Reuniting for the annual Anime Secret Santa project, Jared and Ink stuff your stocking with opinions about 2004’s Planetes via a special episode of Oldtaku no Radio. Thank you, Santa!!! The choices originally presented to Ink were Stars Align, Planetes, Godzilla Singular Point, and Project Blue Earth SOS. When Ink told Jared Planetes was gifted, the stars aligned, and both hosts, who previously only read the manga, decided they needed to watch and talk about the anime, which had been on their radar for years.

Since Planetes takes place in space, we’ve formatted our review in line with our other Oldtaku in Space episodes (available to $5/month Ani-Gamers Patreon subscribers here). See the show notes below if you don’t care to hear about the real world and just want to get to the anime hot takes.

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Runtime: 1 hours, 39 min

Show Notes

• Opening Song: “Jupiter Bringer of Jollity,” Bernard Haitink conducts the LPO – Philips LP 1970 recording
• 00:01:27 – Space News!
  • 25-year olds are too mature for NASA employees (Goodbye, ISS.)
  • In space, no-one can hear you scream, but on Earth, we can hear space junk collide.
  • Tracking “unknown observables” in Earth’s orbit
  • Missing tomato … FOUND!
• 00:13:14 – Planetes discussion
• 01:18:30 – Questions
• 01:30:00 – What the hell have Jared and Ink been doing besides not podcasting?
• Ending Song: “Jupiter Bringer of Jollity,” Bernard Haitink conducts the LPO – Philips LP 1970 recording

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Ink has also written for Otaku USA Magazine and The Fandom Post as well as talked about bad (and good) sports anime over at the Taiiku Podcast.

Jared has a new website and previously written for The Electrum Edition and Wave Motion Cannon.