Vampire Knight Guilty

Story
Better than season 1, but still dismal. I liked Yuki's post-traumatic stress behavior, which was the reason I gave this season a try. It was a relief having her emotions at the forefront, instead of the previous season where she was constantly consoling the suicidal Zero. I usually enjoy heroines in torment, but they didn't do much with it. She continued obsessing over Zero and repeating the phrase, "I cannot hurt Zero any more than this" in her monotonous internal dialogues. She also kept on chasing after Kaname, begging him to tell her about her past. This dragged on ... WAY too long. I can take only so many scenes of Yuki crying and pounding her fists against his chest while he goes, "Yuuki," in his sad voice. Unlike season 1, there was some buildup to the final events, the villain was decent, and there was some resolution. However, the story was so boring and the characters' behavior so repetitive that by the climax, I just didn't care.

Art
The art was similar to season 1. Decent, nothing special. I was disappointed but not surprised by the cheesiness of the monsters and the lameness of the fight scenes. One treat was how cute Chairman Kaien was once he let down his hair and took off his glasses.

Sound
Another excellent soundtrack. Just for the music, suffering through the two seasons was worthwhile. I hate the intro, but the ending theme makes up for it.

Character
Yuki was unbearable. She was as weak as ever, but much more intent on protecting everyone, even though she had ABSOLUTELY no capacity for doing so. Watching her chase after the villain and put herself in danger was really irritating, especially because she endangered a lot of Kaname's lackeys in the process. Kaname did improve somewhat; he was less opaque and we finally understood his attachment to Yuki. Zero and Ichirou also gained some depth. The twins may have been the most powerful, compelling plot element in the entire show.

Enjoyment
They shouldn't have raised our expectations that Yuki would become strong if they weren't going to deliver. They did nothing with her being the guardian. If the main focus was the love triangle, then they should have put WAY more attention on developing the two relationships. Yuki spent a lot of time with Kaname and Zero, but she didn't connect with Kaname until the end, and her scenes with Zero were just angsty melodrama. I can't remember a single romantic scene in either season that I would rewatch, and I'm usually pretty enthusiastic about corny shoujo moments.

Overall
I'm truly shocked by this show's popularity.

*SPOILER WARNING*
What started out as a very good continuation of season one, and loyal companion to the manga (which I am sad to say, I did not know, too the exact same turn as transcribed here) ended up being a major disappointment in the way of a Shoujo anime. I don't normally affiliate with the genre, and this series reminded me why. The abrupt ending of Zero's affection for Yuuki given the circumstances involving her having been a pure blood vampire this entire time was nothing short of a kick in the teeth. To watch 26 full episodes of them going back and forth with ... each other in one of the most twisted and abusive love triangles I have ever seen, only to find in the end because Yuuki was never who Zero thought she was he can no longer love her?
Admittedly there is some bias to my words. I preferred Zero over Kaname only because the latter of the two was a self absorbed prick who's soul intent was roughly the same as Zero's later on in the series. I don't really feel that the story for both the manga and the anime were all that in depth as so many things could have been done to prevent the overall conclusion, everything just seemed to happen because one vampire wanted to be strong. For some reason, however, no one ever thought to band up and kill him all at the same time? And why exactly did he need to drink Yuuki's blood?
Overall, a very bad series that sadly had great potential.

I was so excited when I learned they had made a second season but was greatly disappointed when I watched it. It varies from the manga too far. They fail to introduce an important character, that triggers a major scene with Yuki having to finally confront her feelings.
Plus if you were looking forward to the big battle with the big bad uncle, prepare yourself, it bit! It was over in 2.5 seconds and Kaname is the major player instead of Yuki! It was total garbage and I wish they had just waited for the manga so the full 13 episodes could have been exact. Course ... that doesn't explain the earlier change to me.
IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T TRY TO FIX IT!

I really got into this anime, loved the characters and the world created, but all hopes and dreams smashed with the ending! I don't need a happy skipping into the sunset ending, but after seeing this anime I was not only disappointed but scratching my head (spoiler: A school for human vampire coexistence, but neither interacts with the other nor even knows they are vampires, AND Zero goes through this whole experience just to decide to kill all the vampires???).

My hope is that the love story is completely dropped (even though the scythe weapon of Yuki's is really cool) and Zero gets his own ... anime and manga, because the Bloody Rose gun is an awesome weapon and he's got a great background for his future of hunting down vampires. I wish that this anime was only included as flashbacks for Zero the Vampire Hunter and not an anime all by itself.

I began watching the first season, and didn't think the story was very good in the first place--I never really knew what was going on, and overall it kinda sucked. But that is nothing compared to the second season, Vampire Knight Guilty.

I must say, I expected this to get better, but it actually got appallingly worse. I tried to be fair with it, but when I look at it overall, it was just awful. The story barely made sense, the characters didn't have any development, and even if they did, it was really difficult to notice. It seems the creators got lost in trying to ... create something ambiguous, and 'cool' and misplaced the actual plot.

All of the minor characters seemed to want bigger parts, but, (for some reason) couldn't seem to 'budge their way in' going by the strange relationship with Yuki, Kaname, and Zero taking up a lot of the confusing screen time, and ended up getting written off. Multiple random things happened this season, including a kind of 'boss vampire' who barely fit in with the plot either, brought to you by one of the minor characters who can't seem the squeeze their way into the story whatsoever. All in all, there was no reason for the minor characters--the setup would've been more plausible if the 'boss vampire' came out from under the love-triangle and Kaname and Zero just punched it and went back to bickering.

I say, if you wanna watch this anime for a laugh, by all means--I did. But don't watch the second season. The ending was disappointing and, frankly, tortuous. It's a wonder I got through it at all.

Where do I begin? This anime has too high of a score is a place to start, don't get me wrong, rate it high for all I care, but I'll give it my piece of mind. As a girl, that enjoys seeing pretty boys and vampires, I would rate this higher, but as an anime fan, I can't bring myself to do it, story is outter garbage a 2 for me, it gets confusing and is dreadfully boring, even worse than season one, art is decent and it's the only decent thing about this anime, sound trash, voice actors bad, characters even worse (except my ... boy Zero, he was the only one half decent) and Yuki is so annoying she almost made me suicidal, first of all, what's with incest in this anime and it being okey? If anything manga is ten times better than this anime, they basically made 2 pretty boys vampires, one obnoxious girl human, but actually a vampire queen b and she chooses her brother as a romantic interest over a white haired cute anime boy that's standing there??
So, after we've established Yuki has serious sight issues and incest tendencies, it doesn't end there, she now also can't decide who she loves and what she wants (Diabolik lovers anyone? Yuki and Yui... suspicious) well, yep she needs help.
Then enjoyment, obviously as you can read, not there.
Overall, Yuki needs to be hospitilized, entire anime big waste of time, Kaname needs serious help and Zero is decent, but that's it at most, would I watch it again? Yeah, cuz I'm a fangirl and I can't help it. Do I hate it with passion? Hell, yes!
Hope this was helpful unlike this show...

The following review is how I feel about the anime Vampire Knight, and its sequel, Vampire Knight Guilty.

"You must do what you must do." -Kaname Kuran

This remarkable quote, spoken by one of the best anime characters ever, demonstrates the careful thought that the writers put into this incredible show.

I love everything about this show. One thing in particular that I love is how each character is not just there for the sake of being there. They all have their own importance to the plot development, and may I say that the plot is just phenomenal! I mean VAMPIRES!? LOVE TRIANGLES!? This anime right here ... is both original, and creative.

The most admirable character, though each character is immensely admirable in their own right, is definitely Yuki, our heroine. She is so brave, and not even once doubted herself. (SPOILER WARNING) If I were to have a daughter, I would raise her to be just like Yuki-strong, easygoing, dependable, and a vampire. Her eyes never distracted me in the slightest, unlike the eyes of Brock. (Brock is a character from the Pokemon franchise, if you've been living under a Brock. Haha get it? Rock, Brock?). Ok so anyway, this show is a must-watch for anyone looking for a compelling and engaging storyline. I have absolutely ZERO (buh-dum-ch) regrets about watching the show in its entirety. Unless you like cheesy and predictable "dark" shows aimed at a young female audience, and a "heroine" that constantly refers to practically everyone as "__senpai," then PLEASE FOR THE LIVE OF ALL THINGS GOOD IN THIS WORLD skip it.

Meaningful Moments/Quotes
1. Yuki: "Headmaster!"
Headmaster: "It's not headmaster. Call me father."
Yuki: "Father..."
2. *Headmaster fights against Level E vampires that are attacking the academy*
Yuki: "He is trying to protect the academy."
3. "You must do what you must do."
"Kaname...senpai..."
And, in the next episode, she feels courageous all of a sudden and says "Let's go." To which Aido replies, "You sure?" Then she says "This is what I must do." DAT CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT DOE!!

Unless you like cheesy and predictable "dark" shows aimed at a young female audience, and a "heroine" that constantly refers to practically everyone as "__senpai," then PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS GOOD IN THIS WORLD skip it. Also, the ending stinks. I didn't like either of the male leads, but I guess I dislike Zero a little less than I dislike Kaname. This show is comparable to being given a bowl of glistening frosted flakes, but then once you get a taste of it, you realize that its stale.

All in all, this show is the pits. I'm only giving it a 2/10 because Kanon Waleshima is an awesome cellist and artist.

Vampire Knight: Guilty is the continuation of Vampire Knight that picks up the story right where it left off, adding another 13 episodes of content to the anime. At least in my opinion Vampire Knight: Guilty is worse than Vampire knight and you really shouldn’t watch it, but on the off chance you are going to there may be some spoilers in this review. Now that that’s out of the way let's get into this.

Story:
The story isn’t that bad per se, it’s just the way it’s executed that makes it seem bad. Things like the use of incest about half way through the anime ... and then the attempt to justify it make the story cringy at times. Pair that up with dry voice acting and this destroys what is a pretty good idea for an anime.

Art:
The art work in this anime feels kinda like Code Geass but a lot less colourful. I think that this style of art works really well for the anime and does a good job of expressing the moody feel that the environment would have in the world of Vampire Knight.

Music:
The music in this anime is pretty bad. The opening was ok at best and ending was terrible. The music didn't really fit with that anime and the background music was so quiet I couldn't even hear it most of the time.

Characters:
The characters are one of this shows biggest weaknesses. Out of the three main characters Yuki, Kaname, and Zero the only one who seems to have any personality is Zero, and he doesn’t have much of a personality in the first place. Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion has more of a personality then Yuki and Kaname put together, and the whole point of her character is to not have a personality. The side characters aren't any better, they too have no personality or motives for that matter.

In short, this is probably one of the worst animes i've seen thus far and it’s not something you should waste your time on to any degree.

this is my first review so bear with me.

!! contains spoilers !!

VKG is the second season of Vampire Knight, there is a VK: Gekiai no Portrait but it’s a special so it’s barely relevant to the plot. I saw season one in my recommendations and decided to give it a shot since i’ve never watched any vampire anime, it started out decently, Zero was an interesting character to me which is why I continued to watch it despite not being that impressed. By the time I finished season one I was more into it, I gave it a 7 overall for being unique ... with mystery behind almost every character.

I started season 2 right after and all my expectations slowly came crashing down. It was a quite disappointment, the so-called love triangle was dragged on for too long and I may hold this against the writers since I originally preferred Zero much more over Kaname. Yuri’s character became almost intolerable, she kept appearing weaker and weaker and despite being so weak she kept insisting she wanted to protect Zero even if she had no way of doing so, it may just be me but her constant “I’m alright. I’ll be alright.” was annoying as well.
Kaname was a complex character, but he got more interesting as his true colours were slowly being revealed. At the same time my dislike for him kept growing, I found it mind blowing how a powerful being like him was so obsessed with a weak human.
I wanted to drop the anime around 6th episode because the whole Yuri smacking Kaname on the chest and begging to learn about her past was becoming boring but my theory was that because of her flashbacks she might posses suppressed unique power, her vampire hunter parents got killed by Kaname’s parents who wished to posses Yuri’s powers but because of that traumatizing night she faced a bad vampire, it caused her memory loss so Kaname was used to get close to her until she rediscovers her powers. Somehow Kaname’s parents were killed and he kept Yuri around to manipulate her like a puppet, so she can serve him with her powers and he’d become unstoppable. This theory of mine kept me invested and part of me was hoping for it to be true so Kaname’s character would start growing on me and how realistic his motive would’ve be, everyone wishes to become more powerful.
In ep.7 I just couldn’t handle how dragged the whole Yuri begging to be told about her past drama was so I told myself I’d drop this anime once I finish the episode. Much to my luck, it got intense quickly and I hoped for that to change my mind but the end of the episode was just so. no words. I’m an impatient person and when I heard the “he’s my brother” I just lost it. My disappointed went from 10/10 to 100000000/10, I knew this anime had to pull some weird sh*t because it’s about high school and vampires but that was just too much, I wasn’t sticking around to get an explanation as to why Kaname had his tongue down Yuri’s throat and proceeded to say “if I had been born her real brother, I would have been much happier” seconds later. I’m not sure how the writers plan to twist that around but it was the cherry on top to a ‘wtf was that’ anime.
I’ve read a few other reviews to spoil it for myself and it seemed like the ending was so not worth it. It’s a shame, I was hoping for Zero to end up with Yuri.

Vampire Knight: Guilty is gayer, edgier and more annoying than the first season. All of the failures of the first season are just as bad and sometimes worse. There is not even a cool opening song. There is nothing good or redeeming about this mess of a show. It made me hate vampire stories more than I did before. After watching this evil and satanic show I had to pray to feel better. I felt as though everything in this show was the author's fetishes projected onto her self insert character and her ideal romantic interests. But there is nothing romantic about evil, blood-sucking creatures ... which will make you become one of them if you're not careful.
I despise the Vampire Knight story. There aren't even any knights.