Vampire Knight - 13 (END) July 1
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Summary:
Holding the dying Shizuka in his arms, Ichiru offers to give her his blood, but she refuses on the grounds that he’s the only person she won’t make a vampire. In talking about how their circumstances were similar, Shizuka remembers back to when she had first taken over Maria’s body and how Ichiru wasn’t used to it. After she had given him some more of her own blood, Ichiru had questioned why she wouldn’t make him into a vampire, so Shizuka had revealed that she didn’t want him to be her servant and thus lose his ability to speak with a sharp tongue. That would be boring for her, and she had turned Zero into a vampire precisely because it wouldn’t be boring. What’s more, Shizuka saw vampires as fleeting and fragile, and it goes back to how her previous lover had been hunted by Ichiru’s parents. Since Ichiru didn’t resent her for killing his parents, Shizuka had called him sinful and had kissed him with Maria’s body. Ichiru didn’t want her doing something like that since he thought she didn’t love him, but the truth is that Shizuka had intentionally pretended not to notice his feelings.
Back in the present, Ichiru is in tears over how Shizuka has started to disappear, and by the time Zero arrives in the room, Ichiru had already drunken Shizuka’s blood. Her body then shatters, and Ichiru remains frustrated over how she didn’t want his blood. Zero, however, refutes this and struggles to explain that he understands because he also has someone he doesn’t want to become a vampire. Ichiru doesn’t care to hear this from a Zero who he thinks is already a Level E, and he leaves via the window. Zero can’t chase after Ichiru because of the pain he’s going through, but what he can do is hear Yuuki coming. She sees him writhing on the ground like this even though he doesn’t want her to, but by the time Cain comes by, Zero is gone from the room thanks to the chairman. Zero is subsequently absent from class, and when Yuuki asks the chairman about it, the chairman merely proposes paying a visit to Zero sometime later. Cain meanwhile reports to Kaname what he saw in the aftermath and how the chairman appears to be protecting Zero. When Kaname acts like Zero could have been the one who killed Shizuka, Aidou is disturbed because he knows the truth about what really happened, however he chooses not to say anything. In any case, Kaname feels that he has to report this to the Council of Ancients since a prohibition was violated in the killing of a pureblood.
Aidou is bothered enough by all this that he talks with Cain afterwards about Shizuka. He knows that Shizuka had a pureblood fiancé but had loved an ex-human vampire, and this man’s name had been put on the Vampire Hunters Association’s purge list. The problem is that this man hadn’t become a Level E yet, so he shouldn’t have been a target on that list yet. What’s also puzzling is that Shizuka was on the run from the Council of Ancients, yet she put herself at risk by showing up at their school. Aidou suspects that she was after something, and his thoughts fall to what Kaname had said to her after he had impaled her. Kaname meanwhile finds Yuuki by a water fountain, and he laments how she’s getting involved in problems that should be solved by the Night Class and how she doesn’t let him protect her. Seeing how concerned she is about Zero, he tracks Zero down in the chamber where he is being held and finds Zero at his limit. Even though Kaname had left Zero the blood that could have saved him, Zero hadn’t been able to drink it, and with Yuuki so sad, Kaname decides to offer his own blood. After making it clear that it’s only for Yuuki’s sake, Kaname lets Zero drink from his neck, and both of them think about Yuuki.
ED
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Well, for a final episode (of the first series), this was rather slow all the way until the final two or so minutes when Kaname let Zero feed off of him. I’ve been using the word “anticlimactic” a lot lately, but it fits in this case too since all the big things happened last week, leaving not much for this week since it appears they didn’t wanna delve into too much new stuff. Given that I thought things were rather fast paced last week, it feels like the writers/director could have balanced the story a bit better. The only big surprise was that scene at the very end (for a moment there, I thought we were headed for a BL scene), and while it makes for an interesting segue into the next series, I’m told that this screws things up a little because apparently it’s not something that happens in the manga story for quite a while. On the plus side, they did manage to set up some interesting subplots with the mystery behind what Shizuka was doing there and with how Aidou knows that Kaname was the one who killed Shizuka (you could just see his loyalty waver), so while this ending may not have been all that, they can hit the ground running in the next series. The ED sequence this week also featured preview shots of the next series, though it doesn’t appear to give any big clues about anything. We’ll have to see how things turn out in starting in October.
Incidentally, what kind of name is Vampire Knight Guilty? It sounds awkward and conjures memories of Guilty Gear.
animeniac at 5:50 am on July 1st, 2008
woh… wait for october… sigh… that was long…
whitey-chan at 5:54 am on July 1st, 2008
Kaname is gay
xdotx at 5:57 am on July 1st, 2008
you think waiting is fun? it takes a month for a new chapter to come out on the manga. The anime made some changes compare to the manga for this episode but overall, same stuff. I feel sorry for Zero. Sometime, i wish someone would just put a stake in him and just end his suffering. It is painful to watch him alway in pain, whether physically or emotionally. I am a sucker for lovable underdog and zero is by far the underdog while kaname is the overal favorite in this show. My one beef with this show is that the fighting is pretty minimal. But this is a romance show and not an action. I love the love triangle and that might be my only reason for watching this show since the action is almost nonexistence. I have my hopes up that zero will win in the end. Underdog need to win once in a while or else it is just boring.
GP at 6:35 am on July 1st, 2008
WEll, this is a good a place as any to end season 1 when you think about it. For those who’ve read the manga, then you know they couldn’t have really went too far into it yet.
It also doesn’t help things that the manga is monthly, having this gap between seasons is a good way to let the manga move ahead also. Though I doubt season 2 will catch up to the manga either.
@xdotx
I don’t know if you read the manga or not (even watching the events in the anime though.) that point to Zero winning in the end. It’ll just be a long process, but that’s how these things go anyways.
Rob at 6:48 am on July 1st, 2008
yeah, guilty gear, now that was a game!
animeniac at 6:51 am on July 1st, 2008
i think next season is yuuki’s turn to becoming a vamp…
Flo at 6:59 am on July 1st, 2008
@animeniac
you have forgotten to use Show Spoiler ▼
^^
kindaichi at 7:21 am on July 1st, 2008
@animeniac
that’s a HUGE spoiler to those who have yet to read the manga or catch up to that chapter
Epyon at 7:22 am on July 1st, 2008
meh i hate zero damn it if only kaname didnt save him
Natsume Satoru at 7:46 am on July 1st, 2008
the title of season 2 makes sense if you have read past volume 5
-_- at 7:46 am on July 1st, 2008
Zero is gay and i hate him -_- <3 Kaname
Natsume Satoru at 7:49 am on July 1st, 2008
the manga looks like it is nearing the end who says by the time the second season is done the manga won’t be
GP at 8:03 am on July 1st, 2008
@Natsume Satoru
The fact the manga is monthly means at best it will end this time next year. And that’s AT BEST. Still quite a lot going on in there we haven’t seen explained yet. So yeah it does look like the manga is “nearing the end” but by the time it gets there it could be another 20 chapters, or more.
I actually believe it will end with either 10 or 12 volumes.
xdarkwingsx at 8:22 am on July 1st, 2008
What! The bloodsucking scene between Kaname and Zero turned out so gay!?!
Show Spoiler ▼
kencute321 at 8:36 am on July 1st, 2008
WTH……… In the manga Yuki awakened as a vampire first before Zero drank Kanames blood. And it was in Kaname’s room in which Zero drank Kaname’s blood. They already though that if they will follow the MANGA its impossible to finish it in 26 episodes so they made revisions without changing the entire PLOT. What a PLOT twist 10/ 10 ….
unknown2 at 8:39 am on July 1st, 2008
What the hell….Zero doesnt bite Kaname till wayyyy later…
unknown2 at 8:41 am on July 1st, 2008
BTW, kencute….you might wanna add spoilers warnings on your posts next time…and
SPOILER ALERT SPOILER—>Its the otherway, Zero bites Kaname before Yuuki wakes up as a vampire
kencute321 at 8:49 am on July 1st, 2008
teach me how to add spoiler TAG please…..
Roger at 8:50 am on July 1st, 2008
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Don’t hate Zero because he is a equal opportunity playa
Please use spoiler tags for people like myself who have not read the manga but I did guess that would happen or I thought Yuuki is pregnant with Kaien Cross baby.
Maury show studio
Zero you are not the father!(Tries to kill Maury with his .45 get his ass kicked by security)
Kaname you are not the father! (cries then kills himself)
Cross you are the father! (High fives the men in the audience while the women boo him then says “she is not my daughter so it legal”)
Then maury says “but she is underage” so Cross is found guilty of the rape of a minor and goes to jail ergo Vampire Knight Guilty is the title for the second season.
kencute321 at 9:11 am on July 1st, 2008
My mistake, unknown2 is right… since the earlier post already spoiled it out so its not a big deal now if we spill it out.
SPOILER ALERT SPOILER—>Its the otherway, Zero bites Kaname before Yuuki wakes up as a vampire… yeah.
My mistake sorry^^. Its like in chapter 39 if I am not mistaken that they took Zero in the prison and Kaname spoke to him.
BIG SPOILER >>>>>>>> ===
Lolz, Yuki’s power as a pureblood surely is quite strange [turning antivampire weapons into her own]