I think Key Studios enjoys drinking the tears of its viewers of its animes and players of its visual novels. For a short ONA it sure packs a heavy emotional punch.
Planetarian: the reverie of a little planet Or Planetarian: chiisana hoshi no yume is one of the anime that is finished and one that Studio Key has based of the Visual Novel by the same name. A five episode ONA with a movie that is going to be released next month to be exact.
Our Characters during this emotional ride are Kuzuya a human who job it is to collect usable part in a post apocalyptic city where for the most part he is the only human around during the show. He goes on nameless and his job title is "Junker" but if you want to be technical, Futuristic garbage man with a gun. Our other character is a robot name Yumemi Hoshino, a robot greeter girl who works at a run down planetarium and that is out of date by 30 years and who thinks everything around her is the same as it was 30 ago before society went to shit.
Now picture the scene, You are a Futuristic garbage person who lives in a post apocalyptic city and you are the only human around for miles. You come across a building that you think might have supplies you can use until you can get to your next location only to find a robot who is out of date and is begging you to fix this thing they want to show you. You comply because you don't want to get caught by what out there and you need shelter so you fix it. They show you what they needed to show you and you take your leave only for the robot to want to escort you to you next location. You form a bond with the robot even to the point of planning a future with the thing(weird but just go with it) you get caught in a confrontation with a evil robot you been trying to run away from only for the robot you been in company with to protect you from evil robot and die.
That basically the plot of Planetarian. The first three episode were spent getting to know the characters and dicking around. Kuzuya trying to fix "Miss Jenna" The projecter who is also out of date by 30 years. He end up fixing it only for the last power that was keeping the plantarium on to go out and Yumemi to adlib the rest of it without "Miss Jenna's" help. Episode four Yumemi decides to say "Fuck it" and leaves the planiarium to escort Kuzuya to his car which was what seem like miles away from the planitarium and the gut puncher comes in episode Five where she dies protecting Kuzuya from a huge evil robot.
Story-7
We still do not know why or what happen for everything to be completly fuck the way it
Characters-8
While there were moments Yumemi was a tad bit annoying she was the redeemer of this ONA. Kuzuya while seeming badass was kinda bland and really didn't have any personality till the end.
Art-9
Yumemi robot eyes.
Overall-8.5
I enjoyed this short little series and i hope the movie that comming out will answer some of the question that some have now that this is over. I do feel that this will go un notice however seeing how Key also has Re-write out and everybody want to see the emotional ride that is going to be(myself included) but if you are a fan of Key work you should definally check this show out.
