The most family-friendly and most aesthetic animated series on our list (age rating – 12+). Medieval Japan was enslaved by the evil demon Aku, the only hope is the son of the emperor, a brave samurai with a magic sword. The forces of darkness temporarily triumph and send the nameless hero away to a dystopian future, 25 thousand years ahead. There Aku is already the ruler of the world, so the samurai will have to deal with the salvation of the innocent, traveling across different worlds, and at the same time find a portal to the past. Russian émigré Genndy Tartakovsky created a minimalist and graceful cartoon that came out for four seasons in a row. The sequel had to wait 13 years, but it still came out. In 2017, the samurai's wanderings ended in the fifth season, the darkest.

“38 monkeys”

2003-2005, 3 seasons

A bleak British animated series that shows the life of a metropolis in sketches saturated with social criticism. One of the main characters is Ivan Dobski, a mentally retarded killer with a split personality. He then gets out of prison (the campaign for his release is supported by stars like Brad Pitt and Bono), then he gets into it again. Other characters are no less colorful: child molesters and a fanatical pedophile hunter, unlucky suicide bombers, empty-headed intellectuals, trendsetters and migrants. For the Russian audience, this depressing and tough show was voiced by Leonid Parfenov.

“Awesome TRIP”

2004-2008, 3 seasons

Animated analogue of the erotic-fantastic series “LEXX”. Interstellar smugglers roam the Galaxy, fulfill orders and satisfy their animal needs. Captain Shock is a three-eyed purple humanoid who tries to copulate with all females. Other crew members include a sexy cyborg engineer with bulging shapes, a gay robot and a three-breasted co-owner of the ship. Cheap 3D animation is offset by hypertrophied eroticism and parody of classic plots, from A Space Odyssey to The Matrix. Later, a film was even released (“Flattened Space: Full Length”), continuing the plot of the series.

Valley

Recently, the planet Earth has turned into a real garbage dump. It turned out to be unsuitable for human life. Therefore, all the inhabitants left the planet and moved into space in search of a better life. There are only robots left on Earth collecting garbage. One of them, named Valli, collects mountains of rubbish every day, doing his job accurately, strictly according to the program. But soon there will be a change in his boring life! After all, the scavenger met another robot – Eve, who was sent on reconnaissance to understand whether it is possible to return to Earth.

Treasure planet

As a child, Jim Hawkins heard that somewhere there was a distant Treasure Planet. It was created by the terrible pirate Captain Flint. They say that there are untold treasures. True, no one has been able to find this planet before. It so happened that the boy forgot about this story for many years. But at the age of 16, Jim accidentally found a chest with a detailed map of this mysterious planet. And then he decided to go in search of her.

Wanderers

2075th year. Humanity is not only actively exploring space, but also pollutes it. Therefore, all organizations were obliged to create their own Space Debris Clearing Department, capable of removing trash from Earth orbit. For each company, this department turned out to be the most unprofitable, understaffed and completely unprepared to fulfill its direct responsibilities. So it was in the Teknore corporation. But recently a new employee came to her, her name was Ai Tanabe …

Mystery of the third planet

“The Mystery of the Third Planet” is the famous fantastic story by Kir Bulychev in a fascinating cartoon version. It tells about Alisa Selezneva, her professor father and Captain Zeleny, who went to look for rare animals for the Moscow zoo in outer space.

The heroes decided to visit the distant planet of the Captains, which the famous archaeologist Gromozeka told them about. There they managed to find many amazing and previously unseen animals. And Alice was even able to find a common language and make friends with the Talker bird, which the criminals dream of getting.

Little Prince

France, 2015.
Duration: 108 minutes
IMDb: 7,8.

The mother of one little girl is struggling to prepare her daughter for adulthood in advance and plan her future literally in minutes. The plans of a caring parent are suddenly interrupted by a strange old man-neighbor, who tells the girl a fairy tale about the world of the Little Prince, where nothing is impossible.

Titan: After the death of the Earth

USA, 2000.
Duration: 94 minutes
IMDb: 6,6.

Fantastic adventures of young Cale, who dared to save humanity from aggressive alien civilizations that are determined to destroy all the surviving earthlings.

Battle for the planet Terra

USA, 2007.
Duration: 85 minutes
IMDb: 6,6.

A man from Earth and a girl from the planet Terra are trying to restore justice and protect the civilian population of hospitable Terra from earthlings who decided to exterminate it in order to move there themselves.

Archiver

French short film about a pilot who has been surfing the vastness of space for a long time and finally returned home with a successfully completed mission.

Abduction

An unlucky and very awkward alien student struggles to pass an incredibly difficult exam he is completely unprepared for.

Orbits

A sweet and touching story about the friendship of two female astronauts, tired of constant loneliness and eternal isolation.

Gandahar: Light Years (1988)

The main character Sylvin will have to enter into an unequal battle with an army of metal warriors in the service of a hostile artificial intelligence – Metamorphis. The action takes place on the planet Gandahar, which is possibly a forgotten earthly colony. But perhaps this is the Earth in the distant future. Just like Planet of the Apes.

Evil robots zigzag their master Metaphorphis

Geona Vampires / Geona Masters (1991, 1992)

Another domestic science fiction cartoon, which came out at the end of the eras and therefore is not as famous as “The Mystery of the Third Planet.” Tells about the colonization of the planet Geon, inhabited by creatures similar to vampires. These dangerous creatures are hostile and constantly attack people. Will you be able to cope with them, or will you have to admit defeat and retreat?

Battle with the vampires of Geona

Metropolis (2001)

Japanese full-length cartoon from the famous Madhouse studio (including the anime series Death Note, Parasite, Agent of Paranoia and many others). Metropolis is a cross between Fritz Leiber's Metropolis and Olesha's Three Fat Men in a futuristic setting with a touch of cyber-punk.

A genius scientist creates a cyborg girl Tima – an exact copy of the deceased daughter of the tyrannical ruler of Metropolis, the Duke of Red. Suddenly, an explosion thunders in the laboratory where Tim was “grown”. The scientist dies, and the frightened Tim runs away and disappears without a trace. Red sets up a pursuit for her, because Tim is not just a copy of his daughter, but also the key to his complete dominion over humanity …

Metropolis is an amazingly beautiful, but also very kind and touching cartoon

Elysium (2002)

The list of the best fantasy cartoons continues “Elysium” – the South Korean answer to Japanese “Final Fantasy”. It tells about the war between people and aliens from the planet Elysium. The graphics, of course, are at times inferior to “Final Fantasy”, but at the same time, the cartoon is vigorous, full of action and quite watchable. Not to be confused with the 2013 film “Elysium” – this is completely different.

One of the heroines of “Elysium”, Nyx's girlfriend

Kaena: A Prophecy (2003)

Pretty childish, but not devoid of interesting ideas, French-Canadian full-length animated film in 3d. The alien ark ship (Vexserian) crashes on a distant planet. Only the ship's sentient computer, Vecanoy, survives. He lovingly cultivates a mega-tree and creates creatures that look like people who died in a crash. Unfortunately, both Vecanoy himself and artificial people are threatened by the original inhabitants of the planet – evil and greedy Selenites, who are not ready to share the planet with those who have come in large numbers.

When we ourselves are in large numbers, the situation with migration actually looks … somehow different

Turbidity (2006)

Rotoscoped – that is, filmed, and then redrawn frame by frame – a film based on the novel by Philip Dick “Blurred”. We are talking about the newest drug Substance D, which is already addicted to 20% of the American population. The use of Substance D leads to a rapid and complete disintegration of the personality.

In an attempt to establish who and why produces the drug, and to stop its distribution, the police department introduces a “mole” to drug addicts. That is, a policeman who himself became addicted to Substance D. Experiencing all the side effects of drug use, including paranoia and loss of connection with reality, after long torment, he is still found out to a terrible, but witty truth …

The Blurred stars include Keanu Reeves, Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and Robert Downey Jr.

Drugs are evil. Who else but Philip Dick knows about this

Quantum Quest: A Space Odyssey (2010)

The original American title contains the words Cassini's Space Odyssey. So this cartoon is a rather successful attempt to tell in a simple form how modern studies of the solar system are going and what interesting things the Cassini probe saw while studying Saturn.

And apple trees will bloom on Saturn. Possibly genetically modified

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