Karin

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Synonyms: Chibi Vampire Karin

Japanese: かりん

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Type: TV

Episodes: 24

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Nov 3, 2005 to May 11, 2006

Premiered: Fall 2005

Broadcast: Fridays at 00:00 (JST)

Producers: WOWOW, Frontier Works, Kadokawa Shoten, Half H.P Studio

Licensors: Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA

Studios: J.C.Staff

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural

Themes: School, Vampire

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.11¹ (scored by 93,103 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #3781²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1334

Members: 178,651

Favorites: 768

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Vampires—supernatural beings that feed on the life essence of the unsuspecting at night—have been around for centuries. However, high schooler Karin Maaka is unusual, even among her own kind. Unlike her vampire family, ever since she was a child, Karin has suffered from polycythemia: a rare disorder which causes her to periodically produce excessive amounts of blood. And the more blood she produces, the more anemic and lightheaded she gets, ultimately leading to frequent nosebleeds.

Her only solution? Force her excess blood onto random strangers, which surprisingly causes these "victims" to become livelier and happier than before. With her siblings—Anju, her reserved yet affectionate younger sister, and Ren, her womanizing elder brother—helping her abilities remain a secret by altering the affected humans' memories, no one is the wiser. That is, until Karin's newly transferred classmate, Kenta Usui, finds her behavior suspicious. And to make matters even more complicated, Karin feels her blood reacting unusually to Kenta's presence.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Maaka, Karin

Main

Yahagi, Sayuri
Japanese

Usui, Kenta

Main

Konishi, Katsuyuki
Japanese

Maaka, Anju

Supporting

Inokuchi, Yuka
Japanese

Maaka, Ren

Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi
Japanese

Maaka, Elda

Supporting

Shiratori, Yuri
Japanese

Sinclair, Winner

Supporting

Miyata, Kouki
Japanese

Maaka, Henry

Supporting

Matsumoto, Dai
Japanese

Boogie-kun

Supporting

Nojima, Hirofumi
Japanese

Maaka, Carrera

Supporting

Shinohara, Emi
Japanese

Tokitou, Maki

Supporting

Takahashi, Mikako
Japanese

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Matsukura, Yuuji

Producer

Chiba, Makoto

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Danno, Yoshito

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Kimura, Shinichirou

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Opening Theme

"Scarlet" by BRACE;d

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Ending Theme

"Mou hitotsu no Birthday" by Fm.θ

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Aug 21, 2007

animemark35

Recommended

Karin is my favorite romantic comedy ever. I believe the reason for this is because I like vampire shows so this is a huge plus for me, there is also the fact that it had a real end unlike most romantic comedies. I love the characters in this show especially karin herself she is definitely unique. My biggest disclaimer to people about this show would be if you are looking for a show that is on the serious side this is not for you. so if you like things a little out of the norm then this may be a good fit for you.

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Jan 13, 2011

artist-retired

Mixed Feelings

Adding one anime only character apparently can completely change (Ruin) the entire story, this is NOT an over exaggeration.

STORY: This is the adaption of the manga Karin (AKA chibi vampire in the US, and by the way is my favorite romantic comedy manga) which is about a unique vampire girl who instead of drinking blood, shes injects her blood into her victims and the injecttee becomes hyper active for a while.
But if she doesn't, her blood literally explodes out of her nose (Which this and the concept itself is what the series is known for).

The anime only covers like 20 something chapters of the ...

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Dec 11, 2015

NSpectre7

Not Recommended

Who would have thought a romantic comedy could make me feel like I wasted so much time. This anime simply is not very good and drags on way too long. If it developed its poor story in the span of 13 episodes it might have received a higher score.

Lets start with a quick overview of the story. Karin is about a vampire named Karin. She of course has a secret. She isn't the usual kind of vampire, she creates blood, can go out in daylight, likes garlic, can touch crosses and sleeps at night. She accidentally shows ... her secret to a boy named Kenta who pledges to protect this secret and so our typical RomCom scenario begins. Not a bad start to the show.

The problem is that for the first 13 episodes nothing much happens that would bring these two characters together. Both Kenta and Karin both have family issues and both in the span of those episodes try to confront them. These issues sound really intense but, the way they are handled makes it feel like the writes didn't really care. You wont know hardly anything about anyone except for Karin's grandmother who actually received several episodes dedicated to her.

The last 11 episodes is where the story introduces some of the most aggravating situations, meaningless indecision, and meddling characters that one can imagine. Any time the story progress's a few steps with Karin and Kenta, side characters and conflicts come in to take multiple steps backwards. The last two episodes were plain stupid, forced drama which ended in nothing.

There isn't much to say about the characters. The Maaka family looked interesting but there is no depth to them outside of the grandmother. Kenta's mother had a few issues that they teased but never elaborated on. Kenta himself is only interesting because of his eyes, being poor, and his estranged father. which all sounds very interesting but nothing is developed. The father issues are solved with about 2 minutes of dialogue and the rest are not really even problems it seems.

The show really only has good points in the sound and art department. The art is well done, dated but really beautiful IMO. Karin is adorable and this is accentuated by her voice actress and the sound affects that coincide with he personality. This is the best part of the show and I love the moments when Karin is embarrassed and flaps her arms around.

Overall I would have like this show if it was shorter. It took me a few days longer than it should have to finish this because I was so bored and the ending frustrated me so much it landed itself below the 5 marker. I dont recommend this, watch any other RomCom and have a better time.

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