Astra lost in spacie series#

A series of calculations reveals that the sphere has transported them 5,012 light years away from home, with very limited supplies. By a massive stroke of luck, an abandoned faster-than-light space ship is just nearby to the campers and by working together, all of them manage to make it on board the ship, with Kanata risking his own life to save Aries when it is discovered her space suit is damaged. Having the helmets on saves their lives, because after the ball sucks them in, they find themselves transported into space, around an ice planet, completely different to McPa with its fields and oceans. Everyone else also manages to get their helmets on before the sphere sucks everyone into it. Soon, he is entirely sucked into it, but luckily he still has his helmet on. Luca approaches it and sticks his hand in it. The team of nine land on McPa but shortly after the adults leave them to their camp, the group encounter a strange ball of light. In this case, they also have to look after Quitterie’s adopted younger sister Funicia, aka Funi, who is coming along on the trip. As part of the camp, the group have to perform a special task. The students are the tale’s narrator Aries Spring, a sometimes dim-witted girl with a photographic memory and different-coloured eyes Kanata Hoshijima, a boy whose father has trained him to be a decathlete but whose real interest is space exploration and who egotistically puts himself forward as leader Zack Walker, a genius student, pilot and wannabe explorer his long-term friend Quitterie Raffelli, the daughter of a noted doctor Luca Esposito, an artistic student and son of a politician Ulgar Zweig, an unsocial boy whose only close relationship was with his brother, a freelance journalist Yunhua Lu, a cripplingly shy girl whose mother is a famous singer and Charce Lacroix, a handsome boy with a love of biology and cooking. Set in the year 2063, the story follows a group of students from Caird High School who are about to go to “Planet Camp”, a five day-long trip to a different planet, called McPa, camping on their own. The music for the series as a whole is composed by Masaru Yokoyama ( Gundam: Iron-Blooded Oprhans) and Nobuaki Nobusawa ( Steins Gate) and it does have a role, in particular with some of the key characters. Some episodes have just the opening theme song, “star*frost” by Nonoc some just the ending theme, “Glow at the Velocity of Light” by Riko Azuna (my preferred track of the two), some both, and some neither. The anime might be a standard 12 episodes long, but with the extra-long editions it is more like 14 episodes. For starters, the opening episode is double the normal length of your typical half-hour anime show. When you start watching it, you can tell that it is not like most anime you normally see.

The series has picked up acknowledgements elsewhere, winning the Manga Taisho award in 2019, and this month being named “Best Television Series” in the Seiun Sci-Fi Awards.įortunately, the anime adaptation of the series by Lerche does justice to the manga. I wrote that originally I was very dismissive of Kenta Shinohara’s manga, giving it a middling review of the first volume for MyM back in 2018, but after reading the entire five-volume series, I realised how wrong I was. As some AUKN readers may recall, when we site writers were asked for our top picks of the 2010s, my pick for the best original manga was Astra Lost in Space.

Astra lost in spacie