Top 10 Space Animes to Watch

By Miriam Herrera

 on April 13, 2026

This week has been a thrill as we all saw the launch of Artemis II, and now they are all returning home on Friday, April 10th. So, why not watch some amazing space anime that will have you laughing and on the edge of your seat!

1.Space Pirate Captain Harlock

• Where to watch: Crunchyroll
• Sub Only
• Synopsis: In the year 2977 AD, humanity has achieved a vast starfaring civilization, but is succumbing to ennui, often due to defeat and subjugation by a foreign invader. Rising against the general apathy, Harlock denies defeat and leads an outlaw crew aboard his starship Arcadia to undertake daring raids against Earth’s oppressors. Their primary oppressors are the Mazone, a race of organic plant-based alien women who explored Earth in the mythic past and are now back to reclaim it.

2. Vandread

• Where to watch: Crunchyroll and Hulu
• Sub and Dub
• Synopsis: The battle of the sexes may seem bad on Earth, but in a space colony far, far away, things are even worse. Men and women don’t just argue in the future—they go straight for each other’s throats. Enter Hibiki, a little guy with big dreams of adventure, who gets caught in the middle of a firefight after stowing away in a top-secret mech designed to purge the galaxy of estrogen forever!

3. Space Brothers

• Where to watch: Crunchyroll
• Sub Only
• Synopsis: In the summer of 2006, Mutta Nanba and his younger brother, Hibito, witness what they believe to be a UFO, which flies off towards the Moon. Hibito decides he will go to the Moon, whilst Mutta decides he will aim for Mars. Nineteen years later, in the year 2025, Hibito has become a fully fledged JAXA astronaut assigned to go on a mission to the moon. Mutta, on the other hand, has not been so successful in achieving his dreams. As Mutta eventually recalls his past ambitions, he receives a letter stating that he has been accepted into a JAXA training program for new astronauts. The series follows Mutta as he seeks to become an astronaut and achieve his longtime dream just like his brother did.
  

4. Cowboy Bebop

• Where to watch: Crunchyroll
• Sub and Dub
• Synopsis: In the year 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway that made Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) established a legalized contract system in which registered bounty hunters (also known as “Cowboys”) pursue criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward. The story follows the crew on a ship called Bebop, five (yes, I’m counting Ein, fight me) crew members, and their antics and stories of their bounties.
  

5. Memories

• Where to watch: Prime Video
• Dub Only
• Synopsis: Three anime stories from the director of Akira! 1. Magnetic Rose. Alone on a mysterious ship in deep space, she waits. She will be the undoing of unsuspecting travelers. 2. Stink Bomb. A junior scientist gets the flu and decides to try out some newly developed pills. 3. Cannon Fodder. A day in the life of a family in a small city, where there is only war.
  

6. Space Dandy

• Where to watch: Crunchyroll
• Sub and Dub
• Synopsis: The space opera follows the misadventures of Dandy, an alien bounty hunter who is “a dandy guy in space”, in search of undiscovered and rare aliens with his robot assistant QT and his feline friend named Meow. Dandy is unaware that he is being pursued by Dr. Gel of the Gogol Empire.
  

7. Planetes

• Where to watch: Crunchyroll
• Sub and Dub
• Synopsis: In 2075, commercial space travel is commonplace. However, huge amounts of debris threaten the safety of spacefarers – that’s where the Toy Box crew comes in. As they wrangle objects in orbit, they also grapple with life goals, crappy pay, and what it all means.
  

8. Voices of a Distant Star

• Where to watch: Currently unavailable
• N/A
• Synopsis: It is 2046 when a mysterious alien force begins its annihilation of the human race. Leaving behind the one person she loves, Mikako joins the interstellar battle as a pilot. And so – while Mikako risks her life to save mankind – Noboru waits. In the first days, then months, then years, for each new message that will let him know whether Mikako is still alive. And, while she barely grows older in the timelessness of space, Noboru ages. The two lovers, worlds apart, desperately strive to remain connected as the gap between them widens at a frightening pace.
  

9. Star Wars: Vision

• Where to watch: Disney+ and Hulu
• Sub and Dub
• Synopsis: This anthology of animated shorts from around the world celebrates the
  The Star Wars myth through unique cultural lenses.
  

10. Gurren Lagann

• Where to watch: Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu
• Sub and Dub
• Synopsis: In a bleak future where humanity is forced to live underground, a fourteen-year-old boy named Simon is assigned the task of digging tunnels to expand his village. But Simon stumbles upon a fantastic device, and with the help of many other friends, they use the robot’s power to fight their oppressors and reclaim the surface.