24 April 2006

Planetes

Anyone seen the "Planetes" anime?

Saw a trailer for it and it looked interesting, a lot different from the manga, but still good.

The basic setting of Planetes is near-future Earth. After decades of space exploration and orbital development and the building of facilities on the moon the orbit around the Earth is filled with tons of space debris. Which is a very bad thing since even a screw that has fallen loose moving at orbital velocity can pretty well shatter what it hits. So some astronauts get stuck with the 'noble and valiant' job of debris clean-up.

The manga was very character-based, very poignant at times, very well done. The anime looks a little more action oriented and more focused on the job they are doing and less on the characters themselves so I hope it still is as good but not seen any of it except some trailer bits.

5 Comments:

Blogger Boulder Dude said...

Do you have a link?

Tue Apr 25, 08:00:00 am GMT-7

 
Blogger DeAnna said...

Just the manga, sorry :(

Tue Apr 25, 05:57:00 pm GMT-7

 
Blogger Hythian said...

Trailer I was watching was off of the "GitS: SAC 2nd Gig" DVDs. Saw another trailer for it a while back that was a little different off of another DVD but not sure which one. Hmm... Lets see...

Here is the link to the listing for the first volume on the Bandai Entertainment website.

Tue Apr 25, 06:07:00 pm GMT-7

 
Blogger Boulder Dude said...

Picked up the firdt Manga...

And it *is* very good. :D

Thu Apr 27, 06:44:00 am GMT-7

 
Blogger Hythian said...

"Planetes" is a great manga. It and "2001 Nights" are the best 'science-fiction' mangas I think I've found.

Found lots of 'space-opera' stuff (like "Crest of Stars") which was good, but not really 'science-fiction' as I tend to think about it.

Fri Apr 28, 04:23:00 pm GMT-7

 

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