Just finished watching the episode and I thought it was pretty good. The beginning especially I really love, with the twinkling music and the feeling of heartwarming when the staff welcomed Yumemi for the first time and dread/heartbreak when they bid farewell to her. Speaking of Yumemi, it was great to see her animated and her antics and personality are as charming as ever. I especially love how the episode ends with the sound of the puddle splashing; when it happened, I just thought to myself “Genius. Perfect way to end the episode”. As for the ED, I thought it was quite catchy and very cute. Can’t wait to see episode 2. 
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Any ideas on what this could mean?
If I remember correctly the novel never made any reference to a necklace that the Junker was wearing. Seems to be a new feature.
Possible symbolism for something? Perhaps new piece of upcoming narrative?
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Considering her presentation points out Cygnus, it’ll definitely make it more personal for the Junker.
Good shit fam.
Disappointed I can’t hear Yumemi making robot noises with her movements, but it’s alright.
I thought the first episode was pretty well handled.
It dealt away with the only major criticism I had towards the Planetarian VN, which is that the beginning is rather drawn out with a massive infodump. I did feel like it was progressing a little bit too quickly at times, but overall the pacing was very well handled and I’m already quite pleased with how they’re adapting the script.
Hoo boy, I seriously can’t wait for the projection…
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I loved this episode. I personally was more hyped for planetarian than Rewrite and I got exactly what I wanted. I’m pretty sure the constellation pendant was not in the original vn so I’m interested in how they will tie it together to an already amazing story
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The episode was just simply amazing. It’s kind of hard to wait for the next episode, seriously. It just has the same “Planetarian” feeling I got from the KN, if you know what I mean. And the animation’s amazing. One thing that still bothers me is Yumemi’s face… I’ve gotta get used to it soon… Uuuuu…
This episode was really good and I felt the animation went pretty smoothly as well. I do especially love how Yumemi is animated so well and her cute reactions were just like in the VN and I think the production studio did an awesome job of developing her character as well as the Junker in capturing the tension as he is trying to manage to survive in the sarcophagus city. I give credit to how the studio is handling the animation and they deserve the utmost recognition. I can’t recall the Junker ever wearing a pendant of the constellation Cygnus as well but I hope it will prove later on how that became an important memento to him. The ED was very good and seeing Yumemi as a chibi format looked just like how she would act for the customers as they would come visit the planetarium. So far, I think it is off to a great start and I can’t wait to see the next episode.
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Overall, a good first episode.
I feel that this episode did its best to condense the first few chapters into roughly eighteen minutes of animation. It reminded me of how annoying Yumemi was during that time and how subtly depressing her circumstances are. I do have a couple problems with this episode, both of them more nitpicks than anything.
First of all, Yumemi’s a lot shorter than I imagined her to be in the VN. I expected her to be about as tall as the Junker himself, but I don’t remember her height being particularly emphasized in the VN. It might take some getting used to on my end.
Second, I don’t remember the planetarium entrance being protected from the Rain outside by a glass archway. Yumemi often said her infamous lines out in the rain in the VN, which was okay for her because she had a protective coating around her entire figure. The Junker had a protective poncho on him as well because of how toxic the Rain was, so it baffled me why he didn’t bother to put his hood back on in the end. I guess they wanted to gloss over details in this adaptation to fit the whole story in, but it still bothers me that this episode forgets them.
Other than that, I have no complaints with this episode. Here’s hoping the next four make the same impact the VN had in terms of feels~ ;;7
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Junker is hot
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She’s described as looking about 15 years old. A teenage girl is usually short compared to adult men.
They’ve changed the layout of the entrance pretty drastically. I suspect that’s due to the fact that it needs to be drawn numerous times from several angles. I bet it’s now based on the planetarium in Akashi which they’ve collaborated with. But yeah, the lack of poison is strange.
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Unless they left that part the way it is to represent that the Junker has basically given up on his life and doesn’t care anymore
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VNDB has her at 155cm (5’1")… While I’m not sure exactly where they got that (they source Wikipedia for their info, but it’s not there), 5’1" - 5’4" was going to be my best guess with the vague description of “about 15 years old”.
Suffice it to say, she’s not really going to intimidate anyone by looking down on them.
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Wow… Get out. Out into the never-ending toxic rain where you deserve to be.
One thing I notice about anime girls: they’re usually super duper short. IMO Kotori in the Rewrite anime feels a lot shorter than what I remember her from the VN. Maybe the reason why I don’t feel that way for Yumemi is because I saw a life-size pop stand in character1 and that kind of registered in my brain that “wow yumemi is tiny”
Huh, I vividly remember it…
Sure, it doesn’t look the same, but I can definitely see an archway right there; probably leading from the planetarium to the elevator to the mall or whatever
EDIT: Oh hey, episode 2 screenshots are up
It’s happening
Solid first episode. There’s not a lot to complain about, except for…
I know that juker spent a couple of minutes running away from drones that tried to kill him, but he still looked kinda silly when he kept drawing his gun on reflex. That’s probably because
The world of Planetarian seems a lot less dangerous right now because it hasn’t been fully explained. Also, the viewers still don’t know just how many life-and-death situations Junker has been through. Then again, explaining that would take too much time to fit everything properly into a single episode.
The other thing would be that the episode kinda lacks a hook, but then I remembered that the original didn’t have anything of that sort this early in the game.
5/5, the episode really delivered.
I thought it was interesting that they chose to start with an action scene, maybe to hook you in.
I wish they went a little more into the danger of the sarcophagus city, but other than that I got everything I could’ve hoped for.
I don’t feel the atmosphere is right. The world isn’t dark enough due to the rain being too light, I find it quite detrimental to the setting up of the Planetarian world and I hope it doesn’t persist because I feel it will make some later scenes much weaker. Without the first-person perspective, Junker’s paranoia isn’t yet captured well and makes him appear clumsy.
However, I want to praise the use of Junker losing his submachine gun before his meeting with Yumemi because it makes more sense for him to resort to using his grenade launcher for intimidation in close quarters than the visual novel did. Also the use of the snow globe in the initial discovery of the planetarium is very nice symbolism and ties in well.
The pedant he wears now wasn’t in the visual novel but I can tell it is going to expand on his backstory and I suspect it will tie into the reminiscence he has about(Visual novel spoilers) when he was a child leaving a bunker with his what he thinks might have been his parents, and they were looking into the sky with what he wonders might have been the starry sky.
This might be a bit biased since I still have the imagery of the VN in my mind but I personally thought the atmosphere was just fine. I always felt there was a stark contrast between the outside world, which was very dark and gloomy, and the inside of the planetarium, which was bright and relaxing; and I think the anime did that fairly well, actually.
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After watching again. I have rethought my complaint and realized that it is done well and changes in this part have been chosen wisely and have adapted this part well. I had been a bit too surprised by the fluency of Yumemi’s animation, which really compliments portraying the kind of character she is.
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Every time the Junker threw something offscreen when he was in the planetarium this episode, I just wanted to hear the screeching of a cat or something dubbed in.
Anyway, a friend and I watched this and I swear we fell in love with Planetarian all over again.
