Shows Like Aria

If you liked Aria (2005), 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.

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Metallic Rouge (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In a world where humans coexist with androids called Neans, a group known as the Immortal Nine rises up against society. Tasked with disposing of the revolters, a Nean named Rouge Redstar (aka Metal Rouge) and…
2
Classroom Crisis (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also animation
Humanity has successfully colonized all the planets in the Solar System, with intentions to continue into new frontiers. Individuals live stable lives in these colonies, including young high school students living in…
3
Farming Life in Another World (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
After Hiraku dies of a serious illness, God brings him back to life, gives his health and youth back, and sends him to a fantasy world of his choice. In order to enjoy his second shot, God bestows upon him the almighty…
4
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.
5
Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
It is thirty years after the failure of the Space Colonization Program. Humanity is nearly extinct. A perpetual and deadly Rain falls on the Earth. Men known as "Junkers" plunder goods and artifacts from the ruins of…
6
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (2023)
★ 8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Pride Royal Ivy is only eight years old when she realizes that she's been reincarnated, destined to become the future wicked queen and final boss of an otome game. She's got it all in this new life: razor-sharp wit…
7
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…
8
Dr. STONE (2019)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
One fateful day, all of humanity was petrified by a blinding flash of light. After several millennia, high schooler Taiju awakens and finds himself lost in a world of statues. However, he’s not alone! His…
9
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…
10
RahXephon (2002)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Ayato Kamina, a 17-year-old high school student, lives in Tokyo Jupiter oblivious to the world around him, having been raised to believe that the rest of civilization has been destroyed; but everything changes when a…
11
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Wealthy heiress Catarina Claes is hit in the head with a rock and recovers the memories of her past life. It turns out the world she lives in is the world of the game Fortune Lover, an otome game she was obsessed with…
12
NieA_7 (2000)
★ 7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Mayuko Chigasaki is an ordinary girl from the countryside, who now is attending university in big city Tokyo. She struggles each day to make ends meet while studying for her exams, barely scraping up the yen to afford…
13
As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World (2024)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Ars Louvent is reincarnated in another world as the young son of a minor noble who owns a small domain. Ars is not particularly strong or intelligent, but he was born with the Appraisal Skill that's able to see others'…
14
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…
15
Magic Knight Rayearth (1994)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
While on a field trip to the Tokyo Tower, three middle school girls suddenly find themselves in another world and must save its princess to return home.
16
K-ON! (2009)
★ 8/10Also animation
Yui Hirasawa has no clue which club to join, but she’s determined to do something this year. As luck would have it, she discovers a flyer for the Light Music Club and decides this is the club for her. But there's one…
17
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…
18
Captain Future (1978)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Curtis Newton, aka Captain Future, is an orphan. His parents died in their artificial satellite while he was an infant. His father was a scientist, who has abandoned earth for the satellite to dedicate his life for…
19
Maison Ikkoku (1986)
★ 7.7/10Also animation
Godai is a ronin (someone who has failed university entrance exams) living in a run down apartment house called Maison Ikkoku. Among the other residents are the nosy Ichinose, the sexy Akemi Roppongi, and the…
20
The Twelve Kingdoms (2002)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Nakajima Youko is your average somewhat timid high school student. One day, a strange man named Keiki appears before her, swearing allegiance. Before she could properly register what was happening, demon-like creatures…