Vampire Knight

[David75]

Ep1 was a big lure for more. Fangirlism aside, there are good roots for deep dark action...
The first scene gives room for twists...
The shota like vampire there for comic relief can be creepy as well.
Zero on the verge to become a vampire will be a way to measure the will power needed to be a vampire who restrains from feeding on humans.


Nice intro indeed. will watch the other available eps tomorrow. Hope it really goes twisty roads.

[Buffalobiian]

Vampire Knight Episode 4 - How will you react if your childhood friend is a vampire? Your-Mum's release may give you a general idea.



Or you can wait a little for Shoku-dan's subs.

[David75]

Vampire Knight Episode 4 - How will you react if your childhood friend is a vampire? Your-Mum's release may give you a general idea.



Or you can wait a little for Shoku-dan's subs.

Thanks.
I like the twisty roads... the eye candy may well be an illusion for more action to come. I hope so.

As of yet I like how things are.

[Sapphire]

Oh snaps. These releases are coming out so fast. *watch

[Kraco]

Episode 4 - Shoku-dan

Hmm... This was a powerful episode in my opinion. Quite moving, in fact. Worked better than the manga. Although that's no wonder seeing how the manga is both so messy and so hard to decipher; when it takes most of your attention to try to figure out who exactly the characters are in the frame, it leaves less time for enjoying the story.

[David75]

Episode 4 - Shoku-dan

Hmm... This was a powerful episode in my opinion. Quite moving, in fact. Worked better than the manga. Although that's no wonder seeing how the manga is both so messy and so hard to decipher; when it takes most of your attention to try to figure out who exactly the characters are in the frame, it leaves less time for enjoying the story.

Really, I do think that for that kind of story, the manga version can be very lacking.
I did read the first few chapters and had to stop, the manga being just a storyboard for the Anime... and nothing more, it was impossible to get feelings and rythms... which are both well done in the anime up to now.
The manga gives some more details and is a little different, but I couldn't go further and will stop reading it and watch only the anime.

It's strange because a manga like Mx0 was easy to read and get everything, not Vampire Knight. I guess everyone needs their own set of things for a story to work for them.

[Sapphire]

What the hell was that hug? I thought of Sasuke/Sakura. D:
Camara angles are amazing, did I mention that? I love her thought process.

Kaname: You are the most important thing in my life and I can't bear to see you with another.
Yuki: ...But Zero!

[Buffalobiian]

Aidou just can't seem to stop himself. Guess getting backhanded is better than getting no attention for him. Zero being from a vampire hunting family explains the chairman's and the Hunter Association's focus on him. They were most likely very skilled, if not big and powerful Hunter family, so Zero's hatred would have been established in him long before he was bitten.

The hug does remind me of Sasuke x Sakura, but it comes off much better knowing that Zero isn't just going to palm her off. Come to think of it, both Zero/Sasuke share a hatred sparked from having their whole family killed.

[Kraco]

This is somewhat troublesome for Kaname. It's pretty obvious Yuuki holds him in just as high and idolized position as everybody else. He saved her life and after that she has only seen him as the undisputable head of the whole vampire flock at the school, and naturally a pure-blood. In practice, very hard to approach. Zero, however, is pretty much a victim also in Yuuki's eyes (just like she was about to be, unless she is as well; she was found alone in the middle of nowhere and Kaname brought her to the school). And in addition to that Yuuki works with him every day.

Ani-Kraze also decided to have a look at this series. While there's nothing wrong as such with the Shoku-dan subs, Ani-Kraze is still Ani-Kraze and they have also a HD release:

Episode 1 HD - Ani-Kraze
Episode 1 xvid - Ani-Kraze

[Buffalobiian]

Behave or Be killed
Episode 5 - Shoku-dan


Carrying on Kraco's trend:
Episode 2 HD - Ani-Kraze
Episode 2 xvid - Ani-Kraze

[David75]

Is it me or the HD version looks like it isn't that much better than the SDs
To me it looks like there's fewer compression artifacts. Is there an HD source already for this show?

will watch the last episod in a while.

[Buffalobiian]

Is it me or the HD version looks like it isn't that much better than the SDs
To me it looks like there's fewer compression artifacts. Is there an HD source already for this show?

will watch the last episod in a while.

Can't answer that for you since I'm only downloading the Shoku-dan releases.

The suppressor seems kind of weak for something vampire hunters used to tame vampires. I would have thought something a lot harsher and longer lasting to be used. Not only does it last for say, a minute max, but you have to get up to the neck of an out-of-control vampire. Oh well.

More interesting to me was what Akatsuki said about Zero. "Sometimes there are dangerous ones, ones who refuse the tablets." Then we see Zero, who drops his case full of tablets, and conveys the idea that his body or mind rejects them. Back when he hadn't awoken, he was consciously refused the tablets, but in the end, used them to suppress his pain. Now that he's fully transformed, it seems he can't take them.

Is that a message to hint at what kind of vampire he'll become? We saw some rather savage Level Es, all of which were dispatched by either Zero or the Night Class with relative ease. That makes me wonder, exactly what kind of vampire does one such as Akatsuki consider to be "dangerous"?

[David75]

Can't answer that for you since I'm only downloading the Shoku-dan releases.

The suppressor seems kind of weak for something vampire hunters used to tame vampires. I would have thought something a lot harsher and longer lasting to be used. Not only does it last for say, a minute max, but you have to get up to the neck of an out-of-control vampire. Oh well.

More interesting to me was what Akatsuki said about Zero. "Sometimes there are dangerous ones, ones who refuse the tablets." Then we see Zero, who drops his case full of tablets, and conveys the idea that his body or mind rejects them. Back when he hadn't awoken, he was consciously refused the tablets, but in the end, used them to suppress his pain. Now that he's fully transformed, it seems he can't take them.

Is that a message to hint at what kind of vampire he'll become? We saw some rather savage Level Es, all of which were dispatched by either Zero or the Night Class with relative ease. That makes me wonder, exactly what kind of vampire does one such as Ataksuki consider to be "dangerous"?

Same here, there's probably more than Level Es.
After all the vampire that "transformed" him really wanted to force vengeance uppon him.
4 years of suffering + a few months for the last transformation to level E may not be enough for her.

[Kraco]

I think it's simply that vampires must have blood in order to live (and remain sane - not become beasts), and thus vampires that cannot replace live blood with the tablet are dangerous because there's no choice for them but to eventually succumb to their thirst and create a victim.

We have seen even the nobles surrounding Kaname have from time to time troubles suppressing their thirst, and thus it's a problem if blood is spilled in the school and the delicious odor spreads. It's quite inherent for vampires to desire blood, but I'd imagine the higher class they are the more they take care to remain in control.

[David75]

I think it's simply that vampires must have blood in order to live (and remain sane - not become beasts), and thus vampires that cannot replace live blood with the tablet are dangerous because there's no choice for them but to eventually succumb to their thirst and create a victim.

We have seen even the nobles surrounding Kaname have from time to time troubles suppressing their thirst, and thus it's a problem if blood is spilled in the school and the delicious odor spreads. It's quite inherent for vampires to desire blood, but I'd imagine the higher class they are the more they take care to remain in control.

True that these tabs are only under testing and may not work for all vampires... and when they do not work, vampires still need to feed in the end in order to survive. And no creature can resist the urge to feed when they didn't for a long period of time, or they die if they really can't feed.

[David75]

[Shoku-dan] Vampire Knight - 06 avi SD

Art quality is going down, not that it was top notch in the begining, but I think most of you will agree that lots of proportions and drawings are awful in that ep...

Appart from that, nothing really interresting or that you could not foresee.

[Kraco]

Fortunately I belong to those who don't notice if the story is good enough. And in this ep it was. This works really much better in anime form than as manga, I deem. Good stuff.

[Buffalobiian]

The only thing that was really noticeable was that they didn't draw the eyes for a few scenes, save Yuuki and other main characters. But that didn't set me back, the story was just as good. No real action or anything, but still a good ep, and they still left us with something to think about. If this woman (who I'll guess is the pureblood who got Zero), then for anything to really happen, she'll either have to come to Cross Academy, or Zero has to leave it for a while, which I can't see happening anytime soon.

[Kraco]

With everybody even living in dorms, it's indeed pretty much all tied to the Academy.

Although I'm aware they are hopelessly melodramatic but I've really liked those scenes where Zero has asked Yuuki to kill him or be ready to do it. Things changed a bit in this ep with the vampire hunter giving such a strong if short lecture on Zero's mentality and lack of integrity lately, but I think they worked well at least until now. Those scenes were basically the only way Zero expressed the contradiction within him: That he's the very being he hates and is trained to hunt. Otherwise he has strived to be an icy cool guy even more than the Night Class vampires (well, some of them as some are obviously just playboys).

[Buffalobiian]

I hadn't realised this till now.

The subs for Shoku-dan's Vampire Knight is the work of all of two:

Sonic_Sabbath: translation (earlier episodes translated by a girl named Touyuki)
Raserei Hojo: everything else

Edit: the translator's Australian.