The year is 2075 AD. The dream of working andliving in the vast openness of space is now a reality.However, a new threat has arisen and if left unchecked canprove fatal: Space Debris! An undetectable screw struckand disabled a passenger space flight causing disasterand death to the ones on board.
A space debris collection agency is formed but, it'sa money losing venture for the corporations. Follow themen and women of the "Half-Section" and witness theharrowing experience that is involved with such dangers.
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English Subtitles.
Hachimaki encounters an old-timer astronaut that makes him question whether man is really meant to travel into space until a unique girl changes his perspective of what home is. Revelations are made about Yuri and the tragic Alnair-8 flight and Yuri finally finds the thing he has been searching for while working at the Debris Section.
DVD Features: Commentary Track with Director and Voice Actor (Ep.10), Audio Drama, Interview with NASA's Orbital Debris Section Scientists, Interview with English Cast, Clean Opening and Closing Animation, Orbital Debris CG Model.
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English Subtitles.
A terrorist group called the Space Defense Front hopes to kick out mankind from space and they'll do it by any means possible. The debris gang could care less but the SDF is blowing up all the smoking areas. The SDF better watch out because nothing's going to stand in Fee's way of puffing her smokes.
DVD Features: Commentary track with Director and Voice Actors (Episode 12), Audio Dramas, Interview with NASA's Orbital Debris Scientists, Interviews with English Cast, Key Art Production Sketch Gallery.
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.
Hachi is adrift in space in the middle of a solar flare and miraculously survives it. But is diagnosed with Acute Spatial Disorder and unless he can overcome it, he will be grounded from space for the rest of his life. Dolf has been replaced as director of 2nd Division and the new director wants to shut down the Debris Section. Will they step down quietly or will they fight for what's right until the very end?
DVD Features: Commentary track with Director and Voice Actors (Episode 16), Audio Dramas, Orbital Debris Featurette, and Character Gallery.
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English Subtitles.
Hachimaki has decided to quit the Debris Section and take a one-in-ten-thousand chance to join the crew of the first manned mission to Jupiter. It won't be easy competing against high profile candidates. The project chief will put the candidates through a set of grueling tests that will force them to make life or death choices. Will Hachimaki show that he has the "right stuff" and also stop a traitor before he blows up the Jupiter explorer?
DVD Features: Audio Drama, Trailer Collection, Digital Comic.
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.
As the final preparations are 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 Jovian explorer. Again, the Debris Section is caught in the crossfire as they try to prevent the Von Braun from falling on the Moon's most populated city. In the middle of the chaos, two lost souls search for their own purpose and each other...
DVD Features: Audio Drama, Trailer Collection, Digital Comic.
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.
In the 2070's, mankind has established a mining base on the moon and dispatched men to explore Mars. The first manned mission to Jupiter is also in progress. As a result of this interplanetary activity, space debris is increasing and its collection has become a new profession.
Meet Yuri, Hachimaki, and Fee. Hachimaki's dream is to buy his own spaceship. He thinks he can earn money quickly by joining the crew of the first expedition to Jupiter. Yuri lost his wife in a space travel accident, and became a debris collector out of a desperate desire to discover some remembrance of her. Fee takes great pride in her profession and works very hard, having left behind her husband and young son on earth.
In a dark and cruel universe, each of these space junkers grapples with his or her own personal problems.
Trained as an elite pilot, Hachimaki Hoshino's life collecting space debris in orbit around Earth doesn't satisfy the engine of his ambition. So when the Earth Development Community begins to look for a crew to man Welnar Rocksmith's new Mars mission, which involves traveling to the red planet on the brand new space ship Brown Fawn in search of a specific breed of plant life, he naturally would want on.
His father, Goro Hoshino, is a legendary astronaut and has already been selected as the mission commander. But getting selected will mean proving the wealth of his knowledge in space, demonstrating his capacity for team work, and embracing love and friendship as guiding principles for his life.
After an excruciating selection process, Hachimaki is accepted into the Mars Development Project, his lifelong dream. However, feelings of elation are soon sucked up by a black hole of despair... Hachimaki's space odyssey forces him to face the void as he contemplates the meaning to his existence and the nature of his life in space.
An attack on the U.S. in orbital space may trigger a series of events that will bring the world to the brink of another war - with space as the battleground. The amount of debris created by such a conflict could spell the end for the careers on the DS-12. Did someone say, 'anti-war activism'?
Fee decides to spend more time with her family and questions whether she'll ever return to space. 500 million miles away, Hachimaki is at the threshold of a new era for mankind as the crew of the Von Braun finally reach Jupiter. Back on Earth, the engineer of the Jupiter Mission, Weiner Locksmith, becomes haunted by the deaths of all those who lost their lives in pursuit of his vision.
Story and art by Makoto Yukimura.
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