I received promises that Kanata no Astra would look really good in some volume more forwadly, but in 2 volumes it was unable to present me anything decent to continue, but cliché stuff, and to make matters worse, it is not even a good cliché, but a sickening, discouraging and with many problems. So, what did the manga present? Conveniences, cliché cast, weak dramas and many flaws.

In this review I will highlight my disagreements with the work on 3 factors:

1- The cast
2- The elements of the work
3- The course it took at the end of the first volume

Definitely the biggest problem of all is the cast, after all, the cast is the most stereotyped and cliché thing I've ever seen. Being composed by:

- The ambitious male protagonist motivated by some very specific phrase from some tragic drama that he went through in his childhood (besides being quite hardheaded at times);

- The cute and innocent girl who just wants to be everyone's friend (kind of stupid, but out of nowhere she takes intelligence from where she doesn't have it);

- The girl revolted with everything and everyone, who doesn't want to know anything, only complains and fixes intrigue (tsundere) but soon afterwards redeems herself after suffering the """physical and moral consequences""" of her actions;

- The guy who's completely calm with everything, without worrying about anything, but absolutely vague of personality;

- The isolated girl, without personality, shy who barely makes a presence in the plot;

- The rebel who rebels against all attitudes and arms conflict and is only used for that;

- The stripped donkey that is useless for nothing but serving for a comic post that is not funny;

- The cute child that should be used for some twist;

- And the smart guy who moves the plot while the others are a bunch of clowns, but still, quite boring;

In the first volume too, the plot was absolutely cliché over an interesting theme that is space. But it tried to build the power of friendship, exploration, mystery, drama, survival, but it didn't work at any of them at all. Not to mention the great convenience of the work in an event at the end of the first volume, but of course, built in an ineffective way to build a cheap drama to shock the reader.

In the second volume, a typical mystery and investigation of an alleged traitor within a group that put them in an unfortunate situation was presented, if this cliché does not even have minimally unique tones or substances (as the work as a whole has not presented since the beginning) and that tends to stretch throughout the manga, i'm done with it, dropped in the second volume.

What's good about it? At first the premise in space is interesting, space tends to be intriguing but the way it is presented by the manga ends up not being so cool. The art is also cool, despite very mediocre designs, it is very smooth and pleasant to follow.

If you don't have problems with absurdly cliché works and not innovative at all, and you can find fun in Kanata no Astra somehow, go ahead.