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

Statistics

Score: 7.11¹ (scored by 93,187 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #3808²

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

Popularity: #1336

Members: 178,772

Favorites: 771

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Synopsis

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

Producer

Danno, Yoshito

Producer

Kimura, Shinichirou

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Opening Theme

"Scarlet" by BRACE;d

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Ending Theme

"Mou hitotsu no Birthday" by Fm.θ

Reviews

Mar 9, 2022

algoPotaku

Recommended

The anime is about a vampire family and one of them instead of needing to suck blood, needs to give blood. That is the scoop of the anime, then the anime says that it is romantic, the truth is that on very few occasions I feel that it goes on the romantic side, I feel that I waste a lot of the relationship between the two protagonists. They used more third parties so that the relationship between the principals can advance and that resource is fine, but here I feel that there was literally no development of them alone doing something. That's the only thing ...

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Apr 27, 2023

Ker0w0

Mixed Feelings

Coming from the manga, the anime is kind of a letdown. It goes on its own side path, making Karin develop a love-triangle relationship with Usui and the mysterious main character they hide for half the season who did not exist in the manga. I feel it's also raunchy in some parts for no reason, like the opening. Otherwise, if you're coming in on a fresh start, you may genuinely come to enjoy this anime. It's a cute and funny rom-com and gives you something to watch for a couple of days. Plus it was made in 2005 so if you like older anime this ...

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Sep 30, 2016

Animeprophet951

Not Recommended

It is a trick as old as time, to flip conventions on their heads and have the reverse of a common idea play out. We´ve seen it time and time again, sometimes deep and tragically other times bubbly and funny. This element, that we call "irony" and in other cases "parody" is what the premise to "Karin" promises us.

Like any good romance, the show takes a great focus onto it´s two main characters Usui Kenta and Karin Maaka. Setting aside the random detail of Usui´s stare, the story doesn´t really play into anything too unconventional. It´s plot and a lot of character interactions are ... practically transcribed form the great book of clichés and the show seems to have little self awareness about it, as it takes such story elements far more seriously than an audience which is aware of them ever could. The usage of tropes doesn´t really make something bad, though, as it can be used as a platform to save time and focus on other things, but the way the plot takes itself so seriously in spit of the lack of attachment the characters have to it , makes it feel expendable and mostly just a way of parading the characters.

By no means, however, are the characters bad. In fact, I would argue they are the best aspect of the show, which is excellent considering this is a romance, a genre which relies on how much and in which way we want characters to interact. Every character, in both isolation and in their relationship with the other characters feels unique and develops organically, which in turns allow you to not only root for them and their progression as characters (even the psychopathic doll) but also look back and suddenly feels nostalgic about those previous moments that you understand better and better over time. As far as characters go, the show is definitely cohesive and through, contrasting with the plot in that the tropes it does use are meaningful, whereas in the plot the tropes fill like just filler.

With felt less cohesive was the mix of drama and humor in this show, which I think wasn´t handled too well. There was an intended progression into darker set ups as the show went along, and well, that much was accomplished, but the insistently repeated jokes that weren´t all that good to begin with (some jokes even being distinctly bad such as a certain Winner Sinclair) and the over the top reactions of pretty much every character to just about everything made the earlier goof feel exhausting and the usage of a plot saturated with cliché turns was enough to dismiss a lot of the drama for me. The first part did allow some contrast with Maaka´s sister, allowing her presence on screen to almost always feel like a breath of fresh air and while the drama wasn´t too effective as drama, it did make me think more deeply about the themes of the show: our nature as people. What makes you be you.

This surprisingly deep and even more surprisingly well-explored thematic grants the show a whole layer of new potential. Whether you allow yourself to go with the tide and can enjoy the humor and drama as they go along without concerning yourself with the disparity or you choose to swim deeper into the river and find the golden themes at the bottom, the show has something for you to taste and to help you immerse in what the characters are going through. Even the ending allows the relief for those that follow through with the drama and also resolves the issue in a way that is rather consistent with it´s worldbuilding that far instead of pulling a deus-ex-machina. The only complaint about this I would have is that the answers the show appears to present to it´s conflicts are vague and dreamy at best which could be rather disappointing.

Overall, Karin is a very "middle" show, good enough to be watched and enjoyed by almost everyone, excelling in the middle but being a little rough on the beginning due to us not caring enough about the characters yet and in the end , due to the repetitive content (unless you have a particular taste for certain themes or the humor of the show). It´s not something I´d go out of my way to recommend to anyone, but it is not a waste of time either , providing and enjoyable twist on the vampire romance trope.

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