Categories:Elements:SciFi
Science fiction stories usually focus on how situations could be different in the future when we are more technologically advanced; due to either our own achievements or having met with other civilizations whom we have learned from.
Subcategories
Aliens
An extraterrestrial life-form, possibly intelligent and/or extremely threatening.
Humanoid
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Parasites
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Human Enhancement
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Cyborgs
Cyborgs are humans, who have been taken over in part or in whole by cybernetic or electrical/mechanical devices, which either control them or which they retain control of. The term comes from "cybernetic organism", which literally means an organism that contains both mechanical and organic components.
- Examples: A.D. Police a441 A.D. Police, Saishuuheiki Kanojo
Genetic Modification
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Mecha
Mecha in Japanese basically means mechanical things; everything from an electric whisk or a car to a spaceship or a robot. Here however we limit it to the more exotic things usually referred to as mecha anime: robots, whether controlled by a human or not, and their ilk. We further specify what kind of "mecha" you're likely to find in an anime with this category in the subcategories.
Androids
Androids are robots created to look like humans. A very famous example is Data from Star Trek, but they need not be as human-like as him.
- Examples: Chii from Chobits, Mahoro from Mahoromatic, KOSMOS found in Xenosaga - The Animation
Piloted Robots
Piloted Robots are, as the name suggests, robots that cannot control themselves; they need to be steered from somewhere, this can be from a human sitting inside or a remote controlled option.
- Examples: Shinseiki Evangelion, Mugen no Ryvius
Power Suits
Power Suits are similar to Piloted Robots which are controlled from inside the robot except that Power Suits tend to be more directly tied to how the character moves and they are usually not as big as Piloted Robots can be.
- Examples: Spriggan, Bubblegum Crisis, Sky Girls
Robot Helpers
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Transforming Robots
Transforming Robots includes mecha that change shape from their original either to facilitate better/different functionality or as camouflage.
- Examples: VanDread, Sousei no Aquarion
Space Travel
Space Travel usually refers going to space or travelling there with or without spacecraft. There are different forms of space travel like Interplanetary travel, Interstellar travel and Intergalactic travel. As it isn't possible to travel faster than light, most anime series involve some sort "sub-space travel mechanism" as a way to travel faster than light.
- Examples: Macross F, Cowboy Bebop, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu
Time Travel
In time travel anime characters are transported through time either figuratively or literally to find themselves either in the past or the future.
- Examples: Zipang, Sennen Joyuu, Natsuiro no Sunadokei, Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo