Rosario + Vampire

[Kraco]

Rosario To Vampire



Due to poor grades, Tsukune Aono, an average high school student, has been unable to get accepted into any private academy of his choice. By exceptional accident, the only school to accept him turns out to be anything but ordinary; the school is attended by youkai disguised as humans. Fearing for his life, he attempts to escape only to meet Moka Akashiya, a beautiful girl who just happens to be a vampire. Despite this, Tsukune decides to stay at the academy, hiding his human nature from students and teachers. Tsukune also discovers that when the rosary around Moka's neck is removed, her true nature emerges. -ANN

The series will launch 3rd of January.

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A short promo subbed by Ayako-BakaWolf.

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Being a huge vampire fan, I have been somewhat sad that not too many good vampire series are around. In the manga world there are a few more, and Rosario+Vampire is one of the better ones. Thus, I was very glad the other day when Bud mentioned it was going to be adapted into an anime form. It should be a good one. The manga is an odd mix of very light comedy and rather harsh action, and I hope that will remain true for the anime as well.

[oyabun]

Cool.. another vamp anime

[David75]

Err... the first few words of the promo may lead to misinterpretation... at least in english
I don't know for the original language though.

I hope it will be a fun show.

I like the double "disguise" idea.
Everyone at school hides their monster forms, while the main character has to hide he is only human

[animus]

I read some of the manga, and it was OK. Kinda typcal, with it's introduce new villain to be defeated every week, or female character to join the posse.

[Kraco]

Yeah. I can't say there would have been anything that original in the manga. In general few vampire stories seem to introduce anything truly original or novel. But as far as execution (of the old elements) goes, this isn't bad at all.

Moka's voice in the promo sounds softer than I'd have expected based on the manga. While she is something of an airhead for sure, she's still not nearly worthless. But I have a feeling they are going for a really vast contrast between Moka with the rosary and Moka without the rosary.

[Board of Command]

First episode out. I might give it a go later.

Ep 1 - AEN

[Munsu]

I haven't heard good things from that AEN group, so download at your own discretion... I myself will wait for the Menclave version to come out and give it a try.

[NeoBear]

well i liked it, its good clean fun/humor not gonna change my life for sure but the visuales are clean and the effects/music were pretty good

however i gotta say i dont care about speed subs but this AEN group is kinda off i think the picture quality seemed fine but some of the sentences are odd for instance.

"Who cares, I heare there are lot of pretty cute girls too"

if these types of things bug you ya might wanna pass

[Yukimura]

Rosario+Vampire - 01 (XviD)- [Ayako-BakaWolf]
Rosario+Vampire - 01 (1280x720 H264)- [Ayako-BakaWolf]

Watched the AEN version, didn't care for the myriad of blatant missed or misspelled words, but hey, no one ever said they weren't a bad group. Ayako has been surprisingly not annoying recently so I'll probably settle for them. I have a completely unfounded suspicion that menclave is soon going to take on Conclaves old position as the slowest active group around.

[Kraco]

Hmm... My initial impression is that this loses to the manga as a vampire story. It's pretty evident, at least in my opinion, that the anime emphasized more the cuteness, ecchi, and comedy aspects. It's kind of pity because certain amount of darkness can be considered necessary for vampire stories in general. Well, of course it could only be my personal interpretation of the manga as well. Who knows. Still, this was only the first episode so time will tell.

But I surely hope Moka's henshin scene borrowed from mahou shoujo series was the first and the last time. Like I mentioned in my earlier post, the surprisingly harsh (and cool!) looking action scenes are one detail that makes the whole thing work so well. It shouldn't be ruined by stupid looking transformation scenes.

Other than that, I don't have much to complain about. The art was clean like NeoBear said, the voice actor cast quite interesting, and generally it looked well worth watching.

[David75]

Henshin scene, last time I saw one was like 20 years ago... And I'm clearly not into that.
It reminded me of Mahô no Princess Minky Momo... and gave me the creeps

There are a lot of pantyshots too, I'm amazed there were that much.

As a side not, having a 1280*720 sub is really a great thing. Doesn't happen that much, but it's very more confortable. There are still some picture compression, but overall it's a lot cleaner and adds a lot to the watching experience, like for Nodame Cantabile.

I'll try ep 2 and maybe I'll drop this because I didn't enjoy it that much.

[Ryllharu]

Well, regarding the transformation scene, I got a good laugh at hearing the Ghostbusters Proton Pack noise while the bats made her ass and breasts bigger. Utterly pointless, very amusing.

I've always been a fan of the manga, of course it's stupid, but it has Mizuki Nana.

It's always good to have a few light-hearted series each season.

EDIT: The sky changes too, so I guess her transformation is actually a Reality Marble?

[Buffalobiian]

Not having read the manga, I expected this series to be more of a light hearted one from the promos. Having some darkness will add a bit more flavour, but I'm willing to go along with what's happening now. Yes panty shots are through the roof, but that's okay too. . Everybody was so confident that humans can't enter that barrier. I wonder if Tsukune ends up having some sort of demonic powers after all, yet being human. Or maybe he was a distant relative of one, and still had monster blood but no powers.

[David75]

Not having read the manga, I expected this series to be more of a light hearted one from the promos. Having some darkness will add a bit more flavour, but I'm willing to go along with what's happening now. Yes panty shots are through the roof, but that's okay too. . Everybody was so confident that humans can't enter that barrier. I wonder if Tsukune ends up having some sort of demonic powers after all, yet being human. Or maybe he was a distant relative of one, and still had monster blood but no powers.

Is the barrier already there at the bus stop?
Because since he has been "Kapuchued" by Moka pretty quickly, that could explain why he was able to go through. I admitt it's far stretched and your idea is nice.
Or just beeing near Moka was enough.

I do hope the second ep will be a bit better, cause I'm already investing in this show...

[Assassin]

im hoping at some point the dude gets turned into a vampire. i also really liked how they seem to have a hierarchy set up, with vampires being s-class monsters. i hope we get introduced to various classes and get a more detailed background instead of just a 'skool life' anime.

oh, and i really liked how the transformation made her tits and ass bigger. best transformation ever.

[Board of Command]

Very entertaining first episode. This series looks like a keeper.

[DDBen]

What can I say episode 1 amused me so I'll be watching some more of this. I like these light hearted funny series that are sometimes action packed out of nowhere.

[Kraco]

im hoping at some point the dude gets turned into a vampire.

That would be nice indeed. It's somewhat reasonable to assume the opponent of the first fight wasn't the most potent of the monsters in the school (he certainly looked like nothing but a goof), yet Tsukune was somewhat... nah, totally powerless in front of him. I don't really like series where the main character is entirely dependent on other characters. Still, at least the guy had guts when Moka was in danger.

[David75]

That would be nice indeed. It's somewhat reasonable to assume the opponent of the first fight wasn't the most potent of the monsters in the school (he certainly looked like nothing but a goof), yet Tsukune was somewhat... nah, totally powerless in front of him. I don't really like series where the main character is entirely dependent on other characters. Still, at least the guy had guts when Moka was in danger.

Or was it only because he decided when, where and how he wanted to die?

I hope they won't choose a solution like in Monster Princess...

[Assassin]

It would be kool if he became either a 'hunter' or some sort of 'wizard'.

Both scenerios would lead to him becoming stronger, but without a cheesy explanation. With the hunter scenario he'd be an enemy, and with the wizard he'd be one of them. both would result in a pretty interesting story.

however it seems very unlikely that that would happen....maybe i should just creat my own manga