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A unique piece of hard(er than most) sci fi anime that is well worth the time, despite a few hiccups.
Planetes is an uncommon find in science fiction anime, where the focus isn't on warfare, aliens or mecha with a setting of outer space, but rather where the focus is on outer space itself and how it affects the people inhabiting it. This isn't a dismissal of those common elements of sci fi anime, I…
Read full review on AniList → "Perhaps man wasn't meant for paradise. Maybe he was meant to claw, to scratch all the way."
"Things are only impossible until they're not." -- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
I always had a great fascination towards space and everything that lay beyond our tiny piece of dirt, in the vastness of this unimaginable universe, and naturally, that reflected on things that I watched, read and listened.…
Read full review on AniList →far from perfect, but still better than most
the planetes manga is one of my favorite pieces of media of all time, and i put off watching the anime for years because i was afraid that anything less than perfection would spoil the manga somehow, or at the very least waste my time. i even re-read it for the third time shortly before watching th…
Read full review on AniList →My personal greatest of all time.
I was just thinking that many of the shows in my favorites list are there because they are the definitive exploration of a relatively simple concept. Attack on Titan is freedom, Takagi-San is 恋 or young love, Assassination Classroom is teacher and student etc. Then for this hard is-fi about collecti…
Read full review on AniList →Of course I respect everyone's tastes, but if you told me this was a joke anime, I'd believe you. I hated this show.
This is going to contain spoilers for Planetes, but you know what? Who cares. It's bad. There's the review. Don't watch it. Not even for "haha wow this is so bad" laughs. It has a handful of moments at best. It's bad and gets worse as time goes on. And it's so, incredibly, unbelievably boring.
I'm…
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