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May 30, 2010 11:51 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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l0l BL with Ren omg
Apr 11, 2011 2:04 PM
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gross from a straight view.

lol @ that pink pump
Jul 28, 2012 12:59 AM
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This episode was not weird at all.
Aug 15, 2012 9:56 PM
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*squeee* the best episode eva!
Aug 1, 2013 3:16 PM
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Bullshit! Ren was attending the same school as Karin and Anju. He awakened after he had bitten his female classmate who like him (though this was not true for him). Then he had bitten some teachers, erase memories of all school and left the school forever.
(though I know this story was made up by Boogie)

And Vampire transformation is very painful thing, no way could he just running around like nothing happened.
Jan 28, 2014 3:19 PM
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It's nice to see an episode focusing on Ren for once but why did it had to involve BL... oh well let's see what's next!
May 3, 2014 9:28 AM
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There's so much yaoi hints in this episode! It's.....it's....

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Jan 12, 2015 11:05 PM
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Wow, they butchered the fuck out of Ren's backstory in the anime. Holy shit, that's one of the worst changes from manga to anime I've ever seen.

In the anime, he's like a homophobe who's self hating for accidentally experiencing BL.

In the manga, he attended a regular school. He hated pretty much everyone and just wanted to awaken and leave, but one of his female classmates (IIRC she was the class rep) always tried to reach out to him. Then they got closer and he fell in love with her, and at that time awoke as a vampire. He ended up feeding on her and then used his powers to erase his existence from pretty much everyone in the school who could cause problems. Including the girl he loved. And at the end of that manga chap he's walking with some hook-up and he ends up seeing her walking down the street and gets depressed.

His hatred for humans stems from the fact that he endured the same kind of tragedy that Maaka was going through, only he was never able to coexist once he awoke because he's a regular vampire. And after awakening right after he fell in love and having to leave the human world behind he suffered a broken heart.

WAY more dramatic in the manga. This version was such a yaoi fest I'll need to watch lesbian porn for 3 days straight to readapt.
Jul 16, 2015 10:12 AM
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That was... unexpected!
Mar 25, 2016 11:22 PM
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Worst episode of Karin. It was so gay, it feels like I'm watching that shitty anime called kouran club....kouran host club....ouran club host......whatever the name is, its the high ranked bullshit. Don't know what was in the manga but its a fact that that Ren is fucking wife hunter, middle aged woman fucker, one of the worst character in anime industry. And what about the room mate 'lady'? If Boogie's story was false why he had those two marks in his neck? And why the fuck that asshole Ren was surprised? Disgusting episode. If you want to show gayism in side character then you must follow Cardcaptor Sakura.
Jul 28, 2016 12:31 AM

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What the hell is the deal with that damn Boogie doll thing? Is it a ventriloquist dummy? Is it alive? What the fuck is t hat damn thing?!?

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Oct 26, 2016 6:31 AM
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... I don't like how some of you are calling this "disgusting" or the like, just because it's gay.
Sure it was a really weird episode that didn't make much sense and didn't follow the manga at all, so there's reason enough not to like it. But calling it gross or disgusting for it's yaoi hints does come off a bit homophobic, and could hurt some people reading it (just say it's not your cup of tea or something instead, if you have to)
I know I'm probably just overreacting, and I'm sorry, it just kind of annoyed me reading stuff like that.
Apr 14, 2018 8:05 PM

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What the fuck..that was a terrible back story. Are we supposed to feel sorry for him or something? LOL
Jul 4, 2019 8:01 AM

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Must admit, this episode is the reason why I picked this anime.
Apr 5, 2022 6:47 PM

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Uh oh, Yaoi moment #2!


Followed by another one...


Then another one...


Then a final one that is just a bit too much for the mods to allow.


Still loving this anime, but they really like putting in stuff that could pass for unironic yaoi. I kept doubting that they would only let him have one type of awakening. They went way farther than I ever could've expected. Not my favorite episode, but it's my second favorite for sure. That extra twist of the knife with Makoto at the end was especially unexpected.
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