Vampire Cosmonaut Anime Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu's Video Previews Ali Project Song

The official website for the television anime of Keisuke Makino and Karei's Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu (The Moon, Laika, and Nosferatu) light novel series began streaming a new promotional video for the anime on Thursday. The video previews the anime's opening theme song "Hi no Tsuki" (Crimson Moon) by Ali Project.

The anime's website also revealed that the first two episodes of the anime will have a paid online advance screening on September 4.

The anime's cast includes:

Megumi Hayashibara as Irina Ruminescu

Kouki Uchiyama as Lev Leps

Satoshi Hino as Mikhail Yashin

Mikako Komatsu as Roza Plevitskaya

Hina Kino as Anya Simonyan

The other cast members include:

• Takaya Hashi as Slava Korovin
• Masaki Terasoma as Lieutenant Victor
• Kikuko Inoue as Natalia
• Kenichi Ogata as Fjodor Gergiev
• M.A.O as Lyudmila Halrova
• Hiroki Touchi as Narrator

The anime will premiere in October on the Tokyo MX, BS NTV, Sun TV, and KBS Kyoto channels.

The original novels' story is set in a fictional world, 10 years after a long war divided the world into two superpowers: the Union of Zirnitra Republics in the east, and the United Kingdom of Arnak in the west. Both of these superpowers now test their ambitions against each other in a space race. In 1960, the Union's Premier Gergiev announces Project Mechtat (Dream), a prestigious plan to launch manned missions into the final frontier. To this end, the Union establishes the isolated city of Laika 44, where cosmonaut candidates compete for planned manned missions to space, and scientists develop the technology to make it happen, all in an environment of secrecy.

The story centers on Lev Leps, a backup astronaut candidate, and his new companion, the vampire Irina Ruminescu. As part of a daring new Operation Nosferatu, Project Mechtat will use Irina as a test subject for various conditions expected in space, and ultimately as part of a manned mission, with Lev overseeing Irina's training as a cosmonaut. For reasons of their own, both dream of going into space.

Akitoshi Yokoyama (Cutie Honey Universe, Photo Kano) is directing the anime at Arvo Animation. Original novel creator Keisuke Makino is in charge of the anime's series scripts. Hiromi Kato (I'm Gonna Be An Angel, Kobato., Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East) is designing the characters. Yūji Kaneko (Kill la Kill, Spriggan) is the art director.

Taiji Kawaguchi is serving as assistant director. Akihiro Hirasawa is the art designer, and Goichi Iwahata, Noritaka Suzuki, and Arvo-Design are handling the prop designs. Aiko Matsuyama is the color key artist. Hideki Imaizumi is the compositing director of photography, and Kiyoshi Hirose is editing. Takatoshi Hamano is the sound director, and Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Black Butler: Book of Circus, Inazuma Eleven) is composing the music.

Singer-songwriter Chima is performing the ending theme song "Arifureta Itsuka" (A Wonderful Someday).

Shogakukan's Gagaga Bunko light novel imprint launched the novel series in December 2016, and The novel series' sixth volume shipped on March 18. Sojihogu launched a manga adaptation of the novels in Kodansha's Comic Days website in March 2018, but went on indefinite hiatus beginning in January 2019 due to Sojihogu's poor health. It has not yet resumed. Kodansha published the manga's first compiled book volume in November 2018.

Sources: Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu anime's website, Comic Natalie