Vampire Knight (Generic Discussion thread)
 

Source from: ANN & Moonphase.

Fans of the Vampire Knight manga (myself included) have been wanting this for some good time now. For anyone who's new to the series, plot taken from Wikipedia:

At the moment we have no news on air dates, or voice actors, though knowing it's going to happen is good enough for me.

Yes it is true =D...and yes i'm excited about it too
I hope they use Miyano Mamoru back as Zero Kiryuu since he played the role in the drama cds

YATA!!! i really waiting for so long that this manga will be animated
thank god my wish come true

Chances are they'll use the drama CD cast.

I hope they do considering FukuJun and Junichi Suwabe are also in it.

This was also on my "manga I wanted animated" list so I was really happy when it was annoc. Kaname-sama on screen O_O.

Yeah, they're perfect for each role, so it would be kinda silly to just go with a complete new VA cast.

I can't wait to find out who'll be doing the music for this one (i'm sure that was expected). I need to know.

I'm looking forward to this anime as well. The story is one that should adapt well to an anime format. My biggest worry is the ending though since the manga is still ongoing. (Of course, that's a common concern for any ongoing manga that's adapted to an anime. :heh:)

Great news, though I only started reading this series some month back, should get back to it. I find the art style very appealing. Hopefully the anime comes out well.

Nice orginal name, I bet it took them hours to think of it.

To be honest the manga was pretty medicore. I may be male, but I like shoujo I guess. The relations and things that happen in this series lack logic. The only real plus about this series is the bishilicious art, but when a series gets animated that will take a downfall I guess.

While a guy can watch shoujo/josei, because they like the romance and the character relation. I wouldn't recommend this to any guy since the romance and the character relations are just big wtf. >_> I wouldn't recommend this to girls either, but hey girls seem to be going crazy about this series though I don't know why?

Vampire Knight is an angst fest. I mean, c'mon, you can just feel the emo-tasticness flowing through the series. Helps that it's pretty low on comedy, and the characters come across as being either emotional, distraught, cold or whatever.

I do like the atmosphere of the series that carries the characters among other things though. There's something about the setting, the mangaka's style, the dialogue, and the way the characters bring themselves (( Kaname and Zero are the best examples, both in a good and bad way. )) that...how should I put it... makes the reading experience cold, surreal and in a way, beautiful.

The anime will either be strangely immersing despite writing flaws/etc, or it'll suck. It all depends, I suppose.

Personally, i'm not all that certain that an anime adaptation can capture the beauty of the manga, the exact beauty that you have just explained. Either way i do look forward to seeing how they plan to tell this story.

After being forced by my older sister I read the first chapter some time ago and thought that it was boring and ridiulous, the art is not bad but...
Well, I might reconsider reading the series since FukuJun and Suwabe Junichi were in the cast of the drama CD which means that I'm going to watch the anime anyway...

The only thing i am concerned with is the material for the anime.Do they have enough material to do the anime?Recent chapters is very interesting but i dont think the anime will cover that since the ending will be like left hanging.Personally i dont mind such ending as long as they stick with the manga.

I dont know if this sound random,but i hope those people will animate Kaname properly since to me he already has that feminine look in the manga.I wish it wouldn't get worse in the anime adaptation

I wouldn't be surprised if they follow the manga towards the end of the TV series, then finish it of with a anime original ending. It's been done a number of times in the past, and seems like it'll happen again here.

I'm gonna have to tell me friend but shes gonna scream in my EARS!! T.T
Anyways I only started this last month but it was really awesome I can't wait 4 the show!

Found 2 List of VA for VK :

黒主優姫 ：堀江由衣
錐生零 ：宮野真守
玖蘭枢 ：岸尾だいすけ
藍堂英 ：福山潤
架院暁 ：諏訪部順一
一条拓麻 ：千葉進歩
支葵千里 ：保志総一朗
黒主理事長 ：子安武人
早園瑠佳 ：皆川純子
若葉沙頼 ：植田佳奈


* Yuki Cross - Yui Horie
* Kaname Kuran - Daisuke Kishio
* Zero Kiryu - Mamoru Miyano
* Hanabusa Aido - Jun Fukuyama
* Akatsuki Kain - Junichi Suwabe
* Takuma Ichijo - Susumu Chiba
* Senri Shiki - Soichiro Hoshi
* Headmaster Cross - Takehito Koyasu
* Sayori Wakaba - Kana Ueda
* Shizuka Hio - Keiko Sonoda
* Shouda Kass - Fuka Shou

How much they coincide i don't know because ideograms are a mystery to me :(

That's pretty much the Drama CD cast, so i'm not surprised a list like that has appeared already.

At last, I understand why I like it.I am not a big fan but the atmosphere is indeed special.Kaname is intresting, and he contribute a lot to the mysterious atmopshere.It's an angst-fest but watching the cold Kaname elegantly killing his enemies makes it worthwhile.

Vampire Knight going to be an anime then I cant wait!!!

I was excited when I heard about this, I want to see how they plan to make this angst fest manga into an even angst fest anime with the addition of dramatic or emotional music to further draw us into the scenes. I hope they don't censor the occasional scenes of blood found in the series, it needs to be like how it is in the manga just because any censoring kind of takes away a lot of the uhh... drama behind being a vampire and how they drink blood, get bitten and what not. If that made any sense.

Spring 2008 is looking pretty good.

I can imagine now as more people go insane as they watch this ridiculous triangle relationship of the wavering Yuki, the two faced Kaname and the master of emo and angst, Zero. Don't get me wrong here, I like VK... I have this sort of love hate relationship on it. I like it but it irritates me to no end at the same time. I love the school uniforms though, I expect even more Vampire Knight cosplayers once this comes out.

Usagijen posted this in the New Announced Anime thread

One word: YAY!
Dang Spring is gonna rock!

I had a feeling this was going to air in April --- brilliant news.

oh wow, this spring will probably be the best in ages!!

Wow, it's airing in the spring? So fast! Lots of good shows.

Yeah; the characters in VK are quite twisted in a way. Yuki is you're typical shoujo char who loves to butt in on other peoples business(she greatly reminds me of the main female char on B.O.D.Y.); Zero gets it all good on Yuki wonder why he's still so whiny and emo about it. Kaname, hes the mysterious type who you don't know wtf is he thinking about (though hes pretty cool and I guess the eye candy of the manga for the girls).

Don't get me wrong too. I love VK too. lol.

Spring 08? That's pretty awesome. xDD. My friend forced my to read VK yesterday and I'm all done today. I think the plot is somewhat confusing and some of the characters are hard to distinguish from others. I think the art style is pretty neat though. (But their necks are way too long sometimes)

Mmm... this is my first Shoujo anime despite me being a girl. haha. The love triangle is driving me insane. I can't decide who Yuuki's gonna be with... yeah. There's gonna be a lot of blood in the anime. I hope they don't mess the art up.

Official site: http://www.vampire-knight.jp/

Looks like an April 2008 start date!!!

The character design seems really faithful to the manga...thank goodness, I was worried it might be something like Special A manga versus ugly anime designs.

Wow, those are some lovely looking eye designs.

Jun Fukuyama and Kana Ueda?? I AM SO GOING TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS.
Another vampire series, the more the merrier!!

DEEN is amazing. They look just the manga illustrations!

KyoAni's Haruhi 2 and now THIS. This Spring is going to be EPIC.:D

Good news! VK is going to be subbed by menclave, but it seems not a lot of people is thrilled about it -~-

http://www.mymenclave.com/?p=192

i couldnt get into the manga TBH, which is odd cause i usually love these types. Hope the anime may respark some interest

AHH~ I can't wait for spring season!! Vampire Knight is an awesome series and the so far the anime designs look absolutely lovely.. sorry to ask, but does anybody mind translating the cast? x_x; I'm dying to know who the seiyuu are going to be, and if any of the drama CD cast is returning (I hope so!).. thank you!! =D

Thank you!

oh no way! Vampire Knight is one of my favorite mangas. I can't wait! :D

Woah, the character designs there look excellent. I'm so happy this didn't turn out to be like Special A *cries over Special A's treatment*. Kaname looks like... Kaname the most. Zero's alright, only Yuuki looks a bit more off. But her anime self still manages to retain some sort of her cuteness. She looks really thin though (okay I know she is thin but I don't notice that as much in the manga). And her thinness makes her neck look really long. Heh, just nitpicking.

Exactly! I can write pages and pages over the many aspects of VK that I just cannot stand, yet I still read it, I still fangirl about it and I still like it. It's rather odd.