From the Bookshelf: Irina the Vampire Cosmonaut 7

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. I did let them accumulate without quite paying attention to their back cover blurbs; once I’d read past where the anime left off, though, I wound up going through them at a fair clip.
( For all Earthlings )