Watch Episodes Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Moon, Laika, and the Bloodsucking Princess Japanese: 月とライカと吸血姫 English: Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut More titles InformationType: TV Episodes: 12 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Oct 4, 2021 to Dec 20, 2021 Premiered: Fall 2021 Broadcast: Sundays at 01:35 (JST) Producers: Shogakukan, BS TV Tokyo, Bandai Namco Arts, ADK Marketing Solutions Licensors: Funimation Studios: Arvo Animation Source: Light novel Genre: Fantasy Themes: Historical, Military, Space, Urban Fantasy, Vampire Duration: 23 min. per ep. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older StatisticsScore: 7.321 (scored by 55,336 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #26852 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #1537 Members: 158,829 Favorites: 757 Available AtResourcesStreaming Platforms |
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Dec 23, 2021 literaturenerd Not Recommended Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut. Just the title lets you know this is going to be a weird one. I went in having absolutely no idea what to expect, but I was still somehow disappointed by this one. I’m going honest and upfront. This isn't very good. Brought to you from the director of Cutey Honey Universe and a first-time writer, this is an alternate history version of the space race told through the perspective of the Soviet Union. Isn’t that literally just the plot of Royal Space Force? Gainax already did that shit in 1987 during the Cold War. Irina adds one new element to the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 19, 2021 Rachiba Recommended “The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory, as some people make it out to be. You have to put in a lot of work, a lot of sweat, and have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin” The Cold War lived between two opposing blocs, the beginning of a space and arms race, the dangers of a possible nuclear war and its end in the early nineties inspired many writers, artists, cartoonists and the media to create different works that sought to explain, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 19, 2021 KANLen09 Recommended Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu a.k.a Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut is a show that if you'd ask me how can I recommend this series to anyone, I would say this: "Imagine if the actual "Man of the Moon" historical feat never happened with the US of A's Neil Armstrong's iconic "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." sentence. The Space Race during the Cold War happening between 1955 and 1975 is instead won by the USSR a.k.a the Soviet Union in the same but alternate historical time period, using not just animals but vampires instead." And this is exactly what ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 19, 2021 i-like-this Recommended Communist Dracula. Flying through space and touching the stars is something everyone dreams of at one point in their lives, but did you dream about having your vampire girlfriend who sometimes wears a muzzle coming along for the ride? Irina: the Vampire Cosmonaut is another anime adaptation of a light novel which I will not sigh at because it is well written, interesting and unique in the light novel space. The space race is one of humanities most interesting events as well as controversial. Through a lightly distorted leans of historical fantasy where the USSR is the Federal Republic of Zirnitra and the USA is the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 25, 2021 Neo_Randomz Recommended Preliminary (4/12 eps) This anime is kinda unique,not everyone can suddenly decided to make something like “how about we make a story about a slavic counry sending A FCKING VAMPIRE TO THE FCKING MOON” that’s something I would never imagine,even when im drunk or something,next why don’t we just make a story about an ogre living in mars. Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 26, 2021 PandoraAlter Recommended Preliminary (4/12 eps) Well I'll say this. I think that this anime is the dark horse of the season. An anime about the space race is definitely something that I have not heard of before. Add the vampire tag and you have a recipe for a distinctive anime. Story 8/10: Art 7/10: Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 20, 2021 AnimeEnjoyer420 Recommended Recommendation: A cute love story filled with nostalgia and old Soviet aesthetics, it's nothing revolutionary but a very pleasant watch overall. Story: The Soviet Union analogue USZR is going to be the first to send a person to space, but desperately wants to avoid international embarrassment by having them die in an accident with the world watching. Their solution is to send a vampire prisoner, Test Subject N44 AKA Irina Luminesk, into space first as an experiment, since she is near-human in physiology but considered closer to a dog than a human, so no one will miss her if something goes wrong. Lev Leps, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 24, 2021 SpRayquaza11 Mixed Feelings Preliminary (4/12 eps) This a show that is taking a bit too much to lay all its cards on the table but yes WEINE CLONE WAIFU IS NICE Now look the entirety of this anime season is pretty wack, a vampire going t space is surely a concept that will pique your interest one way or another , BUT as with all anime this anime can also be easily distinguished with the tropes it plays :- Demi-Human waifu who you wish to proteccc Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 21, 2022 lamaraptor Recommended When I read the description of "vampires in space" I knew I had to watch this one. Something so wonderfully stupid just had to be entertaining. On some levels it was, but it really dropped the ball in the second half. Let's look at our main characters first. Protagonist-kun wants to go to space, and that's where his character development begins and ends. But, and here's the twist, the vampire girl also wants to go to space. Stunning and brave. I really thought they'd be able to come up with more for these characters to do or some more personality traits beyond the bog standard rom-com ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 21, 2021 M1c3f Not Recommended Welcome to M1c3f's condensed Anime review. I'll be giving you all the necessary information about a show in just a few sentences and a following recommendation. First and most important to know: TLN's main purpose undoubtedly is meant to be round earth propaganda. The female lead is a cute tsundere vampire. The story plays in a cliche anime version of the USSR. It picks up antisemitism in a metaphorical way. I felt twilight vibes even though I haven't seen any movies or read books about the series which felt awkward. The show being a drama has an ok dramatic ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 20, 2021 ren0080 Mixed Feelings It's very rare to see an anime about vampires that has sci-fi elements nowadays. Both genres are like oil and water, genres that aren't supposed to be mixed together. What's the point of watching this then? Well, I can at least say that watching this anime won't waste your time. Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 24, 2021 PecoTheHero Recommended Preliminary (4/12 eps) When you break apart and look at the aspects of Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu individually, it may not seem very impressive or groundbreaking. However the way it all comes together forms a grounded and well rounded show. Story: What I immediately found interesting was the setting, the 60's in the totally-not-Soviet Union aka UZSR. Oh and it's about a space race. With a vampire. It sounds absurd but in reality the execution is well done. It has more of a serious tone at times; it makes a point to emphasize the inequality and how poorly vampires are treated. This is balanced out by our ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 26, 2021 algoPotaku Recommended The anime is so cute and tired. I like how it treats the space race between the United States and Russia very well. It's a good compilation of history and they put it together with a vampire girl who wants to be an astronaut. I love how they handle the story the main character as you want, you love him, you want everything in life to go well for him. The animation quite well and the soundtrack also the character design is well done. I would have liked it to be more romantic because there are scenes where you say, tell him that you like ... Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 25, 2021 Ellenwitch Recommended Preliminary (4/12 eps) I know what you are thinking. Looking at not only the title of the anime, but the description too. Thinking. 'Vampires in space? What?' It's a concept that one may think it's crazy, and might be a random anime that is thrown together, and doesn't connect well with it's audience. But honestly, this show can be more seriously sweet then it seems. That's mainly down to it's main partnering main cast members, that really drive the show forward, and it's sweet of how their relationship is. Like imagine, being scapegoated, as nothing by a tool by most, seen as such by most. With the idea ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 20, 2021 SanaeK10 Mixed Feelings Going into the Fall 2021 Season, I would have never thought an alternate history fiction about a Soviet Vampire going to space will be my Comfy Anime of the Season, but here I am. In spite of its oppressive setting, or maybe even because of it, Tsuki to Laika has been a light and enjoyable viewing experience. One thing the show makes it abundantly clear even in the first episode, is that the Vampire/Dhampir are a catch-all for assorted prosecuted races and ethnicities in the Soviet Union/USA. The show being hard historical fiction with relatively accurate depictions of the Soviet Space program came to me as ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 27, 2022 mkzxwing Recommended *Spoilers ahead* This is a show which is rather different than usual. On one hand, at its core, its really not that special. The story is based on real event, except it takes place in an alternate universe/world/reality where the alphabet and names of everything are different, but factually everything is exactly the same as the cold war era. Well, aside vampires (that are also different to normal vampires in most regards). The documentation of soviet cosmonaut training and launch isn't something too exciting, unless you're a space and/or history nut, and isn't handled too well here either, despite the addition of a semi cuudere and ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 20, 2021 Lastwindstrider Recommended Irina the Vampire Cosmonaut is basically a treat for all the history buffs out there who also manage to think of the "what if" scenarios of the pasts, like when the USSR won the space race against the USA. Here are my Ratings for this show Story is 6/10- Basically established a solid plot but its not bad but its not special either. Art 9/10- Eye Candy to the eyes especially the MOE character design of Irina, Anya and other female characters. Sound 9/10- Want a fictionalized USSR themed OST? you can listen it here and reminisce the past glory of the great USSR! Character 6/10- I'll give ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 2, 2022 DontReadPls Recommended What is this anime? Did I enjoy it? Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 24, 2021 Mephistofele Mixed Feelings "The Vampire Cosmonaut" has a very high purpose from the moral point of view: a reflection on the importance of equality and the absurdity of the concept of race, creating a parallelism between people considered "inferior" and the vampire species, despised and segregated due to the negative propaganda they suffer from humanity. The purpose has been objectively achieved: during the show we see that our protagonist is abundantly denigrated, so much so that she is considered a simple object on which to experiment, and, subsequently, some merits are recognized, as in any story about episodes of racism. . From a human point of view, however, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 8, 2022 monsta666 Recommended Story/characters: The premise to Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut is outlandish and watching this series requires one to suspend their disbelief over the idea of inserting a vampire on an otherwise realistic storyline. Not everyone can achieve such a feat and this premise is bound to turn people off. It was not an issue for me as I have learned anime can get a little wacky and hey! So long as all the craziness is provided right at the start, I am willing to give it a go! If you can overcome that obstacle then you will be surprised at how closely this series follows real events of ... Read more Open Gift Report More Reviews |
