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Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen

Also known as Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu.

Studio: Aniplex , Shaft , Kodansha , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 2/6. Contains the arc Koyomi Vamp from the Kizumonogatari light novel.

March 25th—just another day during spring break. Koyomi Araragi, a second year high school student at Naoetsu High School, befriends Tsubasa Hanekawa, the top honors student at his school. Hanekawa mentions a rumor about a "blonde vampire" that has been sighted around their town recently. Araragi, who is usually anti-social, takes a liking to her down-to-earth personality.

That night, Araragi encounters the rumored vampire: she is Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade, also known as the "iron-blooded, hot-blooded, cold-blooded King of Apparitions." The stunningly beautiful vampire cries out for Koyomi to save her as she lies in a pool of her own blood, all four of her limbs cut off. Kiss-shot asks Araragi to give her his blood, and when he does, the next moment he awakes, Araragi finds himself reborn as her vampire kin. As Araragi struggles to accept his existence, Kiss-Shot whispers, "Welcome to the world of darkness..."



Tags: Vampire , Urban Fantasy , Rotoscoping , Urban , Suicide , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Gore , Coming of Age , Age Regression , Noir , CGI , Yandere , Nudity

Owari no Seraph

Also known as Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign.

Studio: WIT STUDIO , Shueisha , 10GAUGE , Rakuonsha , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

The story takes place in a world where an unknown virus has killed the entire human population except for children under 13. Those children were then enslaved by vampires. The manga centers on Yuichiro Hyakuya, a human who dreams of becoming strong enough to kill all vampires.



Tags: Vampire , Post-Apocalyptic , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Military , Time Skip , War , Demons , Revenge , Swordplay , Lost Civilization , Primarily Teen Cast , Pandemic , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Tsundere , Rotoscoping , School , Heterosexual , Gore , Boys' Love , Primarily Adult Cast

Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari.

Studio: Aniplex , Shaft , Kodansha , Aniplex of America , Hanabee Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 1/6. Contains the arcs Hitagi Crab, Mayoi Snail, Suruga Monkey, Nadeko Snake, and Tsubasa Cat from the Bakemonogatari light novels.

Thanks to Meme Oshino, Koyomi Araragi, a high school student, is able to remain a human after coming across a female vampire... However, since the incident, Koyomi seems to meet girls who have an apparition-related issue. Hitagi Senjougahara doesn’t weigh anything, Suruga Kanbaru’s right arm becomes like that of a monkey’s, and a young girl, Mayoi, cannot find her way home no matter how many times she tries. Koyomi, a Mr. Nice Guy, ends up helping each and every girl solve her problem with the help of Meme Oshino.



Note: Only the first 12 episodes were broadcast on television; the remaining three episodes were distributed on the anime's website between November 3, 2009, and June 25, 2010.

Tags: Youkai , Ensemble Cast , Urban Fantasy , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Vampire , Ghost , Satire , Primarily Female Cast , Meta , Heterosexual , Dissociative Identities , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen , Psychosexual , Curses , Exorcism , Monster Girl , Gore , Rotoscoping , Gods , Yandere , Love Triangle , Mixed Media , Parody , Tomboy , Nudity , Nekomimi , Female Harem , Tsundere , CGI , School , Amnesia , Rehabilitation

Tsukuyomi: MOON PHASE

Also known as MoonPhase.

Studio: Shaft , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Supernatural

Morioka Kouhei wants to become a photographer. Unfortunately, he has the tendency to unintentionally capture the images of ghosts on film.

One day, he visits an old castle in Germany where he meets a vampire girl, Hazuki. It turns out that Hazuki is confined in the castle against her will. She tries to turn Kouhei into her slave by sucking his blood, with the intent to have him break the device sealing her in the castle. Although Kouhei proves to be immune to the vampire's curse, he is eventually forced to help her. Hazuki successfully escapes from the castle and leaves for Japan to look for her mother.

When she arrives in Japan, she goes to Kohei's house where he lives with his grandfather, who agrees to take in the girl. Due to his own childhood experiences, the sympathetic Kouhei agrees to aid Hazuki in her quest.

However, other vampires, including Elfried and Count Kinkell, manage to track Hazuki to Japan. They will stop at nothing to retrieve her.



Tags: Vampire , Tsundere , Nekomimi , Magic , Kemonomimi , Dissociative Identities , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Age Gap , Seinen , Surreal Comedy , Photography , Slapstick , Twins , Youkai , Female Protagonist , Cohabitation , Religion , Fishing , Nudity , Shrine Maiden , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

Devils' Line

Also known as Devils' Line.

Studio: Platinum Vision , Sentai Filmworks , Kodansha , King Records
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Everything you thought you knew about vampires is wrong. They can walk in the daylight and holy water doesn't burn them. In fact, vampires can pass as normal humans so perfectly that even other vampires have trouble spotting them. Until they drink human blood, that is; then they transform into monstrous beasts who mindlessly rape and murder. But not all vampires are evil. The secret task force that patrols Tokyo's vampire population has several fanged operatives, including half-human Yuuki Anzai, who believes that his human heritage lets him resist his species' basest cravings. But after Yuuki rescues college student Tsukasa Taira from a vampire stalker, he realizes that he's succumbing to urges he's never felt before.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Vampire , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Espionage , Nudity , Masturbation

Yofukashi no Uta

Also known as Call of the Night.

Studio: LIDENFILMS , Fuji TV , Aniplex , Shogakukan , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Ultra Super Pictures , Tohan , Animax Broadcast Japan , Dentsu , Fuji Creative Corporation , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Wracked by insomnia and wanderlust, Kou Yamori is driven onto the moonlit streets every night in an aimless search for something he can’t seem to name. His nightly ritual is marked by purposeless introspection — until he meets Nazuna, who might just be a vampire! Kou’s new companion could offer him dark gifts and a vampire’s immortality. But there are conditions that must be met before Kou can sink his teeth into vampirism, and he’ll have to discover just how far he’s willing to go to satisfy his desires before he can heed the Call of the Night!



Tags: Vampire , Femdom , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Aromantic , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Age Gap , Shounen , Psychosexual , Hikikomori , Primarily Teen Cast , Tomboy , Detective , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gyaru , Femboy , Nudity , Maids , Amnesia , Restaurant , Tragedy , Female Harem , Video Games , Crossdressing

Vampire in the Garden

Also known as Vampire in the Garden.

Studio: WIT STUDIO , Netflix , Production I.G
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Music , Sci-Fi

One cold winter, humanity lost its battle with the vampires, and with it, most of where they called home. A small population of survivors created a wall of light in a small town to protect them and give them a place to live in peace. Our protagonist, Momo, lives a repressed life but still wishes to coexist with the enemy, the vampires. Fine, the vampire queen, once loved humans and disappeared from the battlefield. As war rages through the humans’ town, the two have a fateful encounter. Once upon a time, humans and vampires lived in harmony in a place called Paradise. This is the story of a young girl and a vampire on a journey to find Paradise.



Tags: Vampire , War , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Travel , Dystopian , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Snowscape , Post-Apocalyptic , Foreign , Survival , Guns , Gore , Fugitive , LGBTQ+ Themes , Urban Fantasy , CGI , Swordplay

The SoulTaker: Tamashiigari

Also known as The SoulTaker.

Studio: WOWOW , Tatsunoko Production , Pioneer LDC , Toshiba Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

After the human colony on the moon was destroyed by disease, Kyosuke Date and his mother flee to Earth- separated from their family. They take refuge in a cathedral where his mother hides as a nun for reasons unknown to Kyosuke. After dangerous people find their sanctuary, his mother stabs him before she herself is murdered.

Days later, Kyosuke finds himself alive and in the house of a mysterious girl who claims to be his twin Runa- and she is not the only one! Runa suffered a similar fate at the hands of her adoptive mother; however her soul was divided into several pieces making "flicker girls" who are being hunted by the evil Kirihara Group. The reason Kyosuke survived: his body's DNA conformed to the disease and he is able to transform into a fearsome alien mutant known as the SoulTaker.

Kyosuke begins his battle against a hospital of evil mutants and dangerous corporate assassins in order to save himself and the sister he has never known.

Tags: Henshin , Demons , Superhero , Aliens , Conspiracy , Twins , Tragedy , Tokusatsu , Medicine , Dissociative Identities , Politics , Terrorism

Jigoku Shoujo

Also known as Hell Girl.

Studio: Aniplex , Studio DEEN , Funimation , SKY Perfect Well Think
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Somewhere in the vast sea of the Internet, there's a website that can only be accessed at the stroke of midnight. Known as the Jigoku Tsushin, rumor has it that if you post a grudge there, the Jigoku Shoujo will appear and drag whoever torments you into the inferno. Very little is known about the girl - all we know for sure is that she lives with her equally enigmatic grandmother, that three magical straw dolls accompany and serve her, and that whenever a posting on the Jigoku Tsushin moves her, she becomes the Jigoku Shoujo.


Tags: Revenge , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Bullying , Afterlife , Curses , Ghost , Urban , Oiran , Detective , Gore , Crime , Conspiracy , Cosmic Horror , School , Blackmail , Rural , Torture , Aliens , Circus , Twins , Veterinarian , Kuudere

Holy Knight

Also known as Holy Knight.

Studio: CAMMOT , Lilix
Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi , Supernatural

The story centers around a timid orphan named Mizumura Shinta who goes to a missionary school in Tokyo. His seemingly normal life changes when a beautiful half-human Romanian girl named Lilith suddenly transfers into his school. Mizumura discovers that he is actually a vampire hunter and the successor of the Romuald lineage.



Tags: Vampire , Swordplay , Shapeshifting , School , Religion , Guns , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Seinen , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Animals , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Harem