Unbelievable Space Love

(Indirect spoilers)

A story that barely peeks over ten minutes in total length, in which you don't even learn the characters' last names. Yet somehow it is striking, overbearing, and not enough... all at once.

Of which the entirety of it takes place in a dream-like state. Proposing the question: was the whole thing even real? Was the other person (the other character of either one of our unnamed protagonists speaks to), a figment of his imagination? A desperate fervor of last-minute conciliation, created in a means of comfort, quite possibly. Or, on the other hand, a final goodbye, when you have the knowledge that these ... will be your final thoughts.

And the most welcome interperation of all: that there is a happy ending. Reunitement and warm tears of joy.

The beauty of Unbelievable Space Love is entirely up to the viewer.

(Spoiler ig)


In its simplicity, I really loved this anime with a open ending.

Did they both die? Did the other survive? Is the blue-haired man keeping him company in his unconsciousness? Does he close his eyes because he lets him go back to the world of the living or because he’s happy that they will always stay together? Why didn’t they get married when they were alive?

There are so many questions, and I wish there was even one more minute to figure it out. I like anime with an open ending and, similarly, I hate them because I’ll never know the truth. In its simplicity, I ... really loved these ten minutes.

The colors are very calm, the contrast between the world of the living and the world of the dead is fantastic and the environment and the characters give me a lot of calm.

[Potential Spoiler]

A dreamlike, beautiful piece of art. Calming and relaxing, I enjoyed it tremendously. In 10 beautiful minutes it delivered a most moving love story between two young men.

(Here comes a potential spoiler, don't read more if you haven't finished watching.)

Since it has an open ending, the meaning of the anime is left to the viewer. Here is my interpretation.

As the space probe falls towards Earth with not enough time to save the life of the pilot, the AI enters his mind with the goal of making his last 10 minutes beautiful and relaxing before he dies. The AI knows the pilot so well that ... it knows his most cherished secret wish: to find and marry a beautiful young man of his dreams. Knowing this, the AI induces a hypnotic dream about a handsome stranger with whom the pilot has been together for 7 years, deeply in love, without remembering those years, and today is their wedding day. With this dream of their wedding day the pilot dies peacefully and happily.