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A review by aoutrance
Planetes, Volume 1 by Makoto Yukimura
4.0
Despite the lackluster space initiatives in the past two decades, there's already just a crapton of junk floating in orbit around the Earth. It's incredibly plausible to me that astronaut garbagemen could be a thing in the future. Especially if we 1. finally allocate more money to our space programs and 2. keep up our wasteful human habits while doing so.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
There's some really excellent technical art in this series, from the junker shuttles to the bits and bobs that make up their atmospheric suits.
Yuri's Level Four Tragic Backstory gets me right in the feels. His wife (presumably) dies in a traumatic crash and he spends the next six years tirelessly looking for her body, likely floating in the wilds of space. He avoids moving on at all costs. Yuri serendipitously finds her talisman during the course of a routine mission and in an emotionally charged moment, he lets her go. He realized that while she's forever lost to him, he has found a new space family in Fi and Hachimaki ... lots of dust in my eyes, okay. It happens.
P.S. Yuri and Hachimaki seemed to have switched hair colors starting in the third chapter?? Am I crazy? what heck
The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
There's some really excellent technical art in this series, from the junker shuttles to the bits and bobs that make up their atmospheric suits.
Yuri's Level Four Tragic Backstory gets me right in the feels. His wife (presumably) dies in a traumatic crash and he spends the next six years tirelessly looking for her body, likely floating in the wilds of space. He avoids moving on at all costs. Yuri serendipitously finds her talisman during the course of a routine mission and in an emotionally charged moment, he lets her go. He realized that while she's forever lost to him, he has found a new space family in Fi and Hachimaki ... lots of dust in my eyes, okay. It happens.
P.S. Yuri and Hachimaki seemed to have switched hair colors starting in the third chapter?? Am I crazy? what heck