Planetes, Volume 1

In the near future, mankind's colonization of space is imminent. There are several orbital space stations, a few cities on the moon and plans are already being drafted for a manned research mission of the Jovian worlds. This is the exciting frontier that the young Hachimaki longs to be a part of. Instead, he works as an orbital garbage man, he and his team responsible for clearing away the glut of space junk mankind's foray into space has left in its wake. His team includes Fee, a spitfire nicotine addict tomboy beauty with an abrasive edge; and Yuri, a veteran space man with a tragic past in search of inner peace. Planetes follows the lives of these three debris-men as they work and ruminate at the edge of the great empyrean sea.