Cheeky vampires

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Cheeky vampires
Original title か り ん
transcription Karin
genre Comedy , romance
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Yuna Kagesaki
publishing company Kadokawa Shoten
magazine Dragon Age
First publication 2003 - 2008
expenditure 14th
Light novel
title Karin Zōketsuki
Original title か り ん 増 血 記
country Japan
author Tōru Kai
illustrator Yuna Kagesaki
publishing company Fujimi Shobo
First publication December 10, 2003 - May 10, 2007
expenditure 9 + 2
Anime television series
title Karin
Original title か り ん
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Studio JCStaff
length 25 minutes
Episodes 24
Director Shin'ichirō Kimura
music Masaru Nishida
First broadcast November 3, 2005 - May 11, 2006 on WOWOW
synchronization

Cheeky Vampire ( Japanese か り ん , Karin ) is a comedic manga series by Yuna Kagesaki that tells the adventures of a vampire girl. It has been released since 2003, was implemented as an anime series and translated into several languages.

action

The fifteen and later sixteen year old high school student Karin Maaka ( 真 紅 果 林 ) is the second of three children in a vampire family. She has her big brother Ren Maaka ( 真 紅 煉 ), her little sister Anju ( 真 紅 杏樹 ) and her parents Carrera and Henry Maaka. She is different from her family in many ways, such as being able to tolerate sunlight, and her body producing too much blood instead of sucking blood from people. She passes on her excess blood to people every month. They are then full of new motivation and vitality, while Karin has another month of rest.

Kenta Usui ( 雨水 健 太 ) joins Karin's school class. Karin notices that her blood reacts particularly strongly in his presence. She learns that she is attracted to Kenta because he is unhappy and every vampire is attracted to one trait (her brother, for example, likes women who suffer from stress). In order to get back to her normal school life, Karin has to make Kenta happy. She later finds out that she fell in love with him, and Kenta learns that Karin is a vampire. Kenta and Karin become friends and it helps a lot that she now has someone who is by her side during the day and who knows who she really is. While Karin and Kenta get closer and closer and finally become a couple, Karin's parents try to find out, with the help of Henry's mother, why Karin's blood "multiplies". Eventually they learn that their daughter is a source of life. An ancient prophecy says that if the vampires stop reproducing and their species is threatened with extinction, a vampire will be noticed by the multiplication of blood. This vampire then has to pass on his blood to the other vampires, i.e. the vampires drink from it. This replenishes the life forces of those who drink, but those whose blood was drunk must die. One day an old ruling family finds out about Karin's existence and kidnaps her because the clan wants their blood for themselves. With Kenta's help, however, the Maakas manage to free them from the clutches of the bloodsuckers. From now on Karin can live like a normal person. To save her from always being different from those around her, Ren erases her memory of the family. Kenta promises the Maakas to take good care of Karin. At the end you become part of a scene in which you see Karin and Kenta's daughter.

Publications

Cheeky Vampire was published in Japan from 2003 to 2008 under the title Karin in individual chapters in the monthly manga magazine Dragon Age of the Kadokawa-Shoten publishing house. The same publisher brought out these individual chapters in a total of 14 edited volumes.

The manga has been licensed and localized in several countries. In the United States, the manga has appeared on Tokyopop since 2006 under the name Chibi Vampire . It has also been translated into French, Italian and Chinese. In Germany it has been published by Carlsen Verlag since June 2007 as Cheeky Vampire . So far, 14 volumes have been published in translation by Alwin Schäfer and Ilse Schäfer.

Furthermore, a volume 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 編 集 , ISBN 978-4-04-712586-5 ). This was published by Carlsen as Cheeky Vampire - Airmail in November 2010 in Germany.

Adaptations

Light novel

Shortly after the first publication of the comic, the first part of the light novel series Karin Zōketsuki appeared in December 2003 . Tōru Kai writes this based on Kagesaki's original story, Yuna Kagesaki does the illustrations. By the end of the series in May 2007, Fujimi Shobo had published nine volumes. In 2006 there were also two special volumes under the title Karin Zōketsuki: Hajirai Diary ( か り ん 増 血 記 恥 じ ら い ダ イ ア リ ー ). Tokyopop is releasing the series in North America as Chibi Vampire: The Novel . In Germany, the first volume was published by Carlsen in August 2010.

Anime

In 2005, the animation studio JCStaff produced a 24-episode anime series based on the manga. Directed by Shin'ichirō Kimura . The character design was created by Yumi Nakayama and the artistic direction was held by Rie Ota. From November 3, 2005 to May 11, 2006 this was broadcast on the Japanese television station WOWOW . The series was then released on twelve DVDs.

The anime was also released in English by FUNimation Entertainment and Geneon Entertainment .

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Karin Maaka Sayuri Yahagi
Kenta Usui Katsuyuki Konishi
Ren Maaka Jun'ichi Suwabe
Maki Tokitō Mikako Takahashi
Carrera Maaka Emi Shinohara
Henry Maaka Dai Matsumoto

Daisuke Ono , Jun Fukuyama , Takahiro Sakurai , Tomokazu Sugita and Toshiyuki Morikawa can also be heard in other roles .

music

The music for the series was composed by Masara Nishida . The opening credits are Scarlet by BRACE; d, for the credits Mō hitotsu no birthday by Fm.θ.

success

The manga is a commercial success in the USA, with the 13th volume being among the ten best-selling volumes for three weeks.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Graphic Books Best Seller List: New York Times April 18 , April 24, 2009, accessed May 23, 2009 .
  2. ^ Graphic Books Best Seller List: April 25th, New York Times, May 1, 2009, accessed May 23, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Graphic Books Best Seller List: May 2nd, New York Times, May 8, 2009, accessed May 23, 2009 .

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