It gets you with a guy whose life is already in the gutter. Robby Yarge loses the gig, loses the girlfriend, and picks up debt collectors in the same week, then decides the only reasonable response is to run for Isekandar, the planet where every wish supposedly comes true. What follows is a buddy road trip in space with Hatchi, and the joy is entirely in the two of them bickering across pit stops that each get their own art direction, so every planet looks like a different show. Shinji Takamatsu's comic timing does the heavy lifting, and the jokes land at a rhythm most twelve-episode comedies never find. The plot is vanilla and the animation gets choppy when it moves, nobody's pretending otherwise. You stay because by episode nine you'd genuinely be sad if these two idiots stopped traveling together.

Robby Yarge is having the worst run of his life. Around thirty and calling himself a freelance writer, he loses his contract and his girlfriend, barely survives a traffic accident, and ends up with debt collectors on his trail. When a thief grabs his bag, an 18-year-old part-timer named Hatchi Kita catches the culprit and returns it. Robby thanks him with a meal, but the two turn out to be complete opposites and go their separate ways. They meet again when Hatchi arrives to collect money for the loan shark Yan. Robby escapes into space, heading for Isekandar, a legendary planet said to bring happiness to anyone who reaches it, only to find Hatchi hiding aboard his ship. With Yan and his underlings Aro and Gra in pursuit, the mismatched pair set off across a galaxy where humans and aliens share a commonwealth of planets, facing alien encounters and giant robot battles along the way. The result is a comedic sci-fi mecha adventure.