Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut

Director(s)Akitoshi Yokoyama

Production year2021

Genre(s)Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Approx. running minutes24m

CastYutaka Aoyama, Takaya Hashi, Megumi Hayashibara, Kikuko Inoue, Hina Kino, Mikako Komatsu, Chisa Suganuma, Yûki Tamai, Masaki Terasoma, Hiroki Tôchi, Akitoshi Yokoyama, Keisuke Makino, Yasunori Mitsuda

Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut

IRINA: THE VAMPIRE COSMONAUT is a Japanese fantasy drama anime series; in this episode, an astronaut candidate is assign ...

IRINA: THE VAMPIRE COSMONAUT is a Japanese fantasy drama anime series; in this episode, an astronaut candidate is assigned a new role as handler to an undead test subject.

moderate fantasy violence

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A stylised imaginary sequence shows a vampire biting a victim’s neck, with moderate bloody detail.

moderate injury detail

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18/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

There is a patch of blood on a vampire's clothing during a training exercise.

mild threat, nudity

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18/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

A female teacher is escorted from her classroom at gunpoint by soldiers. A man declares that a character must be killed after she ceases to be useful to a scientific programme.

nudity

There is sight of partial breast nudity in a non-sexualised context.

mild sex references, threat

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18/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

There are references to plans to eliminate a young woman after she ceases to be useful to a scientific programme. There are brief, stylised and undetailed images of guns being fired and two people perishing in a fire.

sex

There is brief focus on a young woman’s cleavage, and her underwear when her skirt billows up as she skates on a frozen lake.

moderate injury detail, threat, violence

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18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Soldiers attack characters with machine guns and flamethrowers; we see bodies burning in impressionistic scenes.

threat and horror

A female vampire character is tied by the wrists and muzzled; we later see her chained to a table for scientific tests, wearing only panties and with electrodes and her hair covering any nudity. A young girl hides beneath a bed as her parents are threatened at gunpoint.

injury detail

A number of dead bodies are left strewn over the floor with blood over their clothing after being shot.

moderate violence, threat

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18/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A man kicks a woman to the floor and swipes at her with a rope of garlic bulbs; he then presses his foot down on her head, clamping it to the ground. We also see her bite the side of an animal, but we do not see any detail of this.

threat and horror

A woman has visions of her body blackening and crumbling in a dream sequence. A character becomes trapped in a malfunctioning centrifuge training machine, threatening her life. A woman panics and seems to experience pain when she is skydiving.

mild injury detail, threat

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

There are several tense scenes as mission control staff fear that a space flight has gone wrong, which could cost the life of their cosmonaut. A man spins out of control on a motorcycle and crashes.

injury detail

There is brief sight a man's mildly bloody knee injury, with some blood also on his clothing.

mild injury detail

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18/05/2023

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injury detail

There are scars from a bite on a man's arm.

brief moderate threat

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18/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

A man pleads his innocence while being interrogated before being executed, but the man's death is not depicted on-screen. Milder scenes of threat include a sequence in which space cadets encounter brief danger during a training exercise.

mild violence, threat, sex references

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A man knocks a woman's ice-cream out of her hand and shoves her friend.

threat and horror

Characters discuss killing someone but decide against it. During a film a spaceship crash lands on a planet but no-one is hurt.

sex

There is a mildly sexulaised moment in which a man leans in to let his female vampire friend bite his neck.

mild bad language, threat, sex references

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

There are tense moments as mission control staff fear that a manned space flight is experiencing problems. A man clutches his chest, seemingly experiencing heart concerns, but seems to recover. A female vampire character walks through bright sunlight, shielding her eyes in impressionistic scenes.

language

There is occasional mild bad language ('piss').

sex

A character suggests a man is secretly attracted to a woman she describes as 'cute'; it is implied this relationship may be an inappropriate one as the woman is a vampire and considered 'lesser' than humans.

mild bad language, threat, drug references

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18/05/2023

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Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

Soldiers chase a vampire and point guns at her; however, other characters reassuringly intervene.

language

Mild bad language occurs ('dick').

drugs

A character holds up an empty vial and it is implied that she has heavily sedated a villainous character.

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18/05/2023

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Crunchyroll Limited

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18/05/2023

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Crunchyroll Limited

Classified date18/33/2023

LanguageJapanese

violence

A stylised imaginary sequence shows a vampire biting a victim’s neck, with moderate bloody detail.

additional issues

There are mildly scary images of a Nosferatu-like vampire rising from a coffin and biting a sleeping woman, without visible blood. In other scenes, a young vampire woman is kept in a cell and referred to as ‘it’ by her captors, who intend to force her to undergo dangerous scientific experiments. There are also mild upsetting references to a dog test subject having died in space. Other issues include very mild bad language (e.g. ‘damn’).

mild bad language, threat, drug references

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

Soldiers chase a vampire and point guns at her; however, other characters reassuringly intervene.

language

Mild bad language occurs ('dick').

drugs

A character holds up an empty vial and it is implied that she has heavily sedated a villainous character.

mild bad language, threat, sex references

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

language

There is occasional mild bad language ('piss').

sex

mild violence, threat, sex references

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A man knocks a woman's ice-cream out of her hand and shoves her friend.

threat and horror

Characters discuss killing someone but decide against it. During a film a spaceship crash lands on a planet but no-one is hurt.

sex

There is a mildly sexulaised moment in which a man leans in to let his female vampire friend bite his neck.

brief moderate threat

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

mild injury detail

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

There are scars from a bite on a man's arm.

mild injury detail, threat

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

There are several tense scenes as mission control staff fear that a space flight has gone wrong, which could cost the life of their cosmonaut. A man spins out of control on a motorcycle and crashes.

injury detail

There is brief sight a man's mildly bloody knee injury, with some blood also on his clothing.

moderate violence, threat

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

threat and horror

moderate injury detail, threat, violence

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Soldiers attack characters with machine guns and flamethrowers; we see bodies burning in impressionistic scenes.

threat and horror

injury detail

A number of dead bodies are left strewn over the floor with blood over their clothing after being shot.

mild sex references, threat

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

sex

There is brief focus on a young woman’s cleavage, and her underwear when her skirt billows up as she skates on a frozen lake.

mild threat, nudity

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

A female teacher is escorted from her classroom at gunpoint by soldiers. A man declares that a character must be killed after she ceases to be useful to a scientific programme.

nudity

There is sight of partial breast nudity in a non-sexualised context.

moderate injury detail

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

There is a patch of blood on a vampire's clothing during a training exercise.

moderate fantasy violence

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A stylised imaginary sequence shows a vampire biting a victim’s neck, with moderate bloody detail.

Director(s)Akitoshi Yokoyama

Production year2021

Genre(s)Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Approx. running minutes24m

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Crunchyroll Limited

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18/05/2023

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Crunchyroll Limited

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18/05/2023

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Crunchyroll Limited

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18/05/2023

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Crunchyroll Limited

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18/05/2023

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Crunchyroll Limited

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18/05/2023

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Crunchyroll Limited

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

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Crunchyroll Limited

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

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Crunchyroll Limited

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

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Crunchyroll Limited

Classified Date:

18/05/2023

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Distributor:

Crunchyroll Limited

Classified date18/33/2023

LanguageJapanese