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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.}}

* [[Artistic License Physics]]: At one point, the earth is spun around so fast that the stars blur in the sky like the hyperspace lines in Star Wars. Aside from everyone not instantly dying from this, there is even a scene where a huge group of people are able to use the centrifugal force to fly through the air ''all the way around the earth and back'', and some of them even survive falling back to the ground.

** If the rest of the Earth moves with you, you're not going to die from a little spinning. But if only the earth is spinning, and the air isn't, then...

* [[Attempted Rape]]: {{spoiler|Mineichi's son shows Remina}} the airtight room, claiming she'll be protected in there...and then tries to rape her. When she fights him off, he claims she came on to him, and Remina is thrown back to the mob.

* [[Badass Bystander]]: The Hobo. Oh so, so much.

* [[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.

* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: Remina, her father and the hobo are all tied to a cross so they can be sacrificed. {{spoiler|The angry mob stabs her father with spears, and then lights them on fire.}}

* [[Dead Line News]]: An anchorman is reporting on the situation with planet Remina and the riots all over the world. Just after mentioning that an angry mob is hunting down Remina, he is attacked by two [[Malevolent Masked Men]].

* [[Death World]]: The planet's surface, a toxic jungle of [[When Trees Attack|aggressive alien flora]], a horrifically caustic atmosphere, and [[Humanoid Abomination|strange figures]] looming out of the fog...

* [[Dirty Coward]]: Kunhiro Mineichi.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

* [[Informed Ability]]: Remina (the person) becomes famous because of her association with Planet Remina. She (reluctantly) uses the fame to become a famous idol. It's never made clear what she ''does'' beyond standing on a stage/in front of cameras and looking pretty. It's possible people are paying to see precisely that, making her career [[An Aesop]] about the inanity of fandom, or something.

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Goda claims he'll save Remina's life, even if she loved Yasumi instead. {{spoiler|[[If I Can't Have You|He's lying.]]}}

* [[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.}}

* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]]: The ''other'' cause of poor Remina's many problems.

* [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|Yasumi}} to {{spoiler|Remina.}}

* [[The Stars Are Going Out]]: The first clue about Planet Remina's true nature is when astronomers notice that the surrounding stars "disappear".

* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]: And knives and fire axes and the occasional gun.

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: The story takes place in "July 20XX".

** Equally odd is that she became a country-wide sensation just because the new planet was given her name. These people are very easily amused...

* [[Witch Hunt]]: Invoked by the {{spoiler|Cultists and mob when Remina is tossed outside by Kunihiro.}}

* [[Yandere]]: {{spoiler|Goda.}}

 

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