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Crunchyroll announced on Tuesday that it has added the 2003 anime adaptation of Makoto Yukimura's Planetes manga to streaming with an English dub, along with subtitles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Spanish, French, German and Italian. Additionally, the company will release the series on Blu-ray for the first time in North America on November 5.
It describes the story:
In 2075, commercial space travel is normal. However, a large amount of debris threatens the astronauts' safety—that's when the Toy Box crew appears. As they scramble for objects in orbit, they also grapple with life goals, lousy salaries, and what it all means.
Boom! Entertainment gave the series an English title in 2005.
Dark Horse Comics released the manga in compilation form in 2015 with all color pages included.
Tokyopop previously licensed and released the manga in North America, and Bandai Entertainment released an anime adaptation in 2003.
Yukimura serialized the original manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine from January 1999 to January 2004.
Source: Email correspondence, Crunchyroll (Joseph Luster)