Planetes/YMMV


 * Anvilicious : despite the very strong realism in sciences and overarching story that the series display, there is a definite lack of subtlety in how many plots are treated.
 * Action Girl / Faux Action Girl : Tanabe. She has brave moments, but often just goes screaming for her "sempai".
 * The Bad Guy Wins / The Extremist Was Right: The heavily debated interpretation of the Space Defense Front.
 * The Bad Guys Won;
 * The Extremists Were Right;
 * The most interesting part? In the manga, the SDF is just a means for industrial saboteurs to use Third World refugees as suicide bombers against rival companies. They're just the B plot of a single chapter - Ai and Hachi's relationship is the A plot. They dissolve in the ending text.
 * Crazy Awesome: Fee gets a wee bit psychotic during her Crowning Moment of Awesome. Sometimes Hachi, too.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Everybody in Debris Section gets one, even the clerk staff.
 * Hachimaki's EVA tests deserve special mention. This troper cried when he saw it the first time.
 * Werner Locksmith, satisfied with the test results from the moon incident. Even the characters were floored.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: Both the plots of episode 12 get quite funny, but Fee's quest for a smoke is one of the funniest things in the series. Even more notable since they managed to make a episode about a series of eco-terrorist bombings a CMOF.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: The anime finale. Cue waterworks.
 * Nono's introduction, especially in the manga. "This is my ocean."
 * And Nono, again, in the anime's conclusion, when she
 * "." And Yuri sending out a flower into space in the memory of his late wife.
 * Chapter 11 from the manga.
 * Ear Worm: The intro song.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: Since space is noiseless, the soundtrack has to rely on music to achieve the desired dramatic effect. It succeeds admirably.
 * The opening theme.
 * Magnificent Bastard: Werner Locksmith, full stop.
 * The Scrappy: The fandom is divided on whether the Lunar Flying Squirrels are a pointless waste of space, or a worthwhile moment of levity. The vocal majority leans towards the former.
 * The former should be happy that all but one of them . The rest of us