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Garbage collecting... {{smallcapssmall-caps|[[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]}}! Because in space, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bolts screw]] [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|you!]]
 
An'''''Planetes''''' is an anime series, based on a manga series of the same name, that provides a realistic and dramatic view of life in space in the near future. The principal cast are the "Debris Section" of the Technora corporation, space trash collectors that are charged with the prevention of deadly orbital collisions with free-floating junk.
 
By 2075, the depletion of oil reserves has caused mankind to turn to space to solve its increasing demand for energy, through the mining of Helium-3 isotope deposits from the moon. With the increase in traffic, the accumulation of debris in Earth orbit has caused a number of spectacular and deadly accidents, as even a tiny piece of debris at orbital velocity (for reference, orbital velocity for an object in LEO<ref>Low-Earth Orbit</ref> is about 7 and a half kilometers per second) can take down a spacecraft. So, our "heroes" (really just blue-collar astronauts and administrators) must collect and salvage this space junk.
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[[X Meets Y|Combines with]] ''[[Flight Gear]]'' to make [[Orbiter]].
 
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* [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms]]: Implied in episode one.▼
=== This show contains examples of: ===
{{quote| '''Hachimaki''' (as they're gathering equipment for the next mission): "This, this, this... And this too." * Places Hustler magazine in the cart* <br />▼
▲* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: Implied in episode one.
'''Tanabe''': "Wha... What is that?"<br />▼
▲{{quote| '''Hachimaki''' (as they're gathering equipment for the next mission): "This, this, this... And this too." * Places Hustler magazine in the cart* <br />
▲'''Tanabe''': "Wha... What is that?"<br />
'''Hachimaki''': "In this field of work men and women may have to live together in close quarters for several weeks. If we don't take matters into our own hands something ugly might happen. Here, this is yours." * Holds up a porn mag supposedly for women* }}
* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: Several of the Section Debris crew get episodes that focus largely on them, such as Yuri in episodes 10 and 14, as well as Fee in episodes 8 and 12, and Edel in episode 15.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Chapter 9 of the manga.
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Hachimaki and Tanabe nearly have one on the beach in episode 13, until a rocket launched by Hachimaki's brother nearly hits them.
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* [[Broken Bird]]: Claire. Increasingly broken as the series goes on. Edel was one in the past.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Many of the main characters are really good at their jobs, even if they're a bit eccentric. Such as Locksmith, Hachimaki, and Fee.
* [[Character Development]]: Quite a few characters get [[A Day in Thethe Limelight|episodes that focus on them]], and we get to learn more about their past as well as why they act the way they do, such as Hachimaki wearing said headband all the time.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Tanabe towards Hachimaki, who gets angry or at least suspicious anytime she sees him hanging out with a woman. Lucie towards Cheng-Shin.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: [[Deconstruction|Deconstructed]] with Fee's uncle, Roy Bryant. He was kind and talented, but almost terminally shy and autistic. Not that terrible ''per se'', but he had the misfortune of being the lone, unemployed, and ''black'' weirdo in the [[Deep South]]. He was feared and ostracized by almost everyone around, until some day, after the locals, suspecting him of kidnapping a neighbor's daughter, burned his shack, and he went off to the woods and was never heard about again. This still weighs on Fee.
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** Pretty much everyone who shows up in the Anime is mentioned or visited again.
** Cross-continuity in the manga: when the author made a bonus [[Yonkoma|four-panel comic]] gag including Claire, an anime-only character, he didn't draw her face because he didn't think he could draw her right.
* [[Cooldown Hug]]: In the manga, Ai to stop Hachi's [[Unstoppable Rage|Unstoppable]] <s> [[Unstoppable Rage|Rage]]</s> [[Tranquil Fury]], as the latter is about to {{spoiler|kill Hakim.}} Preceded by a {{spoiler|[["Shut Up" Kiss]] just before Hachi pulls the trigger}}, and followed by a {{spoiler|[[Post-Kiss Catatonia]] (since the compartment had suffered a hull breach and Ai was already feeling the effects of low air pressure}}.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Gigalt.
** Goro as well, though mostly in the manga, where he's much better developed.
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** Also, the ''Toybox I''. It's ugly, unwieldy, and [[Used Future|older than most of its crew]], but it has a lot of character and had [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|an incredible]] [[Saving the World|sendoff]].
* [[Creepy Child]]: ''Of all people'', {{spoiler|[[Love Freak|Tanabe]]'s childhood in the manga, when she was also [[The Voiceless]]}}.
* [[Cultural Cross-Reference]]: In the manga version, a military officer named Colonel Sanders tries to make a deal with Fee to help stop the impending space war. She flatly denies him and tells him to go [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfc |"sell fried chicken at a gas station."]] This is made even more hilarious by the fact that his appearance is seemingly based upon a certain other Colonel Sanders.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: The Space Defense Force, who accurately guesses that INTO and other organizations will be too busy guarding certain places, and make it seem like they'll attack those places, only to then attack another station. It was only because of a really ticked off Fee (who hasn't had a smoke for a while due to air quality reasons and smoking sections on the moon being blown up) saving the space station that saved them.
** Later, they learned from that first incident, and this time makes sure to take several extra precautions to ensure neither Fee nor anyone else would be able to stop their second plan.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: {{spoiler|Yuri's wife, whose body was never found, and prompted him to work in Debris}}.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Edel often makes snarky comments around the office of the Debris Section office.
* [[De FictionalisationDefictionalization]]: While it seems unlikely to take the same form as in the show, scientists have said that cleaning up space debris has become a pressing concern, apparently the ISS has had to dodge dangerous debris several times already.
* [[Description Cut]]: Cheng-Shin assures a friend that Hachimaki is a lot more subdued now than he was the last time they met. Guess who comes running past them playing space-ninja at that very moment?
* [[Determinator]]: Deconstructed. Hachi almost alienated Ai and his peers with his fanatical commitment to board the von Braun, and {{spoiler|Hakim's}} desire to liberate the developing countries eventually made him a shell.
* [[Detonation Moon]]: Although a (relatively) minor one: the Tandem Mirror Engine accident that turns a considerable chunk of the Moon into ''dust''.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The odd imagery during the docking sequence in episode 14, combined with the context of the episode itself makes it pretty clear exactly what the scene is a metaphor of.
** Norio Wakamoto once again lends his voice to a [[Gun BusterGunbuster|badass doomed mentor dying from radiation sickness]]. . .
* [[Dying Alone]]: Hachimaki's dark self constantly reminds himself of this fate in the 2nd half of the season. Tanabe on the other hand, feels this trope should be averted, such as when the body of one of the early space pioneers makes its way back to Earth, and she feels he should be buried by his family, rather than sent back into the void of space.
* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]}}: {{spoiler|Both Hachi and Tanabe go through a heck of a lot before finally finding happiness at the very end of the anime.}}
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* [[Foreshadowing]]: That woman we see in the spacecraft in episode 1 when a stray bolt hits it? {{spoiler|She's the wife of Yuri}}, and in episode 10 we get more [[Character Development|background]] on why Yuri was obsessed with looking for space debris and why he joined the Debris Section in the first place.
* [[For Science!]]: Werner Locksmith "can only love space ships". Treated as realistically and thoughtfully as everything else.
* [[Freeze -Frame Bonus]]: In episode 20, you can pause and read some of Hachimaki's details as Director Locksmith goes over it.
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Yuri keeps a kennel for the station's officers' pets, because he's ''that'' good with animals.
* [[Gainaxing]]: Fee, who apparently [[Vapor Wear|doesn't wear a bra]].
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* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]: Never mentioned but inadvertently implied, due to everyone in the cast [[Creator Provincialism|acting in accordance with uniquely Japanese cultural norms]] pretty much all the time regardless of their actual nationality.
** Probably just on the animation crew part, manga was much more cosmopolitan, and all specifically Japanese relationship norms were limited basically just to Hachi and Tanabe, [[Justified Trope|who are both Japanese]].
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Hachirota "Hachimaki" Hoshino
** All Hoshino males, really: the brothers have clearly taken after their father. Hoshino's mom is basically a saint ([[Lampshade Hanging|and knows it]]).
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Hakim.}}
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** As I see it, the primary theme of the manga is the ideological conflict between Ai's love and Hachimaki's ambition. (It's there in the anime too, but not so strong.)
* [[Love Hotels]]: Technically, accommodations for transitory visitors, but explained as the only non-work area on the station where a couple can do ''anything'' date-like and have privacy from co-workers.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: To roughly the same level as [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]. 7 main characters (Hachimaki, Tanabe, Fee, Yuri, Chief, Ravi, Edel), and a host of well developed and influential secondary (Claire, Hakim, Colin Clifford, Cheng Shin, Goro Hoshino, Werner Locksmith, Gigalt, Dolph) and tertiary (Harry Roland, Kyutaro Hoshino, Nono, The Ninjas, Lucy), characters.
** It's even worse in the manga, which doesn't have salarimen and Ninjas, but has a lot of ''other'' people.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: In episode 4, when [[Spoiled Brat|Colin Clifford]] starts insulting the Debris Section, Hachimaki nearly punches his lights out in anger. But before he can, Tanabe does it instead, then [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|berates]] him for being such a jerk. Colin threatens to punish them for assaulting a non-employee, but then Fee mentions that there were only 5 people aboard the ship, and therefore they never had any non-employees in the area in the first place. Colin whines some more about it, but the director mentions that either Colin let this issue go, or else he could file a full report, and then Colin's father finds out about him being there illegally in the first place.
** It's done again in episode 14 when they move a satellite to avoid a meteoroid from destroying it. Robbie says that they're not allowed to destroy a natural body, so Hachimaki instead moves the satellite away to avoid the collison.
* [[Married to Thethe Job]]: Hachimaki's father, Goro. His mother is ''extremely specific'' about how lucky he is to have her as a wife, as, [[The Unfair Sex|by all rights]], [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery|she should have gotten into an affair by now]]. It's also implied that Hachi himself is headed this way.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Yuri Mihairokov shares the name of famous cosmonaut [[Yuri Gagarin]], who was the first man in space. Werner Locksmith shares the name of Werner von Braun, one of, if not the most important rocket designers who ever lived whose designs include the terrifying V-2 for the Nazis, and the mighty Saturn V, the famous moon rocket. Ai Tanabe's name is also a pun, as 'ai' is the Japanese word for love, which matches with her belief in love's power.
* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: Yuri's [[Tragic Keepsake|wife's compass]]. Eventually, Yuri decides {{spoiler|[[It's All Junk|to send it back into space with a test rocket]] because he no longer needs it to preserve his wife's memory}}.
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* [[Mission Control]]: Literally, the Control section of ISVP 7. Much more prominent in the anime, where it has named characters related to the plot. Also, Fee often plays this role when Hachi, Ai, and Yuri perform EVA operations.
* [[Mistaken for Cheating]]: In episode 8, the Debris Section suspects Fee is having a secret affair with the Second Division director. Except that she's not, and she's not too happy about that accusation when she hears about it.
* [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness]]: Very hard, possibly the hardest series ever ''made'' up to this point. [[I Want My Jetpack|Commercial spaceflight]] less than [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|a century in the future]] and almost completely limited to the Earth Sphere itself. Detailed orbital mechanics, realistic effects of space on health, [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_theory:Dependency theory|dependency theory]], diapers under spacesuits, and ''invisible'' [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser beams]]. Even the gratuitous [[In Space Everyone Can See Your Face]] is justified as mere thematic [[Closeup Onon Head|close-ups on the characters' faces]] -- ''with their faceplates down.'' Its premise -- the collection of space garbage to prevent multimillion-dollar spacecraft from being [[One-Hit Kill|scrapped]] by ''[[Cherry Tapping|screws]]'' -- is a [[Real Life]] problem but economically unfeasible(nowadays we [[Just Ignore It]] - military satellites are fitted with maneuvering thrusters to dodge but nobody cleans it up), but this is actually ''a major plot point'' -- though the job is essential to actual commercial space travel, the fact that nobody can find a way to make money off it means they ignored it right up until the accident that killed Yuri's wife. ''Then'' the Debris Sections were formed [[False Reassurance|in response to public outcry]] -- and staffed by ''[[Salaryman|underpaid office drones]]'' with '''[[Used Future|gear older than they are]]'''.
** Even the Tandem Mirror drive is named after/based on a real magnetic confinement fusion technique, which has been noted to be uniquely suited to application as a space drive.
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Hakim Ashmead, a top Space Defense Front lieutenant who joined the ''von Braun'' mission in order to sabotage it.}} Played for even greater effect in the anime, where the character is introduced ''long'' [[Early -Bird Cameo|before his arc begins]], and is given a sympathetic background as Hachimaki's {{spoiler|[[Big Brother Mentor]]}}.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The El Tanika representative in episode 11, who tries really hard to help his country out in whatever way he can, watches his country from above in space. It's a very serene and touching scene. Then they cut to the ground, and there's a war going on down there, and the factory that had the plans and parts for his spacesuit gets destroyed. Unfortunately for him, he is able to see the smoke cloud from space.
* [[Motorcycle Onon the Coast Road]]: Hachimaki did this in the past, and does it again in episode 14 when visiting his hometown with Tanabe and Yuri.
* [[Multinational Team]]: The section, and the company as a whole, are nationally and ethnically diverse (but seem to act unilaterally Japanese in most cases).
** The most egregious example being when the El Tanikan-born, American-bred woman formally introduces herself and bows (in a manner identical to the way Tanabe, who ''is'' Japanese, did in the first episode) upon being transferred to a new department. Despite the fact that she's known everyone in that department for at ''least'' a year already.
* [[Naive Newcomer]]: Tanabe Ai, new hire and first-time astronaut
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The [["On the Next..."|next episode previews]] almost always misdirect the viewer on what will be the most dramatic moment.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Very explicitly, Hachimaki's (anime-only) mentor Gigalt Gangaragash. He even confesses to Ai that he has trouble remembering people's names, so he makes up nicknames for them to keep track of them. In this continuity, he's the one who gave Hachi his nickname, although the latter was already wearing said item long before Gigalt ever met him. However, there was one person for whom Gigalt was never able to figure out a nickname, and only later, when it's much too late, he realizes that it's because he could never figure out who {{spoiler|Hakim ''[[The Mole|really]]'' was}}.
* [[Ninja]]: Actually, a bunch of unemployed workers who pretend to be Ninjas on the ''moon'', where the low gravity makes them the stuff of [[Chop Sockey]] movies.
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* [[Qurac]]: Mananga.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Debris Section is where employees are sent when they either don't care where they go, or screw up so bad they can't be sent anywhere else. Of course, since they spend more time in EVA than anyone else, they wind up being the biggest zero-G badasses this side of the Orbital Security Agency.
* [[Ramming Always Works]]: Also see [[Planetes (Anime)/Awesome]]. Near the end of the series, {{spoiler|with the ''von Braun'' about to cross the point-of-no-return to crash into Sea Of Tranquility City, Fee and Cheng-Shin decide (separately) that they can at least nudge the ship so it crashes away from the city. But they realize they're too late to make any difference anyway}}.
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Happens in episode 14 with Hachimaki and Tanabe.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: Probably the only ''literal'' example. It's a show about recycling...in space...space recycling.
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* [[Sempai-Kohai]]: Tanabe does this with Hachimaki, even in the English dub.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Hachimaki uses this several times when either confronted with his past relationship with Claire, and anytime Tanabe sees him with another woman, and questions him about it.
* [[Shipper Onon Deck]]: Lucie tries to do this with Tanabe and Hachimaki, in an attempt to get closer to Cheng-Shin.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Lavie's gag device to break the ice with Section 3's Debris department plays ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|Thus Spake Zarathustra]]''.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Very much so.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Hachimaki and Kyuutaro. He's an astronaut, he wants to build rockets and spaceships. Neither one believes that what the other pursues is a "serious" pursuit of outer-space.
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* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Fee Carmichael and to a certain extent Hachirota "Hachimaki" Hoshino. In fact, in one episode, Fee ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|saves outer space]]'' without knowing it because she is ''that'' desperate for a smoke.
* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Locksmith, although the degree of his detachment from humanity varies from manga to anime. {{spoiler|The graveside scene in the former had him damn near emotional, which is ''devastating'' to the reader, let me tell you.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|I feel sad.}}}}
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Differences in romanization according to the anime and manga. More particularly, the Tandem-Mirror/Tandem Miller engine, as well as Hakim/Hakimu/Hakeem. Specific to the anime, the Assistant Manager's name is ''pronounced'' "Ravi," but spelled "Lavie."
** It's [http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2009/Summer-2009/Thoughts_on_fusion.pdf Tandem Mirror].
*** Seriously why would it be Tandem Miller? There was never any Miller involved!
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* [[Welcome Episode]]: Episode 1 lets the audience follow Tanabe as she arrives at ISVP7, meets everyone down in Debris Section, and is shown the ropes of the job.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Space Defense Force. {{spoiler|Which makes it somewhat less terrible when [[The Bad Guy Wins]]. Their methods were pretty evil, but their goal that time wasn't.}}
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Episode 16, "Ignition."
* [[Wham! Line]]: Hachimaki gives one at the end of episode 18.
{{quote| '''Hachimaki:''' I'm quitting the Debris Section.}}
* [[What You Are in Thethe Dark]]: A double whammy in Episode 24.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: [[Rich Bitch|Colin Clifford]], and ''man'' is he gender-ambiguous. Especially with that camera thing.
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Played with, Edel works full time in the Debris Section as a contract worker, but also has a part time job as a nurse. The characters are surprised when they see her during their physical exam.
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* [[Explosions in Space]]: There is an pretty big off-screen explosion {{spoiler|on the Moon, when a giant fusion engine blows up (read: a new crater visible from Earth)}}, but the depicted cone of ejected matter is realistic and [[Oh Crap|terrifying]].
* [[Gravity Sucks]]: Besides having realistic orbits paths, a ship about to crash into {{spoiler|a lunar city}} has to be shifted out of its path by a point-of-no-return it would reach quite a while before the actual impact.
* [[In Space Everyone Can See Your Face]]: +95% averted. Spacesuits have faceplates with integrated [[HUD|HUDs]], and are almost always lowered to protect against unfiltered sunlight and debris impacts. If you see a character's face in a spacesuit, it's a [[Closeup Onon Head]]. People raise their faceplates only to identify themselves to each other - or so they can see each other's faces during [[Rule of Drama|dramatic arguments]].
* [[Latex Space Suit]]: Spacesuits are realistically bulky, and the astronauts all wear diapers/nappies.
* [[Sci -Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Baring a few unlikely coincidences such as Yuri searching for and finding a '''pocket compass''' in orbit around the Earth. These [[Contrived Coincidence|coincidences]] are all treated as miraculous events [[Lampshade Hanging|within the show]] and can be dismissed by the audience as [[Anthropic Principle|necessary in order for the show to have a plot]].
** Keep in mind, though, that it did take Yuri five whole years of non-stop searching for the compass to find it.
** And he didn't randomly search the vastness of space. What he did was spend all his spare time searching through the database of all known space debris, looking for the damn thing, selecting the ones most likely to be what he was looking for (as shown in episode 10 of the anime)
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