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Short Sci-Fi anime series around 12 episodes
Short sci-fi anime recommendations for viewers who want a focused one-cour watch without a long commitment.
This guide narrows sci-fi anime to compact series. The picks favor titles with a focused arc, strong early direction, and enough payoff for a short watch plan.
Short Sci-Fi Anime Series Around 12 Episodes
DAN DA DAN
This is a story about Momo, a high school girl who comes from a family of spirit mediums, and her classmate Okarun, an occult fanatic. After Momo...
86 EIGHTY-SIX
Child soldiers fight a remote war under a system that treats them as disposable.
PLUTO
A murder occurs in an orderly world where robots are unable to kill humans. The robotic Europol investigator Gesicht takes the case, but the...
Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-
An AI singer tries to rewrite a century of history before a human-AI war begins.
Kaiju No. 8
With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military...
Tengoku Daimakyo
In the year 2024, the world has collapsed. Grotesque monsters lurk amongst the ruins of Japan, while remaining people scrape together what they...
NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun
A revolution sparked by nuclear war, natural disaster, and misrule leads to the collapse of Japanese society. The country splits into three...
Serial Experiments Lain
We're all connected... There is the world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the wired world, inside the...
Girls' Last Tour
Civilization is dead, but Chito and Yuuri are still alive. So they hop aboard their beloved Kettenkrad motorbike and aimlessly wander the ruins of...
HINAMATSURI
The comedy manga centers around a super-powered girl named Hina and Nitta, a young member of the yakuza. Hina suddenly appears in Nitta's room and...
ASTRA LOST IN SPACE
Itʼs the first day of Planet Camp, and Aries Spring couldnʼt be more excited! She, along with eight other strangers, leave for Planet McPa for a...
Plastic Memories
This story takes place in a future not too far away when androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android...
Sonny Boy
It’s an ordinary summer vacation...except for the fact that Nagara’s high school has mysteriously drifted into another dimension. As the students...
Apocalypse Hotel
Following the collapse of civilization, one storied hotel stands among the ruins of Tokyo’s Ginza district. Overrun by nature, this lone hotel...
TRIGUN STAMPEDE
Vash the Stampede’s a joyful gunslinging pacifist, so why does he have a $6 million bounty on his head? That’s what’s puzzling rookie reporter...
Kaiba
It is now possible to store memory data, so that the death of your body is not actually "death". As memories are stored in databanks, they can be...
Charlotte
The story centers around the special abilities that occur among a small percentage of boys and girls in puberty. Yuu Otosaka uses his power...
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