Draw an oblate spheroid, that's the Earth. note
A 5-10 paneled Webcomic about personifications of the Solar System and other celestial bodies, following the adventures of Earth and their celestial friends.The art style could be described in a way as Hidekaz Himaruya meets CLAMP. It incorporates elements and inspirations from both (with Hetalia: Axis Powers apparently a major influence) while at the same time retaining something distinctive from either two.
Main comics can be found HERE .
Compare Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls, My Moon, Stellarscape, and Nebula.
This series provides examples of:
- All There in the Manual: Other characters aside from the Solar System, still has no character design and only mentioned on character summaries.
- Others characters are drawn, but haven't appeared on the comic yet.
- Ambiguous Gender: Earth is too androgynous for the other characters to tell, with some assuming Earth to be male and some female. Most simply don't think of it much at all.
- Ambiguously Brown: Black Hole's skin is darker than most of the other characters but his exact ethnicity is impossible to pin down and his hair is apparently naturally white. Earth and Mercury gain darker skin colors after their redesign.
- Animal-Eared Headband: Many of the stars in constellations wear headgear themed after their constellations.
- Animesque: Fitting its Hetalia roots, the strips themselves are done in the style of 4-koma webcomics. After the 2017 revamp, the style switched over to faux-screenshot sets as if the comic had its own anime.
- Anyone Can Die: Everyone has more or less come to terms with the fact that they can all die in some manner eventually, despite being incredibly long-lived beings.
- Art Evolution: Here's
a comparison of the cast's 2011 looks to their 2017 redesigns.
- Artistic Age:
- The planets look barely out of their teens but are actually older than they look.
- The stars on the other hand tend to look at least in their twenties for the most part.
- Art Shift:
- Usually done during daydreams and when they are frightened or shocked.
- In one strip, Saturn's style seemed to turn 3D whenever he was photographed.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: They are personifications of celestial objects so it's no big deal.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Sun and Venus; Sun is constantly trying to woo her and she steadfastly rejects him, though it's implied that she's more interested in him than she admits to herself.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Jupiter and Mercury, usually.
- Big Fancy House: Jupiter has a very big house since he's the biggest planet... but it's enveloped in a perpetual storm.
- Bishie Sparkle: Sun's default mode.
- Also Sirius A.
- And other stars.
- Bland-Name Product:
- Planet Station 2
- Coltress
- There's also the spacesuit Earth tries on bearing more than a passing resemblance to a certain space ranger toy.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Venus, Earth and Mars, respectively.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Sirius A talks back to the readers.
- British Stuffiness: Uranus' moons.
- Butt-Monkey: Sun and Pluto.
- Cast of Personifications: The comic is about the personifications of various celestial bodies interacting with each other. They have the appearance of attractive young humans, and have pseudonyms that they use when visiting Earth. Yes, even Earth themself.
- Christmas Special
- Cloudcuckoolander: Earth could be this... and Mars.
- Color-Coded Characters:
- Sun: Light Yellow
- Mercury: Dark Brown
- Venus: Yellow
- Earth: Green
- Mars: Red
- Jupiter: Brown
- Saturn: Silver
- Uranus: Blue-Green
- Neptune: Blue
- Pluto: Purple
- Cool Big Sis: Bellatrix to many of the stars. And Venus to Earth and Mars.
- Creepy Basement: Jupiter has one in his house where he hides Shoemaker-Levy 9' body.
- Curtains Match the Window: Most of them have matching eye and hair colours, except for those that harbor life, like Earth.
- Cute Mute: Pluto's moon, Charon, and Mar's alien, Marty.
- Dream Sequence:
- Sun has one about Venus, which ended with the (fake) revelation that Venus is actually a dude. After that, Sun wakes up in a panic and has to confirm to himself it wasn't true.
- Sun has a more serious one later, about what will happen when he becomes a red giant: he will kill at least two of his closest friends, Venus and Mercury, and will possibly kill Earth. Unnervingly, the comic leaves it open to the interpretation that he was Dreaming of Things to Come- or that he wasn't dreaming at all.
- Dude Looks Like Alady: Mercury, Saturn and Neptune are all very pretty men. Earth could fit in there too, if we know what their gender actually was.
- Either/Or Title: Planetary Moe, or: Solar System and Friends.
- Everything's Better with Sparkles, Rainbows and stars.
- Expy: One of the personifications living with Earth bears a passing resemblance to Poland. Also, Jupiter's design seems to have taken more than a few hints from Russia's.
- Fiery Redhead: Antares and Arcturus are mentioned to be two of those.
- Fun T-Shirt: More like Fun Aprons.
- Mercury's "Kiss the Oven" apron.
- Mars' "I'm Not A Good Cook But I Love Ya!" apron.
- Venus' "Master Chef" apron.
- Gag-per-Day Webcomics
- Gender Flip: This
◊ omake flips the genders around.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Io, being the most volcanically-active celestial body known in the solar system.
- Halloween Cosplay
- Humans Are Special: Earth at least thinks so. Although sometimes, they do find the wars and pollution rather irritating.
- Idiot Hair:
- Pluto has one.
- Earth also sports one that has a flower
- We can't forget ''Gliese 581g'.
- Imagine Spot:
- Earth and Venus imagines Neptune in a hair-dye commercial.
- Sun usually does this, especially when Venus is involved.
- Innocent Aliens: Marty
- Japanese Delinquents: The main theme of Saturn's moons.
- Lampshade Hanging
- Large Ham: Sirius A
- Lethal Chef:
- Venus, usually.
- Mercury and Mars are no better.
- The outer planets, much worse.
- Limited Wardrobe: The planets wear tracksuits most of the time.
- They get to dress other than tracksuits on special holidays.
- Other stars and entities generally wear either vintage, Victorian or pseudo-medieval attire.
- Little Green Men: Marty
- Manga Effects
- Megaton Punch: Used by Venus on Sun.
- Meido: Mercury got dressed in one
◊
- The Galilean moons have this theme as well.
- Moe Anthropomorphism
- Mood Whiplash: Sometimes, things do take a dark turn. Especially with the fate of Shoemaker-Levy 9.
- As well as the fate of the massive stars.
- Named After Their Planet: Obviously.
- No-Dialogue Episode: Sun's dream about the future. Which may or may not be a dream.
- Noodle People: Their non-SD forms.
- Perma-Stubble: The Black Hole and other older celestial folks.
- Rainbow Motif
- Really 700 Years Old: Justified. They are personified celestial bodies.
- Rule 63
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Uranus' 'NOM NOM'.
- Shout-Out:
- One of Earth's cameras is called "Viking
".
- As seen in the page caption, Earth owns a "Draw an oblate spheroid" shirt.
- One strip has Earth buy a NASA t-shirt like a certain other personification of Earth
... only for Luna to stick on some of their other space programs' logos as revenge for the many flags Earth puts on her. Ironically, Luna never wore the shirt herself despite looking more like the Earth-chan they were parodying than Earth did.
- One of Earth's cameras is called "Viking
- Show Within a Show: The Sirius Show, hosted by Sirius A.
- Sinister Shades: The neutron stars.
- Slapstick
- Smoking Is Cool: Titan. He refers the smog as his ' atmosphere '.
- Spit Take: Venus did one in earlier strips.
- Super-Deformed
- Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Genderflipped Marty the alien has a ribbon on her head.
- The Smurfette Principle: Venus is the only girl among the main cast. Unless you count Earth.
- There's also Bellatrix and Milky Way as well.
- The Voiceless: Charon
- ¡Three Amigos!: Venus, Earth and Mars. Altair, Deneb, and Vega also join the crew.
- Time Abyss
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Venus could be this to Earth.
- Io to Europa.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Despite all evidence to the contrary Venus turns out to be a man... but only in Sun's dream.
- Vague Age: The characters look vaguely young adult-ish, despite the vast differences in planetary age.
- World of Pun
- Yandere: Some of the giant stars have...very unstable tempers.