It's been a long time since i've visited here. Do people still like planetes...

Watch the anime for the soundtrack then play the soundtrack while reading the manga

wtf I do that to all of the anime adapted manga too.

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Half the show is about him actually getting to and being in space though.

It's boring. It almost like it was created to be boring. I've tried watching it a multiple times over the years but everytime it failed to captivate my attention or bring some interest after 3-4 episodes.
At the current rate I will finish it a year without ever really enjoying it. Maybe it was interesting back in 2005 year, but not now.

yes

It builds steam around episode 7. That's the point where the series gets past the "how did Ai not get fired within days?" period and develops more.

The worst part is the female MC. She is retarded.

Here you go OP.

It's still good but I can't take the blond guy seriously anymore after watching Jojo.

>felt like it was made by someone with mental development of a 6 y. o.
How so, user? Elaborate.

Honestly, it's probably just not for me and that's rare, usually high score implies that everyone can enjoy it. I'm like 17 episodes in and only managed to remember Moon ep and story about Yuri's wife at first.
It's hard to even point a finger on my problem with it. Maybe it had wrong medium for the story like this. Ah who, Ivm kidding. Story is shit to get by. It didn't pass 3 episode rule.

Almost all posts in this thread smell like moeshitters

that’s pretty realistic

Planetes sucks ass.

To be fair, if you've only just reached the episode explaining about Yuri's wife, it's extremely easy to forget that Yuri was in the opening scene of the series. I didn't recognize the dude at all.

I do, but this is Zig Forums and good things are frowned upon here.

Why is Planetes such a weird adaptation? I've only read the first volume of the manga a while ago and it seems like the only thing the anime took form the manga was the character designs and general outline for the setting. Characters like Tanabe from what I read are completely different. Did the anime start at the same time as the manga or something?

There wasn't a fourth volume of the manga at the time, but the main arc is in 1-3 anyway. It's a different take on the same ideas and themes, since I don't think you could really do a direct adaption of the very ponderous and slow nature of the manga anyway.
If there's an explicit reason for it, I don't know. But it's an interpretation of the source material rather than just an adaption.

Is there any other examples of an adpatation being done like how Planetes did it? It just seems like such a weird anomaly to me

There's plenty, but it tends to be more how live-action adaptions of novels and the like are handled. Part of the reason it's so unusual is that anime adaptions of manga tend to be intended as just an ad for the manga, in essence. Animate a couple chapters, be more or less accurate, get people to want to pick it up. The director went on to create Code Geass of all things so say what you will about that, but he's clearly a guy with a powerful creative vision.

I loved it but the end almost gave me a panic attack cause I used to have asthma attacks as a kid and asphyxiation is a deeply rooted fear.

Its great and it has a serverely underappreciated soundtrack
youtube.com/watch?v=xwRoGFz1Cbw