7.5/10102 votes#1 - Outside the Atmosphere
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2003
It's the first day on the job for Ai Tanabe as she's introduced to her eccentric co-workers in the Debris Section of space station ISPV-7.
Director: Masaki Kitamura
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
7.3/1087 votes#2 - Like a Dream
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2003
Hachimaki's dream of getting his own spaceship is revealed. Tanabe continues her zero-G training with Hachimaki. Tanabe and Hachimaki are sent on a debris retrieval mission to recover a derelict satellite. However, the satellite's orbit sends it on a collision course with Cheng-Shin's orbital shuttle.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
7.0/1084 votes#3 - Return Trajectory
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/2003
Insurance salespeople swarm the ISPV 7 space station while members of the Debris Section write their annual wills. During a routine debris collection, Yuri, Tanabe, and Hachimaki recover a space coffin containing a famous astronaut. However, an ideological conflict erupts over the fate of the coffin and the body contained in it.
Director: Megumi Yamamoto
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
7.4/1078 votes#4 - Part of the Job
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2003
The spoiled son of INTO chairman, Colin Clifford visits the ISPV 7 space station, and goes on a debris hauling mission with the Debris Section. Among the debris retrieved is Colin's camera carelessly left attached to a derelict satellite.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
7.6/1078 votes#5 - Fly Me to the Moon
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2003
Fee, Hachimaki and Tanabe decide to go to the Moon for their holiday. But on the Lunar Ferry, a pickpocket steals Tanabe's wallet while Hachimaki makes his debut as an actor.
Director: Hiroshi Ishiodori
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
6.8/1075 votes#6 - The Lunar Flying Squirrels
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/2003
On Hachimaki and Tanabe's visit to the Moon, they meet Tanabe's neighbours... a group of wannabe ninjas who perform ninja techniques through the Moon's lower gravity.
Director: Masaki Kitamura
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.0/1077 votes#7 - Extraterrestrial Girl
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2003
While recovering from an injury, Hachimaki must stay on the Moon to recover. He then meets a girl who is a Lunarian, a person born on the Moon. Hachimaki also meets Harry Roland, a veteran astronaut who is in an adjacent hospital bed.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
7.6/1068 votes#8 - A Place to Cling To
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/2003
Tanabe suspects that Fee is having an affair with the division manager Technora Corp, Dolph Azalia. However, Fee is not, and actually is being promoted to assistant chief of Control Section. Meanwhile, the rest of the Debris Section take this opportunity to go on a very difficult debris mission on their own.
Director: Megumi Yamamoto
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
7.8/1074 votes#9 - Regrets
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/2003
Hachimaki's extra-vehicular activity instructor, Gigalt visits the Debris Section as part of a safety inspection. However, on a debris hauling run supervised by Gigalt, the crew of the Toy Box encounter illegal debris dumping activities.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.2/1073 votes#10 - A Sky of Stardust
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/2003
Tanabe is preoccupied with her discovery of Gigalt's illness. Yuri's involvement in a famous high-altitude shuttle accident is revealed. On a routine debris retrieval mission, Yuri finds the only keepsake of his deceased wife.
Director: Kazuya Murata
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.8/1085 votes#11 - Boundary Line
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/2003
An engineer from an impoverished country, El Tanika, comes to the ISPV 7 space station to have his new spacesuit tested. No one will have anything to do with his unusual suit because of the lowly status of his home country unil the Debris Section volunteers to help him with the testing.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.0/1072 votes#12 - A Modest Request
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/2003
Fee's quest for a smoke leads her to become entangled in a terrorist plot to stop human development in space by initiating the Kessler Syndrome, destroying the Toy Box in the process of saving the ISPV 7 space station from destruction.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
7.9/1069 votes#13 - Scenery With a Rocket
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/2004
Since the Toy Box was destroyed, the Debris Section go on a holiday on Earth. Hachimaki, Yuri, and Tanabe visit the Hoshino household. Meanwhile, Yuri makes friends with Kyutaro, Hachimaki's brother.
Director: Masami Furukawa
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.0/1065 votes#14 - Turning Point
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/2004
Debris Section get their new debris hauling ship, the Toy Box 2. On a debris retrieval run, the Debris Section become embroiled in company intrigue as they choose to help an orbital research facility about to be destroyed by a meteoroid against the will of a Technora division manager.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
7.8/1062 votes#15 - In Her Case
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/2004
Edel's past finally catches up to her when an old flame comes to the ISPV 7 space station. Meanwhile, Hachimaki struggles with his date with Tanabe.
Director: Masaki Kitamura
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.0/1066 votes#16 - Ignition
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/2004
Hachimaki is left adrift in space in the middle of a solar flare and miraculously survies. But he is diagnosed with Acute Spatial Disorder and unless he can overcome it, he will be grounded from space for the rest of his life.
Director: Kazuya Murata
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
7.4/1066 votes#17 - His Reasons
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/2004
The chief engineer of the Jupiter Exploration Mission hopes to recruit Hachimaki's father, a veteran of several missions to Mars, but all he wants is to settle down back on Earth.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.3/1057 votes#18 - Debris Section, the Last Day
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/2004
Dolph is replaced as director of the Technora Second Division and the new director wants to shut down the Debris Section while the crew of the Toy Box find a secret INTO orbital mine.
Director: Megumi Yamamoto
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.1/1056 votes#19 - Endings Are Always...
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/21/2004
Debris Section has won a reprieve after their discovery of a classified INTO military satellite. On Earth, Hachimaki has entered the first round of tests for those wishing to join the Von Braun.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.3/1058 votes#20 - Tentative Steps
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/2004
Claire has been demoted from working in Control Section to replacing Hachimaki in Debris Section. Hachimaki and Hakim encounter unexpected difficulties completing a 10-day group endurance test, the second round of testing for those wishing to join the Von Braun.
Director: Masaki Kitamura
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.4/1060 votes#21 - Tandem Mirror
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/6/2004
Debris Section has been assigned to the Moon for a month to help collect debris from the Tandem Mirror Drive disaster. In training as a finalist aboard the Von Braun, Hachimaki learns that one of his fellow candidates is planning to sabotage the mission.
Director: Kazuya Murata
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.0/1057 votes#22 - Exposure
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/13/2004
Hachimaki is called to the moon for questioning about the explosion aboard the Von Braun. He also learns of the death of his sensei and of Tanabe's prior knowledge of Gigalt's fight with cancer
Director: N/A
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.4/1061 votes#23 - Debris Cluster
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/20/2004
As the final preparations are being made for the Von Braun's maiden voyage to Jupiter, the Space Defense Front makes a bold attempt at interrupting the INTO summit by taking control of the ship.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.1/1061 votes#24 - Love
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/3/2004
The Space Defense Front's sinister plan to crash the Von Braun into Luna City is thwarted at the last minute when INTO caves in to the terrorists' demands. Tanabe and Claire are stranded on the surface of the moon in a life or death situation.
Director: Megumi Yamamoto
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
8.1/1057 votes#25 - The Lost
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/10/2004
Following the Von Braun crisis, Hachimaki sinks into deep depression and wanders on the lunar surface. He returns to Earth for a holiday, only to encounter Tanabe, who was paralyzed during the Von Braun crisis.
Director: Tatsuya Igarashi
Writer: Ichiro Okouchi
The Best Episodes of Planetes Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Outside the Atmosphere" is the best rated episode of "Planetes" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 102 votes. Directed by Masaki Kitamura and written by Ichiro Okouchi, it aired on 10/4/2003. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Like a Dream".