Review of Astra Lost in Space

A show usually isn't much better than its weakest link, and that's what happens with Kanata no Astra. It starts with a promising plot, an interesting scenario, and that's it... This show clearly focused on teen drama and comedy, but honestly failed at both. Story: The first episode brings some well drawn characters into a misterious situation, one really wants to understand what just happened, but no, it just forgets about it until the last three episodes... so it's about eight episodes of childish teen drama that isn't even particularly well made. Then on the last 3 episodes everything starts to happen, but the worst part of itis that happens very quickly and with almost no effort, the whole conspiracy just falls on the watcher lap, there isn't a good setup, the characters don't have to work particularly hard for it, they just realize it. But its even worse, we the watchers realize the complexities of what may happen when they arrive home, so many possible scenarios, I wondered, what smart tricks will they pull to make sure they will be safe? The answer is basically none, just send a message and hope for the best... Honestly, what a waste, such a promising setup, such a great scenario this characters find themselves, but the goal was always cheap teen drama.

Art:
Its a well drawn anime, with good looking characters and scenarios, but nothing particularly exceptional.

Characters:
While they all had some depth, I didn't like any of them, none felt like a real human, but rather a caricature.

Comedy:
It just failed to deliver, and I'm an easy laugh. Everything was too childish or forced upon.