Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
anotherburnedfox
"Kanata no Astra" es simplemente una mala obra, la cuál no entiendo de donde sacó tantas buenas calificaciones. Es una obra extremadamente inconsistente en tono. Formalmente intenta mezclar misterio, supervivencia y drama con comedia escolar, pero la transición entre estos registros es torpe e inconsistente. Esa indecisión tonal destruye la tensión, y una historia que podría haber resultado intrigante termina resultando pueril, infantil e irrelevante.
El elenco está construido sobre personajes arquetípicos shonen de manual: el idealista que cree que la amistad lo resuelve todo, el personaje edgy que en realidad solo requiere “afecto” para sanar sus traumas, la chica tímida, el gracioso, etc. Estos personajes no evolucionan, no tensan la trama y rara vez toman decisiones con consecuencias…
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I really don't understand the hype surrounding this anime. It's average at best. And God knows I love space in all its forms. But here, it all rings hollow. The characters are caricatures, the plot is flimsy, the mysteries and twists are predictable. The animation neither moved nor transcended me. A cosmic disappointment.
They've missed out on what could have been a great anime. The story had potential and the playground offered by space exploration and stellar survival is infinite.
Unfortunately, it doesn't take long before you're faced with an unpalatable dish.
The story bites its own tail, we go round in circles, the assassin is burnt out a mile away from the very first two episodes, and the sub-plots are rubbish. The animation left me cold. Yet for the first few seconds of the firs…
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Do you know that feeling of eating a nice piece of candy which leaves you wanting some more? So you eat a whole lot of candy and it starts to make you feel nauseous, you continue eating the candy because you want it to feel like that first piece of candy again but you end up just feeling more nauseous and miserable. That's kind of how I felt during this series at times and especially during the last episode.
The story had some potential and the overall plot was quite nice, the execution on the other hand was just dreadful to me. Dramatic moments got dragged out and were way too emotional to be realistic.
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This show's premise is simple: a group of high school kids were involved in a summer camp gone wrong when they found themselves thousands of light-years away from home. Estranged with one another, they have to trust work each other and cooperate in order to survive against all odds.
Despite its futuristic sci-fi setting, this show is ultimately a coming-of-age story, whose narrative revolves around an ensemble cast of dynamic and flawed characters, and I think they told the story magnificently. One thing that this series does well is subverting tropes. Yes, the characters may seem cliche at first, but as the show goes on, you will understand that there's more to them than meets the eye. The character development they showed throughout the series was top-notch, giving this show a unique ch…
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Per aspera ad astra, through hardships to the stars, a very good adaptation to the anime, Kanata no Astra or Astra Lost in Space.
So:
Story
Pros: Basically what you have here was a Japanize version of "Lost in Space" where a group of youngsters, whom were supposed to go camping in some planet called McPa, but as the title suggest they found themselves getting suck into a wormhole and found themselves floating in space, but by some luck they found what looks like an abandon ship, from there their adventure to going home starts and their journey of self discovery as they struggle to know each other and help one another becomes the focal point of this anime/ manga story plot.
Cons: Though minimal ,you won't find any death flags around here.
Verdict 8/10
Art
Pros: There was still the…
Read at the sourceNeo_Dimension
First time I write a review, but this has to happen.
I had a day off today and saw this anime somewhere in MAL. It was Sci-Fi and the Rating was really nice. So I thought "Why not"?
Started with an 48 min Episode. And oh boy, that 48 min hooked me really.
I don't get this feeeling very often. And as I proceed, episode for episode I get more hyped. I wasn't prepared for that.
What i really love, are Plot-Twists. And I don't get them very often in Anime. But this great Anime presented me like 5 of them! And the music! The music is the cherry on top.
This Anime is really a piece of Art. It's an Anime like this, that shows me one more time, why I love anime.
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Kanata no Astra is pure garbage, but it's the garbage everyone talks about.
The way the show started, I was thinking this was going to be something of "Star Trek the Anime", which in a way that's how the first half of the show was supposed to turn out. Eventually, as with all bad sci-fi shows, it turns out into this weird primordial soup of just too many different sci-fi concepts. It tried too hard and honestly just fell really flat on its face. The writing is boring, art is static and not even Japanese voice acting could save this show.
Story - 3
Prepare yourself for a cringefest of the most idiotic characters spouting the cheesiest lines about teamwork and friendship. I actually feel embarassed that I had to listen to it more than how the VA's must have felt reading it. I think from a…
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Going by my score of 9 you can tell I definitely highly recommend it however at first when I started watching the characters and story made me believe it to be a somewhat cliche adventure story with weak characters. However it takes time to develop characters and eventually dives off into numerous twists that were well set up and foreshadowed. It's a very highly enjoyable show and definitely the most fulfilling ending I've seen in quite a bit.
The story of being lost in space could be said to be like any other adventure story like exploring an abyss for instance, however luckily instead of focusing on just the adventure aspects, Kanata no Astra focuses on characters and progression while still maintaining the sense of adventure and wonder. This plus again I can't stress enough how much I…
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This show has laughs, mystery and a lot of heart.
Astra probably isn't the best show set about people lost in space, but I do give it a giant A+ for effort when it comes to keeping me invested in the overall plot and mystery.
The show follows a group of teens (and an elementary schooler) who get lost in space after a wormhole shows up on their field trip to another planet.
Storywise I think this is where the anime most strongly stands, it has a bit of an episodic format to start off, but in the second half the episodes race (at a good speed) toward the conclusion, where not a single plot thread is left unanswered (the conclusion for this anime makes it seem like their ending off a 100+ episode series, and has a better conclusion than some of those anime).
I think the first few episo…
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There's this episode in an anime from 2012 titled Humanity has Declined where the characters are trapped inside a manga, and they have to act out the panels in order to progress through the pages, rise in the ranks full of other people in the same situation and hopefully finally break free from their predicament. Why am I telling you this? Well a certain character gets the genius idea to keep adding twist after twist at the end of each panel so the readers keep interested in what's happening. It does work for a while, but eventually people get sick of it once they realize there's nothing of substance beyond those twists and their rank quickly drops as a result
Coincidentally, that can also be used as a perfect description for the space faring adventure, Kanata no Astra. It starts out well…
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Astra Lost in Space is the perfect example of a series with earnest intentions that cannot help but undermine itself at every turn. It claims to take its story seriously but plasters it with candy-coated visuals and drawn out comedy. It wants us to buy into the survival of these kids, but refuses to give them hardship. It wants to be cinematic, but never warrants it. It wants to have cliffhangers, but fails to generate tension. It wants to develop its characters, but instead fabricates their plots out of thin air only to still drop or homogenize their stories despite that. It works passably as lighthearted entertainment, but any ambitions beyond that fall staggeringly low for the most part.
To start with, the actual concept of characters being stranded in space, or being on some sort of t…
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Almost one hour long and a wide screen aspect ratio, those were my first impressions of the first episode of this anime. Astra in Space caught my attention from the info of its source material than anything else. A well received shounen oriented sci-fi adventure, and not only that, but it’s also short being only 5 volumes long. With a story that short it seemed that Astra had something that it wanted to accomplish. However as the episodes ticked by i failed to see what it was trying to do with its story or why it was considered good. Sure it is enjoyable, but that’s really it.
Astra takes place in a futuristic world where kids being sent to another planet as a school trip is seen as a no big deal. With an ensemble cast of highschoolers and one child heading to one of these planets. And ju…
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One thing I've recently noticed about myself is that I am not a big fan of Sci-Fi (even though my favorite anime is Sci-Fi), but I am a big fan of some sub genres of that genre, and mecha is not one of them. Astra Lost In Space is one of the Sci-Fi shows that I loved and am glad to have caught up on when I missed its weekly episodes.
The story is simple as the title says, a bunch of people are lost in space. Their main goal is to get back to their planet. Along the journey, lots of revelations take place. The characters learn the whys, hows, and the whats of all this journey. Why did they get lost? Who are they? Is there a link between them? Each additional plot point will have your mind bobbling at its intelligence and how well it is prepared. Sometimes you'll even think to yourself, "Ho…
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Anime is often criticized for how underwritten their stories can feel. Unfortunately for Kanata no Astra, it has the exact opposite problem.
Kanata no Astra is now the sophomore effort of SKET Dance mangaka and Gintama alum, Kenta Shinohara. I remember when Kanata no Astra first began publishing, it didn’t cause as many heads to turn as it has now, nearly 2 years after it's finished its run in Shonen Jump+. At the time, it didn’t really seem like anything other than an attempt to fulfill shonen manga’s need to reinvent itself with different settings and concepts. To my surprise, when I finally decided to dip my toes into its 40-minute pilot, I was greeted with a solidly entertaining introductory episode that more or less defied my expectations while also showing quite a bit of promise...…
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A generic shounen clasped into the survival genre, and tagging along with the ride is the space adventure styled with ALL that sci-fi realism put into it, plus hints of momentous comedy, like why so? Mash that all together, and you'll get the (damn near close) masterpiece that is the newest creation of SKET Dance mangaka Kenta Shinohara's latest project, Kanata no Astra (or Astra Lost in Space for pure English weeaboos). For the majority who are fans of Shinohara-sensei, the similarities in the generic space from SKET Dance copies directly over to this series, and I wouldn't be surprised if it divided the people watching this series from the get-go. Spanning 5 volumes and 49 chapters, this is pretty much a respected and complete source adaptation that is more than just a roundabout package…
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I can't recall the last time I saw an anime with as inconsistent writing quality as Kanata no Astra. I swear, this anime flip-flops between being really cool and being downright stupid every five minutes. It makes for a very strange viewer experience but if nothing else it sure keeps you curious.
I'll put it this way: the actual premise and setting of Kanata no Astra is really intriguing. Space anime that aren't mecha are rare enough to begin with, but to on top of that make it a sort of survival story with a great deal of exploration of the unknown celestial bodies of space is a great combination. You can also definitely tell that the author had a clear idea of how the story would finish before he started writing it, and as a result the overarching main mysteries of it all are quite inte…
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Kanata no Astra is something done damn right.
It is something that easily goes under the radar because of the dull poster, unattractive plot with generic shounen characters that has personalities that everyone can deduce. However, it exceeds bar of expectations and shoot to the top.
It has a simple beginning. Everyone is lost in space, with only a deserted spaceship. Seeds are subtly planted throughout 10 episodes, waiting to be reaped and the studio excels in showing this. Blending shivering tracks and chocking atmosphere, a thriller sub-genre is slipped in that could send chills down your spine. The events unfold, the conflict rises, the twists emerge one by one to get us and them closer to the truth. The setup of ambience is elevated accordingly with it as the camera rolls back to pre…
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If you played an open world exploration game with survival themes, there’s a solid chance you’ll get a familiar vibe from this anime known as “Kanata no Astra”. (English title, Astra Lost in Space) Taking a page out of the sci-fi genre brings together a story of space travel. It takes place in the 2063, a time period where technology has evolved and is a revolution of growth.
It’s not too often these days when we get an anime adaptation based on a manga that have already been completed. Mangaka Kenta Shinohara (best known for his work with Sket Dance) began the series in 2016 as part of the Shounen Jump+ lineup. The series itself was not very popular but did eventually win the price of the 12th Manga Tashiou award. Consisting of 5 volumes, it seems a single cour adaptation of 12 episodes…
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Kanata no Astra could be an anime that surprised several viewers. In my case, I was bewitched by some episodes until I noticed that the show is mediocre science fiction with several plot flaws and unfinished ideas.
The scenario is good at the beginning; A group of students is drifting in the dark space with only one goal in mind, returning home. I was surprised to the point that I ignored the strange CGI moments when the characters looked like dead puppets in the first episode. I ignored the device created in a few hours that could diagnose if the food is good or bad with a "delicious" sound that seems ridiculous. I ignored the luck these students have during their trip with some minor risks for space travel. Everything is conveniently configured and ready for their survival. I even ignor…
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Around a Hundred years down the line from now, we might have human colonies on habitable far away planets and space travel might be common place. It may seem farfetched right now, but then again, who could’ve imagined the progress in technology humankind has made in the last half a century? While learning about the different planets and galaxies, almost every kid might have had a fleeting dream about going into space and experience what it may be.
Kanata no Astra (Kanata: Lost in Space) is set in a time when the aforementioned things have become possible. Science has advanced so much that teenagers are going to other planets simply as a mundane school trip. A group of high-schoolers from such a futuristic world are visiting a nearby planet called McPa as a camp. Of course though, after a…
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