Worst
episode ever.
We get more
explanations this episode. Apparently,
there are several different classes of vampires in this universe. We have the hot bishies/bishoujos, who make
up most of the vampiric cast.
We have the Level
E (*hums*) vampires, who apparently have lost all emotion
and humanity and hunt human blood based on pure instinct. They also give me Fullmetal Alchemist flashbacks for some reason. I’m not exactly if they’re insinuating if Level
E vampires are the result of something happening to a regular vampire or if
they’re just ‘born’ that way. They’re
also creepier than the other two classes, so they’re probably my favorite.
Then, we
have the purebloods. Apparently, they
have the ability to transform people into vampires, but no one else does (um,
what? So, the bishie vampires can’t
transform people? If purebloods are
rare, then how are there so many vampires?
Is vampirism a genetic thing? Is
that it?). Their X-men powers are also
superior to the X-men powers of the bishie vampires. Don’t despair, though. Even though I made the distinction between ‘purebloods’
and ‘bishies’, we still get a pureblood bishie: Kaname. Who I still don’t like, but I’ll get to that
later.
So, the thing
with Zero is that he’s been bitten by a pureblood vampire. Okay, that doesn’t really teach us much that
we didn’t already know (I already knew that he was turning into a
vampire). When the class E vampires were
being set up, I got all hopeful that he was going to become one (which would be
both one hell of an interesting twist and would explain why he’s been desperately
avoiding his vampiric urges), but my dreams were dashed with the final revelation
of the end of this episode.
Ding
ding! Ladies and gents, Zero’s finally a
vampire! And a remarkably un-Level-E-ish
one, sadly. Took the fellow four years,
but we finally are achieving suction.
And Yuuki knows, too. How? Well, he went after her first! It seems rather early to have him be sucking
out her bodily fluids already, but it’s happened. That totally counts as first base
So, what
happened on Yuuki’s front? Well, she
proves herself to be the anime queen of parkour, and then gets attacked by an unarmed
child. Of course, he kicks her ass, and
she needs someone to come in and save her.
She also
mentions that she has a deep-rooted fear of vampires (because of her traumatic
memories), so I guess that maybe this may explain a bit of why she’s so
helpless whenever one so much as pokes her in the shoulder. However, if she’s terrified of vampires, why
the hell did the headmaster think it was a good idea to put her in charge of
supervising them, especially if their skirmishes often get violent? He seems to be one of those characters who
acts goofy but actually is very smart and competent when things get serious (Like
Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist).
On the
headmaster, he still steadily remains my favorite character. He makes Zero and Yuuki a nice breakfast at
the beginning of the episode, and they act rude and awkward respectively. I have no idea what everyone’s thing against
the man is, I think he’s awesome. He’s
over-the-top, but in a good way. He
obviously cares about the both of them a lot, so I have no idea why they (Well,
mostly Zero) seem to dislike him. We
also learn that he used to be a vampire hunter.
Why the hell isn’t this anime about that? Imagine it.
The tale of Headmaster Cross fighting vampires with holy water spewed
from his tear ducts and being an adorably overbearing daddy on the side. Oh, and he would carry pictures of them
everywhere, and he would subdue the vampires by making them fall asleep by cheerfully
telling them stories about how wonderful
Yuuki is doing on her standardized tests.
And he would make them delicious meals, and then secretly slip garlic in
them. Now, that would be amazing.
Okay, on to
a character that I don’t like: Kaname.
He remains rather dull. Basically
the only trait of his that I can really pick up on is that he likes Yuuki, and
is a bit possessive of her. The big revelation
about him this episode (well, not really, it was mentioned earlier that he was
a pureblood, but we learn what that actually means now) isn’t really news to
me, because the major difference between purebloods and bishies is that
purebloods can transform humans into vampires, which is something that I
assumed all vampires did. And he’s a
pureblood.
I guess that
this could be a conflict later. If he
has a desire to bite Yuuki, there could be major problems. Actually, now that I think of it, Yuuki doesn’t
really seem to care about becoming a vampire.
When the possibility was suggested to her a little while ago, she
basically did the equivalent of shrugging her shoulders and saying ‘So
what? I would still be able to be in the
disciplinary committee and protect the students'. But, if she really is scared of vampires, why
would she be fine with becoming one? Why
does she even want to be in the disciplinary
committee?
On the topic
of questions, another one that I forgot to mention previously popped into my
head. Why can these vampires go in the
sunlight? The Level E vampires were
wearing heavy clothing. Was it because
they were avoiding the sun, or just because they were disguising
themselves? If they have no humanity
left, how would they be smart enough to know to disguise themselves/protect
themselves from the sun? However, even
if the Level E vampires were hiding from the sunlight, the bishies and Kaname
seem just fine with going out in the sunlight in just their uniforms. They spend most of their time outside at
night, sure, but they seem perfectly fine when they’re greeting the fangirls.
I guess that’s
just one part of the lore they’re skipping over. I guess I can’t really hate on them too much
for that, because creative license and all that.
Okay, so,
hopefully, in the next episode, Kaname and Zero will get into a sissy fight because
Kaname’s pissed that Zero sucked out her bodily fluids first, the headmaster
will become the main character, and the anime will detail his evil
vampire-fighting adventures with a newly competent Yuuki as his female sidekick
and Zero as the Big Bad. A girl can
dream, can’t she?
Someone’s a
little… rape-y.
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