Books like Astroboy
24 science fiction books to read after Astroboy, by David Bowers, the closest match first.
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1. Robotech - The Macross Saga
by Jack Mckinney
- On the same lists
One of the most iconic of all anime series outside of Japan, and one of the most influential on anime production within the country. The story is just about the...
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2. Time Of Eve
by Yasuhiro Yoshiura
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The first Original Net Anime (ONA) on the list, it's also one that made many take notice of the genre. This is another excellent series dealing with the availability of...
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3. Cowboy Bebop
by Hajime Yadate
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There was an explosion in the late 1990s that led to many top-notch anime series debuting. It's the late 21st century and Earth is pretty much uninhabitable. That leads Earth...
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4. Buddy Complex
by Hiroki Obara
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Aoba returns for another year of school. On his first day, he's attacked by a mecha, saved by a classmate, and taken from 2014 and placed firmly in the loving...
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5. Crest Of Stars / Banner Of The Stars
by Hiroyuki Morioka
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Crest of Stars is the first part of a science fiction series that looks at a war between intergalactic empires. If that sounds a little like Star Wars, it does...
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6. Chobits
by Clamp
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Hideki is a broke prep school student, dreaming of going to college. He's also a lonely virgin who has one wish – to acquire a Persocom, a PERSOnal COMputer in...
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7. Space Battleship Yamato
by Takashi Yamazaki
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If Robotech was the first International megahit for anime, it was Space Battleship Yamato that set the table for its success. Best known world wide as Star Blazers, it's a...
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8. Space Dandy
by Masafumi Harada
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The idea for Space Dandy is one of the silliest, and most impressive, of any recent anime series. An affable alien hunter, Dandy, and the crew of his ship, the...
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9. Fullmetal Alchemist
by Hiromu Arakawa
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The first few years of the 21st century were full of amazing anime series that made it to the US as a of the Adult Swim cartoon block. One of...
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10. Darker Than Black
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This has to be one of the darkest, most impressively nihilistic visions of the future in recent years. An anomaly, Heaven's Gate, opens in South America, and it's counterpoint, Hell's...
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11. Angelic Layer
by Clamp
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Angelic Layer takes places in the Chobits universe (or, more accurately, Chobits takes place in the Angelic Layer universe, as AL came first) and uses many of the same themes...
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12. My Hero Academia
by Kohei Horikoshi
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Even though it's still running as of the writing of these words, there's little better than a good Superhero gifted youngster at an academy series. Be it X-Men's Xavier's School...
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13. Show By Rock!!
by David Weigel
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There is no greater hive of scum and villainy than the recording industry, which makes the wonderful scifi/horror/fantasy series Show by Rock all the more impressive. Coming from the good...
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14. One Punch Man
by One
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How much fun are you looking to have this week? A lot? Good, then you need to watch One Punch Man! An adaptation of a hugely popular web-comic, One Punch...
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15. Neon Genesis Evangelion
by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
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How could any anime using the Dead Sea Scrolls as a major plot point not be on this list? The story behind Neon Genesis Evangelion isn't simple, it's a twisted,...
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16. Full Metal Panic
by Shouji Gatou
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In many ways, mecha are the bread and butter of anime. They define a lot of the best, most popular anime from the 1980s on. The initial series of Full...
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17. Bubblegum Crisis
by Adam Warren
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The late 1980s were great for several things, and in the case of Bubblegum Crisis, it was a time of Cyberpunk and direct-to-video, or OVA, Original Video Animation, in Anime...
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18. Agent Aika
by Noriyasu Yamaguchi
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Another OVA that really turned heads, partly due to the sexiness imbuing it, and partly due to the heavy fandom that has grown up around it. The story is that...
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19. Appleseed
by Shinji Aramaki & Steven Foster
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Appleseed dwells in that arena of anime you can call Noir Cyberpunk. It's another OVA and one that is powerful in the use of nihilism. The story of the experimental...
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20. 009-1
by Koichi Sakamoto
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Measured by long-term impact, 009-1 has one of the most impressive lineages. An incredibly important manga in the late 1960s, then a live-action television drama, and then in 2006, more...
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21. Absolute Boy
by Yuu Watase
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A pair of storylines, twisted together, one in summer and one winter, in a way that makes each of them more impressive. The first story is a personal tale of...
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22. Bombshells From The Sky / Cat Planet Cuties
by Cd Reiss
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Kio is an ordinary guy who has extraordinary friends. How extraordinary? Two are secret agents, and his newest one is sex cat girl alien from Catias. The story is one...
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23. Sailor Moon
by Naoko Takeuchi
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One of the most popular anime exports ever, in many ways the early 1990s anime series was defined by Sailor Moon. The series details the adventures of Usagi as a...
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24. Speed Racer
by Lana Wachowski
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Another of the important steps in bringing what we know today as anime, Mach Go-Go-Go (called Speed Racer outside Japan) was one of the most iconic of all 1960s anime...
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