Planetes
Planetes streams on Crunchyroll — and if you have any love for grounded science fiction, treat that as an event. This is the rare anime about space that takes orbital mechanics, insurance paperwork, and the human cost of the frontier seriously, and it still lands as one of the best workplace dramas the medium has produced.
About
Humanity has settled into routine spaceflight between Earth, the Moon, and a web of stations — and routine creates garbage. Every discarded bolt in orbit is a bullet, so somebody has to clean it up. Enter the debris-collection crew of the Technora corporation: underfunded, under-respected, and quietly essential. Veteran EVA worker Hachimaki dreams of owning his own ship someday, while newcomer Ai Tanabe joins the section with more idealism than experience. Between salvage runs, the show builds toward bigger questions — about ambition, about who gets left behind by progress, and about what a person is willing to trade for a dream.
Information
- Japanese
- プラネテス
- Premiered
- October 4, 2003
- Episodes
- 26
- Duration
- 25 min per ep.
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Studio
- sunrise inc.
- Source
- Manga
- Themes
- angst, drama, female protagonist, japanese production, love polygon, speculative fiction
FAQ
Planetes streams legally on Crunchyroll. It isn't on Netflix, Hulu, or Prime Video right now, so Crunchyroll is the answer.
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