Dark Horse has plenty of reasons to celebrate today as Riley VanDyke and Carl Gustav Horn have been recognised and awarded for their publication design of Makoto Yukimura’s Planetes Deluxe Edition by the American Manga Awards held annually at AnimeNYC.
Edited by Carl Gustav Horn and translated by Yuki Johnson, Planetes Deluxe Edition Book One is available now wherever you buy books. Congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 American Manga Awards!
Planetes is the ancient Greek word for “wanderers”—describing both the planets themselves, and the restless protagonists who dream of reaching those distant worlds against an epic backdrop of family, romance, politics, ambition, and war in creator Makoto Yukimura’s saga of the human drama of space exploration.
In the book it’s the late 21st century. People now live on the Moon and Mars, and for some, space is still an epic adventure, as plans are underway for the first-ever crewed voyage to Jupiter. If the giant planet can be successfully reached and harvested for the helium-3 fuel in its atmosphere, the entire solar system will open up to humanity!
Deluxe Edition features:
- Front and back covers feature debossed patterns with tactile effect.
- Metallic gilding on page edges.
- 7” x 10” hardback on high-quality paper.
- 44 full-color art pages on special gloss stock.
- Book design pays tribute to real astronauts; inspired by elements of the International Space Station.
