Space Battleship Yamato is the prototypical anime space opera, bar none. Arguably the masterwork of mangaka Leiji Matsumoto, the artist often credited with creating the anime spac… See more

Captain Tylor is not very operatic for a space opera, but that's kind of the point. This '90s series is more of a comedy than a sci-fi tale of romance, heroism, and tragedy, but it still b… See more

We can only imagine that Leiji Matsumoto woke up one morning with but one thought on his mind: "trains in space!", which inspired him to create Galaxy Express 999. Class stratif… See more

Thousands of years into the future, humanity has spread out among the star systems of the galaxy after rendering their ancestral home of Earth unlivable. Omnipoten… See more