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November 2024 Solicitations for US Anime Home Video Releases

Planetes makes a surprise appearance alongside more catalogue releases for Crunchyroll. We also see the final chapter for Attack on Titan scheduled for home video too.

The Normanic Vault

Houkago no Tinker Bell

Houkago no Tinker Bell ( After School: Tinker Bell ) is a one-shot OVA based on the second in a series of 23 (!) light novels by…

Collectr's Blog

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Planetes in the Planetarian: a Church of Men and Angels

From ancient times, the boundless night sky and the numberless stars have captured the human imagination. For Aristotle, the birth of philosophy lay in the contemplation of the stars,…

Beneath the Tangles

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Planetes: when TV is made of The Right Stuff

One of my favourite bands, Caspian, often play recorded recitals of Charles Bukowski poems at the start of their live shows. One that stands out is Roll the…

Spilled Pixels

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...

Collectr's Blog

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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…

Anime Roundtable

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…

Manga Machinations

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…

Ani-Gamers

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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…

The Otaku Author

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...

Collectr's Blog

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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…

Wrong Every Time

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Creating anime beypnd any boundaries – Gorō Taniguchi Long Interview

An extensive interview with anime director Gorō Taniguchi, known for his popular series such as Planetes and Code Geass.

Full Frontal

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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,…

Wrong Every Time

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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

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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…

Wrong Every Time

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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…

ProfessorViral

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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…

The Otaku Author

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…

Manga Machinations

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…

Manga Machinations

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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…

Beneath the Tangles

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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…

Beneath the Tangles

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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.…

Ani-Gamers

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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 •…

Anime Top Scholar

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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…

USA Anime

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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,…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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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…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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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…

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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…

SAE With a K

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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.

The Normanic Vault

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…

All the Anime

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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...

Collectr's Blog

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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…

Collectr's Blog

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…

All the Anime

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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…

Beneath the Tangles

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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…

The Normanic Vault

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…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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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…

Collectr's Blog

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,…

All the Anime

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…

Beneath the Tangles

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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…

Collectr's Blog

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…

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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…

Bateszi Anime Blog

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…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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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.…

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PLANETES

A manga where space travel has given way to space pollution and follows a group of astronauts who collect debris. Continue reading →

Manga Machinations

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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…

blautoothdmand

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…

ScreenTone Club

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…

Manga Machinations