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Genre · 25 series
Sci Fi Short Dramas
Twenty-one series, and apart from Fantasy the only genre both catalogued platforms use in any volume. Nothing here runs under 47 episodes: this format does not do short science fiction.
- Series
- 25
- Median length
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Where to start
Ranked by our editor score; ties broken by whether the series is complete, then by length. How often this setup gets published, and how the median title in it performs, is mapped in the trope explorer.
NetShort
The Expired Fruit King
ShortMax
SSS: Rise of the Ocean General
ShortMax
Last RV: Infinite Upgrade
ShortMax
[Dubbed]The Golden Fortress
- 01[Dubbed] Escape the Python Neststill releasing — 55 episodes so far
- 02The Expired Fruit Kingstill releasing — 43 episodes so far
- 03SSS: Rise of the Ocean Generalstill releasing — 60 episodes so far
- 04Last RV: Infinite Upgradestill releasing — 50 episodes so far
- 05[Dubbed]The Golden Fortressstill releasing — 61 episodes so far
The extremes
| Series | Platform | Episodes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortest run | Upgrade | NetShort | 30 | — |
| Longest run | Eat, Evolve, Rule the World | ShortMax | 105 | — |
| Shortest | Upgrade | NetShort | 30 | — |
| Longest | Eat, Evolve, Rule the World | ShortMax | 105 | — |
| Most free episodes | [Dubbed] Escape the Python Nest | ShortMax | 55 | — |
Where to find them
18 of the 25 are on ShortMax, the rest spread across 1 other app.
All 25
ShortMax
[Dubbed] Escape the Python Nest
NetShort
The Expired Fruit King
ShortMax
SSS: Rise of the Ocean General
ShortMax
Last RV: Infinite Upgrade
ShortMax
[Dubbed]The Golden Fortress
ShortMax
Eat, Evolve, Rule the World
NetShort
Upgrade
NetShort
King of Mars:Markus‘s Revenge
NetShort
Wasteland Sovereign
NetShort
Reborn: Survive The Game Doomsday
ShortMax
I Raised a Goddess
ShortMax
[Dubbed] My Zombie Dad
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How this page was built
The 25 series on this page carry Sci Fi as a genre label in the catalogue of the platform that publishes them. We do not tag series ourselves, which means this page is exactly as complete, and as inconsistent, as the platforms' own labelling. Episode counts and runtimes are read from each platform's listing for that specific series. We do not score series and we publish no rating of our own, because nobody here has watched all 25 of them. One thing we cannot tell you: no platform publishes a dependable finished/ongoing flag, so a series that wrapped last year and one still posting episodes look identical to us. Where a card here says still releasing, read it as “we have not seen an ending”, not as a confirmed schedule.