A high school girl Morita Yukari visits Axia of the Solomon Islands in order to look for her father who became lost during his honeymoon trip. There, she meets a man named Nasuda of Solomon Space Agency, and she is hired to work part-time. That job is an astronaut. She is chosen as one of the crews of the first Japanese manned spaceship only because she is little and light. Where is her future going to?
Episodes
12
Aired
Winter 2007
Score
6.6
Popularity
#4480
SpaceWorkFemale ProtagonistCute Girls Doing Cute ThingsAstronomyEducationalComing of AgeParody
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