Planetes

darkhunger · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 2:33 am Post subject:

Well, by "cruel" I was referring to the rate of success (making people do so much through the test with such low rate of actually succeeding). I'm not sure if there are people like those in this anime and in Spica, but it seems like a pretty harsh test to take, in fact, a bit too hard for anyone to really pass... For example in Spica when all those dominoes had to be laid out... And here where you have to think out everything perfectly. I guess it's just too impossible a feat for me to think about, but who knows, maybe there are people who are capable of this, just not the ones that I'm familiar with.

AlDim · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 2:54 am Post subject:

darkhunger, that's exactly what they wanted - to get a very small amount of people from the candidates. In Planetes ultimately only 18 qualify.

darkhunger · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 2:58 am Post subject:

haroT3k · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:31 am Post subject:

theres probably some for of test like that for real astronauts, mayb not as extreme, but sumthing simliar
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Specky · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 6:36 pm Post subject:

Yebyosh · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject:

Fukui · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject:

This show is amazing. I thought the first 10 eps were medicore but man, i watched the next 13 in one go. It was that good.

i truly think this is one of the higher class of anime out there. Unlike others. this show carries across messages, and i'm not talking about obvious and cheesy ones and there were quite a few, but rather more subtle ideas that would probably mean different things to different people. This is not a show like naruto and such thats for sure where nothing is gained other than base satisfaction. Another thing is that this show is realistic as it probably depicts accurately what would happen in that not too distant future. And being such, it's very useful.

And talk about the character development and take Chensin for example. In most other shows, a character like him would simply remain the same from start to finish. Getting rejected? no problem, becomes your everyday nice guy the minute after. Glad it wasnt so.

So basically, the first 10 eps are intro and after that is where the pace starts to get picked up. I have to say I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the suddeness though and the certain character developments that would've been better served had it been carried out over a wider spread of episodes.

Man seriously, that ninja episode is da best!!!!! I just watched it again and my stomach is still hurting... the ending is the funniest Razz

haroT3k · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:48 pm Post subject:

yea, just like fukui said, the characters in this anime feel realistic. not like just any plain anime character who dwells on the same felling from start to finish, these characters seem real. they react to many of the presented situations throughout the anime like anybody irl would. i liked that a lot about this anime, definitely one of the best this year
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AlDim · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject:

The first thing that made me fall in love with this show was that there's no sound in space Smile

I've always thought that with some good direction there's plenty of sounds that can be used to make space cool anyway and Planetes proves it - radiotransmissions, music, etc. definitely do the job.
But yeah, the main characters are also nice, and once the show got going (I think the turning point was ep 7) it's been really great.

darkhunger · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject:

HAHAHAHA!!!!!! Tanabe finally gets drowned in her non-sense on the brink of death in Ep 24, and it isn't pretty... Hopefully next episode won't cop out with this cliffhanger like they did this episode with the Von Braun (though I think it will).

Fukui · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:49 pm Post subject:

nice ep, i liked the tanabe crazy look

haroT3k · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:52 pm Post subject:

well looking at the preview for ep 25.... it goes "lets have a picnic" and u can guess wat that leads to......
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darkhunger · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:03 pm Post subject:

AlDim · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:28 pm Post subject:

That cliffhanger was just cruel Shocked

I'm sure they'll resolve it somehow but I really wonder how exactly...
But yeah, crazed scared Tanabe rules Smile

It's all love until death comes knockin' Smile

Prediction: in ep 25 we get resolution of the whole thing, Tanabe and Hachimaki discover their deep love for each other and in ep 26 she sends him off to Jupiter. Kinda like Gattaca's ending Smile

Oh well, we'll see soon enough.

Fukui · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject: