Why is there no good hard scifi manga/anime?

Terra Formars is a genuine fun series, specifically the initial Mars offense and, if you counting anime only, season one alone because season two drops animation quality so much it makes unwatchable.

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Hard sci-fi, more than any other I've seen, suffers from the fans accusing every piece of fiction in it of not being hard enough. If "real" hard sci-fi fans had their way then the stories would be incredibly boring.
>Okay we're on a spaceship
Cool!
>Not really, its 90% radiator, 7% rad shielding, and 2% computer. You're part of the 1% cargo. Don't touch anything
Well, are we going to get into some space battles?
>No. And the very idea is absurd. If someone wanted us dead we'd already be dead and just not know it yet. Their ordnance would be on the way. There is no stealth and we can see every other ship in the entire solar system from here, so its unlikely anyone would try anything
Oh. What about cool adventures on a colony?
>Well, "adventure" in so far as cyberpunk low life just ostensibly somewhere else maybe? Life is going to be pretty much the same anywhere you go, even the scenery is going to be pretty samey since windows are a luxury we aren't putting just anywhere
What about mec-
>No. Conflict is going to be pretty flash in the pan, settled by highly optimized combined arms groups. They might use tanks. No mechs.
Well I'll just set our course the-
>Didn't I tell you not to touch anything? The orbital mechanics calculations and course set is done by computer. You're cargo.

this. dorks like Neil degrass Tyson who want to flex thier brain boners ruin all scifi. "boohoo it isnt realistic enough" if you want things to be super realistic go outside you faggot

Hoshino Yukinobu is good. I've read one of his one-shot anthologies, and he also made adaptations of some of Hogan's novels. The Two Faces of Tomorrow is one of my favorite AI novels, but I haven't been able to get my hands on the manga yet so I can't vouch for its quality.

They read Lensman so I don't think the expectation is unreasonable

2001 Nights is scanned badly and pretty easily found online if you haven't read it. It's the only work of his I've read but from your post it sounds like he knows what he's doing so I'll put some of his stuff on my backlog.

Absolute truth. I've got no problem with making sci-fi that's a bit harder than average, but anything that aims to be truly hard sci-fi is going to have to make some compromises either in the telling an interesting story department or the strict realism department, and either way it's going to wind up with a relatively small and not really satisfied audience.

This was pretty mediocre. Didn't like the art either.

I've been thinking for a while that it might be cool to have a kind of slice of life anime that takes place at an artillery setup or something. Maybe it would work similarly at a space station whose job it is to shoot and destroy things from millions of miles away.

The expanse does it just right imo, just the right amount of autism.

I'd be down for it if it had a bit of a Girls Last Tour/Gone with the Blastwave vibe. They just get coordinates and shoot at "something" occasionally. They have no idea what it is they're shooting at they just kind of do it because its their job. Otherwise get up to minor shenanigans and have a bit of melancholy tone at the end.

That's because truly hard sci-fi is impossible to write. You need a black box of bullshit in every speculative fiction story for it to function and hard sci-fi is predicated on that black box being 100% known. It's a fundamental contradiction, so you have to worry about not violating how any given STEMfag pseud thinks tech works because that is your entire audience.

that would be cool, id love to see Gone with the Blastwave animated

What about good hard sci-fi light novel or visual novel?

>"Why is there no good hard scifi manga/anime?"
>user immediately fantasizes over SoL
so des ne...

ironically the harder you go, the harder the audience becomes to please. The author of The Martian apparently gets mail all the time about the various shit that was wrong with that, and that's probably the hardest sci-fi story to get that much attention in the genre's history. And its all nitpicky shit like tensile strengths and martian sand erosion. The dude is autism incarnate, so he doesn't mind, but if I was an author it would drive me mad.

Its easier to just write something that makes internal sense. Pick your black bullshit box, whether thats FTL or whatever, and just roll with it. As long as everyone's FTL follows the same rules, or you have a good reason why they don't, its all good. Hell, Masamune Shirow is famous for including random tech that is realistic but intentionally never explaining how it works, because doing so is just tedious.

I don't think hard sci-fi and sol are mutually exclusive. If anything 's description lends itself more to slice of life than anything. I just saw the part about shooting things from really far away and remembered my idea about an artillery sol. I like sci-fi too but I tend to have problems with most of it I watch/read, even outside of anime and manga. Gundam stuff is legitimately my favorite anime sci-fi though.

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Would Planetarian count?

Because it doesn't make money anymore, unless you pander to certain demographics, like idol otaku or fujoshi. The only ones who could be interested are streaming services.

>Who is Nihei

well what's a good fiction genre than?

Would fujos buy hard sf if it had some occasional buttfucking?

It's fantasy more than anything.

Hard scifi sucks because outside or near future settings the unknown unknown's pile up.
I think Blame is a believable scenario but the whole setting is pretty Arthur C. Clarke "magic". That's how most lost tech ends up.