Chikyuugai Shounen Shoujo


The Orbital Children

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Extraterrestrial Boys and Girls
Japanese: 地球外少年少女
English: The Orbital Children
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Type: ONA
Episodes: 6
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jan 28, 2022
Producers: Avex Pictures
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Production +h.
Source: Original
Genre: Sci-FiSci-Fi
Theme: SpaceSpace
Duration: 31 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.821 (scored by 1715517,155 users)
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Ranked: #51452
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Popularity: #3636
Members: 40,390
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Episodes: /6

Synopsis

In the year 2045, Internet and artificial intelligence have become widespread in the outer space. Following a massive accident at a space station, a group of children are left behind. Using narrowband and SNS, low intelligence AI, and smartphone-controlled drones, they overcome numerous crises.

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Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Honda, Fuminori
Producer
Iso, Mitsuo
Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Original Creator
Shimizu, Youji
Sound Director
Terada, Kazumi
Episode Director, Assistant Director


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Ending Theme

"Oarana" by Harusaruhi (春猿火)




Reviews

Sep 17, 2022
The following is an excerpt from the Deep Dive project:

The Orbital Children
Completed September 2022
ONA, 6 episodes
Recommended

The red ‘N’ of doom… doesn’t strike again? Well, that’s a pleasant surprise! For once netflix funded an anime that doesn’t suck.

Orbital Children is an interesting little six episode anime with a shocking amount to say in its movie-length runtime. Well, supposedly the show was originally released as a two part movie in Japan, which makes perfect sense given the pacing and structure of the anime. As such, I advise finishing this ONA in two sittings as was intended. I didn’t, but it’s probably a good idea so the ...
May 16, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Pretty entertaining, immature some moments but mature at others, there’s some interesting moments and events that happened, the characters are interesting,
I’m not a fan of the art style though. And this anime is pretty
forgettable and just not memorable or meaningful enough.
There’s some weird and wacky stuff at the end though
that made me go “oh wow that sure is happening right now. How and why is the possible I don’t know I’m lost and just can only hope there’s a good ending for the characters I cared about because I’m not interested in skynet and their 2012 plans.”

Entertaining I suppose but I don’t know if ...
Aug 31, 2024
Gets stupider by the second. Avoid. Especially if you come from Dennou Coil and are expecting something at least as good.

Apparently the review needs more information, so:
- It feels like the writers think their audience is dumber than orang outangs (or else something wrong happened during this project, I do not know, maybe it was actually written by orang outangs?).

- Let them all die, live, become billionaires it does not matter, I do not care about those characters. I do not care.

- Sci-fi nonsensical hacking verbiage bs that adds nothing (especially compared to Dennou Coil which actually took the time to build its own logic ...

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