So I’ve decided to do another review of something about vampires (why do I do this to myself??). This time it’s a shojo romance, and no it’s not the rumored manga adaptation of Twilight, what I will be reviewing is the Shojo Beat series “Vampire Knight”.

So I picked up Vampire Knight quite a while ago and I don’t quite know why I bought it, being a shojo series. I am obviously not the target market of Vampire Knight so why did I end up buying 5 volumes of what is girls’ manga? At the beginning I’m not quite sure why I picked up volume 1, I think I stumbled across the anime somewhere and so decided to buy the manga from Waterstones on one of my manga binges during the exams last year.

The setting of the manga is of a school in which there are two classes, the Day Class and the Night Class. The Night Class is full of the beautiful and the elite, and guess what! They’re vampires, bet you didn’t see that coming! The fact that they are vampires is kept a secret from the Day Class and so it is the responsibility of the Disiplinary Committee to keep the two worlds of vampire and human apart, though the intent of the school is as a bit of an experiment to show that vampires and humans can live together. The Disiplinary Committee consists of our two main characters, the cold and distant Zero and the small and the bit average shojo girl Yuki. Yuki is the adopted daughter of the principal who was brought Yuki by Kaname the pureblood head of the vampires in the school after he saved her from a rogue vampire. A sort of love triangle develops where Yuki has a crush on Kaname, whose own feelings are not so certain, but it’s apparent that he does feel something for her back. However as the story progresses Yuki discovers that she also has feelings for Zero, which develops to be the main relationship of the manga.

The quandry is why I was not repulsed by the normally terrifying blend of vampires and romance. The truth is that the story is really quite enjoyable, it’s easy to connect with the characters, and the romance is actually quite rewarding and leaves you with a fuzzy feeling inside. It doesn’t seem to be what you would normally think of as a typical shojo manga. There’s some interesting action, not too much though but enough to keep me happy.

So the verdict is that it’s a pretty good show for mostly everbody, well worth picking, up so long as they’re open to a bit of romance.

Don’t judge me!