What Bob said. Especially Rocket Girls. That one is actually chock full of hard science - they had a lot of help from JAXA in the show's production. (If this doesn't sell you, I don't know what will: Japanese high school girl astronauts in skin-tight space suits.)
I can't recommend Eureka seveN enough. Colorful band of misfit freedom fighters, party music, sky surfing robots, young love, and a plot twist that will make you sit up and go 'NO FUCKING WAY!'
Another good one is Vandread, and it's all about a group of three men stuck on a ship full of women... and they're all from a couple of colony worlds where the women have been fighting the men for as long as their history books go back. But they set their differences aside when they find themselves under attack from machines that wish to harvest their body parts. The fanservice and innuendo abound in this one.
I don't know if you have Full Metal Panic, but if you don't... Kaname Chidori isn't your average girl... She has top scores in her school, mumbles about overtech in her sleep, is monitored by a secret military working for the UN, sought out by psychotic villainous types, and has a complete and total military-minded nutbar for a boyfriend. At least he is one of the good guys, but still... what's a girl to do?
For a change in setting, I'd recommend Utawarerumono. A strange man with a demon mask permanently affixed to his face wakes up in a small village with no memory of who or what he is. He soon becomes a part of the village, and after the village is wronged several times by the nobility, leads them in a revolution, and then several wars with neighboring countries as he tries to fight to protect what has quickly become precious to him.
I can't recommend Eureka seveN enough. Colorful band of misfit freedom fighters, party music, sky surfing robots, young love, and a plot twist that will make you sit up and go 'NO FUCKING WAY!'
Another good one is Vandread, and it's all about a group of three men stuck on a ship full of women... and they're all from a couple of colony worlds where the women have been fighting the men for as long as their history books go back. But they set their differences aside when they find themselves under attack from machines that wish to harvest their body parts. The fanservice and innuendo abound in this one.
I don't know if you have Full Metal Panic, but if you don't... Kaname Chidori isn't your average girl... She has top scores in her school, mumbles about overtech in her sleep, is monitored by a secret military working for the UN, sought out by psychotic villainous types, and has a complete and total military-minded nutbar for a boyfriend. At least he is one of the good guys, but still... what's a girl to do?
For a change in setting, I'd recommend Utawarerumono. A strange man with a demon mask permanently affixed to his face wakes up in a small village with no memory of who or what he is. He soon becomes a part of the village, and after the village is wronged several times by the nobility, leads them in a revolution, and then several wars with neighboring countries as he tries to fight to protect what has quickly become precious to him.