I finished watching Vampire Knight yesterday. This fun little vampire romp had a lot of content in the first season's 13 episodes, and at the risk of being killed by millions of fangirls, I liked this vampire tale much, much more than either Twilight or Fruits Basket (the anime). It follows a prefect named Yuki Cross, who protects the Day Klass (normal kids) from the Night Klass (vampires), while protecting the Night Klass's vampiric identity from the world, including from the other members of the Day Klass. Yuki's aided in her prefect duties by the stoic and reserved Zero Kiryu, whose secretive nature and over-protectiveness of Yuki leads you to root for him after a few episodes, even though he comes off as caddish and harsh in the beginning.

In contrast to Zero, there's the handsome Pureblood vampire Kaname Kuran, who saved Yuki from an evil vampire when she was young. He's chivalrous and kind, and she seems to adore him. The trio have the typical triangle dynamics in a lot of ways, and the 13th episode leaves you immensely curious as to how the relationships will shift in the next season, which starts this October in Japan.

Most vampire stories I'm familiar with have the blood sucking leading to death or the victim turning into a vampire, but in Vampire Knight the blood sucking is more intimate, and somewhat sensual for the vampire. The blood itself is very telling of the person it came from, which was all interesting to me.

I'll be anxious to watch the last 13 episodes of Vampire Knight. I think I'd give it a 6.8/10 at this point...but I'm on my tiptoes to see what happens next between Yuki, Zero, and Kaname.