Atom: The Beginning - Recommendations

• TV (12 eps)
• 1998

Nuku Nuku is a cat-android hybrid who was created to protect the peace and thwart the evil schemes of the Mishima Corporation. She lives with her creator's family and masquerades as an ordinary human school girl; however her feline instincts and android strength threaten to reveal her true identity. Nevertheless, she often finds herself forced to use her super-human abilities to protect humanity, usually from the company's malfunctioning products, but will her secret be discovered in the process?

• OVA (6 eps)
• 1992 - 1994

Ryunosuke and his father are running away from his crazy mother when, feeling the urge to answer nature's call, Ryunosuke finds a cute little alley cat and decides to keep it. Almost immediately after, they are caught in a fire fight with his mother's lackeys. Tragically the poor cat dies and Ryunouske is heartbroken, but luckily his inventor father just happened to bring along a deactivated robot. By placing the cat's brain in the robot, Nuku Nuku is born! Now all they have to do is teach Nuku Nuku how to behave like a normal girl instead of a super-strong, cat-brained robot, while trying to avoid a mother's wrath!

• TV (12 eps)
• 2017

Set in 2045, humanity struggles to survive in a world overrun by mysterious invaders called the Irousu. The Earth's only hope lies with the students of Shinjugamine Girls' Academy, a school where Star Guardians train to fight the Irousu. Together, these brave girls work to develop their skills to fight against the invaders… provided they can pass class first!

• TV (20 eps)
• 2003 - 2004

When Asumi was just a baby, a space shuttle accident changed her life, and the lives of the townspeople of Yuigahama, forever. As a young woman, the spirited Asumi has only one desire: to someday travel to the stars in a rocket, with her father and ghostly friend Lion-san along for the ride. With heartache, happiness, and plenty of determination, Asumi and dozens of talented teenagers now face the greatest challenge of their lives: the test to enter a prestigious space academy, so that they may one day reach out and touch the stars...

• OVA (4 eps)
• 2001

At a typical elementary school in Japan, yearly chores are being distributed. Yuri and 3 other students are chosen to be the beneficiaries of the alien hats for the year. Alien hats?! Yuri's sentiments, exactly. Despite her misgivings, she and her classmates must round up stray aliens that have escaped from a crashed spaceship -- with the help of the alien hats, of course.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2015

Akari Mamiya wants to become a powerful BUTEI like her idol, Aria Kanzaki, but her skills are...lacking. In fact, she's just a lowly E-rank student at Tokyo Butei High School, and her chances of getting to the top are slim. Determined to be more than she is, she makes the move to become Aria's Amica and receive training to be just like her! But is the double pistol-wielding ace ready to take on the challenge of teaching Between the struggles of high school and intense training, Akari must work her hardest to prove she's worthy of being Aria's Amica and ready to be a true BUTEI! Which is way easier said than done. Luckily, with her friends close by her side, anything is possible! But anyone can become your enemy-even your closest allies. When danger lurks around the corner, Akari must master the power within her to protect her friends and herself. All while facing the truth of her past.

• DVD Special (3 eps)
• 2006

• TV (13 eps)
• 2017

The newly established private high school for girls, Goryoukan Academy, has a hidden face that people on the outside don't know about... Mysterious apparitions called "Oburi" have appeared from a rift in space-time. The only ones capable of fighting this enemy of mankind are girls known as "Strikers," who have the ability to sense the fifth dimension. Goryoukan Academy is actually an organization that seeks out girls who are more than meets the eye and trains them up for the "Fifth Force," a combat force created to subjugate the Oburi.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2016

Itsuki Tachibana is a student of Seiga Academy, a co-ed boarding high school with excellent reputation, located in a suburb outside the city center. On a day of second semester, he was summoned by Rina Izumi, the most esteemed and praised chairperson, to the student council room, without knowing what awaits him.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2016

This is a world where humanity is always at war with the Unknown. The kids who were evacuated to a cold sleep facility during the initial invasion decades ago wake up from their slumber to find that they'd manifested superpowers called the "World." To protect Japan from the Unknowns appearing from the Tokyo Bay, these kids would start their own battles at the defensive strongholds of Tokyo, Kanagawa, and Chiba.