Shows Like Gunbuster

If you liked Gunbuster (1988), 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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Gurren Lagann (2007)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
When a young laborer escapes to the world aboveground, he discovers a violent land in which humans battle robots controlled by a power-hungry noble.
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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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revisions (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
When Shibuya time-warps to 2388, high schooler Daisuke and his friends are conscripted by AHRV agent Milo to fight the hostile cyborg race, revisions.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and action & adventure
Ensign Shiro Amada is transferred to Southeast Asia to take command of the 08th MS Team. In their first guerilla operation, Shiro's team is tasked with distracting the Zeon forces while Federation ground troops locate…
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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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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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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…
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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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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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Terminator Zero (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
A warrior from a post-apocalyptic future travels to 1997 to protect an AI scientist being hunted by an unfeeling — and indestructible — cyborg.
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985)
★ 7.9/10Also action & adventure and animation
Universal Century 0087, 7 years have passed since the end of the One Year War between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon. The Earth Federation has created an elite task force, known as the Titans, who…
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Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994)
★ 7.5/10Also action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasy
In the Year F.C. (Future Century) 60, much of mankind inhabits space colonies which orbit the Earth. Dominance over the colonies is decided once every four years by a large tournament in which each nation sends a…
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Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song- (2021)
★ 8/10Also animation and action & adventure
In the near future, Vivy, a diva-type A.I., went up on stage each day with hopes of putting her heart into her song. One day, the A.I. Matsumoto, who claims to have arrived from 100 years in the future, appears before…
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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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Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar (2009)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and action & adventure
The story is set in an alternate world called Geminar, where countries have fought endless wars with replicas of humanoid Seikishi weapons that they found in ancient ruins. 15-year-old Kenshi Masaki, the half-brother…
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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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Robotics;Notes (2012)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In 2019, Kaito Yashio and Akiho Senomiya are the sole members of the Robotics Club at Central Tanegashima High School in Kyushu, Japan. Kaito is a laid back student and a skilled gamer who is just trying to help Akiho…
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Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and war & politics
The year is Universal Century 0088. Directly after the end of the Gryps War, Haman Karn and her army of Zeon remnants on the asteroid Axis begin their quest of reviving the lost empire of the Zabi's, and proclaim…
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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…
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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Japan has been invaded and conquered by the Britannian Empire. Japan is now known as Area 11 and its citizens known as Elevens. The Britannian Empire takes away Japan's autonomous power and imposes its rule through the…