The Orbital Children (Season 1)

The Orbital Children (地球外少年少女, 2022) is a Japanese science-fiction anime you can watch online on iFILM. The year is 2045, space has become a place tourists visit — and then an accident hits an orbital station and cuts five young people off from everyone.

Two of them were born on the Moon and barely know Earth's gravity; the other three flew up from Earth as ordinary visiting teens. Now they have to patch failing systems, argue, learn to trust each other and find a way out while the station comes apart around them. Natsumi Fujiwara, Azumi Waki and Kensho Ono lead the voice cast.

The series runs on careful, almost engineer-grade plausibility: weightlessness, hardware behaviour and AI are treated seriously rather than as decoration. It's for fans of hard sci-fi and the kind of anime where space is a genuine threat, not just a backdrop. Stream The Orbital Children online on iFILM.