Finally! Another character for me to like showed
up! The school just got a new teacher- a
vampire hunter! And he has an
eyepatch. And he smokes. And he’s a freakin’ badass! This anime really needed a new infusion of
badassery.
Apparently,
vampire hunters in this universe can only hunt vampires who’ve done something
bad and Level Es, which is why he hasn’t been running down the hallways and
gunning down bishies (which I totally hope will happen, by the way).
And I also
learned that the students in the night class are all vampire nobility, and they
hunt Level Es for fun. The way that
information is delivered, it sounds like they’re supposed to be evil for doing
that. But, if the Level Es randomly run
around and murder people, it seems that they should be gotten rid of as soon as
possible, and it shouldn’t matter who kills them as long as the job gets done.
AHHH! A SPARKLING VAMPIRE! RUN AWAY!
…um, well, catching
up on our characters… Well, the vice president of the night class dorm wields a
katana. Okay, I guess that the vampire
hunter isn’t the only one making things more badass up in here.
He’s also
one of those supporting characters who falls under the category of ‘people who
are trying to add some levity to the endless dreariness’ category, meaning that
he’s rather cheerful and goofy. He’s
having a birthday party this episode, and it was rather funny to see the
contrast of him actually being happy while everyone around him is being sullen
and mysterious and crap.
We also get
some shounen-ai fanservice with him and one of the other vampires licking his
finger, framed in a way that makes it really easy for the fangirls to tell who
tops.
(this anime
needs a prequel in which they fight
vampires together. Studio Deen, get on to
that right now)
The
headmaster is in comic relief form this episode. He seems to be it every other episode. If you’re curious about whether he’s in comic
relief form or serious business form, check the opacity of his glasses. If you can’t see his eyes, he’s silly. If you can, serious. I prefer his comic relief form, because all
he seems to do in serious business form is spout exposition.
Kaname’s
been himself. Which means he hits on
Yuuki, talks about how important she is to him, etc, etc. You get the picture. You know what? Why the hell does he like Yuuki so much? I really can’t detect a reason that she’s so
special to him. The two aren’t friends-
they only see each other every once in a while, and they never really talk when
they do (unless you count Kaname saying “You’re the most important person in
the world” to her as an engaging two-sided conversation).
Whenever
she’s around him, she doesn’t really do much except mumble awkwardly and blush,
so you can’t say that she’s been doing things that his fangirls (who he doesn’t
care about) haven’t been doing. He saved
her life- but that’s the reason she would
have a crush on him, not the other
way around. For example, if you pushed
someone out of the way of a speeding car, you wouldn’t suddenly fall in love
with that person.
Also, on
that note, isn’t it creepy that Kaname has a crush on Yuuki, since he’s a lot
older than her and met her when she was a tiny child? Yuuki also hasn’t really been doing her
duties properly, and constantly needs help from other people, so you can’t say
that he loves her because she’s independent and good at her job. I’m not trying to say that I hate Yuuki or
anything, I’m just pointing out that Kaname’s interest in her makes no sense.
At least in
Zero’s case, it makes a bit more sense.
The two have been friends for a while, and a lot of their more lighthearted
interactions (her telling him off, him teasing her) in earlier episodes helped
make their relationship believable. And
she still repeatedly proves that she gives a damn about what’s going on with
him, and is constantly worrying about him even when he’s not around. In fact, I can say with reasonable certainty
that she cares more about Zero than he
does.
Also, Zero’s
been doing a bit less dark brooding this episode. He’s still sullen and quiet, but I’ll take
what I can get at this point.
On the topic
of Zero, there actually have been two important things related to him in this episode. The biggest one being that he can’t have the
blood tablets (they make him cough and stuff).
This actually was foreshadowed earlier, but I dismissed it as him
refusing to have them because he didn’t want to succumb to his vampiric
urges. This plot point seems to have
been made purely for the purpose of creating drama.
The other
one is that now Yuuki has been taught a sort of spell that allows her to
paralyze him if she thinks that he’s getting out of hand (I can see a ton of
comedic possibilities here).
However,
because Zero feels like he needs to make things as depressing as possible, he
then hands Yuuki a gun and tells her to shoot him if he goes Level E. She agrees (probably to just make his
MCR-listening-self feel better). Also,
later in the episode, just to prove her competence, he tries to bite her again,
and she for some reason doesn’t use the spell.
But don’t
worry, Eyepatch shows up and shoots him.
Non-fatally, of course, but it still made me excited at the possibility
of something actually cool happening.
Then, we learn that Zero and Eyepatch knew each other in the past, and
then the episode ends. I hope the two
have a gun duel next episode, because that would be pretty cool.
“My… vampire…
senses… tingling… Must… STRIP!”
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