Hong Kong, May 6 -- Space and the outer world is an intriguing genre and always has been. Humans have harboured a longstanding desire to journey among the stars and discover new planets or even entire solar systems in search of potential life forms.

Thanks to this curiosity, the entertainment realm has created universes and franchises of sci-fi stories, TV shows and movies to explore the unexplored. The

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are a few such examples.

The anime world isn't far behind either when it comes to exploring outer space through boundless imagination beyond the stars.

From space operas like

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to thoughtful space stories of

and

, space anime series have transported audiences to distant galaxies by portraying themes o...