Odin

No other anime that I know of so perfectly captures the feel of a classic science fiction B-movie as Odin. The Starlight is a new state of the art spaceship with laser sails and a new experimental engine. On its maiden voyage, the Starlight receives a distress call from Jupiter. Responding, the crew ends up in a fight against a large sentient fortress. Traveling through gaps in space, they disregard orders to return to earth and go in search of Odin, a mysterious planet.

The crew of the Starlight toss around treknobabble like it’s going out of style. Thinking about a logical fallacy creates a black hole, energy absorbed from asteroids in a magnetic storm allow the ship to escape a forceless alternate universe, and spacesuits that obviously aren’t sealed protect the wearer from temperatures up to 3000 degrees; it doesn’t take a strong knowledge of physics to know that none of this makes a lick of sense.

The antagonist, when the crew finally meets him, spills out his plan in such detail that I’m not sure how he ever conquered anyone or anything – he should still be gloating over his initial victory at the point we see him.

Despite all of this, you have to hand it to Odin; it has an incredibly interesting premise. In what other anime can you see a glowing sailing ship shooting a laser beam at an asteroid in a dimension ostensibly without the physics that would make any of this make any sense at all?