Soaring in under the radar but making a sizable splash landing amid the best Netflix anime offerings, Moonrise arrived quietly on April 10, 2025 carrying with it the creative prestige of WIT Studio, veteran director Masashi Koizuka, and showcasing sharp character design courtesy of Fullmetal Alchemist’s Hiromu Arakawa.
This 18-episode sci-fi anime series is an adaptation of Psycho-Pass writer Tow Ubukata’s 2018 novel of the same name. It deals with an insurrection on the Moon leading to a conflict with Earth forces as a revolutionary group called the Moon Chains declares independence after a sudden calamitous destruction of Earth’s resource-dependent network of orbital elevators.
