More often than not, it's magic, rather than science, that wins battles and saves the universe in anime series and movies... or a combination of magic and battle-ready brawn. Even in science-fiction series, the tech is often explained by mysterious alien innovations as opposed to any kind of logic or real-world science.
However, there are many times when anime heroes have used science and scientific methods to solve problems and improve conditions in their world, as well as defeat enemies and save humanity. The science itself may be part science fiction, but there’s an internal logic that makes it plausible in their universe.
10 Inahu Uses Physics And Analysis To Overcome The Vers Army (Aldnoah.Zero)
In the world of Aldnoah.Zero, humans have colonized Mars with alien technology and declared war on Earth. From the 1972 Apollo mission to the Moon to Princess Asseylum Vers Allusia's study of Earth, the series is filled with genuine scientific tidbits along with sci-fi alien tech. Once an ordinary high school student before the war, Inaho becomes part of Earth’s army. He becomes one of its most successful combatants by using his powers of analysis and extensive knowledge of physics against the enemy mechs.
9 The Crew Of The Toy Box Clean Up Space Debris Using Real Science (Planetes)
Planetes is a hard science fiction show based on a manga. It tells the story of the unsung heroes of space -those who collect space debris that derive from the host of satellites and space stations circling the Earth. It’s an unglamorous job, but as the series points out, it’s absolutely crucial to being able to navigate safely in space. The series follows the misfit crew of the debris ship Toy Box as they save the planet on a daily basis in the year 2075.
8 Ren, Chiara, And Homi Become Element Hunters To Save The World With Chemistry (Element Hunters)
Element Hunters, a Japanese-Korean sci-fi series, was actually designed to be educational. The premise is that, in the year 2029, Earth is depleted of critical chemical elements such as oxygen, carbon, and gold. The environment has been degraded, and researchers discover that the elements are going to a planet called Nega Earth in another dimension. Three middle schoolers team up to become the Element Hunters, and, with the help of their professor, they use chemistry to save the world.
7 Harumi Kiyama Is Able To Cure Her Students With Science (A Certain Scientific Railgun)
It's a matter of verifiable science that, in the real world, when people talk and otherwise interact, their brainwaves synchronize. So, it's really not too far of a stretch to suppose that Kiyama Harumi's experiments in A Certain Scientific Railgun with using specific frequencies of sound to join the listeners in a neural network might actually work.
She predicted that her students would fall into a coma as a result of being exposed to the Level Upper. With her idea, she's able to cure them.
6 Kisuke Urahara Uses Sci-Fi Science To Invent The Hogyoku (Bleach)
Kisuke Urahara is a tech expert in Bleach, always inventing new weapons and gadgets to be used in battle. He founded the Shinigami Research and Development Institute. To add to his mystique, Kisuke is a little shady and mysterious, and even powerful Yhwach thinks of him as a “Special Threat.” In Bleach, the science is based on substances with unique powers, but it's consistent within the series. His biggest achievement is the invention of the second Hogyoku, which allows the races to use each other's powers.
5 AE3803 Is A Red Blood Cell On Daily Rounds Through The Human Body (Cells At Work!)
There are about 37.2 trillion cells in the human body, and many of them show up as characters in Cells at Work! Poor AE3803 is a red blood cell who’s new on the job, and the series follows her and friends like U-1146, the white blood cell who is part of the immune system tracking and destroying pathogens. Every episode is an adventure, like the time they track down a Pneumonia Coccus and finally defeat it with the help of Helper T Cell and the Killer T Division.
4 Shotaro Tatewaki And Sakurako Kujo Help Solve Crimes With Science (Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation)
High school student Shotaro Tatewaki meets Sakurako Kujo, an osteologist who is obsessed with her medical specialty, the study of bones. She uses here knowledge to help the Hokkaido Prefectural Police solve crimes.
She helped the police prove an apparent suicide of an older couple was actually a murder because of her scientific analysis of the evidence contained in human bodies. Shotaro gets to tag along on her investigations and even helps with her research, which is based on real-world science.
3 Viewers Learn About The Science Behind Microbes Alongside Tadayasu Sawaki (Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture)
In Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture, Tadayasu Sawaki is a first-year student at an agricultural university. He's got one big advantage over his fellow students - he can see and communicate with microorganisms, which he sees as being much larger than they really are. It makes him a bit of a celebrity at the university. He uses his special ability to solve problems and creatures like bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi, things that come in handy when he wants to make sake, for example.
2 Grad Student Mei And Engineer Yun Use Physics To Solve Their Kaiju Problems (Godzilla Singular Point)
Toh EnJoe, the writer of Godzilla Singular Point, has a degree in physics and a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he was an academic for years before turning to writing. That explains the science-heavy plot of the anime, which focuses on engineer Yun Arikawa and graduate student Mei Kamino as they race to solve the growing threat posed to the entire world when a series of giant creatures gradually appear in multiple locations using their knowledge of physics and other scientific disciplines.
1 The Demon King Gifts The Worlds Of Humans And Demons With Useful Tech (Maoyu)
The Demon King has lived most of her life in a library and is a member of the Library Clan that values books and learning. When the Humans come to her castle to fight with her, she talks their leader into forming an alliance instead. They team up to bring peace to Demons and Humans, and The Demon King, who's actually the Demon Queen of Maoyu Mao Yusha, helps humanity with a series of innovation like public education, greenhouse technology, the printing press and more.
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