Rosario + Vampire Season 1

- Synopsis: Our main character's lack of academic success has him enrolling in the only school that will accept him. Much to his chagrin, this school is far from "normal". Except for him, everybody in the school is a monster of some shape or form. If they find out his secret, he's a goner! Tune in to see how the whacky adventures of this young man plays out as he struggles to keep up with the girls, and his overwhelmingly eccentric circumstances. =========================================================================================================== - Comments: Great amount of fan-service. Unfortunately no uncensored scenes, but plenty of teasing throughout. If you liked animes such as Monster Musume, Maken-Ki, you might like this one too. Some of the scenes are quite amusing as well.This anime is simple and doesn't really have any complicated plot. It is loaded with silly situations which helps with the entertainment value. It's an anime to just turn off your brain and enjoy. Great for laughs and smiles. It's a "feel good" anime with some guilty-pleasure involved. - Analysis: Life is heavily about relationships. Whether one's bonds are large or small, it is without a doubt that just about everyone has a bond with another in some shape or form. Although most of the bonds the protagonist forge with aren't even human, that doesn't stop him from befriending or becoming intimate with them. Fortunately, he realizes at some point that there are many commonalities between humans and monsters. Not just differences. - Conclusion: Overall, it's not a bad anime with waifus and fan-service. Simplistic and light-hearted. Quite inexpensive too. I'd say it was worth it for the simplicity and waifus. - Features: English and Japanese audio with English subtitles. Includes 13 episodes on 2 DVDs with a run-time of about 5 hours. Rated TV-MA for sexual content and some fantasy violence. =========================================================================================================== - Recommendations: Monster Musume, Mayo Chiki!, Chobits, Hataraku Maou-sama!, High School DxD, The World God Only Knows, Akikan!, Kampfer, Maken-Ki, Ben-To, D-Frag!, Binbougami ga!, Witch Craft Works, Sekirei, and Date A Live.

Only thing I have to say regarding this item itself was that it's worth buying & watching. I'm at the top for this particular movie season that was introduced to me by my family member. Only issue I had which not of the item itself, but of how many season that were made. Only two were made which stinks in my opinion but for the two, it's well worth watching & drooling. Heh

A high school student's parents find a way for him to immediately start high school even though he'd failed his entry exam, but there is one problem... the private school they'd found an acceptance form for is only for monsters. In no time he has befriended a group of girls the only problem is each of them intends on becoming his girlfriend. Season one... focuses on Tsukune and the girl's lives at Yokai academy and feels like a slice of life anime due to the season lacking an overarching narrative, but the season concludes with a great three part finale! Season two... Tsukune and the girls are back at Yokai academy and a new student has a grudge against them. This season has an overarching narrative and concludes with another great three part finale! The animation, characters, finales and English dub are amazing which is why this is one of my favorite animes! Be warned that the series is not suitable for children due to all the fan service and if you're unfamiliar with the term then let me explain. Fan service means there are a lot of large jiggling breasts, revealing clothing, panty exposing character animations, poses and camera angles as well as brief nudity and strongly suggestive themes.

I've watched my fair share (probably more) of anime series, and after a while I sort of fell out of love of them. Then, a buddy of mine and I were chatting about different series, and he mentioned this. Saying I hadn't seen it before, he offered me his copy of both seasons to watch. Needless to say, I just purchased copies of them for myself. The series starts off with Tsukune Aono, an average (apparently below average) high school student who fails his entrance exams and his dad 'finds' an entrance ticket to Yokai Academy. Once there, Tsukune immediantly stumbles upon the other protagonist and his main love interest, Moka. Who turns out to be a vampire. Yeap. But here's the funny thing: from a guy who hates most vampire series, I loved this one. Throughout the series, Tsukune befriends many other 'beings,' including a Succubus, a witch, and an ice maiden. Ah, young love. Besides the expected love...square? Rectangle? Eh...Anyways, besides that, there's a lot of messages sent 'behind the scenes' that really catch on, such as bigotry, sexism, and even racism. Throughout the series, the message of 'let's just all be friends!' shines through, but not glaringly, as it is much more subtle than you'd expect. The Positive: -Interesting, well developed characterizations. -The lead genuinely seems to care about the people around him, often going to great lengths to protect those he loves -NO ONE IS PERFECT: All the characters share their flaws, but as they grow closer in their relationships to each other, their flaws begin to disappear, as they learn from each other. -Some truly funny/witty moments that made me LOL (laugh) more than I would've expected. -Some moderate fan service The Negative: -Does not stick true to the manga. Goes off and does it's own thing. Which is not bad if you haven't read the manga, and even if you have, it's true enough to it that you could still appreciate it. -It does get a little hammy at times. However, this is countered by the aformentioned 'behind the scenes' messages being sent, and being very well written for an anime of it's kind. -The end of every episode is usually very quick. However, the episodes with longer endings are really quite impressive to see. All in all? Check out an episode or two on Netflix/Youtube. If you like what you see, I'd say go ahead and make the purchase!

I just had to add my 5 stars here, since someone decided to add their 1 star already. This is a top drawer anime, and is an absolute pleasure to watch. Comedy is spot-on, the characters are all well done and lovable, and the fan service is great too! (If you are one of those who complain about fan service then I have to wonder why you are interested in this type of anime in the first place.) If you like harem comedies it doesn't get much better than this! I understand the Manga gets quite a bit darker than the anime. I have yet to read the manga, but if that's true I gotta think I'll like the anime better. To me the series is perfect the way it is. Lighthearted and a laugh riot start to all-to-soon finish. My only complaint is that it could/should have had a third season. As for this release... Where the heck is the Blu-ray?!?

This box set comes with a hard cover box, and a normal DVD case to protect the two DVDs the show is split on. There is another cardboard box that comes with the box and inside the box is the art book. It's not really worth listing, nothing impressive about the art book. It has all the females in the same pose but different outfits. Their normal outfit and a different one in the same pose. Than a few group shots. Like I said nothing new. If your not a person that likes to keep their cases the way they are, than you can get "Season 2" of this anime and use the outside hard box as a holder for both seasons. Which works out well, all you would have to do is take out the cardboard box slip that holds the art book and put "Season 2" next to "Season 1". The anime is not censored. It has all the fan service you can want and than some. In a nut shell the show is pure fan service. It has a developing story throughout, but fails to develop any real characters. The characters it presents does a decent job at allowing you to connect and immerse yourself in the world, but once you are finish watching you will soon forget them. This by no means it's not worth watching. The show slightly fails at providing deep characters, but the funny situations they get into are what make it worthwhile. Season one starts off with your main character trying to get into high school. He has not been able to gain accesses to any real schools, but somehow he is able to gain entrance into a secret academy. This is where the fun starts and you meet your second main character. The show is about the two main characters love, and is mostly cliché japans anime where the guy is weak and can never make up his mind. What makes the show is the monsters and the situations, and the laughter you will have watching it, plus the fan service. There is a lot of fan service, and this anime is not intended for children. There is no nudity (From what I saw in the fan dubs), but nevertheless not for children. Todd Haberkorn plays your main character, and he has done decent voice work before in anime such as "One Piece", "Full Metal Alchemist", and from where I know him the most "Claymore" he does a good job at getting the emotions of the character across to the audience. The color is good on the DVDs not to much background issues. The transfers are well done. No problems with picture. Sound is well done as well, The 5.1 sound, sounds better than most anime so no complaints. At times the characters voices can be annoying, but nothing to write home about. The dub for this anime is well done, and worth watching. If you do not like dubs, the subtitles are there and from what I have seen match up well to the fan dubs. This is a good box set, nothing special about the cases are art book, but if you have been waiting to own the anime like I have than it's about time Funimation did this and it's worth owning.

Other than the constant panty shots and the drawings of close ups of boobs (seriously, were the artists of this anime watching porn when they were drawing this?), this anime has a very good plot, although lacking the deep character development that the manga had. Worth purchasing, though, as the plot line with Tskune being the only human in a school meant for "monsters" (who are really just humans with super-human abilities/skills) that don't like humans/ordinary people and being forced to hide who/what he really is, before finally leading up to an epic ending (which I won't spoil for anyone!) being very addicting. Worth buying, if you can overlook the over-sexualization of the female characters!

first of all i watched the whole show online & i loved it so much so i got the DVD overall its a harem \ ecchi with a school setting but with a bit of a Gothic touch with paranormal monsters & such the cast is quite colorful , the main guy is tsukune a kid who got drafted to the monsters academy by mistake - the lovely moka who is the main love interest to tsukune & is a speacial kind of vampire that has 2 personalty which i find alter strong moka sexy - kuromu the ever so seductive succubus with a cheerful personalty - yukari the adorable smart little witch - mizore the cool , calm , innocent stalker which i find her cute . as of this season i find it more serious and has a plot more than the 2nd season ( which im now watching ) and each episodes involves tsukune getting to know more about the school and meeting new persons err .... monsters , lets not forget the FAN SERVICE that the show will provide to its viewer . i loved the show and its cast , tho i never got into the MANGA yet people say its way!!!!! better so i will look for it in the future this not a kids show but for an OTAKU its more suitable give it a try it has its funny moments

This was the first anime I ever watched and I fell in love with it instantly. It is hard to believe the difference between American and Japanese animations and videos. When an American studio tries to do something that is meant to entertain young males, it ends up as garbage. The Japanese on the other hand, do it extremely well, it is entertaining, provides a lot of "fan service" and yet still manages to have a good and solid plot line. I would recommend this product to any anime fan who enjoys the "Fan service" aspect of some the the anime series out there as this is the most enjoyable one I have found. Without this series, I never would have really gotten into the habit of watching anime.

Rosario+Vampire is an anime series based on a monster theme. This is its strongest driving point. Mixed with romance, comedy and some action it's hard not to like this and you have to have an interst in vampires with perversion. The voice acting is top notch for english. this dvd box set contains 13 episodes which is apparantly only season one of the series. the video output is very high quality considering it's not a blu-ray disc, I say this because I played it on a PS3 which is designed to play blu-ray but Rosario+Vampire is so well formatted on its discs to the maximum regular dvd format. This a fresh new idea for anime and should be tried if you love girls and monsters.

Everything's great!! And I love the cool little art book that came with it too !!

Great anime I recommend it

It's not quite as good as the books, but the TV show is light and entertaining and it's nice to see the characters in color and motion.