Aono Tsukune arrived to a new school. We have a default beginning but something seems fishy. Since Youkai Academy is a school for… monsters. Aono as a human is imperceptible because of an important rule of this academy- every student must be at his human form. Normal people at monster world aren’t welcome. In some horror like atmosphere everyone would run away but Tsukune found some reasons to stay. This reason is Moka Akashiya, a pink haired vampire. The choice to stay may be apposite because to our hero’s harem have joined another three girls . If he can stay with this four girls, the fact that he can lose his life to some monster is nothing. Besides every girl gladly protects our defenseless human. Especially Moka, who is one of the most powerful monsters, a vampire.
Rosario to Vampire is a combination of shounen, harem and ecchi genre. We can add some mahou shoujo and horror too. The author doesn’t hide his inspiration for monsters. We have all kinds of them, from European legends and from Japanese myths. Main heroin is a vampire, later appears a werewolf , witch, succubus and other monsters. A fair group from horror story. Every of them tries to kill or seduce Tsukune.
The episodes are very schematic. To Tsukune and his group time flows by and than they get to know one of the students. This student unveils his true monster form. It tries to attack Tsukune, so Moka come to rescue and defeats the delinquent with her roundhouse kick. This repeats for almost all episodes. Rosario to Vampire is a typical ecchi genre. The difference is that the story is set in a monster school. From this assumptions we know that it will be funny, relaxing and without any obligations and if you don’t expect anything special it is. Though the humor isn’t too good.
As a typical harem anime every heroine tries to seduce the main hero. Everyone has their own episode to show their personalities but after that they don’t develop. Most of time we have our main pair Tsukune and Moka. That’s a big loss because the female characters are likeable and interesting. Sweet witch Yukari dressed in a characteristic hat and cape, succubus Kurumu that has an ability to seduce and a snow woman Mizore a quiet stalker. A well done small harem. But they don’t have too much screen time. Instead of that we have many episodic characters that appears only in one episode.
A big advantage of this title is the female vampire. When Moka unlocks her eponymous rosario she changes like a magical girl from cute and delicate person to a blood-thirsty invincible vampire. Plus she get some body increase for free. This second form of Moka will win everyone hearts. She’s sexy, almighty and has a good kick.
The animation is very accurate. We have a lot of deep colors. The female monsters have pink, violet and blue hair. The background is very colorful too. We have a genial surrounding atmosphere. Graveyards, crosses, pumpkins. Maybe they aren’t horror like but we can say that there is Halloween Day all the time in Youkai Academy. Mokas transformation is also good looking. It’s similar too magical girl transformation but we have domination of bats. Opening and ending singed by Nana Mizuki show two sites of this title- harem and monster fights.
Manga and anime of Rosario to Vampire are different. First of all the plot in the anime don’t develop at all. We mostly have the harem site here. In the manga Tsukune became involve in various organizations and mysterious intrigues. The atmosphere is more serious and dramatic. The anime producers didn’t want to make anything beside a typical ecchi. If you want some harem in a different convention watch the anime. If you want some harem with intrigues and fights read the manga.
