I hear a lot of people saying how good Legend of the Galactic Heroes is, but I haven't seen it so I can't say.

LoGH is great, but it's not hard sci-fi. As far as that goes, 2001 Nights is the only thing I can find with my amateur Google-fu.
Have you tried Ghost in the Shell: SAC? It's a fantastic series, and brings a small amount of realism to the field (along with bouncing robot boobies).

Uh.. Mecha (at least the bipedal variants) and realism is kinda contradictory.

>>323
Doesn't have to be bipedial. Doesn't even have to be mech. I was just kinda throwing something out there.

It doesn't have to be strict hard science either, just harder then most. For instance, in most mecha shows the mechs move around at high speeds and fight pretty much exactly like normal people. It would be neat to see them portrayed similarly to the ones in say, chromehounds, big heavy things with 4 legs or tank treads that fill a very specific purpose, like tanks.

Anything thats at least pretty hard sci-fi is fine though.

>Go to google to look up a torrent of 2001 nights
>Bakabt has one
>first comment

"I really like this manga, an 8/10 for me. It has nice art from planets and of space ships. But one can easily feel it is quite dated when reading it. This becomes even worse when it comes to how the chars were designed, there were no bishies at all to make the characters more interesting."

>>This becomes even worse when it comes to how the chars were designed, there were no bishies at all to make the characters more interesting."

>worse...no bishies...to make the characters more interesting."


Ugh.

>>325
This is why we can't have nice things.

>>325

>go to 99chan
>see greentext story

SAGE has been used.

>>327
>>Shut Up

Desert Punk maybe?
Not hard sci fi, but has a sci fi setting and elements, and nothing in it is magic, pseudoscience or that implausible. It has the right feel for a sci-fi series.

An apocalypse has turned whatever the area of residence is into a massive desert. Very realistic, somewhat modern day setting. The technology doesn't get much more sci-fi than desert survival suits, hover tanks, or bits of ancient technology (for example, robots).

>>325
Shit like that is why I just pick and choose animus here and there based on directors/writers/studios that have put out stuff I've seen and liked and completely avoid any kind of fandom forum, anime review sites, etc etc etc because they are just cesspools of emotionally stunted, escapist weirdos.

What I usually do is read up on the people involved in a series or movie via Wikipedia and see what else they've been involved in. This will lead me six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon style to other series, writers, directors, etc, and if a premise sounds cool, I'll give it a try.

But at all costs, I avoid fan-written ratings, reviews, synopses, etc.

>>694
Thank you for this. I am enjoying this man.

>>694
>>695 again. First I just enjoyed his silly videos, now I'm thoroughly enjoying his 3-parter contrasting NGE with the Rebuild movies.

>>697
Nice, man. Yeah, he has good stuff and unlike a lot of places, he's able to do well-timed editing to good comedic effect, even if he has serious things to say about a subject.

Also, my personal feelings on it are that it's pretty benign, but if you find one who is being an asshat, you can troll the fuck out of overzealous lolicon worshippers with his rebuttle video.

>>699
Yeah, a lot of youtubers seem to think that random little jump cuts in the middle of sentences makes for a quirky, funny video. DouchebagChocolat seems to know how to edit for enhanced comedic effect. His narration work is also excellent. I love his trip to "Japan."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyIy5nwJ5wI