Tag: Planetes

Last week, a National Research Council report urged NASA to start thinking seriously about cleaning up the more than 22,000 fragments of satellites, rockets and other junk orbiting the Earth. They’re way behind Ai Tanabe, Hachirota Hoshino and the other grunts of the Debris Section of Space Station ISPV-7 in the anime series “Planetes”; they’ve been disposing of that stuff since the show debuted in 2004. So now’s a good time to revisit the DVD set “Planetes: Complete Collection.” The story line goes like this: In 2075, eager but maladroit Ai arrives at the Space Station and is dismayed to discover she’s been assigned to the Debris Section. This group of mismatched misfits is at the bottom of the station, physically and socially. Supervisor Meyers frets; his assistant Arvind does sleight-of-hand magic; pilot Fee hides in a decompression chamber to ...