruled by Aku's evil robot…
14
Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and action & adventure
Long ago, a great, destructive war between humans the Orgs was ended; the people of Earth were believed to be the victors. But now, 1,000 years later, the Orgs have returned. And five new warriors have been selected by…
15
Girls' Last Tour (2017)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
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…
16
God Eater (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In the early 2050s, unknown life forms called “Oracle cells” begin their uncontrolled consumption of all life on Earth. Their ravenous appetite and remarkable adaptability earn them first dread, then awe, and finally…
17
Battle Angel (1993)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Doc Ido, a doctor and mechanic who lives and works in the postapocalyptic "Scrapyard", finds the remains of a female cyborg in a junk heap. After he revives and rebuilds her, the amnesiac "Gally" begins a life for…
18
My-Hime (2004)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and action & adventure
Schoolgirls discover that they have been given the ability to materialize weapons and control robotic beasts called "Children" to stop an evil organization from their plans of domination.
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Battle of the Planets (1978)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
G-Force, a five-member superhero team, fights to defend Earth and its space colonies from the threat of the planet Spectra.
20
Pacific Rim: The Black (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and animation
Two siblings - an idealistic teenage boy and his naive younger sister - are forced to pilot an abandoned Jaeger across a hostile landscape in a desperate attempt to find their missing parents.