Saturday, October 29, 2011

Book review: Vampire Knight



Academy Cross, prestigious boarding school, has the peculiarity of being split into two groups: the day class and the night class. The pupils of the night class are beautiful and brilliant but they are vampires. Yuki and Zero are guards of the academy; their mission is to watch the cohabitation between the groups and to protect the secret of the night class.



Principal characters:
                  

Name: Yuki Kurosu
                   Age: 15 years old
                   Family situation: she can’t remember her parents but she has got a guardian and a half-brother (Zero).
                     Main information: She loves Kaname since he saved her life, 10 years ago. She studies at Academy Cross in the class day and she’s in charge of discipline.
                




Name: Kaname Kuran
                  Age: 18 years old (In human years)
               Family situation: He has lost his parents, they were killed by vampires.
                  Main information: He has always been very fond of Yuki. He studies at Academy Cross in the night class because he’s a pure blood vampire.

Name: Zero Kiryu
                     Family situation: He has got a twin brother who has disappeared and his parents were killed by a vampire, they were vampire hunters. But he lives with Yuki, his half-sister, and a guardian.
                        Main information: He’s very reserved and loves Yuki. He studies at Academy Cross in the day class and he’s in charge of discipline.

           It is a manga written by Matsuri Hino. These mangas are always classified in the top 10 of the best sales of shojo (manga intended for teenagers) in Japan and were translated in other countries. The manga Vampire knight was such a success, that it came out in cartoon in 2008 in Japan (2 included seasons). But one year later it went out in France. In all there are 13 volumes of vampire knight and the fourteenth came out on November 9th, 2011 in France.
 I like this manga because the story is interesting, the characters are well drawn and the musics are beautiful. But indeed the boys won’t like this manga, I am sure.

Have you already read a manga? If yes, which one?
Have you already watched a manga on television?

Written by Laetitia