The moment that thing starts moving through the Saldes, the ship stops being a vessel and becomes a tomb with walls closing in. Claustrophobia does the heavy lifting here, not jump scares, not gore, just the suffocating reality that thirteen people in zero gravity have nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Single OVA, no filler, no mercy.
In the year 2264, the starship Saldes sets out on a twenty-year voyage to explore a newly found planet, its crew sleeping in stasis for the trip. The thirteen aboard pair hardened spacefarers with young, inexperienced scientists, sponsored by the corporation Syncam. On waking, they learn that two of them are criminals living under false identities, and they must start investigating one another. Soon an unseen alien with a ravenous hunger is loose on the ship, a mysterious force seizes the controls, and crew members begin vanishing and dying in strange ways. As their numbers fall, the survivors fight to stay alive aboard a vessel that has turned into a coffin circling the very paradise it was meant to reach, unsure who or what is among them. The OVA blends science fiction, horror and drama.
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