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Asatte Dance
Here's another ecchi OVA from Knack: 1991's Asatte Dance ( Dance till Tomorrow ), adapted from a seven volume manga by Yamamoto Naoki. It's...
Blue Sonnet, Kitty-Cat Fantasia, Run Melos, Oedo wa Nemurenai!, No Money!
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September 24 2023: The Purpose of Makoto Yukimura
A rare time we decided to get right to the main topic and talk at length about PLANETES and Vinland Saga creator Makoto Yukimura’s appearances this past weekend…
479 – Manga Machinations Awards 2023
Happy holidays everyone! Welcome to our annual awards show! dakazu, Darfox8, Morgana, and seamus2389 celebrate with their individual awards, such as Why Are These Boy Problems™ So Fucking…
Oldtaku no Radio #062 – Planetes
Reuniting for the annual Anime Secret Santa project Jared and Ink stuff your stocking with opinions about 2004 8217 s Planetes via a special episode of…
Planetes, Project Blue Earth SOS, Stars Align, Godzilla Singular Point
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Anime Like Bullbuster
Tetsurou Okino is a young engineer who excited to start his new job at a vermin extermination company. However, his excitement stems from getting to use the
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Planetes (Volume 2) – I Couldn’t Stop Loving People
The crew of the DS12 continues their mission to clean space debris from Earth’s orbit. Of course, they are without Hachimaki now as he begins his trip to…
Inochi no Chikyuu: Dioxin no Natsu
Here's another project that has been stuck in limbo for a very long time: the 2001 movie Inochi no Chikyuu: Dioxin no Natsu ( Life on Earth...
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Planetes and the Night Sky
Throughout the course of Planetes, Hachimaki and his companions have pursued a variety of paths to find meaning and purpose in the face of oblivion. The simultaneous grandeur…
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Planetes and the Dignity of Garbage Collection
Planetes’ fourth volume begins with an accounting of our heroes’ trials, all framed in relation to the profession that once united them. Hachimaki is en route to Jupiter,…
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15 Space Anime That Aren’t Mecha
There are many who appreciate mecha anime, but it is very obvious that the popularity of mecha has waned significantly in modern anime. Unfortunately, in many
Crest of the Stars, Outlaw Star, Space Dandy, Starship Operators, The Orbital Children
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Planetes and Ordinary Happiness
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to stare up at the stars, secure and certain of your place within their grand design? To not see the cosmos as a sprawling…
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Unknown Great Anime | Planetes
Are you looking for a new anime to watch? Nothing in the 2023 releases doing it for you? Well, what about a "hidden gem" recommendation, an unknown great…
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Planetes (Volume 1) – Somebody Has to Clean it Up!
Mankind has conquered space, but it’s resulted in a lot of space debris, all of which can be fatal to spaceships and their crews. As such, a new…
438 – Planetes part 2
This week we discuss monster girls in Sons of the Forest, Junichiro Saito’s Musashino, the Blue Giant movie soundtrack, and more! Then we conclude our Retrospective on Makoto…
437 – Planetes part 1
On this episode we talk about Sailor Moon translations, Something New, Gokurakugai, Demon Slayer - To the Swordsmith Village, and more! Then we start our long awaited Retrospective on Makoto Yukimura’s Planetes! We…
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The Things We Learn from Slice-of-Life
This is it, folks! The final installment. We didn’t quite make it to 13, and there was no beach episode, but otherwise, we hope we were able to…
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Summer of SoL: Planetes and Taking Pride in your Job, However Humble
Were you ever told by your teachers or parents “Hey, you had better hit the books and study hard; you don’t wanna be flipping burgers at McDonald’s or…
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15 Great Anime Series You Can’t Find on Any Streaming Service Right Now
Crunchyroll, Hidive, Funimation, even Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime have dipped their toes into putting some anime up for streaming. Take it from
One Outs, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Berserk, Berserk, Cross Game
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Ani-Gamers Podcast #173 – Planetes
It‘s another Golden Ticket episode! On request from patron Nice (that’s their name), Evan and David review the 2003 hard sci-fi anime series Planetes, about space debris haulers.…
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Ranking Retro Anime Watch Priority
List of anime: • Aim for the Ace • Akage no Anne • Akira • Angel’s Egg • Ashita no Joe • Barefoot Gen • Beck • Belladonna of Sadness • Berserk • Birdy the Mighty • Bubblegum Crisis •…
Berserk, Cipher, Ghost in the Shell, Master Keaton, Crusher Joe
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ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape Preview
Streams: Crunchyroll on (normal day uncertain) Rating: 2 (of 5) Technically this is a Spring 2022 season title, but its first two episodes debuted more than a week…
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The Difficulty of Writing a Harder Sci Fi Story
Its very interesting that the week I wrote this post, Bodacious Space Pirates, and Planetes, that Orbital Children came out on Netflix. As of me writing this post,…
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Planetes: Fighting the Cruelty of Space
I hope people enjoy the slow drip of Goro Taniguchi directed series appearing on this blog through out the year. That is the meta that I am deciding…
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Anime Series Like Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut
In 1957, the world witnessed the Federal Republic of Zirnitra’s achievement of sending a living creature, a dog, into space. Since then, they have been in a race…
BNA, Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut, Planetes, Plastic Memories, Rocket Girls
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Ep. 40: Vinland Saga, by Makoto Yukimura
VIKINGS! Pillaging, looting, making great art! Deb leads the team through VINLAND SAGA by Makoto Yukimura, and we all love it! On Mangasplaining.
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Top 4 Space Anime To Watch May 4th
Well if you like Star Wars. You have to like something about space. Also if you are on this blog. You most likely watch anime. So this May…
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Planetes (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing
A classic 2003 sci-fi anime series from Sunrise makes its return to the UK on Blu-ray from the folks at Anime Limited.
Unboxing: PLANETES
It’s a classic show that has been out-of-print for a long time in the UK, but the time has nearly arrived for our Blu-ray release of PLANETES to…
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B.B. Fish
There just aren't enough anime about scuba diving. Yes, there was Grand Blue , but it was primarily a gross-out comedy. And there was Amanch...
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Sensou Douwa: Boku no Boukuugou
Sensou Douwa ( War Tales or War Fables ) was a series of TV specials by Shin-Ei Animation that ran annually from 2002 to 2009. In…
Futatsu no Kurumi, Gravitation TV, RahXephon, Yakeato no, Okashi no Ki, Fire Emblem
Mission to Mars?
By Hugh David. “Abandoned artificial satellites. Tanks jettisoned from space shuttles. Refuse generated during space station construction. Debris of all shapes and sizes is travelling around the Earth…
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Love and Soul: 12 Anime Couples for Valentine’s Day Out of Song and Scripture
Hey guys, Josh here! You know, Valentines Day (Or if you’re me “Singles Awareness Day”) is coming up, and I found myself thinking about that famous piece of…
Naruto, Oh! My Goddess, Oh! My Goddess, Singles, A Silent Voice
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Q1 2021 Solicitations for UK Anime Home Video Releases
The first quarter of 2021 for UK anime! This batch currently offers a variety of new and older releases, from Dragon Ball Z and Planetes to Children of…
No Guns Life, Planetes, Children of the Sea, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z
Toward the Terra (1980): Humanities Struggle to Grow
I want to start this post by saying, directly, that I have watched the Toward the Terra television series before and it’s exceptional. I want to write about…
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Ipponbouchou Mantarou
Stop me if you've heard this one before. The son of a local grub shop is goaded by his father into seeking his fortune as a chef. He…
No Money!, Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Mars, Oishinbo, Night Head Genesis
Planetes
By Andrew Osmond. Planetes is an anime space series that doesn’t have any giant robot suits. Nor does it have any aliens, androids, cyborgs, terraforming, telepathy, black holes,…
What Are Your Five Favorite Non-Shonen Anime? Here are Ours!
One of our Twitch streamers, negativeprimes, recently tagged a number of our staffers on a Twitter post that’s making the rounds asking users to name their five favorite…
Fruits Basket, Interviews with Monster Girls, Library War, Monster, A Place Further Than the Universe
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Sensou Douwa: Tako ni Natta Okaasan
Sensou Douwa ( War Tales or War Fables ) was a series of TV specials by Shin-Ei Animation that ran annually from 2002 to 2009. In…
Anime Series Like Deca-Dence
Driven to the point of extinction by creatures known as the Gadoll, humanity now lives out of a large mobile fortress known as Deca-Dence. Inside, the residents are…
Black Bullet, Chrome Shelled Regios, Cop Craft, DECA-DENCE, Drifting Dragons
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What is your personal anime golden age?
For me, a personal anime golden age is any consecutive run of 3 years in which the highest number of your favourites are gathered. 3 years may seem…
Eureka Seven, Samurai Champloo, Planetes, Wolf's Rain, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Anime I Like, But Haven’t Talked About Yet: GunXSword
This is another somewhat distant favorite of mine that I haven’t watched in a number of years. It’s also my third favorite anime that was directed by a…
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Together | Part 2: The White Girl
The scene between the SDF terrorist and Nono near the end of Planetes (see part 1) presents a clash between a postcolonial contra postmodern perspective on national subjectivity.…
PLANETES
A manga where space travel has given way to space pollution and follows a group of astronauts who collect debris. Continue reading →
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Together | Part 1: Planetes
Minor spoilers for Planetes (2003) Young man, you try too hard to put everything into clear-cut categories said the old sailor to Yuri. A non-answer to his many…
S1E05 - Planetes, Satan's Secretary
In this episode of Screentone Club, we talk about the horrors of being unable to smoke a cigarette in space with Planetes and appreciate the wonders of smoothly…
283 – Saikyo Selections 12 – Space Brothers
This week Darfox talks about Masaaki Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave and dakazu is saddened by the abrupt ending of Oni Shine. Then we examine the long running popular…
Does Vinland Saga Live Up To The Hype?
My excitement going into Vinland Saga can best be described as cautiously optimistic. Obviously, I knew what the series was going into it. It’s consistently promoted alongside Berserk…
Interview – Masashi Kudo
The post Interview – Masashi Kudo appeared first on Full Frontal.
S1E04 - Delicious in Dungeon, Dead Dead Demon's DeDeDeDe Destruction
In this episode of Screentone Club, we talk about the importance of a good diet for your THAC0 in Delicious in Dungeon and the crushing weight of ennui…
Spiraken Manga Review Ep 280: Planetes (or We’re Standing On A Planet That’s Evolving And Revolving At 900 Miles)
In this podcast episode, Xan tries to stave off space madness and marvel at the universe around us as he reviews arguably one of the greatest scifi manga…