Planetes

Episode Count	26
Season	Fall 2003
Genres	Drama, Sci-Fi, Seinen
Source Material	Manga
Rating	TBD
Streaming	TBD

Planetes is a series that has been overlooked time and again when anime fans are asked about great stories set in space. It’s an underdog story to end all underdog stories because, well, it’s a story ABOUT hard-working underdogs. When most people think of space anime, the first thing that comes to mind is a series heavy in space battles with shiny advanced giant robots and technology worlds beyond anything we could imagine. Planetes tells a REAL story about REAL space with REAL people who you can relate to on some small level. While it could be easy to make this anime exclusively about the relationship with Hachi and Ai, this story spirals out from this core and tells a story about how much things have changed in the year 2070…and at the same time, how very much things are the same.

- KhakiBlueSocks