List of Planetes Characters - Other Characters

Other Characters

Gigalt Gangaragash

• Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (Japanese), Paul St. Peter (English)

A veteran astronaut, formerly of Technora Corporation's Debris Section, and currently with the Orbital Security Agency. He is Hachimaki and Hakim's EVA instructor. Gigalt contracted cancer (most probably lung cancer) from prolonged exposure to radiation from his many EVA missions. Gigalt only appears in the anime. Gigalt has a habit of bestowing nicknames on work partners, including Hachimaki's nickname of 'Hachi', which is the only one which stuck. The last two nicknames he bestows are 'Angel' to Ai Tanabe, and 'Artemis' to Nono while she keeps him company at Tranquility City Hospital.

Harry Roland

• Voiced by: Yōsuke Akimoto (Japanese), Mike Forest (English)

A veteran astronaut who is in love with outer space. He attempts suicide when his leukemia threatens his ability to go into space. He was Gigalt's EVA instructor.

Kyutaro Hoshino (星野九太郎, Hoshino Kyūtarō?)

• Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi (Japanese), Johnny Yong Bosch (English)

Hachimaki's younger brother, currently a high school student on Earth and an amateur rocket maker. Kyutaro considers Hachimaki an "insincere astronaut", and any conversation between the two almost always degenerates into a brawl. Kyutaro hopes to eventually become an engineer to design larger and more powerful rockets.

Nono

• Voiced by: Satomi Koorogi (Japanese), Lara Jill Miller (English)

A twelve-year-old girl who, along with three other children, is a "Lunarian", born and has lived her whole life on the Moon. Due to the effects of lower gravity, she appears to be twice her age due to her height. Her physiology is always examined as part of a study on the effect of being born and raised on the Moon. Once the study is finished, she wishes to only visit the Earth because she considers the Moon to be her home. Gigalt bestows on her a very poetic and affectionate nickname of 'Artemis' as she keeps him company.