A group of students from the Cosmo Academy are about to take their final exam: surviving for over fifty days in a derelict ship. But when they arrive, they discover that instead of ten students, there are eleven. One of them doesn't belong there...
Direction
Dezaki's split-screen tension builds without a single jump scare.
Production
Hand-painted spaceship decay that puts modern CGI to shame.

Director
Satoshi Dezaki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Moto Hagio's 1975 manga, this helped establish the 'science fiction shōjo' subgenre rarely exported to Western audiences.
The ambiguously gendered Frol was revolutionary for 1986 anime—Hagio originally wrote them as intersex, softened for this adaptation.
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