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I love how her two options in the love triangle were her biological brother or her adoptive brother that she grew up with as a sibling….so like……..her brother *OR* her brother

Yuki: I fell in love with my brother Kaname: What’s wrong with that? Everyone: EVERYTHING!

When they revealed kaname wasn’t actually her brother but her ancestor who was resurrected in the form of a baby and he replaced her true brother who died as a baby, as though that made it less weird

I genuinely died inside in the “ i didn’t came here for Alabama vampires” part 😂😂😂

Okay but ‘Thank goodness it’s just his ADOPTIVE father, it would be extra weird if it was incestuous” and then that long pointed glare at the camera had me laughing like crazy. Oh… this anime was so weird.

The fact that Kaname and Yuki's parents were ALSO siblings just...it just obliterated my brain. Its melting

I just want to take a moment and add something immensely important: Vampire Knight's OST is a miracle. And I'm saying this with years of experience as a musician behind my back. This OST not being available on vinyl is one of the greatest musical attrocities on the planet. And yes, I stuck through the show and rewatched it just because of the OST. An absolute masterpiece!

"it'd be extra weird if it was incestuous" line hit and we stared at each other for those moments, both unfortunately knowing. love your work

This manga was such a weird ride to read through. Yuki being a vampire-turned-human-turned-vampire, Kaname who was her ancient-vampire-ancestor-turned-pseudo-brother, and Zero who was the angsty anime boy with a grudge and a twin brother with mommy issue. Yuki's parents and their incestuous love triangle WITH HER UNCLE. The homoerotic subtext from the blonde vampires. The side chick vampire that was the embodiment of toxic on-side love. And the one-eyed Kakashi. This is a telenovela waiting to happen.

Really the biggest problem about the anime/manga is Yuki being the main character, if the story mainly followed and/or was told from either Zero's or Kaname's perspective every moment drama might actually be interesting But due to following Yuki whose personality equates to a untoasted, thin slice piece of bread it just becomes such a chore to sit through, especially whenever she gets sad over whatever once again

Actually as I have gotten older I feel more sympathetic of yuki. I also read the manga. Zero and kaname where so toxic and both told her that they would kill themselves if she left them. She basically became the emotional crutch of both men. And both guys where obsessed and controlling. She bumped back and forth between the both of them trying to keep them both happy. Yuki was always a mess because her powers and memories where suppressed and everyone around her including her adopted Dad kept her purposely ignorant to 'protect' her. She didn't even know why she was drawn to Kaname for most of the story. But the vampires are basically Targaryions with all the same baggage. And when she learned she wasn't for the relationship or continuing the cycle. But she felt like if she left him he would go off the deep end. ( Which he eventually did.) So she was always three steps behind everything that was going on in the story.

I first started reading Vampire Knight in Shojo Beat and I distinctly remember thinking to myself before I dropped it "Oh hey. Yuki and Kaname have really similar hair. I wonder if they're related". Lo and behold about 3 years later it all comes to light lmao

Thank you for mentioning Kaname's casual gaslighting. So much of the fandom falls for it and always says, "But he's lying and being manipulative to protect herrrr!" As if that makes it okay

You know when i watched the first episode of vampire knight i was like 'huh, kaname and yuki look a lot like siblings. Weird design choice for love interests.'

Even if Kaname wasn’t her brother grandpa, he was a TERRIBLE person for yuki 😭 he gaslit and manipulated her AND ADMITTED TO IT MULTIPLE TIMES..

If I remember correctly, Zero’s brother was drinking that long white haired vampire’s blood because of an illness he was battling. So when Zero consumed his brother, he was also consuming the blood of the vampire that had turned Zero into a vampire in the first place, making him well again and more stable. I hope I’m remembering that correctly. I haven’t revisited vampire Knight in YEARS, but I think I remembered that much at least.

9:50 A quick note that although _Yuki,_ written 雪, is a very common Japanese name meaning "snow," Yuki's name is actually _Yūki_ and is indeed written 優姫 with the kanji characters for "tender(-hearted)" and "princess."

“Classism exists even in vampires.” Yeah. There’s a reason all the iconic vampires in history are rich guys living in mansions.

Please I was so obsessed with this anime 😭. I don't even remember the plot, I was just there for the hot vampires and yes, the openings and endings were straight-fire. I still listen to them occasionally and actually had a similar conversation with a friend recently. As much of this anime as I can't remember, I still know there were so many things wrong with it, and will be rewatching it for nostalgia if I ever do.

dont forget that the guy who was revived was their uncle, who was in love with yuki's mom. her mom and dad were siblings. in the manga he was obsessed with yuki because she looked exactly like her mom ☠️

Funny story. I read this entire Manga in high school. I read the ENTIRE thing. I found out that Kaname and Yuki were related in the middle of my English class. I put the volume down and it took me 2 weeks to come back to it because I'm a completionist. I read it to finish it. And the ending sucked.

You know I think the reason why all the wild plots twists with secret twins, incest, and murder never really fazed me or weirded me out as a young tween watching this is probably because I'm mexican-american and grew up around soap operas and telenovelas always playing. Like all those tropes are super common, so its was just kinda like an "oh, okay" moment and the continuing for me. Also I watched Vampire Knight with subs, I didn't even know at the time it had a dub, probably wouldn't have been able to stand it if I did watch it that way. I had just watched what I could find during my early days of "sailing the high seas~"

Fun fact: Based on the manga Kaname is actually Yuki’s great great *great* grandfather and the original character Kaname died and he replaced him through a different consciousness

The only thing I liked about it in hindsight is the dynamic of Zero and Kaname's fangirls in school😂 Whenever he was doing his duty and was like "Back tf up girls" and they were like "Damn you Zero, you're no fun", I found it hilarious😂😂

Omg my dudes gonna talk about vampire knight never thought I’d see this

This anime was one of the first animes I was obsessed with as a vampire lover. I had the entire 2nd season memorised. Later learned about how horrible the love triangle was but in middle school it was the shit. Looking back at it now it was so bad but I have such nostalgia for it 😭

Yeah, Yuki's parents were also full siblings and Rido, who is Yuki's uncle tried to seduce his own sister. Yuki's mom, Juri turned her daughter into a human to protect her from her uncle, she did also lose her firstborn, Yuki's full brother to Rido who used his newborn nephew to revive the ancestor of the Kuran vampires. Man, this story is confusing! Haruka and Juri were seen in some flashbacks in the anime.

As a 13 year old in 2003 I was absolutely obsessed with this story. It's absolutely unreadable/unwatchable to me now, but my friends and I would spend whole afternoons talking about it. It was actually the first manga I bought! Man, this feels like so long ago. I don't remember much of it anymore, but what i DO remember is getting angry that they cut the kiss between Yuuki and Zero at the very end of season 2 because I shipped them so hard and the manga had a beautiful panel for it that I wanted to see animated😂

Really goes to show how semi descent writing, physically attractive characters and melodrama is more than enough to entertain most tweens/teens. But as you get older you consume more stories and your standards become higher until the show you were obsessed with when you were a kid is unbearable as an adult 😭

I feel like no one talks about how much of Yuki's past she was missing. Her first memory, being saved by Kaname, was when she was 5 years old. The missing first 5 years of her life are what is making her so angsty. I don't know what memory recall is like for vampires, but humans don't form their first long-term memory and facial recall until 3 or 4 years old. I'm still going to call her human since she was a human from ages 5-15. (15 years old and she is already engaged, damn). That is 2 years of her human life that she would end up forgetting anyway. Yuki should be totally fine not knowing what she did the first 5 years of her life. Hell, I don't remember what I did at 10 years old.

The music carried this entire show on its back. I honestly thought they were building up Kaname as the villain, which was why I kept watching past the brother reveal bc _surely_ that would be the last straw for Yuki, right? Surely Zero would win the love triangle, right? No. I was wrong. Shit was absolutely _mortifying_ 😭

This had me as dead as the vampires. I'd love to hear what you'd have to say about the vampire anime, Diabolik Lovers. It'd be a field day

On a different note, Vampire Knight is a perfect example of an author who is a skilled artist, but with the paradox of very limited “beauty” anatomy knowledge. The author makes beautiful art, the manga is breath taking, but after a while you start to realize that everyone looks very similar. The need to make everyone beautiful, and the limitation of the school setting making everyone wear the same clothes, the only way you can distinguish the characters is by their height, hair and sometimes eyes. Everyone has the same body-build, the same nose, ears, hands. Once you realize that you can’t unsee it. What I can’t tell os of this is a limitation of the style, a limitation of the artist or both. I don’t know other works from the author to have a better idea. There is a scene where Kaname was talking to his uncle and I wasn’t paying much attention (mostly quickly skipping the pages because I was done with it and just wanted to know the end of the story) and then I was flabbergasted that there was a two page-scene with an important conversation between the two characters and I couldn’t distinguish who was who. That scene was when it finally dawned on me that you can be really damn good and still have such great limitations when taking into consideration human anatomy.

Yeah, the Yuki - Kaname sibling reveal was very weird. From what I understand, Uncle Raido took the firstborn as a sacrifice to raise Kaname back from the dead. Kaname felt bad about killing the baby, so he took over the baby's body and acted as the firstborn son, kind of like how Shizuka took over Maria's body. So, Kaname's spirit is Yuki's ancestor, but his body is very much her brother. Much like real world royals, the pure blood vampires were down for incestuous marriages. Matter of fact, their parents were also brother and sister. Vampire Knight was like entry level GOT before it became popular.

Omg I just realized Yuki is the anime version of Bella/Elena from Twilight/TVD

Jesus Christ I'm getting war flash backs from this haha. I spent year seven in an anime club and the guys were OBSESSED with this show. They made us watch it like three times. Her talking to herself with her head stuck in a water fountain still haunts me.

Honestly, Vampire Knight was trying to be Angel Sanctuary and failed. Angel Sanctuary never hid the incest and was upfront about the gothic gore and really weird lore, so people who liked it already accepted that things like incest due to lovers being reincarnated as siblings trope. Vampire Knight wanted to have its cake and eat it, not understanding that Angel Sanctuary got to explore mind-screw plotlines because it was upfront about mainstream alienating tropes since the start.

19:55 That's not why he's a weird creep. Spoilers: He's a weird creep because he's like 10,000+ years old and Yuki is like his great-great-great-great-great- granddaughter. Also him pretending to be Yuki's real brother, also named Kaname, who was killed to resurrect Kaname is also creepy af

i was so obsessed with the show when i was a child that i memorised the episodes to the point i could watch them from my head. i kept reading and watching it over and over again, translated and learnt english. it’s the only manga i’ve collected from start to finish and i don’t think i can ever get rid of it because of this nostalgia i have for it despite all these things.

When it was revealed Kaname was her brother…I stuck around, hoping it was a plot device that wasnt true. When the anime ended, I was completely “What The %¥$& did I just watch??”

So true! Vampire Knight’s plot is a bloody mess! Kaname was so sus through season one I really disliked his character then finding out he was related to Yuki was the final drop. The ending of the anime was so weird?!? Like Zero making a vow to kill Yuki because she’s pure blood vampire at the end. Felt like the anime was sending that message out of “OK…bet but keep them crossing paths” Then there’s Yuki choosing to follow her creepy stalker brother Kaname?!? Honestly hoped Zero would find them and end Kaname

I followed this series when it was new and hot and the fanbase was alive and well. I watched it at least 3 times and yet I cannot remember the plot really. All I remember is that all vampires was in nightschool and had white uniforms, and that my fav vamp wasn't even the main character (the blonde vampire )...and remember that it seemed like both Zero and Kaname wanted Yuki.... that is literally all I remember....and that Zeeo seemed to have some 'disease'.... I'm also starting to doubting myself now....not sure if I ever watched season 2....

Oh my gosh, thank you for making this video. I used to be absolutely obsessed with this anime and manga...and then I grew up. (Manga spoilers below) I would get irrationally angry whenever I thought about how the manga ended. And the character dynamics. And Yuki, she has no personality or emotions. And she knows one guy is in love with her, but goes to the other one and then has his kid, THEN he goes into some sort of long sleep, so then Zero ends up marrying her and THEY have a kid, and he's forced to essentially raise the daughter of the other guy he was fighting over Yuki with. Then Zero dies because he's basically human and then Yuki sacrifices herself for Kaname to wake up, then Kaname basically has two adult kids waiting there for him. (And big shocker, the kids hardly have emotions, either, and they practically seem incestuous as well). There's just too much pain in this, and Yuki is a horrible person. That's all. Thank you for reading my rant.

I remember being sp mad at Yuki not ending up with Zero😭

the thing with Yuki, she was never meant to be in the story at all. the original author said they regretted putting yuki in the story and the way the anime portrays her is super annoying

I remember LOVING this anime..it really..REALLY..did not age well 😂 the story is a dumpster fire and Kaname is a literal 🚩🚩🚩🚩

I remember to hate selfish Yuki and psychopath Kaname, I was so angry that I wrote a whole fanfic to myself (I'm a writer), I mixed books and Castlevania series, my own stuff and I actually like it, it's not perfect, it's not for a movie or a Nobel prize, but, I'm in peace with it. I'm older than everyone here, I'm soon to be 30, but I wanted to share my experience with Vampire knight... By the way, memories is worse 😅 greetings to all from an unknown writer from Chile.

My name is literally Yuki. I was listening to your video while drawing and whenever you say Yuki i literally turn/have the urge to look at my phone lmao

The ending song 'Still Doll' sends chills down my spine, so good. Glad I found this video, reminded me to add it to my playlist.

Man,I remember being in middle school and constantly wondering when Yuki was going to die from stupidity. She somehow never did. Another thing, we all know the love triangle sucked so bad, but we know it’s extra bad when the two love rivals have more (very toxic) chemistry between them then the actual main love interest of both. It’s weird but so interesting. To sum this up, the show would have been better if it focused on Zero, Kaname or both.

Seeing Zero drink Yuki's blood at the ripe age of SEVEN completely altered my brain chemistry. Bro was my first love TT

God I remember reading this! I suppressed this so hard in my memories. I know the full plot So basically Yuki and Kaname parents are related. Pure blood vampires are usually always related kind of like the royal family keeping it in the family. (Vampires don’t have genetic defects when marring close) Yukis mother and father got together, Redo was in love with Juri and hated the fact that she chose Haruka (the middle child). Mind you he was already engaged to Shizuka and was messing around with Senris mother. Also he was obsessed with becoming the strongest vampire (the vampire Council was in on it) when Redo found out Juri had a son Redo used the baby in the ritual to wake up Kaname. Redo plan was to devour Kaname and become the true ruler of the pure bloods since the kuran where the first pureblood vampires. They where the ones that created the vampire ranking system, and the vampire hunters along with the vampire hunter wepons. Kaname after being dormant for Millennia devoured Redo but couldn’t kill him due to Redo using his blood and the soul of a baby to resurrect him. Due to this Kaname was unable to hold his adult form and being reverted back into his child form taking on the appearance of Juri now dead son. He also lost his memories until Yuki was born. Redo was then placed under arrest by the vampire counsel as a way to cover their tracks. Years go by and then Yuki is born. Redo hears word of this and decides to try to take over again he also plans to take Yuki and use her as a way to keep the other purebloods in line. He along with a few grunts sent by the counsel are sent to kill the Kurans. This backfires as Haruka kills them all off but get injured in the process during his death he revealed to kanname that he knows he is not truly his son but as his last request he tell kaname to protect Yuki. Kaname tried to kill Redo but failed do to the conditions of his awakening. Juri uses her life to power a spell she had been working on to turn human on Yuki (she wanted to be human to excape bing a pureblood vampire) Yuki looses her memories and is saved by kaname and brought to Juris friend Cross the ex vampire hunter who shared Juris dream of Vampires, hunters and humans co-existing. Around this time the Council was using the chaos to kill the other pureblood. Zeros family was sent on a mission to kill Shizuka lover the Level E vampire. Though killing him it would give the vampire Council a valid reason for killing her as attacking the Vampire hunters would brake treaties. (Note Redo never wanted Shizuka as a wife. He simply sent out the order to kill her lover just to prove a point) Zeros and his brother where always compared to each other by their parents and the hunter association. So when Shizuka came and befriended zeros brother he went with her. Shizuka saw her dead lover in him so let him live (yes very creepy since he was a kid) Zero gets bit and then is taken to cross. Also Shizuka was already known for being crazy and creating level E vampires as lovers due to Redo being a horrible match for her. Aido and the other side characters where gathered by kaname to be used in the war against the Council and Redo. They are all related to Council members. Kaname can’t kill Redo and he has to protect Yuki so he use them and Zero to do it. The whole story is just one whole chest game of a bunch of power hungry people trying to make it to the top. This story could have been so much better but we got this hot mess. The only real good outcome I could say came out of this would be the Fanfics and crossovers.

So to answer your question on Kaname's being her brother and ancestor, YES, he was reincarnated into the body of her actual brother. So Kaname is Yuki's grandfather vampire and his lover (Yuki's grandmother) died and was reincarnated as Yuki (but,like, reborn? Think Kagome and Kikyo where she's both reincarnated AND her own person). So Kaname decided to reincarnate into his grandson/Yuki's brother. Technically speaking, that does mean he killed Yuki's brother to become her brother and then grew up with her. Yes, I also thought it was dumb and terrible 😂

26:19 the reason Ichiru’s blood keeps Zero from becoming a level E is because Ichiru was a weirdo and, despite being human, drank Shizuka’s blood to make him stronger (health wise). This, thus, offers him Shizuka’s blood. And then later, when Kaname offers his blood to Zero, offers Zero both Kaname and Shizuka’s blood in a second round (yikes, lol)

I got into Vampire Knight because my friends were obsessed with it, but after the reveal of Kaname and Yuki's real connection (spoilers) just could not read anymore. Its actually really reassuring to hear you say that you and many others also dropped it at this point because I felt so alone in my friend group at school 😅

Speaking of Brace Papenbrook. Did you know zero is voiced by the same Guy, who voices Ed from Fullmetal alchemist

i honestly think that the main reason why ohshc works and vapire knight only does barily on some ends, is the fact that haruhi is actually a good character. hahuri is funny, she is not afraid to show feelings, she is straight forward and honest. she has amgency and if something is going on that she doesnt like, she will try to fix it. meanwhile we have yuki.....ya....

I remember being so obsessed with this show when i was 13 (mainly because I was in love with Zero... yeah I know) that I ignored all the signs until I was finally hit in the face with "He's my brother". It didn't even occur to me that Yuki and Kaname had the same color hair and eyes until then. I promptly dropped this series like it was hot. However I still have the first opening on a few playlists because it's a banger.

When I found out Yuki and kaname were siblings I remember screaming and throwing the manga across the room. Never finished it… 😢

The same artist has a manga called Meru-Peri and its even weirder please talk about it 😭 these books had me in a chokehold in middle school

This was the very first anime the got me into anime, setting certain things aside I hold Vampire Knight very dear to me

I can look past all the story flows except just one - I just hate the fact that there are both female and male vampires filled in their school but we only have an option to choose a ship between Yuki's adopted BROTHER and her blood related BROTHER/great great great+.... GRANDFATHER... like??? Just WHY?? they could have so easily just not made them related to each other. IT WAS NOT THAT HARD TO DO THAT. Why the incest? 😭 That's so nasty. As someone with an adopted brother and an older brother, I just could not watch past that reveal in this anime.

In the Japanese version Kaname is Yuki's older brother, and their parents were also siblings,. Apparently it's tradition for pure blood vampires to marry their siblings.

Idk if anyone else corrected it, but Yuuki's name isn't Yuki as in snow but 優姫 using the On reading Yuu ユウ and Ki キ and it roughly means tender princess as the dub said

Honestly, this is one of the few exceptions of where an anime would legit be better as Yaoi bc the you would have the engines to lovers dynamic for zero and Kaname but also Yuki wouldn’t be the main character, which is an automatic improvement.

The only credit I can give Vampire Knight is that the manga was so beautiful to eleven year old me that it made me want to learn how to draw. And here I am, still drawing! So thanks, I guess

The pause you mentioned in the translation 😂 When kaname says “what’s wrong . . . with that?” 😂

You should do Diabolick Lover because i am still confused about that whole show

I do hope you talk about the manga and the sequels beyond it too. 😭 it’s even more wild

Vampire Knight: Choose your lover!!!!! A: Your Adoptive Brother B: Your Vampire Not- Brother-Brother

Omg I was obsessed with this show . I was so pissed that she didn’t pick zero. And the theme and ending song kicks ass! I had the characters on my computer,iPod , etc. omg I can’t believe I forgot about this. Ty so much

This breaks my heart. I remember being so interested in this and then the end of the anime came and i bought the manga. I got curious and read the end... disappointment doesn't even cover how i felt and how i feel now that it's brought back up. *shiver* so much pain

I wish the anime industry would make more Shoujo adaptations again. We get like three harem isekai per season as well as a billion Shounen anime in a year, and I think it's worth it to reinvest soke kf that energy into the other half of your potential audience. I'm enjoying Sacrificial Princess a lot amd am incredibly excited for the second part of Sugar Apple Fairy Tale. If you guys are going to actively over work people to push out like 60 shows in a year, at least make some of them for people who don't like that kind of fanservice 😞

Ah yes, the manga that was my huge teenage crush because i loved the school setting and the mystery behind the vampires. Until it became Incest with a side of vampire and the most annoying insanely stupid love triangles i have ever seen. Edit: This video was amazing! I really, really hope you will make a video about the insane manga and sequel!!!

I remember I made a TikTok awhile ago talking about the plot twist and I’ve never seen so many people agree about how weird it was 😭

I’m beyond dead I legit just screamed at 24:17 😭💀💀 Somebody had to voice that lines AND they got paid for it😩💀💀

I love Vampire Knight. It's garbage, but it's my garbage. It's that special brand of bad that makes me like it that much more. I've seen it like 3 times. Also, justice for Ichiru!

I loved this anime as a kid and I had a massive crush on Zero- I found Yuki insanely annoying though- kinda wish Zero or the headmaster had been the main character instead tbh-

my favourite thing about vampire knight is that people can justifiably shred it to pieces for hours but NOBODY will ever shit on the opening or ending themes.

I remember watching this anime!! I’m anemic and I have to take iron pills to help but I always forgot to take them which didn’t help me progress.. and watching this convinced me to take them because it was like I was a vampire and taking blood tablets to survive… lol obviously it didn’t last long… I only watched some of it

You mentioned Ouran Highschool Host Club a few times and with the main topic being vampires, I'd like to mention that the creator of OHSHC also created a vampire manga called Millennium Snow. I loved reading it in middle school when everyone else was obsessed with Twilight. If you haven't already, you should definitely check it out. It doesn't have very many volumes but it's really good imo. I might go back and reread it again if I can actually find it. As far as I remember, it didn't have any of the problematic tropes like Twilight and Vampire Knight either.

Yuki is in my top 3 of most hated anime protagonists along with her fellow vampire heroine and also equally dumb Yui from Diabolik Lovers and the MC from Amnesia who has less backbone than a boneless chicken. I absolutely DESPISE all of them. And couldn't believe it could get worse but Yuki turning into a vampire proved me oh so wrong, she became just so unimaginably insufferable. Honestly, Zero was the only thing that made me finish the anime for the sake of just finishing it since I was already more than halfway through it. My boy deserved so much better, he was too good for that universe he existed in...

I desperately need Negative to review Diabolik Lovers now. If you think Vampire Knight is cringe and uncomfortable, DL is INSANELY uncomfy and it can't even use "aged poorly" as an excuse.

I remember it being 2008/2009 and how my sister and a friend I had at the time was so excited about Vampire Knight and how popular it was. I remember how I said something about how badly written the characters and storyline was and how some people tried to grill me for it. I guess I was ahead of the game.😂

OMG, this video brought back memories from 2009. I had been really into Vampire Knight during my Twilight phase (shocker) and the manga was more enjoyable than the anime (maybe due to lack of early 2000s voice acting) To be fair, the manga has a lot more story than the anime did. But BOY Kaname is a weirdo through and through. The oop not the brother but ancestor thing IS explained in the manga! And it's so weird. Very fun video though!!! Thank you for diving into such a fever dream!

this was THE vampire anime for me when I was in middle school, the openings and outros were always and still are banger. Unsatisfied with how the second season ended I did research about the rest of the anime since I probably wouldn't be able to get my hands on the manga, I was absolutely HEARTBROKEN with how the love triangle went and how it ended. I'd love it if you could do a video about your thoughts on how they closed the love triangle!

First video of yours that I've watched; nicely done! One thing that kept drawing me back into VK (despite knowing better!) was the montage of eerie, windswept images in the opening sequence. I wanted some of that moody gothic action in the show proper, and never quite got it. Oh, and NegativeLegend, please be careful, it looks like you might be turning into a vampire as well. PSA here.

Man this brings me back, my best friend in middle school LOVED Vampire Knight, Zero was her favorite and she had printed out screenshots from the show of him to hang up around her room (along with some other favorite anime characters), one year a couple other friends and me got her a Zero dakimakura for her birthday. She did try to get me to watch it a couple of times, and I had it on my list of anime to watch for a long time, but I couldn't really get all too into it, and watching this I honestly feel like I probably dodged a bullet. Also I've never actually seen someone explain the blood types thing in Japanese culture, thank you for that. I always saw it in manga and anime and went "huh, what an oddly specific detail they keep including", but was never curious enough to look up why it was there.

25:47 - Ok, I kind of remember why and if you want to NOT understand anything hear me out Basically Rido stole Juri and Haruka (Kaname and Yuki's parents)'s first newborn son, Kaname, to sacrifice it and revive the ancestor Kaname (we'll call it OG Kaname), but he was so weak he became a child, while keeping his old memories (I'm guessing that being Rido the one who awakened him the author applies the same rules of humans-turned-into-vampires) SO, if I remeber correctly, Kaname knowing this orchestrated everything so that Zero's family killed Shizuka's lover, so that Shizuka would go kill the family in revenge SO THAT Zero (or one of the 2 kids) would grow with so much hatred for vampires to be used as a pawn from Kaname to kill Rido I srsly don't know why they had to add this detail tho, since now the entire Vampire Knight's plot can be riassumed in a simple "Kaname playing chess with actual ppl for years because yes) Ah, and don't remember if it was said but Rido and Yuki's parents are all brothers and sisters and the author kinda "explained" that they tend to marry each other "to remain pure blood" (yeah, like Targaryens in GOT) ...still really disturbing and gross honestly ...how do I remember all these things? Cause I remeber I had gotten SO curious over the why and what the plot was supposed to be that I actually bought the manga (going through the incest parts was a pain, the 2 of them even had a daughter-wtf?) and when I tell you that if you find the anime part "confusing"... the manga part will melt your brain (I guess you can find scans online, but in short "Kaname keeps playing chess irl, kill all the pure bloods, is a bad person, Yuki for NO REASON still loves him, he goes in a coma and Yuki turns him into a human and dies, leaving him with a child and a half-child" (gosh it was so messed up and I really sat through it all, I was a masochist, if I could I WOULDN'T do it again)

Zero and Yuki were so cute! I felt as sorry for zero after his family died and hated yuki for just abandoning him for Kaname. Also zero was voiced by Vic Mignogna! Plus Bryce papenbook was also in hack://legend where he wasn’t a blonde heartthrob, it was blue haired heartthrob and he was in attack on titan!

Thank god I wasn't the only one that was increasingly becoming more "????" -confused as I continued the story. And it never seemed to end.

It really is worse than I remember. My memory of finishing the manga years ago telling me that Yuki and Zero are in love and kinda together at the end? I also remember not being creeped out by the fact that Kaname and Yuki are related because, well, it's fiction. Looking back at it now, or any manga or novel that we call problematic now but not then, I realize that people's perspective changes over time

I cannot stress how many of my friends loved this show when nothing was being translated during the recession. I remember almost every one of my afab friends had one of the school uniforms. You should look into Loveless if you want to torture yourself.

I fell in love with the Vampire Knight manga as it was serialised in Shoji Beat and I bought that religiously! I started losing interest in it when Yuuki was made into a vampire and Shoujo Beat was discontinued soon after. I still own the first 6 or volumes, they live on my bookshelf in my room at my parents' house.

I when I read the manga ending. I remember being like "wait.. what?!", so yeah. Who ever read this in their childhood, started to understand real early how these creates be thinking, especially in a different country. Negative Legend , I LOVE your take on both Vampire Knights videos. i wanted to ask are you going to do anymore in the future? I would personally like to see you do a video on Hana yori dango (ANIME) and Fruits Basket to fid out what you think of them.

17:55 I would suggest the manga " The Case Study of Vanitas " that also has a anime adaptation. 0______0

All I remember is Kaname being a creep and there being a love triangle. I'm not even sure if I finished S2 or if I got fed up with Kaname creepily creeping, just being a creepy creep. My brain wants to purge itself of the show's existence.

~ 4:43 From what I got from this scene, Yuki was just panicking to be alone. The main issue with her character is that she's overly dependant on people. She has this desperate need to feel useful, and help people because that's the only thing that filled the void she felt in her life. So when she's all alone, she becomes lost, doesn't know what to do, where to go, doesn't feel safe anymore and let her fears overwhelm her. This is why the second she sees the boy being in trouble with his balloon, she jumps on the occasion to help him. She's not really helping others by kindness, she does it for herself. It was the same for Zero, as she told him a big before Kaname turns her back into a vampire I think, she tells him she gave him her blood not out of generosity, but because she felt like it was the one thing she was useful for, and she just hung to that. Now, I didn't read the manga (I think I will though... one day... it's been many years since I've first watched this show but anyway lol) but I know a little what's happening next. But I'd have liked this series to be Yuki's learning on how to be truly independent. As she was trying to convince herself she was in the first part, then admitted she wasn't middle part, and in the last part (manga) finally becoming independent. I would have liked to see her finally deciding for herself when she became a vampire, as, technically, she's at the same level as Kaname power-speaking. Given he planned everything in her life from when she was a child, her gaining her new powers could have been the moment where she starts stands for herself and stops being dependent on one guy, whether it's Zero, Kaname or anyone else.

13:16 That transition cracked me up, your impression was spot on!