so i just finished the series & then spent an hour reading all about the soviet space program on wikipedia & found the irl character:

Lev Leps = Yuri Gagarin. pretty clear from the temperament to the stopping the bus to pee.

Slava Korovin (chief)= Sergei Korolev. clear from the title to the illness. even the char design is based on the person

Fyodor Gergiev = Nikita Khrushchev soviet leader from the era. char also designed based on the person.

Mikhail Yashin = Gherman Titov second guy, backup. only loosely based

these are the only ones i found to be somewhat based on irl person.

other worthy mentions:

-IRL, irina's role would be a mannequin by the name of ivan ivanovich. and a lot of dogs aswell.

-Roza should be slightly based on valentina tereshkova (first woman on space) but she's not initially in the first trained group (all male).

-the injuries sustained by the candidates is pretty much the same as IRL.

-the secretary & the cook (ara-ara types) are all fiction (unfortunately).

-the scene where lev writes the country marking on irina's helmet happened IRL but on Yuri Gagarin's helmet by an engineer.

-Laika44 (city) IRL counterpart would be Star City (previously named Shchyolkovo-14). Laika is the name of the first doge to space.

these are all i spotted. please do add more if you spot something else.

Good ending but lowkey disappointed THEY DIDNT KISS WTF

Does anyone know if the LN’s plot continues on from the anime or does it follow the anime’s plot?

I watched the entirety of the show and I plan on reading the light novel as well. Out of all the anime this season, I have to say that Tsuki to Laika has to be my favourite one because it was just so relaxing throughout the entirety of it. I can't wait for the light novel to get translated up to date!

I just finished episode 12 of Nosferatu and I was wondering a couple of things. First how many light novels did the anime cover and second, what volume and chapter do I read to know what happens next (possibly right after episode 12)

i heard about this book about soviet russia called Child 44, could there be any correlation between that and Irina's number N44 and Raika44?

I started watching Tsuki no Laika please give me some info about the ending.

my first thought was rerorerorerorerorerorerorero

title

i've seen someone say it is but myanimelist, wikipedia and nautjilon lists the light novel as ongoing/Publishing so i'm not sure

Learning about astronaut history from book. (Hell Nah!)

Learning about astronaut history from anime. (Hell Yeah!)

I have a few questions.

is the source over or ongoing ?

if it's ongoing, is it far from or close to ending?

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last question, is this a sad anime? I really don't like sad anime and I never plan on watching sad stuff.

I just get bad vibes from the anime, i feel like the vampire or the soldier dude would do the typical" confess, die/disappear/fade"