Through some odd coincidence, he actually looks and sounds a whole lot like Aoba Riku from tokimeki Memorial ~Only Love~, right down to the nasally whiny voice. our main male lead and Moka's romantic interest Tsukune Aono.
Let's move on to someone else before this show starts to really make my head hurt. I can see how that could be inconvenient, even at Youkai Highschool, but. Christ, does she order her takeout with extra garlic and a gallon of holywater to go with it as well? Oh. and none of you are seeing anything wrong with this? I mean. She also wears a rosario all the time (hence the show's name), which is basically a necklace with a cross on it. Yep, she's a vampire who walks around in broad daylight. Unlike Aono, she's a student at Youkai Academy in the truest sense. The girl in the picture above is Akashiya Moka. Now, before you go "What are you? Gay?", I'd like to add one little tidbit of information. To its credit, Rosario + Vampire does feature a large variety of beings very much non-human, both Japanese in origin and not.īut before we get more into the cast, let's play "What's wrong with this picture?"
The live action movie I watched this summer, namely Yokai War, proved to me that Japan certainly has no shortage of various monsters and mythological beings to base this show on. In the right hands, this show could probably have turned into something quite worthwhile, even as an off-the-wall comedy. In other words, what we have here is basically some sort of odd mixup between Tokimeki Memorial and Groovie Goolies, sans the constant barrage of puns. But, since she took a liking to his blood, she agreed to help him keep his secret.
Thankfully for him, he catches the interest of Akashiya Moka, who, surprisingly enough, finds out that he's a human almost from the get-go. As the name suggests, the school is an educational facility for monsters and other mythical beings, and, naturally, if the students were to find out that Aono is a mere human, he would find himself in a rather dire predicament, to put it mildly. The manga has been picked up by Viz for US distribution.ĭue to various circumstances, including his failure at getting into a normal highschool coupled with his father's less than savory means of getting him into a lesser normal one, Tsukune Aono finds himself en route to Youkai Academy. Notes: Based on manga by Ikeda Akihisa, published by Shueisha. Related Series: Rosario + Vampire Capu2 (sequel)Īlso Recommended: Karin, Magic Users Club. Length: Television series, 13 episodes, 23 minutes eachĭistributor: Currently licensed by FUNimation.Ĭontent Rating: 16+ (Violence, fanservice.)
Genre: Slightly perverted highschool comedy romance.