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Sci-Fi Anime from 2012

23 sci-fi anime that aired in 2012, ranked by score.

  1. 1
    Gintama: Enchousen

    TV · 13 ep · fall

    While Gintoki Sakata was away, the Yorozuya found themselves a new leader: Kintoki, Gintoki's golden-haired doppelganger.

  2. 2
    Psycho-Pass

    TV · 22 ep · fall

    Justice, and the enforcement of it, has changed. In the 22nd century, Japan enforces the Sibyl System, an objective means of determining the threat level of each citizen by…

  3. 3
    From the New World

    TV · 25 ep · fall

    In the year 2011, a small percentage of humans began manifesting psychokinetic abilities known as "Cantus." Over a millennium later, in the small town of Kamisu 66, Saki…

  4. 4
    Humanity Has Declined

    TV · 12 ep · summer

    Because of the constantly declining birth rates over many decades, human civilization is all but extinct.

  5. 5
    Tsuritama

    TV · 12 ep · spring

    Saving the world... by fishing? Yuki Sanada has always felt like a fish out of water. Socially awkward and anxious, he struggles to fit in with his surroundings and moves from…

  6. 6
    Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere II

    TV · 13 ep · summer

    Taking advantage of the opportunity that the Mikawa Conflict provides, Tori and his comrades attempt to rescue Horizon from the Testament Union.

  7. 7
    To LOVE Ru Darkness

    TV · 12 ep · fall

    As close encounters of the twisted kind between the residents of the planet Deviluke (represented primarily by the female members of the royal family) and the inhabitants of…

  8. 8
    Waiting in the Summer

    TV · 12 ep · winter

    While testing out his camera on a bridge one summer night, Kaito Kirishima sees a blue light streaking across the sky, only to be blown off the railing seconds later.

  9. 9
    AKB0048

    TV · 13 ep · spring

    After an interplanetary war at the beginning of the 21st century, planet Earth has been left in ruins, with much of its ecosystem completely destroyed.

  10. 10
    Robotics;Notes

    TV · 22 ep · fall

    It has always been the aspiration of the Central Tanegashima High School Robotics Research Club to complete the GunPro1, a fully functioning giant robot.

  11. 11
    Accel World

    TV · 24 ep · spring

    Haruyuki Arita is an overweight, bullied middle schooler who finds solace in playing online games.

  12. 12
    Bodacious Space Pirates

    TV · 26 ep · winter

    Far in the future, where interstellar travel is considered commonplace, high school student Marika Katou balances her duties in the space yacht club and her job as a restaurant…

  13. 13
    Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse

    TV · 24 ep · summer

    In 1973, following the ruthless six-year-long Lunar War, the hostile alien species known as the BETA—Beings of Extra Terrestrial origin which are Adversary of the human…

  14. 14
    Aquarion Evol

    TV · 26 ep · winter

    12,000 years after the events in Genesis Aquarion, humans live on the star Vega under constant threat of trans-dimensional beings called Abductors.

  15. 15
    Symphogear

    TV · 13 ep · winter

    Tsubasa Kazanari and Kanade Amou—the idol duo known as Zwei Wing—use their songs to power ancient weapons known as "symphogears" to combat a deadly alien race called the…

  16. 16
    Nyaruko: Crawling With Love!

    TV · 12 ep · spring

    Mahiro Yasaka is just an ordinary high school student, until one day he is suddenly attacked by a dangerous monster.

  17. 17
    Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne Season 2

    TV · 12 ep · summer

    Several months have passed since Lan and Muginami left Earth. Now in her final year of high school, Madoka spends most of her days thinking about her friends, when Lan suddenly…

  18. 18
    Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne

    TV · 12 ep · winter

    Madoka Kyouno is an energetic girl who is full of passion. As the proud, and only, member of the Kamogawa Girls' High School Jersey Club, she goes around helping people in…

  19. 19
    Zetman

    TV · 13 ep · spring

    The story starts off with a face-off between two rival heroes, ZET and ALPHAS, and then traces their origins - Jin Kanzaki, a young man with the ability to transform into a…

  20. 20
    Eureka Seven AO

    TV · 24 ep · spring

    The story is set on Okinawa's isolated island of Iwado, which has seen a growing movement advocating a return to an autonomous government.

  21. 21
    Saint Seiya Omega

    TV · 97 ep · spring

    The god of war and guardian of his namesake planet, Mars, was once sealed away by Seiya, but time has passed and his revival is at hand.

  22. 22
    Busou Shinki: Armored War Goddess

    TV · 12 ep · fall

    The slice-of-life battle story is set in a future that has neither World War III nor an alien invasion—just an ordinary future set after our current age.

  23. 23
    Ozma
    Ozma6.1

    TV · 6 ep · spring

    In the far future, the elevated irradiation from the sun has destroyed the environment of the earth and the birthrate of humans has drastically decreased.