With the adaptation of the Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu novel series underway, the folks at Seven Seas Entertainment are hoping to provide fans with the source material. They’ve announced the pickup of the light novel series with plans for the light novels to debut in August 2022 in print with digital to come sooner. They’re going to be done in a large-trim format where they’ll retail at $14.99 and be a part of the Airship imprint.
The anime adaptation set Akitoshi Yokoyama to direct with Keisuke Makino overseeing the scripts for it. Hiromi Kato is on board for the character designs with Arvo Animation handling the production.
The 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, 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, and Hiroki Touchi as Narrator.
Ali Project will be playing the opening theme song “Hi no Tsuki” while Chima would handle the ending theme song “Arifureta Itsuka.”
The novels from writer Keisuke Makino and illustrator Karei which began in 2016 and has six volumes out as of the announcement. A manga adaptation by Sojihogu began in 2018 but is on hiatus due to the artists health.
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Plot Concept:
In an alternate version of the 1960s, two global superpowers have emerged after a savage war: the Zirnitra Union and the United Kingdom of Arnack. East and West are locked in a fierce race to send the first crewed flight into outer space, leading the Union to develop a secret agenda: the Nosferatu Project, which aims to use vampires as spaceflight test subjects. Similar to humans but feared and reviled, vampires are assumed to make the perfect “guinea pigs” for such a dangerous task. Lev Leps, a Union soldier and aspiring cosmonaut, is tasked with overseeing vampire Irina Luminesk aka N44, who has been chosen for the operation–and he can’t quite detach his feelings from the vampire girl as planned. Faced with pressure and peril, will either of them manage to fly into the cosmos?
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