Why Orbital Children is the Best Sci-Fi Anime of 2022 (So Far)
This article contains spoilers for Episode 6 of Orbital Children.Mitsuo Iso's creation, Orbital Children (aka Extraterrestrial Boys and Girls) is an entirely believable sci-fi Anime about two youngsters who were born on the Moon. Touya Sagami and Konoha Nanase are the only remaining survivors of the fifteen infants born in space, and they have spent most of their lives aboard the Japanese-built Anshin space station.
In an attempt to encourage space exploration to continue once again, Miina Misasa, Hiroshi Tanegashima, and Taiyou Tsukuba are sent on a promotional cosmic vacation to join the extraterrestrial children on Anshin. Everyone is forced out of their comfort zones when unexpected space debris leaves them cut off from society and fighting for their lives.
The Best Sci-Fi Anime Set In Utopias
Excluding the last two episodes, almost everything depicted in Orbital Children is relatively realistic and appears to begive an accurate representation (from a layman's point of view) of space travel. The characters have to deal with intellectual concepts of philosophy, physics, geometry, decompression, mathematics, and more, as they attempt to survive their disastrous cosmic adventures.
Most science fiction storylines rely heavily on their creative freedom, teleporting viewers into a world that could not possibly exist outside of one's imagination. As exciting as this may be, some viewers long for a more relatable sci-fi Anime to watch, and Orbital Children will likely satisfy that craving. Not only are relevant organizations such as NASA and the United Nations worked into the storyline, but also contemporary factors such as social media, discrimination, and the development of Artificial Intelligence.
Orbital Children delves even
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