This anime around space garbage should be your new science fiction obsession

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During many entries in this column, I have expressed several times about the extent of my admiration when the anime show is separated from the traditional high school mode of the media and dares to tell a more mature story about adults – like The tremendous psychological excitement “monster”. The anime is definitely more than the Shonin Action than the players with the great powers in the worlds of imagination. It can also include a drama of life, romance, and comic series, and even a display of people whose function includes gathering debris in space.

This is the hypothesis of the 2003-2004 anime series “Planets”, which is based on the manga with the same name by Makoto Yukimura (Who also created “Venland Saga”). The show occurs in 2075, a time when the space exploration is common but is now impeding the wreckage surrounding the Earth, which may cause disasters. At the heart of the series, there are members of the Divide Division (in itself part of a giant group), who spend their days removing the mentioned debris to make it safe for people to enter the atmosphere of our planet.

Initially, “Planetes” begins as a drama in the workplace about the personal relationships of the workers of the space debris. However, it quickly becomes an offer about space isolation, late capitalism, the challenges of work in huge companies that do not care about you, and the ways that companies and governments can exploit to travel for profit (like them like them like them like them like them like her as they look like a profit, destroy an environment Our planet is for their own benefit). The result is simply one of the best science fiction stories ever.

“Planetes” was directed by Goro Taniguchi 20 years before he uploaded “One Piece” movie: Red and Ichiro Okouchi, who later went to “Devilman Crybaby” and “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury. “This means that the show is not only amazing, but it also contains a great balance in personal drama and high concepts that depend on fictional stories.

In fact, anime looks great. Detailed mechanical animation fans should find many delicious images in the “planets”, which are filled with analog science fiction commodities such as hand-painted space ships, computers, hundreds of buttons, keys, and detailed space allowances-and their two children mentioned how good ships look? There is a unique thing and a really disease around the design based on the ground for the space in this show, and the extent of the real and complete things of the weight. Studio Sunrise (“” CowBoy BeboP “and” Gundam) “Animation”, which has a distinctive future style in the century. Thus, the world’s world is completely devoid of smartphones, and instead it contains pictures of video calls everywhere. There are also devices Portable games (although multiple players require a cable) and everyone still uses flexible tablets to store data.

Instead of the dated feeling, you drink watching “planets” in 2025 the aesthetics of the series with a completely different meaning. The lack of more “modern” technology makes it more clearly the lack of financing in the space wreckage section (to the point that they are still using flexible discs in 2075). Likewise, “Planetes” is a reliable time offering story that is concerned with the dignity of people who stumble together thousands of miles away from anyone else and fights to get it. As a result, the main characters are chaotic romantic relationships while an assistant manager constantly tries to do the right thing (when all he wants to do is get an increase).

However, not everything is death and depression. We also get an exciting and funny episode about a woman who is strongly trying to find a place for a cigarette smoke when every smoking room becomes a terrorist attack. Think of “planets” in the name The most dangerous, cousin more than “called Mars”.

It is very similar to “all humanity”, “ “Planets” have a real space for space despite many of their dangers. The chain shows the effect of a long exposure to radiation in space on veteran astronauts, who develop cancer or have deadly accidents at work. However, the show still argues in the incredible in the final border and the ease of falling into the love of space. At the same time, when the character is left shortly during the solar energy glow, it makes them develop a psychological state known as “space loss disorder”, which leads to an accurate and exciting story.

When “for the human race” is full of optimism that space will eventually lead to a solution of mankind, Planets argue that treating the area as another place for exploitation is not good. It is an anime series full of deeper comment in general. Take the bureaucracy that affects the main characters and how the space wreckage is constantly prohibited or made fun of it or threatens to budget discounts by those who believe that its employees are inverted. The exhibition also addresses the issue of favoritism and depicts the company’s talisman, which limits the violation of the Geneva Convention.

Then there is a comment on the separation and how the comments are used less than the ongoing means, even in outer space. Take the episode that focuses on a group of blue -collar workers that were cut off on the surface of the moon as a result of the work visa fraud. Meanwhile, the staff of the Diaspora Division cannot climb the ladder despite the years of work, so they spend their days purchasing countless lottery tickets in the hope of getting a greater salary. Worse, there is even a ring that shows life insurance companies as they descend to major characters such as locusts while trying to take advantage of the risks of their function to vary the most vulnerable workers in the company.

It is the political comment of the offer that allows the “planets” to shine more. Although some of this also exists in the original manga, the animation chain is largely expanding on the source material when it comes to the political turmoil surrounding the wreckage and workers department. The offer constantly argues that allowing the same companies and governments that currently destroys our planet to suddenly reach space will not be just a terrible idea, but it will make things bad for everyone. This is because space exploration expands the economic gap to issue the series from the Earth, where the first world countries can only reach space. Then they hate their resources, and they prevent anyone else from profits.

In the answer to the presentation of the United States (at least in the manga, it is more than the United Nations -like organization in the “planet” anime), to make terrorist threats to obtain defensive contracts in space. It also puts mines in space to deter its enemies from ascending there as well.

It is better to example a series policy in the El Tanika episode, which focuses on a small country in South America facing discrimination and a group of scientists in a desperate hope of making their home a player in space exploration game by building space clothes. Unfortunately, the man who represents the group is deported and deals in space after the EL Tanika invasion and begins to deport any citizen outside the country (including, yes, space).

However, “Planetes” is dark as it happens, “Planetes” is still dependent on manga by the author of the book ” “Venland Saga”, a dark, violent offer that is undoubtedly arguing with peace at every turn. Here too, “Planetes” finds hope for good gestures of goodwill towards humanity, such as simple measures that people can echo throughout a group of friends or even a society. In space, everything can look separate and only, but it is somehow connected.

“Planetes” is a display of those who want to see a more worldly and unfortunately on a story that has been placed in space. It is anime that depicts the miracle of the moon that is colonized, and makes Mars within the reach of humanity, and even Jupiter becomes our next boundaries, all without moving away from identifying injustice, equality, and others, and people reach another world to exploit it.

As a drama in the workplace, there are adequate characters that you love and roast them on “Planets”, as well as a lot of small sub -plans that slowly accumulate into an exciting central narration. The most realistic and more realistic appearance and style makes the display easier for those who suffer from new broker or not in the most exaggerated designs found in animation. Finally, since this series is intended for adults, it lacks the type of humor and the service of fans that are often present in anime targeted with younger viewers. Instead, “Planets” treats its characters like real people, which makes their dilemmas feel confused and identified. It is simply a fictional masterpiece.

Watch this if you want: “For humanity”, “gravity”, “Star Trek: the lower floors”

“Planets” currently flow on Crunchyroll.