Vampire Knight is a currently popular shoujo animanga that basically deals with, you guessed it, vampires. Yuuki Cross, adoptive daughter of the Headmaster and prefect of Cross Academy, holds the dark mystery of the school: the Night Class, a class separate from the Day Class composed of gorgeous and talented students, is in fact a class of vampires! As she guards their secrets along with her companion, Zero, Yuuki soon discovers that she herself is more involved with this dark secrets then she initially believes…

Cliched plot, but Vampire Knight does not disappoint in its first volumes. The characters are extremely endearing; Yuuki Cross starts out as an energetic but somewhat clumsy heroine with good intentions that we, as readers, can easily relate to. Zero and Kaname, her love interests, are both compelling and equally strong personalities (aka perfect bishonen). Vampires’ from Vampire Knights are slightly different from our regular western vampires, rendering the vampire mystery intrigue more interesting than another shoujo vampire manga.

All is good and dandy when…

Spoilers start here!

Yuuki turns out to be a vampire princess whose parents sacrificed themselves to give her a human life but her brother, Kaname (????) and future husband totally ruins his dying parents wishes by turning her back into a vampire and starts their romantic incestuous relationship and not only that you kind of discover that Kaname isn’t really her brother but her ancestor, the first Kuran ever, reincarnated. He also seems to be a possessive manipulative bastard who, in hopes of “protecting poor young Yuuki from the dangerous world”, locks her up in their basement/home where he has his subordinate/friend teach her manners. Hmm. And meanwhile, Zero is emo because he too is a vampire and can’t live without human-Yuuki in his life and strives to kill them all.

Oh and best of all, get this: although from the very start Yuuki claims she loves Kaname, but slowly develops feelings for Zero (although this is questionable). She does indeed end up with her brother, Kaname, and they are officially a couple but she tells him – get this – “I can’t never be happy if I don’t have both of you ’cause I love both of you” with that pitiful puppy face that says “bouhou, look at tragic me” and Kaname totally agrees with her.

What?

I swear, the moment Yuuki turned into a long-haire ‘beautiful’ vampire, her personality flipped 360: Yuuki who had originally fought against the principles of others in order to defend her own and helps the ones she cared about, turned into this weak, meek, fragile girl who CANNOT make up her mind about key issues (protect Zero, see Zero and put him in danger, don’t see Zero to protect but see Yuri and puts her in danger, love Kaname, don’t love Kaname, resolve to kill, but can’t do it). It’s ridiculous. It’s laughable.

I can now say with pure hatred that I hate, I absolutely detest the turn Vampire Knight took. I used to relish in the fact that it was not a cliched shoujo like the others, and that the plot was actually structured and interesting, especially since its focused on characters that I loved – but now it’s such complete bullshit. Just like any other empty shoujo manga with pretty artwork.

Just. Ugh.