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Apr 21, 2022
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 couple is forced to spend time together doing something they both enjoy and we're somehow supposed to be surprised they fall in love. These cheesy setups are fine in isolation, I just would have liked too see something a little better suited to the ludicrous tone of space vampires. It's played so straight for something that should be so silly.

The ending is where it really lost me. They played up that blonde lady as being some sort of big bad the whole season and the old communist leader guy as being a communist, so you know... evil. When they have a sudden change of heart at the end about vampires and humans living together it seemed too jarring. These guys are clearly evil so what's their angle? Why would an evil communist regime suddenly be preaching open borders for vampire immigrants and racial equality for our new bloodsucking allies? Why would they want to dilute the gene pool of the nation's populous with such a volatile race of potentially violent heathens.

The more I thought about it the stranger I found it that the government wanted one of their star cosmonaut candidates to spend practically all of him time isolated and alone with a cute vampire girl around his age who shared his passion for space. They had to have known exactly what they were doing, essentially creating a breeding program for race-mixing with vampires by setting the wheels in motion for this romance to form. A government that views it's citizens and especially it's military as nothing more than objects, subjects to be used and then tossed away, would surely have no qualms about manipulating emotions in such a way. When viewed from this angle the show suddenly becomes an incredibly based indictment of real world communism and how quickly it turns to globalism, establishing itself as progressive while seeking to subvert society and mix races down to a single homogeneous and inferior kind with no culture and no history, and therefor no future. A mutt race that is neither human nor vampire, inheriting only the worst traits of each until there is nothing of value left all the while a secret elite ruling class maintaining it's own selective breeding to foster a false sense of superiority over the ones which they deem to control.

But, uh... where was I? Oh yeah the anime. All that is obvious head-cannon brought on by my jaded outlook on real world politics, I don't think the story had nearly that many interesting things to say, but coming up with that bit of fiction as I watched the final moments of this hot dumpster fire of an anime was far more entertaining than just going along with the boring ending they lined up. But the fact that I was able to view this art and extrapolate that silly story out of it maybe means that it's a secret masterpiece? I don't know, I'm going to go with my gut and say it's nothing special. 7/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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