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Who couldn’t love an adorable vampire in distress? Especially who wears kitty ears...all the time.
Moonphase centers around the adorable vampire Hazuki and her “slave” Kouhei. The first few episodes are filled with the typical rampant hilarity that anime is associated with. You have the dense main character, the wise grandfather, and a cast of other family members that are at once lovable in some way. It only took me a couple disks in to the series to be hooked.
The main vampire, Hazuki, was trapped in a dark and dismal castle until Kouhei stumbles upon her while doing a photo shoot for the otherworldly magazine he works for. She kisses him, to enslave him, but he is too dense to be hipnotised. Also, because he is the rumored ‘vampire lover’. Gasp! Hazuki instead fallows Kouhei home, and adopts his life and family as kind of her own. Another vampire is sent after her, soon also biting Kouhei, and also becoming free from her vampire master and also becoming part of the family.
Other evil beings are sent out to retrieve the lost child goddess of a vampire that is Hazuki, and you can’t help but cheer on the magic throwing family that tries to protect there new not quite human family member.
The show is filled with cute little moments, even amongst the most dire situations. Hazuki is early on ordered to wear kitty ears all the time, and it quickly becomes a theme appearing at random times. And there is the never ending dropping of pans onto heads- I assumed it symbolises embarrassment or ridicule- but I can not be quite sure. There are happy moments, sweet moments, and darker scary moments- all working together in such a way as to make this show adorable. It has to be one of my favorite animes to watch all the way through. The last episode of the box set is odd, and has nothing to do with the rest of the series. Except for that all the characters are together in the families now rebuilt antique shop, in the middle of the ocean. Pure anime goodness, I say.
The box set is worth it. It doesn’t have too many extras- they mainly consist of watching the movie credits without subtitles and the option of watching the previews again. Though I don’t know why you would want to. Although I will admit that I am an adamant fan of watching it with subtitles. All in all I highly recommend this series to fans of cute anime. It has a good plot, good characters, and it leaves a warm feeling inside of you at the end.
