Reverse harem with creepy vampires

Tweekums

This twelve part anime opens with the protagonist, seventeen year old Yui Komori being, sent to a large mansion. When she enters she discovers a boy who appears to be dead; much to her surprise he awakens… he is a vampire as are his brothers who also live in the house. It looks like this could be the end for Yui but one of the young vampires says that she must not be killed. This doesn't mean she is safe though; they have no intention of letting her leave and all enjoy drinking her blood. As the story progresses it becomes apparent that they are keeping her alive for a sinister reason!

This shojo series was surprisingly disturbing as Yui's relationship with the vampire brothers was distinctly abusive; there may not have been any actual sexual activity but the way they drank her blood felt like a metaphor for rape. As one might expect the brothers are typical bishonen types; which only served to add to their creepiness and to be fair they are all creepy in different ways. The story was okay but took a while to really get going; early episodes were mainly taken up showing each of the brothers forcing Yui to offer her blood. That said if you want to be disturbed without seeing anything really disturbing you should enjoy this. Unusually the episodes are only a quarter of an hour long but that is better than trying to stretch the material to fill a normal length episode.

These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.

score 7/10

Tweekums 17 December 2013

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2923529/