After coming upon this oneshot from scrolling through Anilist I decided to give Destronaut a try and man am I ever glad I did. Its hard to summarize what exactly I read into words the fact it reminded me so much of something H.P. Lovecraft would write after studying him in my English literature university classes. The profound emptiness it leaves you while reading much like the endless void of space in which the main character is is amazing. 500https://meo.comick.pictures/39ZdjQa1VTlTii.png Unsettling eerie and yet extremely beautiful Destronaut tells the story of an elderly samurai sent to the moon to recover a governmental disk from a wrecked space station. Once there he is settled upon the corpses of yearold cosmonauts possessed by some sort of biological component not known to Earths organic structure and must fight to complete his mission. I loved the art of this series so much. The author knows very well how to portray a sense of foreboding emptiness that mirrors the cold black endless cosmos that surrounds their protagonist which reflects in not only the creepy empty geography of the moon but also the hollow lifeless views of the possessed cosmonauts as well as their empty space station half covered in some sort of biological material thats overgrown it. The story while quite simple and short does not need to be much more complicated than how simple it is especially for a oneshot. It gets the point across and leaves the reader interested satisfied and eager to read until the end even its small plot twist at the end. In my opinion Destronaut would make a fantastic anime movie or OVA. If it could be really fleshed out maybe a short tankobon set or an anime series. However dealing with the story alone I think the more fleshed out it is the blander it will be. Some works are better as short stories otherwise they lose their sense of creepiness horror or mystery. And for that I give it major props. The only downside I would have is that the characters are fairly bland but I can see from a stylistic point of view as to why that is. For one its a oneshot the big idea is not the characters to begin with and for something around thirty pages theres not much time to flesh out characters. Two the story isnt about characters really but more of an expression of atmosphere art and mystery at least from how I view it. And for that I give it mad respect. As a oneshot I think Destronaut did very well and it reminded me of one of my favorite horror authors of all time. Its short creepy has an absolutely beautiful artistic feel and the voidness of space as well as the creatures in the work mixed in with beautiful action make it absolutely worth the read. And as this work reminds me a lot of the author himself I think the quote from H.P. Lovecraft fits the style of Destonaut perfectly and why you should definitely go and read it too: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H.P. Lovecraft Supernatural Horror in Literature