Introduction
Since childhood, 15-year-old Umika Konohoshi has been fascinated by aliens, hoping to one day voyage to outer space and befriend them. Unfortunately, this fixation has caused her peers to label her as odd, intensifying her struggle with severe social anxiety. Nevertheless, Umika's passion for the extraterrestrial persists, and she deeply believes that her true purpose is outside the confines of Earth.
On her first day of high school, Umika's wish of meeting an alien seems to have finally come true when she encounters Yuu Akeuchi—a classmate who claims to have crash-landed on Earth with no recollections of her past. Umika tries to seize this opportunity to make friends with Yuu, but her lack of confidence hinders her. Sensing Umika's distress, Yuu suddenly uses a strange power to delve deep into her mind, thus sparking a friendship that may just help Umika reach her dreams.
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Audience reviews
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HaruHaruMon
‘Stardust Telepath’ is a fairly rudimentary CGDCT Club Anime, centering around the rather unique concept of rocket building.
The long and short of this review is that I think it is a decent watch, but doesn’t do anything mind-blowing—rather, it seems a little bit hesitant to. Overall, I think that this show would’ve benefited if it was more a drama than a comedy, as character arcs that were starting to run deeper were often cut off by jokes or resolved very quickly.
The positive standouts:
- The Club being about rockets was very unique and fun, and I learned a fair bit about something I knew nothing about!
- The artstyle, character designs, and animation are very very good—I love the hair design and movement in particular. This was definitely a highlight, and I love the aesthetic of night…
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Hoshikozu Telepath was a late 2023 anime from Studio Gokumi based off of a manga by Ookuma Rasuko. I have reviewed some Gokumi anime before: Yuuki Yuuna wa Yusha de Aru, Tonari no Kyuuketsuki-san, A-Channel and the god awful Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge. Let's hope this is more like the other stuff I've reviewed of theirs and not that one.
Story:
Konohoshi Umika is an incredibly awkward girl who doesn't fit in with people in general. I relate. She dreams about going into space and meeting aliens who will understand her. I still relate. Her life is turned upside down when a strange girl arrives at her school and declares herself to be an alien. Umika is immediately drawn to her. Can't relate to that one but I wish I could. The story involves their budding friendship, which quickly starts g…
Read at the sourceWszechmistrzyni
As an autistic girl, Umika's social struggles and pervasive sense of alienation are EXTREMELY relatable. It's really common for autistic people to feel like we're aliens waiting to be taken back home or eternal observers, who never really are a part of any social group. Like our words and feelings can't reach other people, because we tend to communicate differently. Still, we do our best to never lose hope that someday. somewhere we'll find our tribe.
I know she's just supposed to have a stutter, but I do get strong autistic vibes from Umika. Her being relatively immature for a high schooler and having a special interest in space (similiar to mine!) only add into it.
Another character that could fit the description is Raimon, who literally stopped coming to school after she gave up on so…
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Stardust Telepath is extremely weird, but really started to warm up to me as the series carried on. Through its bubbly characters, it hopes to strike some real emotion into you with its (almost) real, slice-of-life setting.
Story: Stardust Telepath takes place in a middle school where the exceptionally anxious Umika Konohashi has a strange fascination with space and aliens. Her dream is to create a rocket to one day travel to outer space, really, without any slight idea on how to do it. However, one day, someone claiming to be an alien named Yuu Akeuchi appears in front of Umika and seems to notice immediately that Umika’s far too anxious to communicate with any of her peers. Being an alien, Yuu reveals she has the ability to sense someone else’s emotions and feeling by simply tapping her…
Read at the sourceMarlsMarsBars
This anime completely blindsided me. On the surface, Stardust Telepath might just seem like your typical CGDCT anime, but for me, this anime means a lot. What makes this the most underrated anime of this season (and the year) has to be the character dynamics. To be completely honest, all four main characters on their own probably wouldn’t stand on their own narratively speaking without the relationships with each other. Umika Konohoshi is an overly shy and introverted character who struggles to interact with literally anyone, but despite this, has big and literal otherworldly dreams that she wants to accomplish. I’d say that every other character is written in a similar way: they have a very distinct personality with either big motivations or something they emotionally hold on that helps d…
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This was one of my favorites of its core. The characters were cute and earnest. The space theme and wanting to build a rocket was a nice switch up from other similar shows more grounded in reality. It also had a good ending for the amount of story told, though I would love to see another season from it. Of course it's one of those where instead of kisses there are forehead touches but it was still nice to see such genuine love and affection without things getting pervy like in other shoujo ai series. I didn't really have any complaints. I had a good time every episode.
If you enjoy shoujo ai especially the cute ones then you'll like this one. If you are annoyed by characters who lack confidence and need to grow a bit, then you're going to be annoyed by one of the main characters. Persona…
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“Bonavu,”
If you don't know much about this exclamation, it will inevitably become part of your greeting ritual after watching this anime.
Hoshikuzu Telepath is the definition of cute-ness and an anime like no other.
The series follows shy, space-loving high school student Umika Konohosi, who has difficulty communicating with others. As a result, she sees space as her true home and wants to befriend an alien. One day the joyful exchange student Yuu Akeuchi comes into her class and promptly claims to be a real alien. Although other classmates quickly take this as a joke, Umika sees this as a chance to finally make her dream come true and befriend the mysterious and enchanting alien.
Unfortunately, Yuu has no memories of her home planet and the reason why she was stranded on Earth. Umika…
Read at the sourceSanaeK10
This is what Koisuru Asteroid should have been. A sweet yet sometimes melodramatic show of Girl meets Girl, with equal focus given to its subject matter (model rockets in this), and the relationships between characters.
I suppose there's two things these hobbyist CGDCT shows need to get right:
- Making the hobby appealing to people who otherwise do not care about the hobby
- Make the characters interesting and fun to follow/easy to empathize with
Now, where a lot of hobbyist shows falter in, is to make the show appeal only to people who are already into the hobby, or to make it very boring to everyone else. Hoshikuzu Telepath on the other hand, made me care even just a little bit more on model rocket building. In fact, model rocket building itself is also integral to the plot as well a…
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Stardust Telepath - Reach for the stars...(erm, ahem) aliens in the sky...through some rocket building and good ol' tried-and-true friendship tropes.
The ever-so-popular Manga Time Kirara's CGDCT-themed anime adaptation has once again struck this season, and it should be a no-brainer that if you've watched one show before of that premise, the rest will be the same no matter what. The differential, however, lies with the plot, and in this fall, brought to you by mangaka Rasuko Ookuma, this is Hoshikuzu Telepath a.k.a Stardust Telepath, a take on the ever-so-loving theme by combining the one element that makes it magical: the Yuri genre.
I'm sure that just by the show alone, you would think that this is the first kind of CGDCT show to focus on the outer space side of things while having a…
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