The Best Sci-Fi Anime On Crunchyroll, Ranked

In 2071, bounty hunters Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, and Jet Black chase criminals across the galaxy in their spaceship, the Bebop. They face many dangers across worlds. Each character's past reappears. The team must beat outside threats and inside fights while racing time to catch fugitives.

Post-apocalyptic Tokyo sees Kaneda Shotaro lead a motorcycle gang. He gets caught in a government plot when his friend, Tetsuo Shima, gains telekinetic powers. Tetsuo's powers grow out of control, threatening Akira's destructive force, a secret government project. Kaneda and resistance fighters test their friendship, racing time to save Tetsuo and the city.

Earth's resources run out, so three factions fight for solar power control, causing global war. A secret group, Celestial Being, uses Gundams, powerful mobile suits, piloted by four people. They aim to end war and start a new age of peace through fighting. Gundam pilots, led by Setsuna F. Seiei, face the military and the politics. They confront their own issues and decide what justice, sacrifice, and human limits mean.

Captain Harlock and his crew on the Arcadia ship fight Earth's government rebellion. They try to free humanity from its self-destructive path. They battle tough enemies, meet strange allies, and find out the dark secrets of Earth's struggles. As they face mounting odds, Harlock and his crew must handle space's harshness, build loyalty, and defend their core beliefs.

Okabe Rintaro, a self-proclaimed mad scientist, accidentally builds a time-traveling microwave that sends text to the past. Okabe and his friends test the device, accidentally changing history and risking their lives. Okabe must figure out time travel's secrets and fix it before it's too late.

Earth and space colonies fight. Five youths piloting Gundams are sent to Earth for a secret war for colony independence. Each pilot, like protagonist Heero Yuy, fights for different colony reasons. They join forces against a shared enemy. Pilots deal with love, friendship, and betrayal. Their actions decide Earth's and the Space Colonies' future.

Umika struggles to talk to others and dreams of having a friend from another planet.

The school's Robot Research Club plans to build a life-sized robot based on her favorite anime.

After the One Year War, Kamille Bidan, a young civilian with psychic abilities, faces the Earth Federation's Titans task force and the Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG), a rebel group aiming to overthrow the Titans' rule. Kamille pilots the Zeta Gundam. He confronts war's harsh reality, faces past ghosts, and decides his loyalties. He makes new allies, fights strong enemies, and finds courage and sacrifice.

Emma, Norman, and Ray live peacefully in the Grace Field House orphanage with their friends and caretaker, Isabella. Their world ends when they learn the orphans are food for demons. The trio leads younger siblings in a tense effort to outsmart captors and survive danger and lies.

War between androids and machines from another world destroys a desolate world. 2B, a combat android, and 9S, a scanner android, fight robotic invaders sent by humanity's last remnants. They battle enemies, find the conflict's truth, and face their existence, life's meaning, and the cost of endless war. They meet androids, sympathetic machines, and human remnants that challenge their views.

In a future society, mental states get measured. Detective Akane Tsunemori works with partner Shinya Kogami to maintain order. Their Public Safety Bureau uses a "Dominator" gun to enforce the Sibyl System's rules on Psycho-Pass readings. They uncover a plot threatening society's base, testing their morals and beliefs.

A sudden, unexplained sea rise submerges much of human civilization in the near future.

Makoto Misumi is summoned to another world to become a hero but gets thrown out.

Momo and Okarun's beliefs clash. They enter a world of ghosts, aliens, and powers.

Ganta Igarashi faces prison and amusement park Deadman Wonderland for murdering classmates. Inmates fight deadly games for public view. Ganta seeks his name. He gains blood control for fighting. He joins a secret tournament with other "Deadmen". He must move through the prison, team up with inmates, and fight foes to find the truth behind his imprisonment.

Juzo Inui, a former soldier turned private investigator with a gun for a head, hunts for answers about his past. Juzo explores mega-corporations, rogue androids, and hidden conspiracies. Juzo uncovers his origins and the technology sustaining him, facing forces manipulating events.Juzo must use his unique skills, instincts, and allies to find justice for himself and those he protects. Trust is rare in this world.The situation demands Juzo rely on his unique skills, instincts, and unlikely allies to find justice for himself and those he seeks to protect.

A male pirate ship crew hijacks a female battleship. They travel to a distant galaxy. They face alien threats, distrust, and societal prejudice. The crews learn to cooperate, build bonds, and find hope in space.

A ten-year-old boy rides a space train to get an indestructible machine body.

Two brothers see a UFO and vow to become astronauts as children.

A samurai bargains for life in a city taken over by aliens.

An office worker and a high school student connect while both deal with personal struggles.

Thirty-six students find themselves alone in their high school, floating in black space.

Hikaru's normal middle school life changes when he meets Alma.

Renge wanders the city and meets five other young women, each possessing unique abilities.

After humanity, a robot runs a Tokyo hotel waiting for its owner to return.

Humans live with androids called Neans. A group named "the Immortal Nine" rebels against society.

Liam is reborn in an interstellar empire. His goal is to become the galaxy's worst evil lord.