Planetes

Description

From Dark Horse:
In the 2070s, increased interplanetary travel has led to crisis-level amounts of dangerous space debris, and someone has to clean it up. Planetes follows the space-garbage crew of aspiring explorer Hachimaki, mourning Yuri and secretive Fee.

Note: Won the Seiun Award in 2002.

Type

Manga

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Planetes: Jelajah Ruang Hampa

ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ

Блукальці

الكواكب

プラネテス

星空清理者

Groups Scanlating

Manga-Sketchbook

Latest Release(s)

v.4 c.17-26 by Manga-Sketchbook 20 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

4 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1

Ends at Vol 2 Diverges and has changed characterizations, new characters/plots and an original ending

User Reviews

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Forum

1 topics, 1 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.6 / 10.0 (713 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.51 / 10.0

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Last Updated

April 30th, 2025 5:59am PDT - 1 month ago

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Genre

Drama Psychological Romance Sci-fi Seinen Slice of Life
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Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)

Morning (Kodansha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Dark Horse (2 Physical Omnibuses; Complete)

TokyoPop (5 Physical Volumes; Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #853

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Monthly Pos #1392

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3 Month Pos #2675

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6 Month Pos #2944

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Year Pos #4148

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List Stats

On 508 reading lists

On 1040 wish lists

On 1577 completed lists

On 41 unfinished lists

On 445 custom lists

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Scanlation status of extra chapter

12 years ago

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Planetes

by [deleted member]
5 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

Story: 7/10
Art: 8/10
Characters: 6/10
Quality Polish Edition: 9/10
Enjoyment: 7/10
Overall: 7.4/10

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Very good with flaws

by bikudo
9 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

I started by not liking the way faces were drawn and the melodramatic narrative style. It took me some effort to keep reading and finished by finding some redeeming qualities. The story invites at times at some deep philosophic thinking and the characters evolve and reach conclusions. Apart from faces I found the art good and sometimes very good and even excellent. The series is also fairly pedagogical in terms of space related technology even if some scientific speculation is bogus.

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Poor writing

by Mizura
10 years ago

Rating: N/A

This series has a very promising premise: that of showing the lives of ordinary people in an age of space exploration. Sadly, the writing itself turns out to be very scripted, and the characters themselves often have overly simplistic views of the world (it gets really cheesy when a terrorist decides to let you live because of the 'look in your eyes', but then again, it's even harder to take the terrorist seriously when he's warning against 'plundering Jupiter's resources' - like seriously? Doesn't he know how big Jupiter is?).

One character for some reason completely changes personality for apparently no reason other than the author's need to add some drama. It feels like the author wrote this series with the mentality of a rebellious teen, preaching things such as love, God, smoking (?!), and the right to own over half a dozen dogs and let them keep your neighbors up all night with their barking.

Although the space exploration setting is quite interesting, other aspects are portrayed in very naive ways, the non-existent security for example. It also decides spends a lot of time focused on current-day problems, which wouldn't be a problem if it didn't portray them in very basic ways, the sort anybody can write.

Overall, this series has a great premise and some nice scenes (at first), but sadly the poor writing doesn't really live up to the theme.

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Contemporary problems

by You Say
13 years ago

Rating: 9.5 / 10.0

Planetes (or "Wanderers" if you want) is Yukimura Makoto's first work. His art style here isn't as refined as it is now. His story-telling may be a little (but only a little) rushed sometimes. One can see that he didn't have everything planned to the slightest details. Still, every single mangaka has to start somehow. And what start this is!

Set in specified future, Planetes is about common people. They're working, they have dreams, fears and problems. Hoshino, Carmichael, Mihairokov and Tanabe are our protagonists. Yukimura presents his thoughts through their own stories. They're one by one confronted with their personal "difficulty", be it loss of a wife or troubles with raising a child.

Planetes "says" that every single human has his own problems, be it in the past, today or in the future. And we have to face them because if we won't, they will ultimately face us. Hoshino, Carmichael and others have to learn how to live ("how to accept their surroundings"). As the story progresses, Yukimura shows us that there are some people, who simply can't take life as it is.

This piece of art is magnificent example how simple "human drama" should be done in very personal way. Young people trying to grasp the meaning of life. They probably won't succeed but who knows… They may find peace within themselves.

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Not that good at all!

by CHARMINOOO
14 years ago

Rating: N/A

I think its kind of evil, everything turns very weird... i dont know if my opinion is like this because of the anime (which suck much harder than the manga), but it really didnt do much for me at the end.

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The best

by trepazoid
15 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This has got to be the best (if not second best--second to what I don't know) manga and adapted anime I have read/seen.
Set in the future in space, yet so down to earth. It is a humane, romantic, and original piece of work.

The only con is I really wish there was more than just 5 volumes.

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Amazing...

by VampireBanana
15 years ago

Rating: 9.5 / 10.0

Pacing and plot are really good and the story constantly shifts perspectives among a very diverse cast, so it never becomes old. The basis for the plot is also very interesting too, because there are very few stories actually set in space.

Also, because the emphasis is more on plot progression and character development than on hard science, this means the story is highly enjoyable even if you might know or understand little about the more scientific sides of this story.

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Compelling

by waluigi
16 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

A very well crafted tale of humans and humanity, both on Earth and in the vastness of space. At once romantic, dramatic and introspective. A brilliant and highly recommended read. One of the best.

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Highly recommended

by OppKnox
16 years ago

Rating: 9.3 / 10.0

Planetes is one of the few series I would recommend to the general public. It’s a funny, intriguing space manga that captures both the mundane and the spectacular aspects of life so effectively most earthbound series suffer by comparison.

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Uncliched

by ivory__shoes
16 years ago

Rating: N/A

No heroes. Simple plot. Character development-focused.
A moving, slice-of-life manga which explores science&philosophy, ambitions, self discovery, the state of people, the space, the probable future, love and relationships.

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