Audience reviews
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MrRedMage
Planet With is one of those shows you never expect to be amazing, but in reality you should have known all along. I cannot say that Planet With is the greatest anime of all time or the "most underrated" anime of all time, but I can say that it was a fun and bizarre show that I thoroughly enjoyed.
The characters are solid, especially Souya and Ginko. I can't really talk about them without spoilers, but I enjoyed the supporting cast members as well.
The animation is fantastic. I know this is a hot take but this might be the best use of 3D animation I've seen yet. All of the models look so clean and articulate. I can't say it wouldn't have looked better with 2D animation, but it doesn't detract from the experience. Fight scene choreography is on-point and the show's visual design is very c…
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With a name like Planet With it's hard to know what to expect, and after watching it it would still be a hassle to give a plot description that doesn't sound like the ramblings of a madman. Certain elements of the plot seem very derivative of other works. The “aliens wanting to stop dangerous human evolution” plot point is very similar to the Anti-Spirals from Gurren Lagann. Whether that was intentional or just a product of good old anime tropes I don't know, but I think Planet With has enough originality and quirks to make it worth a watch.
The main character, Soya Kuroi, is a little spitfire but becomes more restrained as the series progresses. His character arc is decent, nothing amazing but adequate. I really liked the cat vs. dog motif with the Pacifist faction and Sensei vs. the Sea…
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This isn't a bad show at all, it's pretty entertaining but it has some flaws that hinder it too much.
The first one is the CGI, it doens't look too bad most of the time, but there is an specific character with and very notorious and bad CGI that just looks like it's made of plastic and that robs part of the seriousness of some scenes. All the robots are CGI too, but they actually have some good shots and some action scenes are pretty good but in general it doesn't work as well as it could.
The story isn't bad, actually it has a few surprises and it's structure allows to unveil it slowly but it feels childish and without tension. There is a nice message about forgiveness but it's taken too far, the extent is taken to makes it seem absurd and stupid. It's events don't have the weight that…
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Norio Wakamoto plays a talking dog.
apparently the review has to be longer than that. I don't see why. I mean, I could tell you that the script, written by manga legend Satoshi Mizukami, is one of the tightest, most intricate and compelling pieces of writing I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. I could tell you they brought on jojo's sound designer, who does a stellar job of making the big robots feel like big robots.
I could gush forever about this show's many virtues, and I have in other formats.
But Norio Wakamoto plays a talking dog, and that really ought to be enough to convince you to drop everything and watch this.
Read at the sourceLiedElfen
This is a great show and is one that is actually able to show how good a well though, well directed, well realized mecha series can be and how much potential it can really have.
Planet with is a show about fighting for the things that really matter with the conviction that can lead you to fully reach the goals you thought of since before starting your fight and it does so in a really well directed way that just says to every other mecha series that will air before it to learn from it's way of doing things in order to advance and progress to improve the overall quality of the genre.
The story revolves around Kuroi Souya, a highschooler living a seemingly peaceful life despite having no memories of his past. That fact begins to change one day when his town is attacked by one of the myster…
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This was a weird one like real weird. So hard in fact that I really don't know where I begin. The story moves incredibly fast and has no reason to slow itself down. BUT it never loses focus once in the show. Thankfully the major events are structured in such a way that is really streamlined and easy to follow thanks to a very strong cause-effect story. The story also never really lets itself get bogged down with exposition dumps which is an insane feat given how much ground the show covers. Backstories and characters are well fleshed out and the dialogue always gets to some major point either with its characters or the major plot whichever plot it was covering. Speaking of plot that's one of the big selling points to me.
The overall narrative of Planet With stays largely the same: Soya fi…
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ON first glance Planet With seems exceptionally stupid. That's why I initially skipped over it.
Story:
If I had to liken the story I would to a hand of poker. You get a 10 and a 2, junk right? But as the Flop, River and Turn comes in it develops into a full house. Does it beat everything? No. Will it win most hands absolutely. Planet With took from a seemingly garbage start and developed into a full story leaving you invested into the characters and the narrative. Plus the ending will likely leave you with a wholesome face wide grin.
Art:
It's OK. The initial shock of the character design gives you the impression of something weird, and it is. But other than that nothing really stands out in terms of art. I will give credit to CGI the mechs for looking nice in fights.
Sound:
It did the…
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One of the oddest trends I observed over the course of this year’s summer season was that out of all the seemingly lackluster offerings on the charts, the two anime that were getting the most overwhelming praise were also the two anime that, according to MAL stats, nobody seemed to be actually watching: Revue Starlight and Planet With, aka the New Age version of Utena and Gurren Lagann. I plan to get to Starlight in time, perhaps when I feel it’s time to bite the bullet and finally get an H-Dive account. Until then, though, we have Planet With, a bizarre little show from a bizarre little writer that got so many superlatives slung its way over the course of its run, with everyone from Mother’s Basement to Digibro singing its praises, that it was almost comical. So, after finally checking it…
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Tis' Good Alright
I could go on a verbal flight of fancy, but I can get my point across in a simpler fashion. Here it is... This show is good. It's really good. AOTY contender for sure. While I can't say this with the utmost confidence, as it stands it is the best thing I have watched this year. Planet With manages to be an incredibly witty, smart shonen/sci-fi/mecha anime that perfectly encapsulates boyish fun and adventure.
Kuroi, although looking like an average boy. Is actually an intergalactic race of alien that got destroyed by a dragon(?), because his human-like species got their planet destroyed wholesale for embracing their worse war-hungry, power seeking tendencies. Kuroi the last survivor of not only his loved ones but also his own race has been traumatically scarred and is on…
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Fair warning: there are some spoilers in this, but they’re not really anything huge. If you watch this show and anything of what I say ruins it for you then DM me and I’ll probably tell you to man up.
Synopsis for Planet With makes it sound kind of like generic trash so I’m happy to say that it’s anything but. A lot of people noticed this anime thanks to recognizing the original creator but I never really came across his work to get where excitement is coming from. Nonetheless when you see a battle start and the enemy “mech” looks like a giant plushie with ears for arms, a bunch of hands sticking out the bottom and nose on the back, you might realize that this is somewhat unusual and it keeps going from that.
In terms of narrative PW starts out deceptively basic, but in actually it’s ver…
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What does the endless wisdom of Satoshi Mizukami teach us in this ludicrously fast-paced series?
• Cats are better than dogs.
• If you choose a vegetarian lifestyle, you have to use doping to compete.
• If someone's dressed as a princess, she might actually be one.
• Big brothers spell disaster (big sisters are nice, though).
• Constant winks and nods towards any of Gainax's mecha shows, especially Gurren Lagann, stopped being cool years ago (I seriously hope Trigger realizes this someday, too).
There, kids. Hope you've learned your lesson!
Jokes aside, though, it's not Mizukami's greatest work—not by a long shot. But nevertheless it's a solid, competently-made series that manages to showcase quite a few original ideas, goofy humor and clever storytelling moments despite evidently playi…
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This show is amazing. It's absolutely in my top five favorite anime of all time, and i even made an account on here specifically to review the series because it's that good. I don't normally like shows in the mecha genre, but this is an exception. The story is brilliant, the characters are great, the entire show is amazing.
The only real problems i have with the series are that the cgi is kinda bad, but not enough to really detract from my enjoyment of the series, and the battle sounds can be a bit loud relative to the music and dialogue sometimes, but other than that, it's amazing.
This is the kind of show i would recommend to anyone, no matter what kind of shows they like. Give it a try.
Read at the sourceTsumireiko
"Planet With" anime is enjoyable for then who like space and fantasy. My personal thinking about this anime is pretty good too watch because there are a little romance, action, mecha fights and like the protagonist is a pretty stubborn type but a good person.
Short Story -
In this anime, the protagonist kinda lost this planet and his surrounded everyone including his big brother. Well about the planet since this anime story is totally sci-fi type. However, he was saved by a space police or guardian commander and by the princess of the planet who was the protagonist's planet's opponent, during when the evil dragon was destroying everything. [For detail story please watch the anime, since I don't wanna spoil the fun of this anime by giving the details, just making highlight where I get th…
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This show is a well-oiled machine. In only 12 episodes it managed to develop its themes and tell the whole story without feeling rushed. Truly a miracle for a 12 episode anime. And to put the cherry on top, this show has several plot twists and still manages to keep up the consistency.
The fluidity of the CG was also impressive. I was paying close attention and I didn't notice any points where it got choppy and ugly like it does in most CG shows. The mechs, especially the protagonist's, also have a layer of polish to them. The only CG that looked kinda bad was the dragon, which looked like it was taken from a GameCube game (still very fluid though).
The soundtrack was also good, it gave the fights the epic backdrop they needed for me to get immersed. The opening also gets a pass. While t…
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The summer 18 anime season is a pretty rough season for anime that are not squeals mainly because it was the season that was filled with forgetful seasonal anime such as Harukana Receive, Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs and Angolmois: Genkou Kassenki. This was also the season gave us broken and boring dumpster fires like Back Street Girls, Island and my personal favorite The Master of Rock Bottom (The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar). Thankfully in this rabbit hole of a season, there were a few hidden gems and great shows such as Banana Fish, Cells At Work, High Score, Grand Blue and Planet With which is by far the most underrated show of the season for me. While Planet With did not dominate the Summer 18 season as I enjoyed J.C Staff other show from this season High Score Girl…
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STORY 8/10
If I had to classify it by genres it would be action, mecha, psychics, sci-fi and space. Now this is a very mixed bag but the elements are presented in such a way that none of it is forced and it all fits together. There is also some decent humor. Lastly it has a very fitting conclusion. However, the twelve episode count is clearly limiting for the creator and this means we do not get to see his best. Development is inevitably rushed at points and the story as a whole cannot reach the heights that it probably could have if the author was given more to work with.
ART 7.5/10
The art style is similar to the style Satoshi Mizukami uses in his manga and personally I like it a lot. No excessive fan-service, characters are varied in their designs and the settings are nice. While not…
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Planet With is an interesting series for a variety of reasons. Outside of the fact that it’s a super robot anime in our current time, its premise sounds almost as peculiar as the designs of the aliens at its disposal. A vengeful fight against a group of heroes ends up spiraling into a conflict about the nature of humanity, and whether subjugation or love is the best path for them. In a way, this plot progression sounds similar to super robot juggernaut, Gurren Lagann from the previous decade. It certainly isn’t as impactful or even as well-crafted, but the charm and overall writing are strong enough to elevate this dark horse to its radar.
First, we need to get an elephant out of the room; this show ain’t a looker. The CGI is generally terrible, making action scenes have no weight to them…
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It's hard to pinpoint what Planet With actually is all about. Going into the series itself is like taking the dive into something that you don't know how would it be like, even after the absurd leaps of event after event that STILL manages to keep you on-board and invested. It's like you can predict the plot, but then it changes shift so soon that you're caught unaware each and everytime. That's the magic of Satoshi Mizukami, the brainchild of this series that honestly, Planet With is so unorthodoxly planned with the result being of perfect balance, and it is criminally one of the most overlooked gems of Summer 2018.
Our main protagonist, Soya Kuroi, whom helms himself as a survivor of the once war-ravaged state that is Sirius, aims to do so many things at once (but with progression) whic…
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I love Mizukami Satoshi and two of his earlier works: Hoshi no Samidare and Spirit Circle, and I also highly appreciate Sengoku Youko, but damn this one really, really sucks.
*contains light spoilers*
Setup:
Alien suffering from memory loss fights against humans who try to save their home planet with the power of dragon powder. Why do they fight? Because this alien dude really hates dragons.
Other aliens teleport in the sky in forms of human insecurities and mental barriers and then explode and further turn into cotton after a short past story revealing something about the psychological side of our main antagonist humans occurs.
Rest of this side of the anime focuses around mecha fights where the mc pilots an alien cat and the humans use dragon powder to battle him because he is appa…
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Piloting a mech with ripple patterned eyes. Such peculiar machine with a high school boy at its seat. Living with a cat creature and an adorable maid. If this short bucket list strike as an unusual setup for a story, then you’re damn right. Planet With is an original anime that takes science fiction to a surreal level. It’s an adventure that unites a variety of gimmicks together with plenty of surprises.
Anyone familiar with Satoshi Mizukami’s work will probably point out his more well-known series such as “Lucifer and the Biscuit” and “Spirit Circle”. He takes his unusual cast of characters and bring creativity to life. Through some of his works, I realized that Planet With would bring out a familiar feeling. And oh boy, it succeeded in more ways than one. Nonetheless, I think it’s impor…
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