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Overview"Dark Horse Manga is proud to present Makoto Yukimura's award-winning hard sci-fi epic Planetes in two omnibus-sized editions complete with bonus color pages never before seen in America! Mankind has established a base on the Moon and manned missions to Mars, and now prepares to travel further into space than ever before. Fulfilling his lifelong dream of space exploration, young Hachimaki makes the cut for the Von Braun Jupiter mission, forcing him to confront his own limitations beyond the farthest frontier. Back home, his compatriots Fee, Yuri, and Tanabe stare down the United States military, refusing to abandon their mission clearing space debris in the face of a war that threatens to set off the Kessler syndrome, trapping Earth forever behind a wall of deadly space debris! Often cited as a gateway title into the world of manga, Planetes is a modern classic, and Dark Horse Manga is proud to present the series' concluding omnibus volume, produced from the original files and including all the color pages and bonus stories! ""My favorite sci-fi comics series of all time.""-Writer Alex de Campi (Smoke/Ashes, Archie vs. Predator)" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Makoto Yukimura , Geoff ShawPublisher: Dark Horse Comics Imprint: Dark Horse Comics Dimensions: Width: 14.70cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.877kg ISBN: 9781616559229ISBN 10: 1616559225 Pages: 524 Publication Date: 10 May 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMakoto Yukimura is a Japanese manga artist. Yukimura made his debut in 2000 with the praised Planetes, serialized in Kodansha Weekly Morning mangazine and adapted into a 26 episodes anime series by the studio Sunrise. Before that, he worked as an assistant for Shin Morimura. He is currently working on Vinland Saga which was first serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine then moved to the monthly Afternoon magazine due to releases pacing issue. For this work he received the 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize in the manga category. In 2010, he was a guest of the Angoulame International Comics Festival. The author lives in Yokohama, Japan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |