> if anyone is an anime fan here.

Or manga, it's originally a manga series before the 26-episode anime adaptation.

The anime actually diverges from the manga in the latter section, because it was started before the series had ended (the manga finished serialisation in January 2004, the anime finished airing in February of the same year… and it was a 26ep full-season thing), so viewing both can be interesting in more ways than the usual watching of filler and interest in cross-media adaptation:

> While the manga deals more with existential themes, and humanity's relationship with space, the anime further expands the political elements of the story.

The manga feels much more personal, by which I mean the author likes to put in moralistic side stories, but he's not very good at it and I couldn't figure out what the moral was supposed to be. Sometimes he also stops the story so everyone can stand around discussing Kenji Miyazawa novels.

It might be silly that it wasn't until watching this anime (and the whole premise for WHY space junk removal was/is so dangerous as shown by the show) that I fully "understood" the problem with space junk. It was good show on it's own as well but it really made the "space junk" click for me.

Man I love Planetes, such a good series! They put some effort into keeping it realistic too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes#Realism

Also Anime; the much looser Gundam anime (particularly Gundam 00) and James Bond films (was it at least two now?) made me think of using super solar collection weapons.

The 'weapon' would reflect sunlight and 'shave' against cross-sections of the edge of earth's orbital spheres. Solar sail like light pressure would slowly nudge objects to either slower, or more erratic orbits where they'd drag and get lower.

Love Planetes, I always tell my friends its Gravity done right.

ＹＥＳ I love the vibe of that show so so much.

I was just thinking this!

Same!

bomb ass opening theme song, for real.