Terra-E gives a really good example for a Planetary Consortium controlled world (although some elements would point toward controls by something else), a huge scum barge inhabited by something that's a lot like the Lost. Strong, multi-layered characters, stunning image and riveting story-telling Guilty Crown, the latest Production I.G. baby. this anime shows the devastation of an exurgent virus known as the Apocalypse Virus, and some nice nanotech weaponry. great musics, great visuals and loads of ideas to pick (NPC, plot hooks, locations, etc) Fractale and Dennou Coil are anime with a youthful chara-design, and treating of the use of augmented reality, in very different approaches. Fractale is a bit of a Nadia feel about it, while DC is leaning toward anticipation. Fractale's inspiration angle goes for the teleprocessing through avatars and some kind of AI, and Dennou Coil's is more about what's hidden in the Mesh, and the remains of the net from before the Fall (with basilisk hack, forking (of some sort) and egonapping) Gundam Seed/Seed Destiny. For me the best TV series of the franchise, and the most easily adapted to EP, aside from Unicorn, which is a series of OAVs. The Plants gives a good idea of what a carrousel type of habitat can be like inside, as well as the destruction of an O'Neill Cylinder. the Seed continuity is also the one that has the most transhuman feel about it. Unicorn provides a very nice plot for an adventure located in the LLA

I found Starship Operator to be too much space opera to really fit in EP, like a sort of animated Star Trek, and C-Money better fit for Mage. I'm not familiar with Un Go and towa no Quon. Another good inspiration, for the social networking and rep use: Eden of the East. Funny thing is, Sony Erickson had released, for Japan only, a cellphone just like the one used by the Seleçao affiliated. When i watched it, it gave me some impression of familiarity, leaning toward the Jason Bourne series, done in a Miazaki-like graphic style. And as they say, Noblesse Oblige... speaking of LLA (in the post above), let's not forget the 3 hours (or so) long Nissin Noodles commercial designed by Katsuhiro Otomo, Freedom The story may be simplistic, but visually it gives good inspiration for Luna habs, vehicles and some dealing of the LLA police forces. It's only aviable in Blu Ray, though.

Quincey Forder wrote:

I found Starship Operator to be too much space opera to really fit in EP, like a sort of animated Star Trek, and C-Money better fit for Mage. I'm not familiar with Un Go and towa no Quon..

Well, my first picks had already been mentioned, these had tidbits of technology, ideas, quotes that could be plucked out of them, but as a whole -none of them fits well into EP. Un-Go is a "detective"series in a post war era. Even when a mystery is solved, the truth is often suppressed into a goverment spin on it, rewritting the events to look normal. Towa no Quon, share similarties to Guilty Crown, it follows a resistance movement of "gifted" people/monsters against a goverment conspiracy that seeks to hunt them down. C-Money, ideas for weird virtual world governance & battle system there.