Not as good as the game, but not bad

owlfan18

Now a lot of people hate this anime cause they either say its a rape anime or the story is terrible or they just don't understand it all together. Yes the story is confusing unless you have played the game or read the game story line, it is best you do either of those before you watch this anime or for all I care, you can watch this first and read the story line later.

Anyway, the story is about Yui Komori, who is your gentle, average 2nd year high school girl, who was raised by her father who happens to be a priest. Her father is sent overseas for work and Yui is left in Japan and is sent to live at the Sakamaki household, which is made up of six brothers, when she arrives, the brothers are not all what she expected, it turns out that they are all vampires.

My thoughts on this show. The art work was gorgeous, I loved every detail in this anime, from character design to background work, it was stunning and I loved it. The characters were great, The acting was great and matched each character well. There are some well known actors in this like Yuki Kaji (Eren Jeager from 'Attack on Titan') and Daisuke Hirakawa (Rei Ryūgazaki from 'Free!').

The story was OK, like I mentioned earlier, read the game story line or play the game for yourself (game is all in Japanese). The thing that disappointed me, was that each episode only went for 15 minutes each and only had 12 episodes and the ending wasn't the best BUT it wasn't the worst. However even with only 12 15 minute long episodes, some scenes were disturbing enough to nearly make me throw my laptop across the room, the story for the game did the same thing.

The English dub for this anime was not bad, it was one that I liked, I did like Maggie's voice for Yui but during biting scenes, I think she made to much pained noises. Christopher Patton did a great job as Ayato, his voice matched the character well. Blake Shepard's voice suited Laito very well, he handled the pervy voice really well. While Corey Hertzog's voice is good, it didn't really suit Kanato's voice, some points he did really well while others, he didn't stand out. Ty Mahany had a great voice match for Shu, his voice was deep and sounded lazy. David Wald's voice really matched Reiji's character, the deep polite voice was great. Josh Grelle's voice was perfect for Subaru, he sounded young as well as tough, and that's the kind of character Subaru is.

Anyway, overall I enjoyed it, the anime was made so that people would want to play the game, so that's why it's not the story everyone was hoping for, but like I said earlier, it's best to play the game first. This anime is not for everyone but if you like harem animes, vampires a little romance, disturbing scenes and a fair amount of gore, you may enjoy this one.

score 8/10

owlfan18 11 December 2014

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3139964/