Kanata no Astra

[Ryllharu]

I'm really, really struggling with this one. It is painfully derivative, the humor is awful if that's part of what they're going for (and in a season full of great comedy series to outshine that part of it...), the characters are dated sad clichés...

- The only thing the series has hooked me with is wanting to rewatch the better series that it reminds me of, like Stellvia, Gunbuster, and Kiddy Grade. All of which had much better initial episodes, and much more interesting characters. And all better scifi (except Gunbuster, which was as hard scifi as it could be).

- Even the gags are derivative and bad. Beego was...basically a ripoff of Date a Live's Yoshinon. Aries' misspeaking is annoying, not cute or endearing because it is so stupid.

- The rescue scene is just a combination of Gravity and The Martian...

I struggle to believe any of it is a coincidence. The series is from 2016, well after each of the things it is either an homage/ripoff to.

The Yoshinon issue aside, the sisters are the only likeable thing about the series.

It's well on the trajectory of failing the three episode test for me, and if it does I'll just rewatch Stellvia.