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Planetes
@Turnsniper



And now we start a day with write ups for a few shows I haven't seen before. Interestingly, of this next group, I know almost nothing about them. I don't even have any kinds of impressions or ideas for what it could be about. It looks to be a sci fi series set in space. I wonder if it's supposed to be closer to the realistic side of things or if it has more of an unrealistic plot?

The characters wear big clunky astronaut suits which leads me to believe it's a more grounded series, but it'll be hilarious to know if I'm way off the mark.

Chargeman Ken
@Xeybozn



I know literally nothing of this and I've never even heard of it before! It looks to be on the older side of things, having a style I'd typically associate with 70's anime. I was curious enough about this one just based on the images so I had to look it up. Apparently it was in the 70's but it only aired for a few months. It had "poor production quality" and has become a bit of a meme since then.

I'm not familiar with this meme. I wonder if Xeybozn nominated it for that reason or if he actually watched the series and liked it without knowing about its meme status. Statistically speaking he's more likely to be the type who knows of the series through the meme.

Erased
@Simoun



This aired in 2016, a year when I didn't watch or even pay attention to anime very much. That being said, unlike the last two, while I know very little about Erased I have actually heard people talk about it. I know at least a few different people who mentioned enjoying the series or at least following it while it was airing.

Apparently it's some kind of drama with a time travel plot. I feel like I've been worn out on that premise for a really, really long time now. It's actually pretty common for visual novels to use time travel and different timelines as a source of drama; it's an easy way to implement the idea of different routes or choices and make it seem like the gameplay is connected to the story. The issue is that after the first guy did this everyone loved the idea and copied it. This leads to the concept being very played out in VNs and, coincidentally, anime as well (since many anime plots are lifted directly from visual novels or inspired by them).

To be fair to Erased it's actually based on a manga. But the manga was published in 2012, and this would already have been after the point when this "time travel = drama" idea was already mainstream. So yeah he doesn't get full points for originality or anything either.
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