Babanbabanban Vampire

A decade ago, 450-year-old vampire Ranmaru Mori was saved from the brink of death by Rihito Tatsuno, a young and innocent boy. Ever since then, Ranmaru has been working at the Tatsuno family's bathhouse with a secret: he wants a taste of Rihito's virgin blood as soon as he turns 18. However, his plan is threatened when Rihito falls in love with a girl on his first day of high school.

Jealous and scared that Rihito's pureness will be ruined, Ranmaru begins to lurk in the shadows to protect him from any harm. During his operation, the vampire must keep his real identity hidden and make sure his target's virginity remains unsullied.

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Mori, Ranmaru Main

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Tatsuno, Rihito Main

Kobayashi, Yuusuke Japanese

Mori, Nagayoshi Supporting

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Shinozuka, Ken Supporting

Yashiro, Taku Japanese

Yamaba, Kaoru Supporting

Sekine, Akira Japanese

Sakamoto, Umetarou Supporting

Konishi, Katsuyuki Japanese

Shinozuka, Aoi Supporting

Kazama, Mayuko Japanese

Kawasaki, Itsurou Director, Script

BLUE ENCOUNT Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Arrangement

Ishii, Kohei Theme Song Arrangement

Botchi Boromaru Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Performance

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Mar 1, 2025

lordgaara

Recommended

Preliminary (8/? eps)

This is the greatest anime ever created.

Like I don't understand people hating on this. It is literally the greatest character-based comedy anime that has ever been created. People downvoted this to hell because of the premise and didn't watch it. People downvoted this cuz it has a BL tag. This is the kind of anime we need more of. The writing is so impeccably great and every episode is a joy. If you ever meet a person that does not like this show you need to show them the light.

The story is unique and the art style fits the story and the characters are well-rounded ... and they reacted to situations in a realistic way and I think others will enjoy this series please let me post this review MAL.

It is a solid 10 out of 10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Mar 12, 2025

Omelettea

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (9/? eps)

[Me before finishing the anime]
As of writing this, Netflix hasn't release all the episodes yet. I'm taking a break after episode 8.

I can't stop laughing! Not because it's funny! But the opposite. The unfunny is tickling my funny bone. I can't with this anime. What the actual fudge is going on. Though to be fair, one of my favorite part from this is the Grampa character, he thought that death's army was living under his roof. His historical plea to meet his wife from above.. that got me. I feel you Grampa, I also feel like dying having to watch this show.

Just when I thought ... a serious scene was coming up, another weirdo shows up! Like! AGHHHHHH. My spirit, it's turning me into a dried raisin.

Watching this anime feels like you're on edge worrying the FBI is gonna knock down your door and handcuff you. Of all the bad stuff I've done with my life, this anime in my watched list on Netflix is gonna be the crucial incriminating evidence that would send me behind bars for years.

It's just that bad. After they introduced that Sketchy Teacher character, I've learned to prepare myself for the next big weirdo that shows up. Gawd is it awful.

GAWD I need to cleanse my image of vampires pronto. Need to rewatch The Vampire Dies In No Time again for therapy after this is over. Wish me well on my recovery.

Let me clarify: it's gawd awful, but bearable to watch. Though you'll feel like your soul is slowly withering away. Weirdly enough. It's entertaining to watch, whenever the vampire has a 'surge' of 'love' for the boy, it definitely makes you turn your head away, leaving you with cringe and despair. This anime is all about a weirdo obsessed with virgins. That's it. All about virgins.

It's morally foul btw. You should be able to tell so just by reading this anime's description. That's enough to know what you'll get yourself into.

[Me after finishing the anime]
.. To be Continued ..

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Feb 12, 2025

MorgantheFae

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/? eps)

Let’s talk about queerbaiting.

Queerbaiting is when an audience is led to believe a work of fiction will feature prominent LGBT characters, and/or center LGBT story arcs, when in actuality those elements are barely there, or even implied rather than actually included. It’s a term i am very reluctant to use. I’ve heard some others in the LGBT community advocate for straightbaiting, in which straight people are led to believe a story will be about them until it’s revealed at the end that nope, it was queer all along! I’ve seen this done a few times, and i can’t say i’m a fan. The problem with ... straightbaiting is that it feels like queerbaiting right up until the last moment; i’m not convinced that final relief is worth the emotional strain that the earlier parts of the story cause.

With that in mind, let’s talk about Babanbabanban Vampire.

The main character of this series is indeed a gay vampire, and it appears to be marketed as a BL story, but it’s very hard to trust. It feels, rather than a gay story, more like the gay vampire is a plot device to get a straight couple together. The manga runs in a magazine that isn’t known for telling queer stories, and given the context of the anime thus far, available chapters of the manga, and the magazine carrying the story make even the pun of interpreting BL as “Bloody Love” concerning. Even if you overlook the elements that could be interpreted as straightbaiting, the vampire Ranmaru’s relationship with human boy Rihito is incredibly disturbing. Ranmaru’s favorite type of blood to drink is that of 18-year-old male virgins, and the story revolves around him living with Rihito’s family and attempting to preserve Rihito’s virginity until he reaches the age of 18, when Ranmaru will then drink his blood. It plays very strongly into the current queerphobic dogwhistle of “members of the LGBT community being pedophiles grooming children.” The way Babanbabanban Vampire seems to be promoting this belief is incredibly harmful and insidious. The art is excellent, but even the best art doesn’t make up for bad writing. I’m honestly not even sure who this is targeted to; homophobes will avoid it due to the purported BL element, and the LGBT community will be put off by the apparent queerbaiting and homophobic dogwhistles. Straight women who fetishize gay men, maybe…?

Even at its best, Babanbabanban Vampire seems to be focusing on the wrong elements of its story. The fact that Ranmaru is based on a historical figure, and the frequent references he makes to his relationships with other famous historical figures, are incredibly intriguing. I’d have preferred for it to be about Ranmaru’s (historically factual!) relationship with Oda Nobunaga, who perhaps surprisingly does not fit Ranmaru’s preferred type – when Nobunaga died, he was 48 years old the way we in the modern world measure ages, 50 the way he would have measured his own age, and hardly a virgin. He had a whole lot of kids, only one of whom was adopted. And yet he’s the one Ranmaru thinks of when asked about past loves. Ranmaru’s later escapades with the Bakumatsu-era revolutionary Sakamoto Ryouma are also more interesting than his current relationship with Rihito.

I hope i’m wrong. I hope that Babanbabanban Vampire is indeed straightbaiting rather than queerbaiting, and the elements that seem homophobic are resolved in a comfortable way. But i can’t trust it. I’ve been burned too many times before, and i cannot recommend this series to my fellows in the LGBT communities or allies.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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