I've been watching some 80s shows recently, and i realized just how much we're missing out on good sci fi in the modern anime landscape. It's not like I'm super against fantasy, but until fairly recently anime and sf were extremely intertwined concepts. They gotta bring back sf anime, this stuff is good!

tbh there is very little in the way of good scifi anything these days. when computers were new on the horizon there were a lot of interesting ideas about which directions it might go. now it seems the collective unconscious is painfully aware of the boring inevitable future of technology and dares not dream. stuff like cryto currency, vr, implantable tech, etc these don't inspire dreams, they are just the slow march of the machine. in order to dream it's obvious to reach toward fantasy in this landscape. there are differences in modern fantasy tropes tho. loghorizon-overlord-swordart lean heavily fantasy aesthetically (at least a majority of the time), however are "scifi" under the hood. even the incredlibly shitty leveling anime which has no reason to include scifi tropisms does.
scifi isn't gone, it's corpse has been integrated into everything else.

Planetes
Kaiba

here's hoping the new GitS adaptation by studio Science SARU (dandadan, spacedandy, devilmancrybaby) can ignite some more scifi interest

GiTS directed by Maasaki Yuasa ?! P0GCHAMP
It's like Gundam GQuuu.uuuX directed by Hideaki Anno !

>>5
well Masaaki Yuasa isn't CEO anymore and isn't the credited director. it's going to be directed by Toma Kimura "Moko-chan"

science saru has some of the most visually interesting stuff going on in anime at present (personal opinion), and gits with their visual flare could look amazing. i can't imagine them fucking up the story or pacing.
the only problem is that there will be genalpha memes.

>>1
The funny thing is that according to MAL tags, the number of non-sequel full-length anime with the sci-fi tag released in the last 6 years is more than double the number that came out in the 80's. So we actually get a lot more sf anime than before. The way I see it, some of the big differences are that nowadays sf anime tend to be much less present in the discourse, they have way shorter episode counts (I mean we just got a single-cour Gundam), and they aren't really considered at the vanguard of any otaku trend. IMO there are also just fewer good ones nowadays, and even fewer great ones. Contemporary sf anime also tend to be much less focused on space as a concept or setting. That said, there have been 3 new sf anime with space settings over the last 4 months, so they are absolutely still present.

There is a distinct sf light novel scene that you can wade into. People like Gegen Kusano (check out his Last and First Idol).
This interview with the Uresekai Picnic author about Yuri is how I first became aware of this subscene.
https://teletype.in/@kati_lilian/SJA8KwjjN