She’s a well written character with great chemistry with Kojou and thus works very well as the main heroine. Her character development is slow and occurs over the entire season, and she also gets slow and steady relationship development with Kojou across the entire season. The main girl is very clearly Himeragi Yukina, a girl sent to observe Kojou. However, the vast majority of the focus character wise is on the girls and their relationship to Kojou. There are a few stand out male characters as well, mainly a close friend and a rival. This is a harem series so the majority of the allies he makes over the course of the series, and all the ones that he sucks blood from, are girls. It also resulted in most of the action feeling pretty random as it was never really able to flesh out how most abilities and such work.Ĭharacter wise Kojou gets a pretty decent character arc, though it felt pretty rushed. Thus, while I was able to enjoy the overarching plot, I feel like there was a lot of depth to the world that it’s not really possible to appreciate from just the anime adaptation. It’s easy enough to pick up the big things just from context and follow along with the plot even if the explanation is inadequate, but a lot of the finer details regarding character’s backgrounds, the various factions, the various magic systems, and the lore just flew over my head completely. However, as they all seem to start connecting to each other and you start to need to have a deep understanding of what happened in previous arcs in order to follow what’s happening in the current one, it feels like the build up of lack of proper explanation results in things getting somewhat hard to understand. It’s not that much of an issue at first when the arcs are pretty distinct. Ultimately, I really did like the plot and loved how it escalated over time. However, even from the beginning they all contribute heavily to world building regarding the truth behind Itogami Island and how Kojou became the 4th Primogenitor, and eventually that builds up to a series of final arcs that dive into the core of the matter and build up to a really solid conclusion plot wise to the series that I was pretty satisfied with, though I wished there was more to the epilogue. These events are somewhat disconnected at first in that they don’t really contribute much to an overarching story. He gets involved with various conflicts, and ends up sucking the blood of various female allies he makes along the way, which slowly unlocks his full abilities. He’s incredibly powerful from the start, but he’s unable to use said power as he isn’t able to manifest the familiars that are the core to a vampire’s strength. The plot is centered around showing the progression of Kojou as he truly becomes the 4th Primogenitor. However, considering how powerful he is it’s not like the rest of the world can just leave him alone. He decides to just continue living his life as an ordinary high school student and to ignore his powers. He has no clue how he became the 4th Primogenitor, as there’s a giant gap in his memory. The anime starts off with the protagonist, Akatsuki Kojou, suddenly being the 4th Primogenitor, the Primogenitors being high ranking vampires and some of the strongest beings in the world. This anime primarily takes place on Itogami Island, an artificial island created off the coast of Japan with the goal of being a city where humans and demons could coexist. Unfortunately, I feel this very much did come at a cost, as it feels like they were trying to get to the ending as soon as possible, which resulted in things feeling pretty rushed. That’s some dedication from the anime studio. And that’s despite it apparently not being popular enough for a second TV season. In total across those seasons they released 45 OVA episodes and actually managed to adapt the entire twenty two book light novel series, which makes this one of the rare instances of a light novel series above 10+ volumes that was fully adapted. ![]() ![]() And then the third, and then the fourth, and then the fifth. series so they released the second season as OVAs. However, it seems that the anime studio was really committed to the It seems that afterwards it wasn’t greenlit for another TV series, which also occurs more often that it does not. It started with a two cour TV series that adapted the first six volumes and then two filler accompanying OVAs, which is pretty standard. This anime is a light novel adaptation that is pretty unique in how it was handled. ![]() Tl dr: An anime that tells a complete story with a good plot and fun characters, but that felt increasingly rushed. *Note: This is a review of the entire thing, all fives ‘seasons’ and the OVAs.*
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