Planetarian...
Recently, I set aside my disdain for streaming anime, yet again, and took the opportunity to watch Planetarian...
Planetarian really tugged hard at my heart strings as Yumemi yearns for more of a sense of what it is to be human like being able to dream and cry and wonders if there is a heaven for robots. Meanwhile, the junker begins to remember what it was like to be human before the apocalypse that destroyed human civilization and to reconsider the direction of his life.
The Planetarian movie is set fifty years after the events of the series and is essentially a prologue and an epilogue with the original series shown in between as an extended flashback, totaling about 25 minutes of additional footage. There is only a small amount of bloodshed and no gore to speak of. And, of course, there are no naughty bits. The series ends rather dramatically, but, was nonetheless very enjoyable. The move expands the original story a bit and ends in a similarly melodramatic fashion and was likewise, enjoyable. Overall, I would give Planetarian a 4 out of 5. At the time of this writing, the U.S. DVD release is still a couple months away. I would definitely support the U.S. release.
Planetarian is a fairly short web series with five episodes and a follow-up movie. In the web series, we meet Yumemi, a cheerful and dedicated robot working at a planetarium amid the ruins of a post-apocalyptic world. After waiting patiently for thirty years, Yumemi's patience is finally rewarded when her first customer arrives. A junker, scavenging for items of value, seeks refuge from the automated tanks that now patrol the dead city and comes across Yumemi, who desperately wants to show her newfound customer her special presentation. When the projector fails, the junker, sensing the futility of Yumemi's efforts, prepares to leave, but, has second thoughts and decides to repair the projector.It is thirty years after the failure of the Space Colonization Program. Humanity is nearly extinct. A perpetual and deadly rain falls on the Earth. People known as "junkers" plunder goods and artifacts from the ruins of civilization. One such junker sneaks alone into the most dangerous of all ruins, a "Sarcophagus City". In the center of this dead city, he discovers a pre-War planetarium. And as he enters he is greeted by Yumemi Hoshino, a companion robot. Without a single shred of doubt, she assumes he is the first customer she's had in thirty years. She attempts to show him the stars at once, but the planetarium projector is broken. Unable to make heads or tails of her conversation, he ends up agreeing to try repairing the projector...
Planetarian really tugged hard at my heart strings as Yumemi yearns for more of a sense of what it is to be human like being able to dream and cry and wonders if there is a heaven for robots. Meanwhile, the junker begins to remember what it was like to be human before the apocalypse that destroyed human civilization and to reconsider the direction of his life.
The Planetarian movie is set fifty years after the events of the series and is essentially a prologue and an epilogue with the original series shown in between as an extended flashback, totaling about 25 minutes of additional footage. There is only a small amount of bloodshed and no gore to speak of. And, of course, there are no naughty bits. The series ends rather dramatically, but, was nonetheless very enjoyable. The move expands the original story a bit and ends in a similarly melodramatic fashion and was likewise, enjoyable. Overall, I would give Planetarian a 4 out of 5. At the time of this writing, the U.S. DVD release is still a couple months away. I would definitely support the U.S. release.
