Chibi Vampire

Cheeky Vampire (Japaneseかりん, Karin ) is a comedic manga series by Yuna Kagesaki, which tells the adventure of a vampire girl. It is published since 2003, has been implemented as an anime series and translated into several languages.

Action

The fifteen and sixteen years later in old high school student Karin Maacah (真 红 果 林) is the second of three children in a family of vampires. She has her big brother Ren Maacah (真 红 炼), and her little sister Anju (真 红 杏树) and their parents Carrera and Henry Maacah. It differs in many respects from their family, so they can withstand sunlight and her body produces too much blood, instead of sucking the blood of humans. Your excess blood passes them every month to people. These are then packed with new motivation and vitality, while Karin again have one month rest.

Kenta Usui (雨水 健 太) comes new in Karin's school class. Karin noted that her blood in his presence most strongly responding. She learns that she is attracted to Kenta because he is unhappy and every vampire is attracted to a property (her brother is, for example, women who suffer from stress ). To retrieve their normal school day, Karin Kenta must therefore make you happy. She later finds out that she has fallen in love with him, and Kenta learns that Karin is a vampire. Kenta and Karin become friends and it helps her tremendously that she now has someone who during the day is at her side and knows who she really is. While Karin and Kenta get closer and eventually become a couple, try Karin's parents with the help of Henry's mother to find out why Karin's blood is " increasingly ". Finally, they learn that their daughter is a source of life. An ancient prophecy says that if the vampires should cease to multiply and extinction threatens their way of being a vampire really stand out for the blood increase. This vampire has his blood then pass on to the other vampires, that is, the vampires drink it. Thus, the life forces of drinking ends are filled in, the, but was drunk by his blood, to die. One day finds an old dynasty of Karin's existence and kidnapped her because the family wants to have their blood for themselves. With Kenta help succeed in Maachah but to free them from the clutches of the bloodsuckers. Karin is now like a normal person live from. In order to spare her that she would always be different from their fellow man, Ren erases her memory to the family. Kenta promises Maachah, good to pay attention to Karin. At the end, you will be part of a scene between Karin and Kenta and their daughter.

Publications

Cheeky Vampire was released in Japan from 2003 to 2008 under the title Karin in individual chapters in the monthly manga magazine Dragon Age of Kadokawa Shoten - Verlag. The same publisher brought this single chapter out in a total of 14 anthologies.

The manga was licensed in several countries and localized. In the United States the manga since 2006 appears at Tokyopop under the name Chibi Vampire. He has also been translated into French, Italian and Chinese. In Germany it is published by Carlsen Verlag as Cheeky Vampire since June 2007. Have been published in 14 volumes of translation of Alwin Shepherd and Shepherd Ilse.

Furthermore, a collection of short stories was published on January 9, 2009 under the title Karin airmail: Kagesaki Yuna Tampenshū (かりんairmail影 崎 由 那 短 编 集, ISBN 978-4-04-712586-5 ). This was by Carlsen Cheeky Vampire - Airmail published in November 2010 in Germany.

Adaptations

Light Novel

Shortly after the first publication of the comic was released in December 2003, the first part of the light novel series Karin Zōketsuki. Tōru Kai writes this after Kagesakis original story, Yuna Kagesaki made ​​to the illustrations. By the end of the series in May 2007, nine volumes have been published by Fujimi Shobo. In addition, in 2006 two special volumes came under the title Karin Zōketsuki: Hajirai Diary (かりん 増 血記 恥じらい ダイアリー). Tokyopop published the series in North America as Chibi Vampire: The Novel. In Germany, the first volume was published in August 2010 Carlsen.

Anime

In the animation studio JCStaff 2005 a comprehensive 24 episodes anime series based on the manga. Directed by Shin'ichiro Kimura. The character design designed Yumi Nakayama and the artistic director Rie Ota had stopped. From 3 November 2005 to 11 May 2006, that was broadcast on the Japanese TV station WOWOW. Subsequently, the series was released on twelve DVDs.

The anime also appeared in English at FUNimation Entertainment and Geneon Entertainment.

Synchronization

Also starring Daisuke Ono Jun Fukuyama, Takahiro Sakurai, Tomokazu Sugita and Toshiyuki Morikawa be heard.

Music

The music of the series composed by Masara Nishida. The header title is Scarlet by BRACE d, used for the credits of Man Mo hitotsu no birthday of Fm.θ.

Success

The manga in the U.S. is a commercial success, the band was 13 three weeks among the ten best-selling books.