expired Posted by peeps • Oct 10, 2022
Oct 10, 2022 9:17 AM
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expired Posted by peeps • Oct 10, 2022
Oct 10, 2022 9:17 AM
Anime: Rosario + Vampire, Complete Series (Original Japanese Version or English Dub) - $4.99 @ iTunes
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Rosario+Vampire is one of my favorite manga series. It was a guilty pleasure that I looked forward to every month while in grad school and the series stayed pretty consistent towards the end...I liked it enough that I remember buying the releases at Borders even with online scanslations. Great roster of characters, steady and controlled power creep, no over-the-top fanservice despite the genre, but the best part is that every single antagonist is multi-dimensional with well fleshed out backstory. The comedy definitely gets tapered back in the last third as each main character gets quite a bit of screentime.
HOWEVER. as an anime, this series is pretty bad, mainly because it was just too short. Im not a snob in having series follow source material, but this series really ended off of a cliff. Its not GoT bad, but its close to it, esp with Moka's dad (OOF). There is a lot of episodic "villain of the week" comedy in the anime (like in early manga), and the fanservice is amplified 5x over and badly animated, obviously thrown in for the sake of the content tag.
Additionally, this series came out during the era of the late aughts (ie: cabbage meme) so the quality of the animation is quite bad, with badly looped sequences that would be humiliated by any tik-tok video. No amount of upscaling can save this series; they would have to redraw it. Theres one sequence with Kokoa complaining to Tsukune and hitting his chest over and over in frustration, and its the nadir of how bad this show is.
Its hard to find an analogy, but if any of you watched Food Wars, imagine if they made Nakiri Azami have no depth as a villain, and instead, made him into some super-powered evil Iron Chef who got taken out in one episode by a flying cleaver/butcher knife powered by friendship and love. So you dont get to know the elite ten at any meaningful level.
The only thing I really liked about the rosario anime was that it had some good music singles from the cast who did the voices. Reminds me of many of the maxi/image songs that came out in the 90s and early aughts.
I recommend at least previewing this anime on YT, as the whole thing is there, before committing even to a $5 purchase. If the protag watched her own anime (ie: Vegeta watching his own show on YT), I am positive that she would use her trademark phrase:
Minohodo o shire! - ie: "Know your place!"