Rocket Girls

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: ロケットガール


Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Feb 22, 2007 to May 18, 2007
Premiered: Winter 2007
Broadcast: Fridays at 00:00 (JST)
Producers: Happinet Pictures
Studios: Mook DLE
Source: Light novel
Genres: AdventureAdventure, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Theme: SpaceSpace
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.091 (scored by 31203,120 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #39582
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #6613
Members: 9,233
Favorites: 26

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Synopsis

When Yukari Morita decided to look for her missing father who disappeared in the South Seas, she had no idea how far her journey would take her. Just traveling to the Solomon Islands is a long way for a high school girl to go on her own, but then Yukari runs into an astronaut from the Solomon Space Association, which has been trying to build a rocket powerful enough launch a man into space.

Upon meeting the petite Yukari, however, SSA director Nasuda realizes that she's small enough to go up in a less powerful rocket the SSA has already built! So he offers her a deal: if Yukari agrees to become their astronaut, the SSA will help find her missing father! Will Yukari have the right stuff to blast off in the wildest space quest ever?

(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Background

Rocket Girls adapts the first two volumes of Housuke Nojiri's light novels of the same name with some differences between the animation and the original work. The series was produced in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. It first aired on Thursdays on the WOWOW satellite network before moving to a new timeslot on Fridays.

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Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Tsuruoka, Youta
Sound Director
Tamada, Hiroshi
Episode Director


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Opening Theme

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"RISE" by ICHIKO  (eps 2-12)
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Ending Theme

1: "Ashita Iki no Bus ni Notte (明日行きのバスに乗って)" by misae  (eps 1-11)
2: "Waratte! (笑って!)" by ICHIKO  (eps 12)




Reviews

Aug 23, 2022
Talk about a surprise. Rocket Girls is a textbook example of how treating CHARACTER & STORY with respect allows you to do just about anything in the realm of fiction. Everything about Rocket Girls "appears" to be superficial, light and inconsequential. The premise of the story seems absurd: a teenage girl looking for her father joins the Solomon Islands Space Program and goes into space? But the science is real, the drama is real and the characters' emotions are real. This is a fun, enjoyable show - especially if you love space.

It's currently 8/22/2022 and in one week ...
Sep 9, 2015
Rocket Girls

I've tried writing a review for this at least 4 times now and I just can't gather my words to make sense. I picked up Rocket Girls expecting a cute slice of life about cuties who do things with rockets..... What I ended up watching was an amazing and incredible anime about becoming astronauts.

Rocket Girls takes place on Solomon Island where we have three girls, Yukari, Matsuri and Akane as our mega cute astronauts. At first, the story seems to be very slice of life, but within the first 10 minutes, there is clearly something more at work here. Yukari is trying ...
Jan 6, 2009
Mixed Feelings
Add two points to the score if you're a girl between 10 and 13. The first half of this is series is pretty enjoyable; after episode five I'd have given it at least a 8. The story is far fetched but the characters are fun and the writing is crisp but after that the story goes from far fetched to ridiculous to absurd. Major characters vanish from sight, others are introduced but add nothing and the lead character turns into just another plucky girl adventurer. It's rare to see a series self destruct as quickly as this. Rocket Girls is to science fiction as Scooby ...

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