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Planetes Early Access Episodes 11 and 12 (Patreon)

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2023-02-16 02:26:57
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paul cook

I don't think it's too surprising that there are countries in this show that don't exist IRL, like El Tanika, since there are countries IRL that weren't around when I was born and this is set twice that length of time in the future. I feel like the companies are only getting rid of space debris for the same reason they test out the el tanika suit (they're obligated under some treaty or other to at least pretend to consider it). I think INTO is meant to be a stand-in for NATO (literally just because they're anagrams). In the manga, INTO doesn't exist, all the stuff it does in the show is just done by the USA! You were right to say "even Belgium has probably done some f-ed up stuff." - the Belgian king Leopold 2nd is often called the worst of the 19th C European imperialists, killing >10 million between 1885 and 1908. The manga is way more cynical with the terrorists than the anime. In it, the companies pay the terrorists to blow up the facilities of rival companies! But this isn't a thing in the anime and we have to assume they have a "humans shouldn't go into space" ideology for real. I found the Zeon ideology in gundam ("humans should all go into space and leave earth!") really stupid, but this is the equal but opposite version of that. Not only was smoking in workplaces far more common in the early 2000s when this came out, it is still pretty common in Japan (quickly googling the stats, 50% of japanese men smoked in 2005 while only 20% of Americans did - kinda odd they have the American character Fee be the one smoking), so it makes sense a Japanese show from the era would depict smoking rooms in space - even if smoking in space is very impractical and absurd. If the terrorists were mad they were wasting resources in space, blowing up smoking rooms would make a lot of sense, so it's a shame that isn't their motive! Sci-fi always reflects the society it is made in more than the actual future.

ShadowDog Productions
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That's a good point, if I was a terrorist pissed off about resources being wasted, the smoking room would be the high priority target. LOL