Episode
Planetes: Ignition
Overview
Hachimaki is left adrift in space in the middle of a solar flare and miraculously survies. But he is diagnosed with Acute Spatial Disorder and unless he can overcome it, he will be grounded from space for the rest of his life.
Details
- Series
- Planetes
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 2004-01-31
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Ignition is Episode 16 in Season 1 of Planetes. It aired on 2004-01-31. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 15: In Her Case
Edel's past finally catches up to her when an old flame comes to the ISPV 7 space station. Meanwhile, Hachimaki struggles with his date with Tanabe.
Episode 17: His Reasons
The chief engineer of the Jupiter Exploration Mission hopes to recruit Hachimaki's father, a veteran of several missions to Mars, but all he wants is to settle down back on Earth.
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Episode 13: Scenery With a Rocket
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Episode 19: Endings Are Always...
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Episode 12: A Modest Request
Fee's quest for a smoke leads her to become entangled in a terrorist plot to stop human development in space by initiating the Kessler Syndrome, destroying the Toy Box in the process of saving the ISPV 7 space station from destruction.
Episode 20: Tentative Steps
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Episode 11: Boundary Line
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Episode 21: Tandem Mirror
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Episode 22: Exposure
Hachimaki is called to the moon for questioning about the explosion aboard the Von Braun. He also learns of the death of his sensei and of Tanabe's prior knowledge of Gigalt's fight with cancer