Karin
by Chris on Jun.05, 2006, under Anime
Karin.. Karin.. What can I say about this show? How about kawaii horror. Yeah, that about sums it up. Well, here is the plot.
Usui Kenta is a kind of scary looking transfer student to the school that Maaka Karin attends. Now Karin is a vampire, but she isn’t a normal vampire, she is what has been translated as both an un-vampire and a blood-producing vampire (actually prefer the sound of the Japanese word, it much more to the point). Instead of getting hungry and wanting to drink people’s blood, the amount of blood in her body goes up and she has to inject it into someone… or she has a massive nose bleed. Usuikun has the fortunate luck to witness one of these nose bleeds and then cleans up the blood. Karin asks him not to tell anyone about it and their relationship develops, with many twists, turns, vampire hunters, 500 year old grandmothers and a super cute mum who can’t hold a job without being sexually harassed at it.
So this show was new this last season and one of the few shows I actually watched every week as soon as the episodes came out. I thought it was very funny especially the first two thirds, after that it becomes much more serious in it’s tone, but the transition is smooth and it works for this show.
One thing that got me was the title sequence. They are very ecchi, so I thought the show would be as well, but no. Not a drop of ecchi anywhere to be seen, which in this case is a very good thing. This show wouldn’t have worked with a ton of fan service in it. The characters are plenty kawaii as they are and unnecessary under-ware shots would have just taken away from it without adding anything.
So yeah, I really liked this show. If you like romantic wacky comedies with blood and vampire, then this is a winner!
Rating: Very Good, don’t miss it
