Getting your neck ripped open and sucked dry isn't weird, that's just what friends do.
Series in more sentences:
After getting saved from a vampire attack, the orphaned Yuki grows up enamoured by her saviour, even though she knows he's a vampire himself. Her saviour and her new foster father dream of a future where vampires and humans can coexist and set up a school where both groups can attend. Yuki and her foster brother are assigned to be the school's peacekeepers and have the heavy duty of making sure everyone obeys the rules, but Yuki's softened view on vampires makes her an easy target for the ill-intended.
When a powerful vampire is confirmed to reawaken, it becomes clear that Yuki is of greater importance than anyone could've guessed.
Not including the second season; this would've been a cool and simple romance story. If the main character wasn't such a crusty dish cloth of a person.
I greatly disliked Yuki. There are 2 men in this series willing to stop a bullet for her, while this girl is incompetent, spineless and a moron. She has such a goldfish mentality, she can comfortably visit and greet a character who intimidated her the day before. She always justifies being attacked by them or urges others to glance over it.
-"I'm sorry my friend scared you and tried to eat your finger, that was rude."
-"NO, NO, it's no big deal, hee hee!"
A defining feature of a dish cloth.
And it never ends with this girl. When a new vampiric student shows up and claims she wants to be friends with Yuki, she closes off her ass-kissing with a totally not suspicious sentence like "girls like you have sweet blood" and Yuki apparently doesn't hear that shit and acts surprised when someone else informs her the girl can't be trusted. What in the retardation?
Her foster brother is pretty much the only person who gets things done, so does the love interest, who has the benefit of being literal royalty within the vampire community and offers an easy fix when vampires start douching around by just staring at them. But Yuki doesn't have the nerves to speak up against them and doesn't mind grovelling in front of these pompous teenagers, which is very unfortunate for the humans she's supposed to protect.
Never once did she tell these vampires to chill their shit or successfully fought them off. What's the point of her being a peacekeeper if she can't keep the peace? Her interaction with the vampire Aido is a good example of how little she cares for her own safety or her job.
Speaking of the guy, his inconsistent act bothered me. One scene he's playing this dangerous troublemaker, the next a jolly animu cliché, and whoever shares the scene with him always plays along with it. Even the background music does. Am I supposed to forget this asshole attacked the main character multiple times, because they're now pulling lulzy faces at each other as if they're friends? These people aren't friends, why're they acting cute with each other?
Every "quirky" scene in this anime feels out of place. It's not the type of story that needs comedy to begin with.
Yuki's incompetence is distracting, as it doesn't add up when you look at her roots. She was -I assume- trained by a talented vampire hunter and given the task to play the school's guard for a reason, but I can't figure out what reason that would be.
The series should've made her a regular student, one with no responsibilities or expectations. She keeps being tricked by the creatures she's supposed to control, and shows them a ridiculous amount of respect, because really, she's afraid of them. Who thought it was a good idea to hand someone like that a weapon? A weapon she continuously fails to use, until the very last episode. Whereafter she fails again.
Nevertheless, I kept watching and can't say I didn't enjoy myself fine enough. Things were fine in the beginning, after all, but the big reveal and "grand villain" plot is what made me remove the initial + from my average score.
This story didn't end the way I thought it would and I was not impressed by the villain. He was overhyped as fuck, but in the end it only took 2 shots to kill him. It was so ridiculous, I expected his death to be a fake-out, but no, he was gone. I've never seen such an anti-climatic end to a villain.
If that wasn't enough, the big reveal made things awkward and disgusting, and the ending basically accepted it and also made sure to wreck the relationship between Yuki and her foster brother in the most idiotic and rushed way. No idea why they couldn't have stayed friends.
Horrible ending, would not watch again.
By the way. Those flashback scenes with the twin brothers.
These children were unmistakably gay with each other and it was distracting as Hell. Why is everything in this series incest, damn.
Also, if these neurotic vampires become restless the moment someone cuts their finger 1000 feet away, what are they going to do with themselves when a female student gets her period?
Alright, I'm done now.
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