Friday, March 6, 2009

Vampire Knight

I've been trying to avoid starting to read Mangas as I spend entirely too much time reading them as it is. However I am very happy because I have an obsession with both vampires and manga. "The night class is an elite group of students. And they are all completely gorgeous" Isn't that practicaly a direct quote from Bella in Twilight refering to the Cullens? Oh and I loved how the flower withered in his hand. One thing about Manga. When new characters get introduced I'm always confused for a while because they'll be introduced as, for example, Kuname Kuran. And then I just remembered he was Kuname so when he got called Kuran at first I wasn't sure if he was the same person. I'm really bad at remembering japanese names apparently. Oh and the honorifics like Sempai and Sama and chan confuse me too because there are too many for me to remember. And random little things like kya confuse me too.

Anyways...The tattoo Zero on his neck and Yuuki has it on her arm on the white band. It also is on the top of the side column on the left hand side of the pages, and it was really bugging me. Now I guess it's the bloody rose. But I still want to know what it said in the coumn beneath it. Yeah I know, some of them are translated, but I want them all to be. I might have to check out the real mangas from the library. The day time teachers must think the chairman's crazy making the two that sleep all through classes prefects. Zero mentions the point that vampires only look like humans so they can more eficiently hunt us. This is also brought up in Twilight. And Bella's blood is also unusually sweet like Yuuki's. Was this written before or after twilight? Oh I din't think humans could smell blood, so I was wondering why Zero could I see now. And just how stupid are these girls? I mean Aidou asked one of them her blood type! Okay how many times do they need to use the square box things to say that there are two seperate classes at cross academy and the elite night class is made up off vampires? We get it already!

So I'm thinking the bloody rose is their culture equivelent to a cross? Ish, becuase it's suppsoed to kill them in the gun thing and Yuuki has one on a necklace as well. But it didn't seem to stop her from bein bitten. So are vampires besides the ones bitten by a pureblood. They're either a human who was bitten, or descendant from a human who was bitten, I take it. So wondering, would anyone 'donate' blood to kaname or Zero? Also the chairman is crazy. I mean who lies to a vampire? And he also seems to go out of his way at times to make little digs at Zero.

So if Zero is a vampire shouldn't he submit to Yuuki's will and let her kill Rido? Or is Yuuki simply unwilling to force anything on Zero after everything else? Or I suppose it's also possible that since he is a hunter and has drinken blood from two of the Kuran family as well as Shizuka through Kaname he is beyond Yuuki's control. When Rido says that Zero's entire life was violated and controlled by vampires it just kinda clicked... I don't know I just feel really bad for Zero. I like him a lot more then Kaname. But I wish he would smile, though all things considered I guess that's a lot to ask. Aw poor Aidou got fallen on from like ten stories up. So I think I understood the story behind Rido. He's Yuuki and Kaname's uncle, right? And was he in love with Juuri too? This is a really great Manga and I loved it. The only downside was that only in chapter 35 or so did I figure out wich night class student was which. And I still don't know if it was Kain or Aidou who used to live with Kaname. I'll have to go back and read it again at some point for better understanding. I really don't like Kaname much right now. He just seems to be more violent than Zero and he doesn't really have a reason. Kaname is power hungry and is more worried about himself than about Yuuki. For example he wanted to return her to being a vampire, even thogh she might have been happier as a human. And.. I don't know I just like Zero a lot more. How about every one else?

Okay one other thing, I think I have most of the characters' names figured out I think, but there's a a few whose first or last I don't know, and some who's names I cna't remember at all. Also I'm not sure if I paired some of the first and last names together properly. If someone does know kindly tell me? xD

Akatsuki Aidou
Hanabusa kain
Kuran Kaname
Kuran Rido
Kuran Yuuki
Kiryu Zero
Kiryu Ichiru
Shiki
Ruka
Then there's the vampire in night dorm with pigtails who was fighting with Rido when he was possesing shiki.
Zero's trainer?
Asato Ichijou
Asato Takuma
Yuuki's best friend?
Kaien Cross

2 comments:

Katy L. said...

In allot of mangas they repeat things for the first few chapters and again at the beginning of the first few books

Yeah I disliked how allot of the characters looked the same. and in this manga as in most it's confusing because they go back and forth using the last name or the first name.

Kaname obviously didn't care about Yuki nearly as mucha as Zero did

Claire said...

The vampire girl with pigtails- I think her name is Risa. Yuki's best friend's name is Yori. I definitely picked up on a lot of the parallels between Vampire Knight and Twilight. There were confusing parts where they switched between names, but that happens a lot in most mangas (that I've read, anyway). As for Zero vs. Kaname- it's a hard call, but it seems like Zero is much more sincere and honest with Yuki than Kaname is. I agree that it's a fantastic story!