Does anyone know if Funimation has announced Hoshi No Hito to be licensed, or the likelihood they’ll license it (if they haven’t yet)?
I’ve seen many positive things that people have said about it, and want to also be able to see the movie.
Unfortunately, I don’t think anybody has announced any sort of localization for Hoshi no Hito 
such a nice film, too.
(I actually don’t think even the fan community has worked on any sort of subtitles, either)
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Fansubs are finally out. Haven’t watched it yet, but I’ll edit my comment when I do
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THEY PLAYED “PERFECTLY HUMAN”! I WASN’T EXPECTING THAT!
Man, i cried. Absolute fantastic and you don’t really need to watch the ONAs to see this movie.
Props to David Production. That scene near the end almost gave me a heart attack. So sad…(+Perfecly Human playing in the background)
10/10
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Pretty good.
I loved it, it was super cute.
I also cried a lot towards the end.
Pretty good, I tried to hold my tears because I already seen the 5 eps but what killed me was pretty much the ending.
Nothin better than to cry cuz of Key works
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The illustration of the contrast between “hope” and “despair” was the most impactful idea for me. The emotional journey through Yumemi’s naivety and resolute hope, in this world already ended, the Starteller’s quest and the hope that he embodies, was so powerful for me. 
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God damn that was good. Its been a couple years since I read the KN and this got me really interested in Planetarian again. I will actually go listen to the drama CD’s ASAP and maybe I’ll rewatch this after that. The ending was a bit overly soppy but the build up was really well done so its all good.
There was also a lot of talk about the sound changes from the ONA so I might watch those to experience that.
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I can’t wait to see everyone’s second reactions after they come back from watching the drama CDs 
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So since the movie intertwines what was originally two separate stories, the climaxes of both end up towards the end of the movie; this has good and bad effects. For the good, having the two scenes so close together for the first time made me realize the parallel between them. When Yumemi is shutting down, the Junker says he came to get her. When the old man is dying, he asks the goddess if she has come to get him. The bad effect is simply that I think that the moments become too dense. You have a matter of minutes to recover from Yumemi’s death instead of the full hour you would have if you read/listened to the originals in tandem.
On a similar note, the movie actually makes a pretty big change from the original Hoshi no Hito. The “treasure” the old man receives from the kids was definitely not a fancy sci-fi necklace before. It’s supposed to be a shoddy rosary. I guess they didn’t want to have crosses all over the place, but it also creates a more technical link between the goddess and the treasure. I’m actually not against the change for this reason because it goes along with a very big theme of planetarian: the ambiguity of whether the robots are acting on programming or benevolence. Not that that question didn’t exist with it being a normal cross, but back then you required more context about that particular robot.
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I certainly enjoyed watching Hoshi no Hito. I had to hold back some of my tears but they ended spilling out of course. 
I personally enjoyed how the Junker had come so far along his journey since the very beginning he had met Yumemi and told his tale to Ezra with Levi, Job, and Ruth having them consider how important the stars were to him and sharing his knowledge and experience so that they might one day become the next generations of “star-tellers”.
“Gentle Jena” is still one of my most favorite Planetarian tracks that’s very deep and emotional as you can imagine the starry skies and see how vast and wonderful our universe really is out there.
The end scene was probably the most beautiful and wonderful part that was really heart-warming. Yumemi and the Junker reuniting once again after quite a long time was so amazing! Seeing Yumemi crying for the first time really got me going and how everyone was gathered together to greet the Junker was so incredible.
It was very worth waiting to watch the movie after having read the VN and the anime adaptation for quite a long time. I may have to go back and listen to the drama CDs again and maybe some time to rewatch it again.
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There’s no point in bringing Yumemi’s body. It’s mostly destroyed and extremely heavy. Bringing her memory chip is enough, but he collapses as he’s trying to put it in the Auchtneun unit.
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Well,obviously that Junker was extremely missed Hoshino until the rest of his life right?So maybe he could…oh forget it.Oh and the nun robot at the church,has she got her own chip inside already so that she could walk around like that,right?
Uhh, unconfirmed. They have protocols and information, but the Auchtneun unit was produced way after Yumemi (15 years if I remember correctly), so it’s not certain that they would use the same memory storage.
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Oh thanks,how can you know much about this novel.I can’t find any information about Planetarian novel on the Internet.
Like the original story? You can play the original visual novel on steam. It’s currently translated in English, Chinese (Mandarin/simplified iirc), and apparently German now. Usually costs about $10. If you want to just look up general stuff about it search planetarian ~chiisana hoshi no yume~ on any search engine or vndb or something.
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thanks
So the other day I watched the movie with my fellowship friends using the official subbed blu-ray which I enjoyed a lot. I honestly don’t know if anyone else has checked out the official subbed version but its nice. I love this movie but this last rewatch I felt like I had a bit more criticisms of it than I expected. One was that a lot of the Christian themes were a lot more muted in the movie than in the original stories. This is probably because as far as I am aware, Suzumoto was not involved in the anime production along with the added fact that we hear a lot less of the Junker’s internal monologue. Another criticism my friend told me about was about the Snow Globe at the very beginning. Since he hadn’t known about any of the other planetarian drama CD’s, he thought the Snow Globe was going to be a Chekhov’s Gun since the Junker seemed so fixated on it in the beginning. Talking about and explaining why the snow globe was there actually reminded me of a cool thing which is that this movie references all other side stories and connects them all together even though technically the story is really only about the main story and Hoshi no Hito.
Snow Globe is referenced by the beginning of the ONA and movie when the Junker sees the snow globe and Yumemi realizes that there’s a customer she must greet.
Jerusalem is referenced by the setting of the story, the “rosary” treasure, and the last nun robot.
Finally, Tircis and Aminte is referenced by the credits and lyrics of Hoshi no Fune.
Other than that, my friends really enjoyed watching the movie. Seeing the battle scene with surround sound really adds to the effect. Finally at the end of the movie one of my friends said that he cried for about 3/4ths of the movie which I didn’t really understand but hey, it’s an onion cutting simulator.
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Hoshi no Hito movie is certainly enjoyable and did made me emotional especially in the end. Although I didn’t enjoy it to the fullest because half of it was just a recap of ONA which I watched it first before the movie (I guess a bad choice for my part?), and the other one is the actual story. I kinda struggle getting used to its pacing, but I guess I can appreciate the movie trying to parallel out the two sides the stories.
Since Hoshi no Hito movie is already two in one show, I guess I can express my opinions about the ONA and the movie.
I do certainly enjoy the ONA overall, but since the anime lacks the Junker’s internal monologue which is one of the reasons why I love the VN a bit more. The anime wasn’t able to capture the mood and the atmosphere that the VN was able to make me feel while reading it. And you can’t completely feel and enjoy Suzumoto’s writing at its fullest in the anime, unlike with the VN. If he’s actually not involve in the anime, I guess that’s understandable, and it’s probably one of the limitations in animations I suppose. That’s just my personal nitpick.
For the Hoshi no Hito part of the movie itself, I did enjoy it, although I prefer the drama cd a bit more because it’s straight forward and no recaps in between, but like I said earlier, I can still appreciate it for what they were doing. Or maybe, I just prefer to imagine things what was going on in the Drama CD rather than seeing what was happening in the anime?
But one thing I can commend in the anime is the Cygnus constellation pendant that the Junker was wearing in the anime, which is I am so sure that’s not in the VN.
If you watch the scene in the movie when the Junker went to ‘heaven’ and have an emotional moment with Yumemi, it broke me especially when I saw that she’s wearing the pendant, the pendant that the Junker gave to Yumemi’s lifeless body at the end of the main story, which honestly made me emotional. That attention detail in the movie is one of the biggest thing I can praise here.
Overall, it’s certainly an enjoyable movie despite me struggling with it’s pacing. But hey, at least it gave me feels especially the last moments.
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