Vlad Love goes from the “cultural festival play” episode to the “let’s make a movie” episode, with Maki as the director and Mai, Mitsugu and Katsuno starring (Katsuno …
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Vlad Love Review
“you really have to be an older, more experienced anime fan to get all of Vlad Love’s shtick”
Anime Review: Vlad Love
Year: 2021 Length: 12 Episodes Genre: Comedy, School, Supernatural, Vampire Studio: Production I.G / Drive Synopsis: Mitsugu Banba is a high school girl who finds meaning in donating…
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Vlad Love is one of those comedy shows that makes you wonder what is about. It’s basically a girl meets vampire girl. Yes, it’s starting to sound like…
Watch or Drop? Vlad Love
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Vlad Love – 11 – Undead Bait
Here it is: the Vlad Love Beach episode. When the Blood Donation Club requests a “training camp” trip to cut loose, Chihiro brings up the club’s utter lack…
Why Does Vlad Love Exist?
It’s not everyday that you hear about Mamoru Oshii being behind a new anime production. You know, the guy behind the original Ghost in the Shell Film, Patlabor…
Vlad Love Episode 1 Review
“It was funny – really funny, even – by virtue of great direction and that chipper pacing, but the gags themselves were just okay slapstick”
Vlad Love – 08 – The Hematologist’s Lament
Chihiro describes her daily battle as school nurse, Blood Donation Club advisor, night class instructor, and researcher, while gazing at the moon and grasping a bottle of blood…
Vlad Love – 09 – Nuts and Bolts
Going into this episode cold, I spent half the time wondering what the heck was going on and why there was little to know animation, and the other…
Vlad Love – 05 – Bleed the Parents
First, I must issue a correction: Vlad Love doesn’t forget everything that happens from week to week. That said, it forgets quite a bit, or at least hand-waves it away.…
Vlad Love – 04 – All Concerned Parties
In a particularly chaotic episode, Mitsugu is captured by the president of the Torture Club for allegedly getting to close to Nami, the Dance Club president, whom he…
Vlad Love – 03 – Quite Unconcerned by Crosses
The zoo fiasco forgotten (like all things from episode to episode), Mitsugu and Mai catch a vampire flick at the movies…and Mai is so inspired she can’t help…
Vlad Love – 10 – The Incredible Cyber-Franken-Kong
I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed.—Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein In a return to “conventional” Vlad Love, Chihiro-sensei introduces the new transfer…
Mamoru Oshii’s Vlad Love, Guest Review by Megan
Welcome to another Guest Review Wednesday on Okazu! I’m ecstatic to be welcoming back Guest Reviewer Megan who is once again here to talk to us about Mamoru…
Vlad Love – 02 – The Blood Defines the Drinker
It’s been over a month since the first episode of Vlad Love,but five more episodes have arrived just in time for Valentine’s Day. I just wish the episode…
Vlad Love Episode 1: In the Name of Blood
I mentioned in my Winter 2021 Anime Picks post the Vlad Love team would post an early screening of the first episode. That time has come so let’s…
Vlad Love – 12 (Fin) – Interview with Vampire Girl A
The Vlad Love finale begins with one of its typical pop culture tangents, this time with Maki talking about the 1994 film Interview With the Vampire, which not only affirmed…
Vlad Love – 01 (First Impressions) – Not-So-Fresh Blood
I tend to be drawn to simple anime premises. Takagi teases Nishikata, Tanaka is listless, Titans Attack, etc. Along comes Vlad Love, which immediately impresses with its gritty retro…
Vlad Love – 06 – The World’s a Stage, Not at Stake
The title above is essentially the thesis for my review: by not involving combat aircraft or blowing up entire cities and simply focusing on something, Vlad Love’s quirky hyperactivity can…
Vlad Love (ぶらどらぶ) Guest Review by Megan
Today is my favorite kind of day – we have a brand new Guest Reviewer here on Okazu! Many of you will have noticed that Megan has been…
Love Live! Superstar!! Episode #07
Let’s start this episode with a young Ren Hazuki and all I can say is that she’s really cute as a little girl.
Love of Kill – 07 – Overboard
Aside from an all-too-brief chase between Song and the kid on the deck of the Artemisia, this episode moves at a glacial pace, which almost had be hoping…
Love Live Superstar!! S2 – 07
「UR 葉月恋」 (Yū Āru Hazuki Ren) "UR Ren Hazuki" "Just one more level!" And suddenly it's 5 AM...
Hyakkano – 07 – Love is the Drug
Rentarou has a horny girlfriend in Hakari, a tsundere in Karane, a bookworm in Shizuka, and a cool beauty in Nano. We’ve seen her in the OP and…
Love Live! Superstar!! Season 2 Episode #07
On this episode, Ren Hazuki is playing Beat Saber (or rather an expy of it) as it appears that the student council president… is starting to get addicted…
Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy Episode #07
Looks like Sueharu Maru is really devastated to learn that Kuroha Shida is faking her amnesia. C’mon, Kuroha really did this because she and Sueharu don’t want to…
Kaguya-sama: Love is War 2 – 07 – The Aquarium
LIW’s second season continues to take anime comedy to dizzying new heights and unexpected places. There’s literally no telling what it’s going to throw at you next, and that unpre…
Oshi no Ko – 07 – This Is Our Love Now
Turns out Aqua wasn’t the only one looking out for Akane: Mem-cho had been looking for her too. Not long after Aqua saves her, the two are confronted…
My Senpai is Annoying – 07 – Doing What You Love
This week is the Futaba Harumi friendship origin episode, and I’m here for it! They’re honestly such a wonderfully cozy pair of BFFs it didn’t matter if we didn’t…
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan – 07
「最後まで、由比ヶ浜結衣は見守り続ける。」 (Saigo made, Yuigahama Yui wa Mimamoritsuzukeru.) "Until the End, Yui Yuigahama Will Continue Watching Over Them." I wouldn't find it unusual if a rapper went by the moniker of…
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Love After World Domination – 07 – The Reaper of Oyafuko-dori
Green Gelato, AKA Todoroki Daigo, is regarded as the unflappable psychological rock of Gelato 5. But when he delivers a home-cooked meal to Fudou and sees he is…
Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club 2nd Season Episode #07
Let’s begin with a flashback where Kaoruko Mifune was once a school idol in Shion Girls’ Academy. Sadly, her school idol group didn’t qualify past the preliminaries on…
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The president of the Knights asks Rae to find someone to train everyone in proper service technique, and she chose Lene. Little did she know Lene would immediately become…
Vanitas no Carte – 07 – What Is Love? Oh Domi Don’t Hurt Me…
While not a lot happens from a plot perspective this week, quite a bit of the steadily simmering love rhombus that is Jeanne, Vanitas, Domi and Noé comes…
Jigokuraku – 07
「花と贄」 (Hana to Nie) "Flowers and Offerings" In accordance with my usual policy of not burying the headline, that was by far, far the best episode of Jigokuraku so far…
SK∞ – 07
Often when shows like this go serious it takes them too far out of their comfort zone, but this pretty much worked for me. Read more
Pet – 07
If you're looking for a story that espouses the idea that at their core people are decent, keep shopping. Read more The post Pet – 07 appeared first…
Gleipnir – 07
「変形」 (Henkei) "Metamorphosis" "I'm not a player, I just crush a lot."
Oooku – 07
On some level this is a story of how even the most extraordinary things eventually seem ordinary to those living with them. Read more
SSSS.Dynazenon – 07
The formula of an original series in the hands of a really good writer is a hard one to top - everything seems to fit in a way…
Mononogatari – 07
I get why everyone is so obsessed with Botan. Read more
Overtake! – 07
「露出アンダー -What I really feel...-」 (Roshutsu Under: What I Really Feel...) "Underexposure -What I really feel...-" "Like a picture, I was overexposed."
Helck – 07
「人間の王」 (Ningen no Ou) "The Human King" Did someone order Kingdom of Heaven?
Overtake! – 07
Kouya's backstory is quite complicated and dark, and it's well-integrated with the sports side (effectively Haruka's arc).