#irina the vampire cosmonaut

[serexvu]

irina luminesk icon set

thank you for your request <3

irina luminesk from irina: the vampire cosmonaut

[reyonaslife]

Irina Luminesk, our space communist waifu 🥹

This anime has everything: vampires, cosmonauts, space, soviet aesthetics, an incredibly wholesome romance.

And the music is gorgeous. Its made by Yasunori Mitsuda, so automatically you know its going to be amazing. The score is entirely orchestral pieces, or piano melodies, or jazzy bops. I love it so much.

30 second drawing timelapse below:

[areweebthereyet]

What if we told you there's a show that combines your childhood dream of being an astronaut with your middle school vampire obsession? Would you believe us? WOULD YOU?

On Monday we're watching Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut!

[krjpalmer]

“Almost the countdown to Vostok 1... but with a teenaged girl vampire stuck on an unacknowledged test flight for the not-the Soviet Union” provoked a few amused “only in anime” thoughts. I did figure out, though, that Irina the Vampire Cosmonaut had been adapted from “light novels.” When I saw those novels had been translated into English...

[animehouse-moe]

Vacation Update

As you might be able to tell by the title and the image, I'm currently on vacation somewhere warm and by the ocean (definitely a great place to travel to when it's already hot back home /s). I actually got in yesterday evening, but was busy getting myself sorted out and organized so I didn't have the time to post.

Regardless, I just wanted to share what I was up to as I'll be here until Wednesday, so posts will be happening much later in the day, and some might be delayed to the day after. I'll still be doing Zom 100 today though as well as (hopefully) the OP/ED for Link Click as well.

And just one last thing, through the very gracious kindness of a friend, I actually have a haul to share! They went to Japan a while back and bought some stuff for me, and were recently bemoaning how expensive international shipping is. Luckily I remembered the place I'm staying at can take/handle packages so we got it shipped to here for a fraction of the price it would be to ship to my home address. Pretty cool, and pretty cool stuff in the haul too! The storyboard volume for Fate/Stay Night UBW season 2, the magazine that has the first return chapter for Vanitas, and some very cute and fun Bocchi The Rock pins!

Anyways, that's all I've got to say for now. The weather's nice, the beach (not pictured) is very quiet and clean, and the latest volume of Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut is very good so far!

[ibelongtotheclassics]

Sharing some of my childhood + present anime & studio ghibli OTPs

*uwu* they’re so precious for meee 💖🎬🇯🇵

< PART 8 / on-going list >

[ryujin1234567]

[someawesomeamvs]

Warning: Potential spoilers

Title: The Launch

Editor: JCD

Song: Apollo 13: The Launch

Artist: James Horner

Anime: Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (film)

Other Media: Gagarin: First in Space (film), The First Spaceflight Almost Ended in Failure (film)

Category: Drama

[doublesama]

Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut is the first of 2 Patron-picked anime this month. It's about a vampire named Irina who becomes a cosmonaut.

[setteidreams]

✿ Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu ┊ 38 sheets ✿

… a 2021 TV series with character designs by Hiromi Kato has been added to Patreon.

[thefloatingstone]

Your recent post laying of blood reminded me of an anime you mentioned about a girl that gets launched into space for testing, like to know what it was called.

Oh sure!

It's Japanese name is "Tsuki to Laika to Nosfaratu" (The Moon and Laika and Nosferatu)

And it's English name is "Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut"

[mangabookshelf]

Manga the Week of 1/31/24

SEAN: The end of January and the start of The Worst Month ™. ASH: And an extra long one at that! SEAN: We start with Airship, which in print gives us Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut 7 (the final volume) and She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man 9. And in early digital we get Modern Villainess: It’s Not Easy Building a Corporate Empire Before the Crash 4 and Mushoku Tensei: Jobless…

[newsintheshell]

✨ A RETURNER’S MAGIC SHOULD BE SPECIAL: CONFERMATA UNA SECONDA STAGIONE ANCHE PER LA SERIE TRATTA DALL'ACTION FANTASY COREANO!

Riuscirà ARVO ANIMATION (Monster Girl Doctor, Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut) ad alzare un po' il livello della produzione e a non rushare brutalmente la storia, la prossima volta? Non ci conterei troppo.

Nel frattempo vi ricordo che i primi 12 episodi dell'anime sono tutti in streaming su Crunchyroll.

[anianimals-moe]

White dog from Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut

Today's AniAnimal is this white dog from "Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut". While This dog jumped at Irina as she hiding her embarrassment when Anya, Irina, and Lev were out on a walk. 今日のアニアニマルは『月とライカと吸血姫』に出てくる白い犬です。この犬は、アーニャ、イリーナ、レフが散歩に出かけたときに、照れ隠してるイリーナに飛びつきました。

[krjpalmer]

Irina the Vampire Cosmonaut, as an anime adaptation of a “light novel” series, offered a more satisfying stopping point by itself than some adaptations I’ve seen. Still, invoking “real space history” through its world not quite our own just might have done as much as its specific peculiar and amusing core concept to bump up my interest to the point of also buying its novels when they turned out to be translated...

[animehouse-moe]

Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut Volume 5 - Hunting Dogs

Finally, a volume back with Lev and Irina. I don't think it could have come at a better time in the story either. The material, the extension of Bart and Kaye's story, the isolation and internal struggle that face a pair that have seen the world and outer space as they're confined once more to their country. And the fact that we now begin to deviate from history. Impeccable decisions from a story perspective, with plenty to love, and maybe a few jabs to make.

Allow me to start with my more critical remarks. The biggest struggle with a story is time. Trimming down as much as you can to provide a streamlined and effective experience for readers. Makino does a great job overall, but I feel slightly misses the mark with Roza and Mikhail. Being limited to Lev's perspective we're not given enough time with either individual to be as attached to them as possible through their stories in this volume. There's a lot of greatly compelling aspects between the pair of them, and I would have loved to have seen them further explored. Of course, as I said earlier, being limited to Lev's perspective means we're also limited with what we can do with supporting characters, so I really hope Makino aspires to be more bold with future volumes and branch out in terms of perspective and narrative.

Aside from that though, I don't really have any major criticisms for the volume. A piece here and there, how things are shown to the reader for one scene, or the thoughts of a specific character; nothing major.

In terms of praise though, it really starts from the get go. This volume effortlessly converts on the issues raised by Bart and Kaye's tenure in the story, producing natural development from Irina's treatment as a test subject, to Kaye's treatment alongside Dhampirs as people, to now examining how the USZR views and treats its cosmonauts as a whole. It arrives at the conclusion of Lev and Irina's divorce from outer space, and uses that yearning as fuel for the fire that is lit beneath our characters in this volume.

The whole series has done an incredible job of marrying passion and oppression to create a swirling vortex of desire and hatred, and has slowly but surely increased the scales until the tipping point of this volume has been reached. Protest isn't possible, once in a lifetime speeches aren't happening, so Lev and Irina borrow from the ideas of both to produce their seeds of hope for the future in a very grounded and passionate manner.

Enough of that though, allow me to talk specifics to this volume (sort of). We're 5 volumes in, countless spaceflight have occurred up until this point, and we've not been faced with a single death. We knew it would happen, and we had ideas as to who it may be. In spite of that though, and the fake outs and one-two punches, the drama and emotion of the moment remain strong. Why? Because it was well written from the beginning. Resigned to fate, allowing the course of their life to be dictated by the shallow politics of a man clinging to a delusion of success, our hero of this volume is the exact cause for Lev and Irina's actions. The foundation for their push for a better future, the straw that broke the camel's back. Makino saves a character death for the moment that needs it the most, where space development stalls and hope is lost, and finds the best way to use it to propel our story into its newly fictional future.

I mean, we've already had vampires, so isn't it already fictional? Yes, but sorta no. Up until this volume, history has been loosely followed. However, this volume shakes things up in very important ways, and provides Makino with full freedom in his story of fictional spaceflight. It proves that the sky's the limit, and beyond exist an even more infinite boundary. I'm incredibly curious to see how things go now that we'll be into new territory, and I'm very interested to see how the themes of oppression, inequality, and prejudice remain as we shed concrete past and drift towards a more cloudy future.