Top 10 Sci-Fi Anime for Cyberpunk Fans

Why Watch: Rated 9.07/10, Steins;Gate stands out for its execution of the Cyberpunk Anime genre. It is widely considered a masterpiece, praised for its character depth and stunning animation.

Eccentric scientist Rintarou Okabe has a never-ending thirst for scientific exploration. Together with his ditzy but well-meaning friend Mayuri Shiina and his roommate Itaru Hashida, Okabe founds the Future Gadget Laboratory in the hopes of creating technological innovations that baffle the human psyche. Despite claims of grandeur, the only notable "gadget" the trio have created is a microwave that has the mystifying power to turn bananas into green goo. However, when Okabe attends a conference...

Why Watch: Rated 9.05/10, Gintama° stands out for its execution of the Cyberpunk Anime genre. It is widely considered a masterpiece, praised for its character depth and stunning animation.

Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura return as the fun-loving but broke members of the Yorozuya team! Living in an alternate-reality Edo, where swords are prohibited and alien overlords have conquered Japan, they try to thrive on doing whatever work they can get their hands on. However, Shinpachi and Kagura still haven't been paid... Does Gin-chan really spend all that cash playing pachinko? Meanwhile, when Gintoki drunkenly staggers home one night, an alien spaceship crashes nearby. A fatally injure...

Why Watch: Rated 9.05/10, Gintama: The Final stands out for its execution of the Cyberpunk Anime genre. It is widely considered a masterpiece, praised for its character depth and stunning animation.

Two years have passed following the Tendoshuu's invasion of the O-Edo Central Terminal. Since then, the Yorozuya have gone their separate ways. Foreseeing Utsuro's return, Gintoki Sakata begins surveying Earth's ley lines for traces of the other man's Altana. After an encounter with the remnants of the Tendoshuu—who continue to press on in search of immortality—Gintoki returns to Edo. Later, the regrouped Shinsengumi and Yorozuya begin an attack on the occupied Central Terminal. With the Altana...

Why Watch: Rated 9.02/10, Gintama' stands out for its execution of the Cyberpunk Anime genre. It is widely considered a masterpiece, praised for its character depth and stunning animation.

After a one-year hiatus, Shinpachi Shimura returns to Edo, only to stumble upon a shocking surprise: Gintoki and Kagura, his fellow Yorozuya members, have become completely different characters! Fleeing from the Yorozuya headquarters in confusion, Shinpachi finds that all the denizens of Edo have undergone impossibly extreme changes, in both appearance and personality. Most unbelievably, his sister Otae has married the Shinsengumi chief and shameless stalker Isao Kondou and is pregnant with thei...

Why Watch: Rated 9.02/10, Gintama': Enchousen stands out for its execution of the Cyberpunk Anime genre. It is widely considered a masterpiece, praised for its character depth and stunning animation.

While Gintoki Sakata was away, the Yorozuya found themselves a new leader: Kintoki, Gintoki's golden-haired doppelganger. In order to regain his former position, Gintoki will need the help of those around him, a troubling feat when no one can remember him! Between Kintoki and Gintoki, who will claim the throne as the main character? In addition, Yorozuya make a trip back down to red-light district of Yoshiwara to aid an elderly courtesan in her search for her long-lost lover. Although the distr...

Why Watch: Rated 9.02/10, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu stands out for its execution of the Cyberpunk Anime genre. It is widely considered a masterpiece, praised for its character depth and stunning animation.

The 150-year-long stalemate between the two interstellar superpowers, the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance, comes to an end when a new generation of leaders arises: the idealistic military genius Reinhard von Lohengramm, and the FPA's reserved historian, Yang Wenli. While Reinhard climbs the ranks of the Empire with the aid of his childhood friend, Siegfried Kircheis, he must fight not only the war, but also the remnants of the crumbling Goldenbaum Dynasty in order to free his sist...

Why Watch: Rated 8.98/10, Gintama. stands out for its execution of the Cyberpunk Anime genre. It is widely considered a masterpiece, praised for its character depth and stunning animation.

After joining the resistance against the bakufu, Gintoki and the gang are in hiding, along with Katsura and his Joui rebels. The Yorozuya is soon approached by Nobume Imai and two members of the Kiheitai, who explain that the Harusame pirates have turned against 7th Division Captain Kamui and their former ally Takasugi. The Kiheitai present Gintoki with a job: find Takasugi, who has been missing since his ship was ambushed in a Harusame raid. Nobume also makes a stunning revelation regarding the...

Why Watch: Rated 8.93/10, Gintama stands out for its execution of the Cyberpunk Anime genre. It is widely considered a masterpiece, praised for its character depth and stunning animation.

Edo is a city that was home to the vigor and ambition of samurai across the country. However, following feudal Japan's surrender to powerful aliens known as the "Amanto," those aspirations now seem unachievable. With the once-influential shogunate rebuilt as a puppet government, a new law is passed that promptly prohibits all swords in public. Enter Gintoki Sakata, an eccentric silver-haired man who always carries around a wooden sword and maintains his stature as a samurai despite the ban. As...

Why Watch: Rated 8.91/10, Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 stands out for its execution of the Cyberpunk Anime genre. It is widely considered a masterpiece, praised for its character depth and stunning animation.

One year has passed since the Black Rebellion, a failed uprising against the Holy Britannian Empire led by the masked vigilante Zero, who is now missing. At a loss without their revolutionary leader, Area 11's resistance group—the Black Knights—find themselves too powerless to combat the brutality inflicted upon the Elevens by Britannia, which has increased significantly in order to crush any hope of a future revolt. Lelouch Lamperouge, having lost all memory of his double life, is living peac...

Why Watch: Rated 8.89/10, Gintama Movie 2: Kanketsu-hen - Yorozuya yo Eien Nare stands out for its execution of the Cyberpunk Anime genre. It is widely considered a masterpiece, praised for its character depth and stunning animation.

When Gintoki apprehends a movie pirate at a premiere, he checks the camera's footage and finds himself transported to a bleak, post-apocalyptic version of Edo, where a mysterious epidemic called the "White Plague" has ravished the world's population. It turns out that the movie pirate wasn't a pirate after all—it was an android time machine, and Gintoki has been hurtled five years into the future! Shinpachi and Kagura, his Yorozuya cohorts, have had a falling out and are now battle-hardened solo...