Works with an exploration feel

[Santa-pl]

Hey! I'm looking for something that features some kind of expedition. Actually it should be more scientific oriented, with extensive preparations, carefully selected crew, special machinery, setting up camp, that sort of thing. There was this moment in Yukikaze when an entire base was on the move, in an alien world, not knowing what they will encounter - I seek similiar feel, though the scale need not be that grand, of course. The "uknown" factor is pretty important here, also that "detached" feeling of being all on one's own.

So, any ideas? I would be greatly thankful for any suggestions.

[-KarumA-]

Heroic Age had an expedition group that were in looking for something (which was Age in the end not sure what they called him in their terms though)

[zareba]

Kino No Tabi is very good. About Kino's journey's all over the place with her talking motorcycle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino's_Journey


Last Exile revolves around Claus Valca and Lavie Head, a young courier pilot and his navigator, and their adventures in the floating world of Prester. In this romantic sky world based on stylized Victorian fashion and society, two countries, Anatoray and Disith are engaged in a long and bloody war under the supervision of the mysterious Guild. Claus and Lavie, piloting their vanship (a small, stub-winged aircraft) find themselves involved in a plot surrounding a mysterious little girl named Alvis Hamilton, whom they must deliver as "cargo" to the much-feared neutral battleship "Silvana".



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_exile



Blue Submarine No. 6 is a 4 episode OVA, but it's about a scientist who flooded the world of the future and created a mutant species in the images of animals is looking to finish what he started, and the crew of Blue Submarine No. 6 must stop him at all costs. But first, they must try to recruit the best sub pilot that ever lived: Tetsu Hayami.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Submarine_No._6



Macross Zero takes place in 1999, it's is a prequel to the Macross Saga. Lt. Shin Kudo, a pilot of the UN Spacy is shot down over the Pacific by a mysterious aircraft. He awakes on an island whose natives have a legend about "bird men" from beyond the sea of stars. However, the recent discoveries by the UN Spacy and the opposing Alliance may prove the legend to be more than a mere myth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macross_Zero

[Tier3]

I just finished Last Exile and I think it's what you are looking for.

Seconded.

[MuraKami]

Moonlight Mile, Seasons 1 and 2.

[BlueLion]

How about "Uninhabited Planet Survival" (http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,1...bited_pla.html)

The story takes place in the 22nd century where anti-gravity and warp travel technology can be used for space exploration. However, due to environmental damage and tectonic plate movements, the green Earth only exists in history book. People live in space colonies and on all sorts of planets.

Runa, 14 years old, is a transfer student whose parents passed away when she was young leaving her alone with a robotic cat, Chako. Her dream is to become space exploration expert like her parents. Together with Runa: the introvert Shaara, the mechanic expert Shingo, the quiet Kaoru, the bad spoiled Howard, the obedient Bell, and the prideful student counselor Menori, they are all drifted to an uninhabited planet...

[blewin]

Planetes: space exploration and cleaning up.

[CeDeR]

it isnt exactly what u asked for but check out Jyu oh sei...

[Navel]

Exploration of the unknown in the kind of Star Trek is not something very common in anime. There are a few anime set on Earth though, or an Earth-like planet, where a group of people start a journey looking for something even if they don't know if they'll find it. However, they're usually outcasts, adventurers, or individuals that don't conform to social rules, and not explorers driven by curiosity.

Here are some of these:
- Ergo Proxy has the main characters set sail towards a city on a barren planet, without knowing what they will discover, in an effort to understand themselves and the world they are living
- Last Exile has in the background a story of whole nations forced to flee from one place to another just to survive, and having to wage wars; there's also a group of mercenary which also has to do something similar
- Wolf's Rain has another group of people looking for "eden", also in a dying world (like Ergo Proxy)
- Kino no Tabi follows a remote observer of the society, which travels from place to place and reveals the absurdity of some of the customs the people follow

There's no epic story like in sci-fi novels here, no Mars trilogy (Red/Blue/Green), no The Forever War.

There are only two space exploration anime that keep it realistic: Planetes and Moonlight Mile, one semi-realistic: Twin Spica, and another semi-realistic one which deals with survival after crash landing on an unknown planet: Uninhabited Planet Survive.

[signorRossi]

'Space Fantasia Nights' is a decent classic.

SignorRossi.