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An astronomer in a Japanese observatory, peering into his telescope one night, becomes the first person to witness a planet emerging from a wormhole. He names the planet after his daughter, Remina, and both become world-famous thanks to the unprecedented discovery. However, things take a turn for the worse when the planet enters a collision course with Earth... [[The Stars Are Going Out|and the stars along the way]] [[Planet Eater|seem to be disappearing...]]

 

* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Mostly averted.

* [[An Aesop]]: Surprisingly enough for a [[Junji Ito]] story, it ends with a clear and uplifting one. {{spoiler|No matter how badly things have gone, no matter how bleak the future seems, so long as you are still alive there is hope for something better.}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Technically a [[Downer Ending|downer]], but it's strangely uplifting...

** It's uplifting because there's still ''hope''. They're still alive, which means there's at least a chance for a better future, even if it would take a miracle.

* [[Broken Bird]]: Remina falls a bit into this, especially after {{spoiler|the death of her father.}}

* [[Burn the Witch]]: One of the many attempts to kill Remina.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]] / [[Eldritch Location]]: Remina. The planet, not the girl.

* [[Explosive Decompression]]: {{spoiler|From the ''inside out,'' for the poor human survivors who got attacked on Remina by the crewmember they purposely let die. Or they had all their internal organs crushed by the tentacle. Either way, it was painful.}}

{{quote|'''Ikeuchi:''' MY EYES MET WITH REMINA'S!}}

* [[Guilt by Coincidence]]: Remina, who was born on the same day the planet emerged from the wormhole. This leads the public to believe she and her father are responsible for its appearance.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Yasumi does this by taking a knife in the back for Remina.}}

* [[How We Got Here]]: The manga begins with Remina tied to a cross, surrounded by a huge crowd and a couple of [[Malevolent Masked Men|shadowy figures]] who want to kill her, while two monstrous eyes watch the scene from the sky.

** Perhaps somewhat justified in that the angry masses were being egged on by te cultists, but otherwise yes - this trope is played fairly straight.

{{quote|'''Bum:''' They get you, they don't, don't mean a thing to them. They'd never stop with you now that they got a taste for it.}}

* [[Left Hanging]]: As is common in both [[Cosmic Horror Story|Cosmic Horror Stories]] and Junji Ito's, {{spoiler|whatever the hell was planet Remina is never revealed. Nor is, for that matter, the identity of the first three cultists who wanted to sacrifice Remina, or why Goda had a tongue similar to planet Remina's when he was dressed as a cultist.}}

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]] / [[Nuke'Em]]: The military fires a few dozen nuclear warheads at Planet Remina's tongue. {{spoiler|They bounce off and return to the sender.}}

* [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]]: Planet Remina. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/hellstar_remina/v01/c006/36.html Behold.]

* [[Negative Space Wedgie]]: Planet Remina came to our region of space through a wormhole, therefore proving the phenomenon's existence. Not that such a breakthrough in astrophysics actually helps anyone...

* [[Oh Crap]]: The astronomers' reaction every time Planet Remina eats something.

* [[Our Wormholes Are Different]]: Planet Remina came from [[Another Dimension]] through one of them. And if the title [[Hell Gate|is an actual description...]]

* [[The Reveal]]: The tenacious cultist is {{spoiler|Goda, the president of Remina's fan club}}, and the hobo is {{spoiler|the older Mineichi brother.}}

* [[Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere]]: {{spoiler|once Planet Remina eats the Earth, the only survivors are trapped in an airtight fallout shelter drifting through the now-empty solar system. They have enough supplies to last a year.}}

 

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