The story stays pretty close to the manga, well the first quarter of the manga since thats about all the farther the show takes things. The episodes are mainly stand-alone but thats okay because thats also how the manga was, difference is that with the manga this kinda bored me, but here that didnt happen. Obviously they come together at the end for some fairly good stuff.
The animation was great, It was exactly what I was hoping for when I decided to watch this.
The characters were... characters to say the least. Mokas still that hot red eyed badass, kurumu is still kinda sluttyish, mizore still stalks the shit outta people, yukari is that annoying-as-shit brat, and tsukune is still that pussy whos afraid of his own shadow but you know, apparently chicks dig that. Its a dynamic bunch if nothing else and it works well.
The fights however were something that should have been improved because they were all weak as shit, but once again thats how it was in the manga anyways. I suppose if we wanted good fights we would just go watch some action show, rather than an ecchi harem show. Honestly the thing that made the fights fun was when the bat would show up at the end and anounce how long that episodes big showdown was, using seconds as his unit of measurement. So essentailly in a 6 hour show there were between 10~15 minutes of fight scenes.
Overall I enjoyed watching it because I was a fan of the manga so when I heard there was a show I jumped all over that. One thing that kinda pissed me off in the show is that tsukune never went super ghetto badass vampire on anyone but whatever, the show worked out just fine.
