I read a lot of manga. The thing is I’ve been reading manga for a good few years really, well before the recent explosion. Even this girl who was trying to be all cool and had the audacity to call me a geek had a pile of Tuxedo Gin piled next her bed, I couldn’t believe the cheek, ANYWAY I’m loosing the point, the point is that every once in a while a series comes along that takes my mind completely. In recent months that has been Planetes.

So far this series has gotten 3 books from tokyopop and they are all worth every single penny(euro or dollar cent if you want) you pay for them. The characters are exceptionally well put together and it’s all about space in as realistic a fashion as you could get it. No crazy spaceships, just ‘hard science’. As you can see from this site,just manga , there are another 2 more books coming out in November 2004 and February 2005.

The big news is that it’s also been released as an animated series. The info can be found on the icv2 website. It says there are 23 episodes that are going to be released, wonder how many books ultimately will be released and how close the anime is the actual manga?