Space Lesbian Princess (2025) Review

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Saira is a Space. Lesbian. Princess! But she is so insecure that she can't even summon the great symbol of lesbian power - The Labrys. Which her moms are terribly disappointed about. And on top of that, Saira's girlfriend, the cool punk Kiki, dumped her on her birthday… sadness and sorrow!

But when Kiki is kidnapped by the sinister White Straight Maliens, Saira will have to gather her courage and embark on a grand cosmic adventure, meet new friends and find her true self in order to save love and prove to the entire Gaylaxy that girls are worth something too!

 

Good Lord.

In 2026, this slightly weird (just a little!) indie cartoon from faraway Australia (and the no less distant 2024) became a genuine meme, uniting almost every fandom on the internet in self-hatred. I got curious about what all the fuss was about, because when almost everyone starts bashing something, - whether it's DLSS 5, AI or the price of GTA 6, - it's always useful to judge for yourself and form your own opinion. To remain, if not impartial, then at least somewhat independent. So here we are. I watched “Space Lesbian Princess”.

And you know… haha. I wouldn't say it's outright bad! Not all the jokes work (I'd say around 70%), the character arcs are predictable, the design looks like a mix of “Rick and Morty” with Tumblr fan art. The animation is cheap, the characters are barely developed, and one of the plotlines ends… let's just say, REALISTICALLY, but extremely stupidly, sadly and undramatically (I kept hoping until the very end that it would be developed more in the finale). BUT - there is some very readable humor here if you tune into the absurdity and irony right away (including self-irony - the creators are clearly poking fun at elements of queer culture like a safe space where everything can be too comfortable, or, more universally, - “Clitopolis, which is hard to find”).

 

 

The cartoon is excellently voiced, the girls give it their all (the boys too; some of the dialogue feels improvised - and it's painfully funny). The music is heartfelt and, where needed, energetic. Most of the pop ballads are connected to the character Willow, - I liked her right away: an alt girl with goat ears and a guitar, who once sang in a band of free people, but realized that the queer music genre had become a prison for her, while her soul was asking for more freedom. This is just… universal stuff, we're all cramped by the boundaries imposed by everyone else.

The White Straight Maliens were very amusing: they're literally white rectangles with the voices of incel podcasters: in the plot, they bought a Chick Magnet to lure chicks, but without the magic axe it only attracts chickens, not hot clicks, so the owners of a very peculiar worldview like “I bought you a drink, you got turned on and now I get sex” will also have a rough time in their own way. (But everything will be fine in the end!)

Haha.

Yes, as you can tell, there isn't a single normal male character in the film (except, perhaps, the space Ed Sheeran), traditionalism,“mansplaining” and the manosphere are mocked to the fullest, while the focus overall is on the female perspective and the difference between people who simply want to be themselves. and those who never hear or listen.

Although the task itself isn't exactly the hardest one.

But the cartoon has a good message: “toxic relationships - bad, not being afraid to be yourself and saying “no” - good” (important conversations!). Yes, it gets drowned out by simple animation, a specific design and an Australian sense of humor combined with profanity, but, as one of the commenters under a post about the cartoon going viral said, “we really do talk like that, mate”.

 

 

Most likely, the internet will forget about “Space  Lesbian Princess” even faster than “Spermageddon” (wut? yes!), but I'm actually glad that an independent and mischievous adult cartoon gained such notoriety, even if for some reason it was negative. Is it worth watching? Recommending it, honestly, is a little difficult (as is writing a carefully considered review - the film isn't worth that), but it certainly has its own specific charm.

After all, this is auteur indie animation for its niche, not sterile Disney, created to please everyone (and no one at the same time). That's valuable, that's freedom.

 

 

Rating: 5… no, actually 6/10, - questionable, but even funny in places if you catch the right vibe right away. “Ew, she's straight” - the most terrible insult on the internet for Saira!

P.S. Ha, but the cartoon's rating on Rotten Tomatoes is actually decent: a whopping 96% fresh. Apparently, I'm not the only one who fell under the alt girl's lunar guitarist magic.

P.P.S. Whoa, “Problematic Ship” is voiced by Richard Roxburgh! That's Count Dracula from “Van Helsing” with Hugh Jackman… Awesome, didn't recognize him.

Автор: Updated at Sep 28th 2026