Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Bandai
• DVD Release Date: March 14, 2006
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000CQQIC6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,956 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Infinity Resources Inc Release Date: 03/14/2006

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Word of caution, March 17, 2006

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No Spam Please (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Planetes (Vol. 6) (DVD)

Indeed, the series is one of best Anime I have watched in the past couple of years, as per previous review. And I'm not even a fan SciFi as such.

The mastering is also very good, with an anamorphic widescreen(!), good subtitles, and bonus disks you don't get with a HK pirate collection.

BUT I just bought the complete series, and 5 DVDs out of 6(!!) had visible defects!! On 3 they are minor, but on the 2 disks I am returning, they are interfering with the playback.

- If you buy this series, make sure to immediately CHECK the disks for DEFECTS -

I have never seen such poor manufacturing, and these are official U.S. releases from Bandai, a large company if there ever was one. With sleeves and more than enough protective tape around the box to protect Fort Knox. Even the sleeves were glued together the wrong way, with the inside tab glued to the outside. I intentionally pay a premium for the official release (to support the actual artists/Studio that created this great series and encourage more U.S. releases), and at the very least I would expect better manufacturing than a crummy HK copy...

That said, again, this series is well worth the money.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great ending to a great anime series, March 7, 2006

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Jee Ho Kim "Jeeho Kim" (Fort Lee, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Planetes (Vol. 6) (DVD)

One of the most common failings for any anime series, or in fact, any extended series tv or otherwise, is the ending. Often, what starts off as a genuinely intriguing premise tapers off at the middle, than somewhat picks up near the end, but than often totally blows up into unrecognizable chunks of nonsense and questions. A classic case of this, I think most anime fans will agree, is Evangelion the TV series. Even after multiple viewing of the ending, most of us were left scratching our heads, or trying to come up with haywire explanations that tried inm vain to make sense of the complex mess that were its last 3 episodes.

It's all the more surprising, and thankful, than, that Planetes maintains a steady pace of good storytelling and logical sense from start to finish. While PLanetes is not a series dedicated to a single, continuous storyline from the first to last episodes (like Berserk... or the more recent Gankutsuou) it managed to keep its focus right on its underlying themes even on the stand-alone episodes. And as we view the final episodes of this magnificent series, I think most of us will agree that its ending, while subdued, was both appropriate and, dare I say it for an anime series?, beatutiful to behold.

As I've also written in my review of disc 1, Planetes is one of those rare anime that you can recommend to your skeptical friends or even parents with a straight face and clean conscience. Disc 6, with its moving finale, absolutely justifies the premise that even japanese cartoons can achieve the stature of great drama.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Last volume..., October 16, 2009

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T. Coleman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Planetes (Vol. 6) (DVD)

Buy the first, before any comment about how it ends your little bit of curiosity gets squashed.