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☆ Vampire Knight

Thursday, November 20, 2008, 2:57 PM.

-Vampire Knight-

Vampire Knight (ヴァンパイア騎士, Vanpaia Naito) is a shōjo manga and anime series written by Matsuri Hino. The series premiered in the January 2005 issue of LaLa magazine and is still on-going. Chapters are collected and published in collected volumes by Hakusensha, with nine volumes currently released in Japan. The manga series is licensed in English by Viz Media. The English adaptation premiered in the July 2006 issue of Viz's Shojo Beat magazine, with the collected volumes being published on a quarterly basis.

Two drama CDs were created for the series, as well as a twenty-six episode anime adaptation. Produced by Studio DEEN, the anime series' first season aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 7, 2008 and June 30, 2008. The second season, titled Vampire Knight Guilty, began airing on the same TV station on October 6, 2008 and is currently running. The anime uses many of the same voice actors as were used for the drama CDs.


Plot
Yuki Cross's earliest memory is of a snowy night in winter, when she was attacked by one vampire and was saved by another, Kaname Kuran.Yuki is the adopted daughter of the Headmaster of Cross Academy, Cross Kaien and has grown up and became a prefect for the school with one main purpose: to protect the Human Day Class Students and the Vampire Night Class Students from each other. Her fellow guardian, Zero Kiryu, a childhood companion whose parents were killed by a pureblood vampire, is now determined to kill them all and refuses to trust them. Through a cruel twist of fate, Zero becomes a vampire himself, having been bitten by a pure-blood vampire four years before, Shizuka Hio. Kaname leads the group of Night class as their President, with the help of Takuma Ichijo, the Vice-president.

For more informations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_Knight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vampire_Knight_characters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Romance_anime_and_manga


manga


Watch here:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Vampire_Knight
Second Season:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Vampire_Knight_Guilty


Theme songs:
Opening: Futatsu no Kodō to Akai Tsumi in 1st season,
Rinne Rondo in 2nd season by On/Off
Ending: Still Doll in 1st season, Suna no Oshiro in 2nd season by Kanon Wakeshima


Links
Official website:
http://www.hakusensha.co.jp/vampire/

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Still Doll
music: Mana, Lyrics: Kanon Wakeshima



Hi Miss Alice
What kind of dream
can you see
with glass eyes?
Become entranced?

Again I,
my heart will shatter
and spill forth
All of its memories
Sticking in the gaps
that had been patched up

Hi Miss Alice
Who are you
Throwing love out to
With a candied mouth?
Are you greiving?
Already I,
the fervor of the tongue
that spun those tales
Has gone cold
And I can't sing even the songs
Which I so adore

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Kanon's explanation of her song (from her HP):

The main character in this song is a little girl, and I wrote this song with the image that the girl is talking to her beloved doll. It's filled with something like the nothingness of an empty heart after sadness and lonliness have passed. An empty heart like that of the doll's heart. But emotion still rises up in the girl about her doll, and I wrote this filled with the idea of the earnestness that wells up from that, and of her love for the doll.


-Kanon Wakeshima-


Kanon Wakeshima (分島 花音, Wakeshima Kanon) is a Japanese singer and cellist. She is produced by Mana and debuted with her first single, "Still Doll", on May 28th, 2008. "still doll" was used as the ending theme for the anime Vampire Knight.


Early life
Wakeshima has played the cello since she was three years old and began playing in string ensembles in middle school. By the age of fifteen she had participated in a number of joint concerts and classical music performances. She began to write her own music towards the end of middle school and performed as a vocalist for the first time in senior high school.
She attended an audition at Sony Music Entertainment and passed, signing a deal with Sony's DefSTAR Records.


Musical style
Wakeshima has cited musical artists such as Jacqueline du Pré, Emilie Simon, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie as musical influences and favourite artists. Her producer Mana described "Still Doll" as "ambient, French and electronica" in his blog.
She originally played the cello in classical ensembles, beginning in the baroque section of a classical concert at fifteen, and began to perform as a singer-cellist at the age of sixteen. [6]Wakeshima has stated that she had not originally planned to use the cello as an accompaniment but decided to when she recorded her demo tape, after experimenting with the piano. She originally recorded vocal and cello parts separately and layered them, but later learned to play and sing simultaneously.


Links
For more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanon_Wakeshima
Official website:
http://www.kanonweb.jp/




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yes, i dont do anime write ups, but i think this anime is nice :D. not only the drawing, but the plot. one of the most beautiful vampire-based anime i watched. i was addicted to it right from the start, and watch 10 episodes in one blow =.=;;, even though i just recovered from fever. season 2 was in japan this october, so the episodes as going slow. be sure to watch :D, Kuran Kaname and Kiryuu Zero are such bishuonens xDDD.


Kuran Kaname


Kiryuu Zero





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