List of Planetes chapters
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This is a list of volumes and chapters of the science fiction manga Planetes by Makoto Yukimura. The series was originally published by Kodansha in the manga magazine Weekly Morning from January 23, 2001 to February 23, 2004 and collected in four tankobon volumes.[1] It is licensed in English in North America by Tokyopop, where it was published in five volumes by splitting the last volume in two parts.[2] The list below follows the Japanese publication but notes the division of the last volume in English.
Each chapter of the manga is called a "phase."
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| 1 | 2001-01-23 | ISBN 978-4-06-328735-6 | 2003-10-07 | ISBN 978-1-59182-262-2 |
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| On a routine debris collection run, Yuri finds the only keepsake of his deceased wife floating in space. In the process of retrieving it, he endangers his life and is rescued by Hachimaki. Hachimaki breaks his ankle while retrieving a derelict satellite and is sent to the Space Physiology Research Hospital, where he meets Harry Roland and Nono. Hachimaki and Fee witness Harry Roland's suicide on the Moon's surface by decompression sickness. Fee's quest to find somewhere to smoke on the moon is thwarted by a terrorist organization that has been bombing smoking areas; she is further infuriated to learn the same terrorists are have diverted a satellite onto a collision course with a space station, in order to destroy it and initiate Kessler Syndrome. She stops the terrorist plan by ramming the Toy Box into the satellite and knocking it off course, sacrificing her ship in the process. Hachimaki, Yuri, and Fee return to Earth, where Yuri stays with Hachimaki's family. He helps Kyutaro, Hachimaki's brother and amateur rocket maker with his latest rocket, which leads him to a philosophical conclusion. An accident sends Hachimaki hurtling through space during a solar flare. He is retrieved with negligible physical effects, but he is diagnosed with Deep Space Disorder, a mental disorder that cripples an EVA astronaut. Yuri and Fee take Hachimaki to a space engine manufacturing facility and shows him the Tandem Mirror Engine, which will be installed in the Von Braun for the Jupitur Exploration Mission. Seeing this, Hachimaki resolves to join the Mission and gets over his Deep Space Disorder. | ||||
| 2 | 2001-10-23 | ISBN 978-4-06-328778-3 | 2004-01-06 | ISBN 978-1-59182-509-8 |
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| Werner Locksmith finds Hachimaki, because he is looking for Hachimaki's father, Goro Hoshino, to recruit him for the crew of the Von Braun. It turns out that Goro hid from Locksmith in the Toy Box 2. A meltdown of the Tandem Mirror Engine results in a very large explosion on the Moon, which Locksmith unsympathetically shrugs off as a minor setback. Fresh recruit Ai Tanabe is added to the crew of the Toy Box 2 to replace for Hachimaki when he leaves to become a Jupiter Mission candidate, and he trains her in debris collection. When Hachimaki and Yuri find a space coffin containing a renowned astronaut, the astronaut's daughter wishes to send the coffin back to deep space, but Tanabe convinces her otherwise with a rousing and idealistic speech. At the trails for the Jupiter Exploration Mission, Hachimaki and Hakim witness a terrorist bombing of an elevator in the training facility. Hachimaki finds out that Hakim is behind it, but cannot bring himself to kill Hakim when he has the chance, allowing Hakim to complete his bombing mission. Hachimaki and Tanabe become entangled in a Space Defence Front plot to kill Goro in his apartment on the Moon. Goro manages to stay one step ahead of his would-be assassins until Hakim re-appears. Hachimaki subdues Hakim, but is stopped from killing him by Tanabe. After being accepted in the Jupiter Exploration Mission, Hachimaki and his co-pilot Leonov crash on to the Moon's surface. Leonov was badly injured, and Hachimaki tries to carry him to safety before being rescued by Toy Box 2. Goro and Hachimaki return to Earth and their family, where Hachimaki visits Leonov in the hospital and meets his mother. Hachimaki has a nightmare about drifting in space untethered (in Phase 5), after which Hachimaki takes a midnight bike ride. He swerves off the road and into the ocean, where Hachimaki comes to a metaphysical realization. | ||||
| 3 | 2003-01-24 | ISBN 978-4-06-328863-6 | 2004-06-01 | ISBN 978-1-59182-510-4 |
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| Hachimaki faints during a Jupiter Mission press conference after remembering seeing a gruesome, nearly-dead cat after it was run over by a car, and becomes uncertain about the mission. To recover his passion for it, he goes on a vision quest on the lunar surface and speaks to his representation of God. A flashback shows how Tanabe came to be adopted by her parents after being left anonymously on their doorstep. In the present, Tanabe keeps several animals of behalf of a university, as well as another ship's pet cat, on the Toy Box 2. She attempts to give the cat to her father, but it runs off. After his vision quest, Hachimaki returns with an "incredible state of spiritual discipline," but begins losing weight. His crewmates on Von Braun try to break this by giving him pornography, which Hachimaki simply shrugs off. Alarmed by his new stoicism, crewmate Sally offers herself to him, but Hachimaki realizes he desires Tanabe instead, and his appetite returns. He leaves the Jupiter Mission Complex to visit Toy Box 2, but cannot find Tanabe as she is on holiday. He follows her to Earth and visits Tanabe in her parents' home. Hachimaki and Tanabe go on an EVA together for nostalgia, and Hachimaki proposes to her. Hachimaki and Goro make their final visit to their hometown before the launch of the Von Braun. The Extra Phase shows a young Goro on Mars, where he and his senpai organize the first Martian baseball game, and the subsequent first home run on Mars. These events coincide with Hachimaki's birth and the origin of his name. | ||||
| 4 | 2004-02-23 | ISBN 978-4-06-328937-4 | 2004-11-09 (part 1) 2005-02-08 (part 2) |
ISBN 978-1-59532-208-1 (part 1) ISBN 978-1-59532-467-2 (part 2) |
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Tanabe meets and befriends The Baron, a fellow debris hauler who claims he is an alien on a mission to make a hundred friends. Werner Locksmith visits the grave of his associate killed in the Tandem Mirror Engine explosion, where the associate's sister threatens to kill him. After returning from a holiday on Earth, Fee and the crew of Toy Box 2 find a classified debris, with markings of the United States Navy. However, they discover that it is actually an orbital mine laid by the United States. With an orbital war looming, Fee leads an anti-war movement to prevent the Kessler Syndrome and becomes a media sensation when Colonel Sanders uses her as a hero of the anti-war movement, without her consent.
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