Shows Like Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet

If you liked Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet (2016), a animation and drama 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
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…
2
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…
3
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.
4
The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Noel is the grandson of legendary Seeker Overdeath and dreams of surpassing his strength. But it turns out that Noel is nothing but a Talker, the weakest class of them all. Undeterred, he uses his silver tongue to…
5
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (2025)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
High-school student Amate Yuzuriha lives peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. But when she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle.
6
The Ogre's Bride (2026)
★ 9/10Also animation and drama
In a world where humans and ayakashi–supernatural beings–coexist, being chosen as an ayakashi’s bride is the ultimate honor. Yuzu, an ordinary schoolgirl, has been overlooked her whole life, eclipsed by the shadow of…
7
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.
8
Aquarion (2005)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and drama
Set in the future, a giant fighting machine called the Aquarion is humanity's only effective weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced species called the Shadow Angels.
9
3x3 Eyes (1991)
★ 6.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
The story of a young man named Yakumo Fuuji, who through a strange series of events becomes the immortal slave of the last of a race of 3 Eyed immortals. The immortal absorbs his soul to save his life, making him…
10
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…
11
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…
12
Sparks of Tomorrow (2026)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and drama
In an alternate past, an unlikely duo team up to look for a missing catalog that could bring electricity to the smoke-filled streets of Kyoto.
13
Cyborg 009 (2001)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Nine super-powered cyborg soldiers join forces to combat Black Ghost, the terrorist organization which they were originally created to serve.
14
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…
15
Land of the Lustrous (2017)
★ 8/10Also animation and drama
In the mysterious future, crystalline organisms called Gems inhabit a world that has been destroyed by six meteors. Each Gem is assigned a role in order to fight against the Lunarians, a species who attacks them in…
16
MAO (2026)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Eight years ago, Nanoka Kiba was saved from the wreckage of a fatal accident at Gogyō Town Shopping Center. Drawn to the abandoned passage of storefronts on her walk home from school in present day, she becomes…
17
Robotech (1985)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and drama
Robotech is an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series made between 1982-1984 in Japan; the adaptation was aired in 1985. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the…
18
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…
19
Aria (2005)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Set in the early 24th century against the backdrop of the city of Neo Venezia on the planet Mars. No longer the barren red planet, Mars has been flooded, inhabited and is something of a tourist hub for those looking…
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Fate/stay night (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Shirou Emiya lost his parents in a fire when he was young and was later adopted by the sorcerer Kiritsugu Emiya. Shirou is drawn into the Holy Grail War summons a female "Servant" known as Saber to protect him and…