Vampire Anime Series
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Black Blood Brothers
It's been a decade since the sacred war between humans and vampires. The rise of the Kowloon Bloodline, a new breed of monsters bearing an infectious bite, sets the streets ablaze under the reign of their king. Humanity had never witnessed such pure, animalistic brutality. [1]
Blood+
Saya Otonashi, a seemingly normal high school student, suffers from amnesia and she can't remember the past year of her life. One day a man appears and gives her a katana sword, her destiny begins to be revealed. Soon she finds herself fighting the latest threat to humanity – Chiropteran monsters, ravenous immortal creatures that can change their form, disguising themselves as human beings. They feed off blood and hide themselves within the human world. An organization known as the Red Shield has been waging a private war to wipe them out and now the struggle has grown. Saya’s journey for the truth has begun.[2]
Hellsing
For over a century, the Hellsing Organization has been secretly protecting the British Empire from the undead "freaks." When Sir Integra Hellsing succeeded as the head of the organization, she also inherited the ultimate weapon against these undead enemies: a rogue vampire named Arucard.[3]
Karin
Karin Maaka leads an ordinary life in spite of the fact that she is from a family of vampires. Unlike the rest of her family, she has no problem with bright lights, sleeps in a bed instead of a coffin, and loves to eat garlic. She is such an abnormal vampire that she doesn't even suck blood - she makes it! Everything begins to unravel when she gets uncontrollable urges every time she gets near her classmate, Kenta Usui. Will she hold back the urge to purge or give in to her need to bleed?[4]
Kurozuka
Kuro, a 12th-century man, flees into the mountains after losing to his brother, where he meets a strange, beautiful woman named Kuromitsu. Kuro falls in love with Kuromitsu but realizes she conceals a dark secret. She is unable to die and continues to live for thousands of years as Japan evolves into a future society.[5]
Rosario + Vampire
Due to poor grades, Tsukune Aono, an average high school student, has been unable to get accepted into any private academy of his choice. By exceptional accident, the only school to accept him turns out to be anything but ordinary; the school is attended by youkai disguised as humans. Fearing for his life, he attempts to escape only to meet Moka Akashiya, a beautiful girl who just happens to be a vampire. Despite this, Tsukune decides to stay at the academy, hiding his human nature from students and teachers. Tsukune also discovers that when the rosary around Moka's neck is removed, her true nature emerges.[6]
Trinity Blood
Centuries ago, man's Armageddon birthed the vampires' wrath. As man and immortal clash, a reality-shattering threat looms. Hope resides solely in a new breed of hunter operating under the Vatican's authority. The true battle between holiness and evil has begun.[7]
Tsukihime, Lunar Legend
The ability to see the threads that bind everything and the ability to destroy anything just by severing them is known as the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. Shiki has this power and this curse that he must endure. Thankfully, he is given glasses that can seal this curse so that he can finally live life normally.. until now. Shiki becomes strangely attracted to a woman and unwillingly kills her. His life takes an even stranger turn when he realizes that he didn't actually kill her. After all, it takes more than a simple cut to kill a vampire...[8]
Tsukuyomi Moon Phase
While a photographer is investigating a mysterious castle, he discovers a captivating young vampire girl who's been trapped there for years. Unknowingly, he frees her - and ensnares them both in a struggle for love, power, and authority among the undead and other dark forces that combat them. The girl's peaking vampire powers, alluring beauty and uncontrollable personality have now been unleashed upon the world.[9]
Vampire Knight
Yuki's earliest memory is of a stormy night in winter where she was attacked by one vampire... and then rescued by another. Now 10 years later, Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a guardian of the vampire race, protecting her savior, Kaname, from discovery as he leads a group of vampires at the elite boarding school. But also at her side is Zero Kiryu, a childhood friend. His hatred for the creatures that murdered his parents is so great that he is determined never to trust them again. This coexisting arrangement seems all well and good, but have the vampires truly renounced their murderous ways, or is there a darker truth behind their actions? Is Kaname's infatuation with Yuki the beginning of a forbidden romance, or is it something in her forgotten past that draws him to her? Because in this world of secrets, nothing is as it seems. And the price of misplaced trust may even be worse than death.[10]