Rosario + Vampire anime!
I would like to introduce you to Rosario + Vampire, a very enjoyable manga series which seems to fall under the radars of most people for some reason. It’s about a guy called Tsukune Aono who accidentally enrols in a school for monsters and demons and end up with a harem of supernatural beings. The heroine is Moka Akashiya, a vampire, who falls in love with Tsukune(‘s blood) at first sight. Then there’s the succubus, the witch girls and the ice girl.
Anyway, the latest issue of Shounen Jump comes with an announcement that Rosario will be made into an anime series soon! There was a drama CD that was released some time ago so I guess this doesn’t really comes as a surprised. Now assuming the cast remains the same (which is highly likely), this is what it should be:
Tsukune Aono: Daisuke Kishio
Moka Akashiya: Nana Mizuki
Kurumu Kuruno: Misato Fukuen
Yukari Sendou: Kimiko Koyama
Mizore Shirayuki: Rie Kugimiya
Shizuka Nekonome: Kikuko Inoue
Gin’ei Morioka: Tomokazu Seki
The manga is at around volume 9 now, I think. The story gets really…emo towards the later parts, but the plot is pretty interesting and surprisingly it doesn’t revolve around Tsukune’s harem. If nothing goes wrong, the anime should be worth a try.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
LOL This is a new hybrid concept. Supernatural + romantic comedy. Hope they get the casting right.
We know what happened in Kar- I mean, Chibi Vampire.
June 6th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Interesting. Sounds like Suzuka, minus the sports theme and add some Jigoku Sensei Nube spice. :D
June 6th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
OMG~ I’ve been readin this for almost a year or so.. About time
June 6th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
OMG, NANA MIZUKI as a main female character no less! That’s awesome.
I’m expecting her to sing the OP or the ED then, lol.
Too much of a joy for a fate testarossa fanboy and a rosario + vampire reader.
June 6th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
yay I just hope this doesnt become craptacular since i the manga was great
June 6th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
By the way, TH2: Another Days product page updated.
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June 6th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Hmm, it’s at volume 9? I better go check kino later.
Well, it’s pretty standard fair. The usual “vampires, zombies, monster surrounding one human” concept. At least the art is nice and the girls are cute.
Sometimes I wonder whether the mangaka is deciding between censorship or outright fanservice. Half of the time, you see clothes getting torn-up, revealing the undies underneath. Yet at other times, when the female lead is doing very stretchy taekwondo kicks in her very short seifuku skirt, you see nothing but very black pencil shadings instead of the ermm usual fanservice u’d expect. Weird.
Decent plot, gets better at volume 6-7 onwards.
June 6th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Wow. Finally, a series that is completely original, and has in no way been done before.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
man, when i first heard about this news on monday, i squealed like a girl. i’ve been reading and collecting the mangas for two years now and was wondering/hoping just when an anime would be converted. yesh released form moka yesh
June 6th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
That sounds like a series I might enjoy. I’m a big fan of supernatural characters, especially vampires (female vampires that is).
June 6th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Well, be nice to see more of this kind of genre. Not enough series for this kind of genre, so new series would be nice, i guess.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
It’s quite similar to Kaibutsu Oujo (Monster Princess). Not many like it, but I do.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
I just hope it won’t appear on the AVPAS list at least until the series is complete…
June 6th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
You mean it matters whether or not it’s on the list???
June 7th, 2007 at 12:18 am
hehe lol could you guys please keep the AVPAS/odex hate to it’s own page >.>
I can only recognise nana mizuki and rie kugimya, not sure about the others.
BTW, about the TH2 another days release, is it actually available yet? what does “2007年発売予定” mean?
June 7th, 2007 at 1:11 am
err…that mean a Harem Anime is coming ? ? …
June 7th, 2007 at 1:40 am
You asshole, I no longer feel cool reading it.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:05 am
Sounds like an interesting plot for this manga. Do you have a scan of the announcement?
June 7th, 2007 at 10:48 am
I read the first couple of pages and thought it was retarded. Maybe I’ll give it another go.
June 7th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Odd, never knew that existed. Maybe I’ll check it out.
June 7th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
erm i remember reading the first 2 volume. each chapter or so is like monster of the chapter and the plot is always the same.
some new monster tried to eat the dude. vampire girl tries to fight but cant win. guy accidentally pulls off the cross. dark vampire girl comes and beats the crap out of enemy. zzzzzz
did it really become better?
June 9th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
I honestly can’t get enough of Rie Kugimiya’s cho~kawaii voice. Shana, Nagi and now this. She’s a class A seiyuu.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I should give that a try as well. Several people told me about it.
Now there’s the question where to get these manga..
June 15th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
i read the book le.dam nice &wishng the anime is coming out!!yay~~
June 20th, 2007 at 7:57 am
ill have to give it ago, thanks for the up!
Oh and have you read “high school of the dead?” its a fair bit different to this, but i just thought you might like it.
June 20th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
AWESOME, it seems that all of my favorite mangas gets turned into animes.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:58 am
please tell me how to download Rosario + Vampire manga dierctly beacuse i want to see soo much >_
November 9th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
this series is pretty nice, but i find that, as some ppl pointed out, it gets pretty repeated over and over again, plus the author focuses too much oh Moka and makes her a presumebly perfect being while forgetting other characters’ unique points. For example, the vampire’s beauty should not have exceeded the subuccus’s and i think it is rather ridiculous to have guys falling all over each other everytime they see her. it’s rather superficial and more time should be spent developing the plot instead of promoting Moka as the beautiful, perfect, blah blah blah person and Tsukune as the ever weak person. perphaps he could have some special points or something.
November 16th, 2007 at 6:59 am
Actually, Tsukune DOES pick up some powers later on apparently, but I don’t have a clue as to what they are. Currently, however, he’s turned into a temporary vampire on two occasions in the scanlated manga (and the first time he beat an opponent who vamp. Moka was having trouble with in the process). The manga starts to acquire a defintie story arc line around the 8th chapter. That one starts the first long story. Vampire Moka doesn’t come out every chapter anymore. And like i said, Tsukune is beginning to become above average.
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:54 pm
I’ll look forward to this.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I would definitely bye the anima series if they make it available in uk as its excellent series at least the comic is all can say is more please.
December 28th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I enjoyed reading this manga very well and I am definately interested in the up coming anime. It’s good to see the characters come alie with emotions and voice. ^^
January 6th, 2008 at 12:45 am
the anime is out alr…came out in 3 jan….i just dled it
January 6th, 2008 at 12:45 am
btw the comic until which le ar?? 20???
February 16th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
it get better when Tsukune Aono becomes a ghoul
July 21st, 2009 at 6:29 pm
rovbshies are real they exsists because i am one and the only things female vampiers have are looks and are very leathal lol
September 13th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I like the manga very much, but the anime didn’t go that way though… anime become horrible. the manga’s nice plot is gone, I feel sorry for the mangaka that the anime counterpart really sucks