Anime Overview
Planetes
Set in 2075, Planetes imagines a near future where routine space travel and commercial activity beyond Earth have become part of everyday life. Ai Tanabe takes a position with a corporate unit tasked with cleaning up hazardous orbital debris, joining an understaffed, underfunded team that operates a battered retrieval craft nicknamed the "Toy Box." As she s…
Characters
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Hachirouta Hoshino
Main | Japanese VA: Tanaka, Kazunari
Ai Tanabe
Main | Japanese VA: Yukino, Satsuki
Fee Carmichael
Supporting | Japanese VA: Orikasa, Ai
Yuri Mihalkov
Supporting | Japanese VA: Koyasu, Takehito
Nono
Supporting | Japanese VA: Koorogi, Satomi
Werner Locksmith
Supporting | Japanese VA: Ishizuka, Unshou
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Planetes Picture Drama
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Staff
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Taniguchi, Gorou
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard
Yukimura, Makoto
Original Creator
Ookouchi, Ichirou
Script, Series Composition
Yukawa, Jun
Producer
Nakada, Eiji
Assistant Animation Director, Key Animation, Chief Animation Director
Nakatani, Seiichi
Key Animation, Animation Director, Chief Animation Director
Latest Episodes
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Episode 12: A Modest Request
Aired Dec 20, 2003
Episode 11: Boundary Line
Aired Dec 13, 2003
Episode 10: A Sky of Stardust
Aired Dec 6, 2003
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Planetes episode guide
26 tracked episodes
Planetes characters
6 featured characters
Planetes staff
6 featured staff credits
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