Mainly this is due to the new influx of animes that are beautifully drawn and the storylines are getting very good and intriguing. Among all these animes that I have liked, Vampire Knight and its sequel, Vampire Knight Guilty, is one of them.
Vampire Knight is not officially shown on Singapore's channel. So I watched the anime online. The anime itself is adapted from a popular manga of the same name. A cover picture of the manga is shown below with the three leads.
From left to right: Zero Kiryu, Yuki Cross and Kaname Kuran. The manga is written by Matsuri Hino, as seen on the book's cover. The story is about a young girl, Yuki Cross, whose earliest memory is of a snowy night in winter, when she was attacked by one vampire and was saved by another, Kaname Kuran.
Yuki is the adopted daughter of the Headmaster of Cross Academy, Kaien Cross and has grown up and became a prefect for the school with one main purpose: to protect the Human Day Class Students and the Vampire Night Class Students from each other. Yuki is actually a vampire but her mum had blocked her early childhood memories as well as her vampire side in order to protect her from her evil uncle, Rido Kuran.
Her fellow guardian, Zero Kiryu, a childhood companion whose parents were killed by a pureblood vampire, is now determined to kill them all and refuses to trust them. Through a cruel twist of fate, Zero becomes a vampire himself, having been bitten by the same pureblood vampire four years before, Shizuka Hio. Having come from a family line of vampire hunters, he rejected his vampire side but was eventually forced to accept his vampire side when he was overpowered by the thirst of blood in him. However, he still set out to destroy vampires and through a twist of events, he ended up being the strongest vampire hunter ever and managed to defeat Rido Kuran together with Yuki.
For Kaname, he leads the group of Night class as their President. On top of that, he is also a pureblood vampire who commands awe and respect from his fellow mates. Unknown to Yuki, he is also her fiance and they had pledged to marry each other when they were young. Unknown to Yuki, Kaname is actually the ancient ancestor of the Kurans, and Rido is his master who awakened him from his grave, making him unable to kill his 'master'.
Because of the theme of suggested incest, this anime will never get to premiere in Singapore. It's a pity though. The story is intriguing yet humourous at the same time. I enjoyed watching the anime as it has many light-hearted moments. Kaien Cross provided many of the comic reliefs in the anime and it's a good thing that I watched this anime in the comfort of my home. Ha!
I like the way the vampires activated their powers by turning their eyes red, or something like that. When they are not sucking blood, their eye colours are normal. However their eye colours turned bright red when they reveal their vampire side. See the picture below of the vampire side of Zero:
Eh, it's kind of different from the Twilight vampires. They just suck blood normally and the Cullen family only feeds on animals and not humans. Zero had fed on Yuki on several occasions when she was still living as a human. For the rest of the vampires in the Night class, they survived on blood tablets which was not quite the same thing as human blood.
Nonetheless, all the vampires are so cool and gorgeous in Vampire Knight. Just like the Cullens in the Twilight series. I think being cool is part of the job description of a vampire. But Yuki is so, erm, uncool. However, she is still loveable enough for both Zero and Kaname to fight over her. I'm so envious of Yuki. She gets to choose between 2 gorgeous guys who are willing to do anything for her.
From I have searched on the internet, Yuki finally makes her choice in Kaname and Zero wishes her all the best before leaving her. Aww... Honestly if it were me, I wouldn't know who to pick. They are good in their own way so it's hard to make any comparison. Many fans out there actually hoped that Yuki would choose Zero because he's so protective towards her.
In the second season, Vampire Knight Guilty, they have shown up to the latest episode 11. Now I am waiting for episode 12 to be aired so that I can watch. Zero actually has a twin brother, Ichiru, and in the previous episode, he had sacrificed himself so that Zero could finally gain power as an individual rather than be split into 2 parts as twins do. For it's a curse for twins to be borned to a vampire hunter family.
Oh man, I can't wait for the next episode! It's gonna get exciting and things are certainly going to get rough between Yuki, Kaname and Zero.
w00t!
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