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* [[Fatal Flaw]] (Asumi, who {{spoiler|nearly drowned as a child, is afraid of water. Which is something of a problem, given that they have to be able to swim in full flight gear and do a lot of simulated zero-g work in pools}})
* [[Fatal Flaw]] (Asumi, who {{spoiler|nearly drowned as a child, is afraid of water. Which is something of a problem, given that they have to be able to swim in full flight gear and do a lot of simulated zero-g work in pools}})
* [[Festival Episode]]
* [[Festival Episode]]
* [[First Name Basis]]
* [[First-Name Basis]]
* [[Flash Back]] (Numerous)
* [[Flash Back]] (Numerous)
* {{spoiler|[[Genetic Memory]] (Current Marika sometimes remembers things the original Marika knew)}}
* {{spoiler|[[Genetic Memory]] (Current Marika sometimes remembers things the original Marika knew)}}
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* [[Obsolete Mentor]] (Lion-san's advice to Asumi ranges from helpful to worthless. Justified in that he was an astronaut before any established training regime, and the new course at the Tokyo Space Academy is the first attempt to establish one)
* [[Obsolete Mentor]] (Lion-san's advice to Asumi ranges from helpful to worthless. Justified in that he was an astronaut before any established training regime, and the new course at the Tokyo Space Academy is the first attempt to establish one)
* [[Ojou]]
* [[Ojou]]
* [[One Note Cook]] (Asumi never seems to make anything other than riceballs or curry)
* [[One-Note Cook]] (Asumi never seems to make anything other than riceballs or curry)
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]
* [[Parental Abandonment]] (Done in various ways, from dead parents to ones that are simply never mentioned)
* [[Parental Abandonment]] (Done in various ways, from dead parents to ones that are simply never mentioned)
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* [[Seinen]]
* [[Seinen]]
* [[Selective Obliviousness]] (Asumi doesn't have much room in her head for anything besides space)
* [[Selective Obliviousness]] (Asumi doesn't have much room in her head for anything besides space)
* [[Sempai Kohai]] (During their second year, another girl, Mikan, moves in to the dorm Asumi stays at. Due to Asumi's appearance, it takes Mikan a while to acknowledge Asumi as sempai)
* [[Sempai-Kohai]] (During their second year, another girl, Mikan, moves in to the dorm Asumi stays at. Due to Asumi's appearance, it takes Mikan a while to acknowledge Asumi as sempai)
* [[Sins of Our Fathers]]
* [[Sins of Our Fathers]]
* [[Sitting On the Roof]] (Shuu likes to do this for stargazing)
* [[Sitting On the Roof]] (Shuu likes to do this for stargazing)

Revision as of 13:20, 8 January 2014

Kei, Marika, and Asumi

An accident caused the Japanese space program's manned rocket, the Lion, to crash in to Yuigahama. Asumi Kamogawa, who was one year old at the time, survives the incident, protected by her mother Kyouko, who is badly burned and falls in to a coma. Five years later, Kyouko dies without ever having regained consciousness. After the funeral, Asumi meets a strange man wearing a lion head from a mascot costume and playing a harmonica. Although she doesn't believe him at first, he is the ghost of one of the astronauts killed in the Lion incident. Between her teacher and her father telling her that dead people become stars, and talking with Lion-san, she decides to become a "rocket driver" when she grows up.

To that end, Asumi applies to the prestigious and expensive Tokyo Space Academy, to enroll in the newly created astronaut training course. During the rather unusual entrance exam, she meets Marika Ukita and Kei Oumi. At the same time, her childhood friend Shinnosuke Fuchuuya, who has followed her to the school, meets Shuu Suzuki, and the five of them eventually form a group.

Since this is a whole new area of study for this level, the teachers and administrators are feeling out what needs to be done and learning as much as the students are. This leads to some rather odd training scenarios combined with the more expected. It doesn't help that one of the teachers knew Asumi's father.

The main story line covers Asumi and the others during their time at Tokyo Space Academy, but there are numerous flashbacks to earlier periods.

The anime is only 20 episodes long, with a non-ending. It follows the manga fairly closly until the end of the anime, but only covers part of the first five volumes, most of what was out at the time. Given the length differences, many of these tropes only apply to the manga.

A Live Action Adaptation produced by NHK aired in the summer of 2009. Vertical has started releasing the manga in the US.

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