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Kouhei Morioka, BlackSheep of a family of powerful psychics and spiritualists, has less spiritual energy than the average {{Muggle}}. In his job as photographer for an occult magazine he encounters Hazuki, a young girl trapped in a castle by a magical barrier (Kouhei is so lacking in spiritual energy that the barrier didn't notice him). After he promises to help her out of her confinement, she insists on giving him a "kiss," then [[KissOfTheVampire bites him on the neck]].

Now, usually [[OurVampiresAreDifferent in this story]] when a vampire bites a human, the victim loses all free will and becomes the vampire's slave. This doesn't happen with Kouhei (spiritually retarded, remember?). ''This'' doesn't keep Hazuki from acting like it did and throwing a temper tantrum when he doesn't humor her.

Anyway, Kouhei smashes the crystal making the barrier, gets Hazuki out, and she spends the rest of the series living with Kouhei and his grandfather in the grandfather's shop, and fighting off attempts to bring her back to her prison by other vampires.

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!!Tropes:

* AccidentalKiss: [[spoiler:Episode 21, which has Hazuki and Hikaru end up kissing each other after a villain throws the latter onto the former. Needless to say, they were NOT happy about it, their reaction was PRICELESS.]]
* AccidentalPervert: Episode 25. Kouhei was just using the bathroom. How was he supposed to know Hazuki was taking a shower?
* AdorableAbomination: [[spoiler:Once Kouhei gains the ability to truly perceive spirits, he sees Hazuki's true form (which was apparently hidden from ''everybody'') and freaks out at her.]]
* AnimalEaredHeadband: Hazuki and sometimes other characters.
* AntiMagic: Kouhei, who can't cast magic but is also impervious to it.
* BlackBlood: Red blood is okay for vampire bites, but blood from very serious wounds (like, say, a hole dug in someone's chest) is black.
* BadassNormal: Kouhei, who valiantly fights for his friends despite lacking the spiritual powers the of his family possess. He eventually becomes [[EmpoweredBadassNormal more powerful after]] training himself in order to better protect his loved ones.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Luna appeals to this in order to suck Kouhei's blood in the first episode.
* BlandNameProduct: lots of it, often containing cat-related puns (Nyapporo beer, Nyankus convenience store). Notable others include Kouhei's Ninolta camera, and Hazuki flying Riftnanza Airlines.
** Episode 20 ends on a picture with Hazuki holding a camera. Of course it's a "Neko".
* BrattyHalfPint: Hazuki, least at the start of the series. She cools down later as she get to know Kouhei.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Closer to "shattering". The end of Episode 25.
* BubblegumPopping: Artemis is almost always chewing gum, but the only time you know is when she blows a huge bubble.
* CatGirl: Parodied. Hazuki is always wearing cat ears and it's a motif to see cat ears or cat ear-shaped things throughout the series. The cat spirit, Heigi, is an actual cat girl, however.
* ChickMagnet: Kouhei tends to attract all the powerful female characters in the series.
* CostumePorn: Courtesy of the family, Hazuki wears several different outfits throughout the series.
* CulturalTranslation: The English dub replaced the closing trailers' horrid Japanese riddles with horrid English riddles. Apparently there's a law of Conservation of Corny involved in the translation process.
* CuteLittleFangs: Hazuki; also Hikaru from time to time.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Every female vampire, such as Hazuki, Elfriede, [[spoiler:and Artemis]].
* DaywalkingVampire: One of the vampires Kouhei meets has this ability, namely [[spoiler:Hazuki, though they only find out later on, after Elfriede temporarily gains the power through Hazuki's blood.]]
* DirtyOldMan: Kouhei's grandfather has minor shades of this, as he's the one that initially bought Hazuki her outfits and seemed really keen on the suggestion that Elfriede suck his blood and make him her slave.
* {{Dojikko}}: Kaoru. Her gigantic glasses don't do much good, it seems.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Hiromi manages to crash into multiple things before getting thirty feet away from the driveway.
* DropTheWashtub: Done liberally throughout the whole series. Various characters will get bonked on the head numerous times by one whenever they do something remotely stupid. It's all for the RuleOfFunny, and at one point one character actually realizes exactly what he's saying, and [[LampshadeHanging catches the tub.]]
** Taken absolutely UpToEleven when the entire HOUSE of the cast gets bonked by a giant washtub.
* ElegantGothicLolita: Hazuki, [[UnlimitedWardrobe at first.]]
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Heigi talks like this in the dub of the anime.
* EnemyWithin: Luna, Hazuki's "true" form.
* EnhancedOnDVD: The DVD release has improved artwork, improved animation, improved fight-scenes... the list goes on. An entire episode that was aired on TV without any relevent video due to some issue with an animating contractor was transformed on DVD into one of the most intense and impressive episodes of the series.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Hazuki is a vampire princess [[spoiler: and later there's Artemis, Hazuki's half-sister.]]
* FalseCameraEffects: Strange things happen all the time, but one of the best examples has nothing to do with the camera itself. Instead it happens when a microphone hangs in the view as if the audio assistant had a weak arm and no one noticed during editing. Also a spotlight is standing around for no reason at all.
* {{Fanservice}}: There are random bits in the anime that consist of nothing but one of the characters (usually Hazuki) posing (sometimes suggestively) in various outfits (sometimes fanservicey). There's also the fact that most of the female cast members (particularly, the ones interested in Kouhei) consist of young and [[OlderThanTheyLook young-looking girls]].
* FauxPaw: Hazuki does this especially in the opener.
* FightUnscene: Several of the fights in the anime, [[EpicFail rather annoyingly]], cut away from the action to show a piece of landscape or architecture ''while you can hear the fight going on''. A lot of this issue was [[BetterOnDVD fixed for the DVD release,]] leading to some confusion between groups of fans who have only seen one version.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Hazuki [kinda], [[spoiler:Elfriede]]
* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:Vigo, the butler who serves Hazuki in Schwartz Quelle castle, also apparently IS the castle.]]
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Heigi
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:Kouhei experiences this temporarily after his powers let him see Hazuki's true form]].
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: As it turns out, Hiromi.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Elfriede and Artemis.]]
%%* HermeticMagic
* HimeCut: Hazuki and Heigi.
* IHateYouVampireDad: [[spoiler:Elfriede towards her father]].
%%* InverseLawOfUtilityAndLethality
* KickTheDog: Pretty much everything Count Kinkel does.
* KissOfTheVampire: Expected, given the premise of the series involves cute vampire girls. The number of times it's referred to as a ''bite'' instead of a kiss is minimal.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Seigi, who has long flowing black hair down to his waist. The "[[{{Bishonen}} pretty boy]]" aspect is [[{{Gonk}} parodied]] in episode 26 of the anime, where [[GoMadFromTheRevelation he goes insane from the situation the family is in]].
%%* MagicalGirlfriend, [[DoubleSubversion doubly subverted]]
* [[MayDecemberRomance May]][=/=]MayflyDecemberRomance: All the relationships portrayed, projected, implied, or otherwise, involve people who are with people don't look anywhere near the age of their partner. The biggest examples being Kouhei with Hazuki, and Grandpa with Elfriede.
* MegaManning: Vampires each have a unique ability that other vampires can borrow with a sip of blood, or steal permanently with a fatal drain. Hazuki's copyable ability is [[spoiler:not dying when exposed to sunlight]], hence her importance in the eyes of other vampires.
* {{Meganekko}}: Elfriede and Kaoru.
* {{Meido}}: Hiromi, when captured and put under mind control, is dressed in a maid costume for [[{{Fanservice}} no particular reason]].
* {{Miko}}: [[PolarOppositeTwins Twins]] Hikaru and Kaoru. Hazuki gets a turn as one too.
* MoodWhiplash: OnceAnEpisode, the show will flip from seriousness to comedy and back in an instant.
* MoonRabbit: The opening makes a bit more sense if you know about the Rabbit on the Moon and its mortar.
* MundaneUtility: Hazuki has the ability to completely eliminate her life signs and sit completely still for hours. She uses this catch thieving birds, and to allow Kouhei to take an amazing long-exposure photograph of her.
* NobodyPoops: "This cat has no rectum!"
* [[NotHimself Not Herself]]: [[spoiler:Part of Hazuki's character development involves her internal struggle with her alternate self, Luna.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They can steal powers from other vampires, and these various powers can range from [[MasterOfIllusion bending light]] to [[CastingAShadow manipulating shadows]] [[spoiler:to [[DaywalkingVampire temporarily walk in daylight]]]].
* Really700YearsOld: The majority of the vampires, even Hazuki. Elfriede is around 500 years old and Count Kinkel is 900 years old.
%%* ReligionIsMagic
* RoseHairedSweetie: Artemis, but she's actually a loner, subverting the GenkiGirl type that would be usual for this trope
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Most frequently Elfriede, but Seiji and even cute little {{miko}} Kaoru flash them on occasion. Also notably, Seiji has one short scene where only one of his lenses is shiny and it's ''not'' played for sinisterness.
* ShanaClone: Hazuki's a long-haired teen/preteen Tsundere who greatly prefers long dresses of the ElegantGothicLolita style with a major case of BelligerentSexualTension going with Kouhei. Not to mention that while she's not such a BigEater she will go crazy about her food, she treats her love interest like a slave, and comes from a very rich background.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent - The last episode takes place in the middle of the ocean for no good reason. One of the characters is driven insane by how little sense this makes.
* SproutingEars: happens occasionally in the manga, mainly in the early parts before the CatEaredHeadband became a standard part of her costume.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Mistress Luna, for Hazuki.
* [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish Surprisingly Good French]]: The ending theme. However, it's not ''as'' surprising considering Dimitri from Paris is a music producer/DJ [[ShapedLikeItself named Dimitri whom hails from Paris]].
* SurrealThemeTune: Well, it's Creator/StudioShaft after all.
* TheThingThatGoesDoink: at the Kyoto shrine where Hikaru and Kaoru and their big wealthy family live.
* TookALevelInBadass: Kouhei, [[spoiler:from chapter 20 and onwards, suddenly becomes a powerful mage after submitting himself to months of TrainingFromHell]].
* {{Tsundere}}: Hazuki is a classic Type A towards Kouhei.
* UndyingLoyalty: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] InUniverse among Ludo, humans turned vampires chosen to serve their full-blood vampire masters. The KissOfTheVampire is supposed to make them completely obedient.
** In Balgus's case he isn't controlled and just has a special bond with Artemis.
* WeirdnessCensor: Episode 26 [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates]] this beyond measure. To explain, the house the cast lives in is floating in the middle of the ocean, and apart from Seiji absolutely no one finds this particularly strange. They even laugh at him for trying to convince them that this situation is bad.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: in episode 18:
--->'''Hazuki''': "Blob monsters?! Why did it have to be blob monsters? I '''hate''' blob monsters!
* WidgetSeries: Creator/StudioShaft were the ones that did the anime. The opening alone is pretty much a head scratcher.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Elfriede. Combined with OperaGloves for maximum {{Squee}}.
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* SproutingEars: happens occasionally in the manga, mainly in the early parts before the CatEarerHeadband became a standard part of her costume.

* ''[[NotHimself Not Herself]]:'' [[spoiler:Part of Hazuki's character development involves her internal struggle with her alternate self, Luna.]]

* AccidentalKiss: [[spoiler:Episode 21, which has Hazuki and Hikaru end up kissing each other after a villain throws the latter onto the former. Needless to say, they were NOT happy about, their reaction was PRICELESS.]]

* AccidentalKiss: [[spoiler:Episode 21, which has Hazuki and Hikaru end up kissing each other after a villain throws the latter onto the former.]]

* NamesTheSame: There's another pair of [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub wealthy twins named Hikaru and Kaoru]].

* RoseHairedGirl: Artemis, but she's actually a loner, subverting the GenkiGirl type that would be usual for a RoseHairedGirl.

* [[spoiler:DaywalkingVampire: A very notable PlotPoint, Hazuki is a pure daywalker.]]

* [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish Surprisingly Good French]]: the ending theme. However, it's not ''as'' surprising considering Dimitri from Paris is a music producer/DJ [[ShapedLikeItself named Dimitri whom hails from Paris]].

* IHateYouVampireDad: [[spoiler:Elfriede towards her father. See CompleteMonster on the YMMV page]].

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They can steal powers from other vampires, and these various powers can range from [[MasterOfIllusion bending light]] to [[CastingAShadow manipulating shadows]].

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent - The last episode takes place [[spoiler:in the middle of the ocean]] for no good reason. One of the characters is driven insane by how little sense this makes.

* {{Adorable Abomination}}: Hazuki when in Luna form.

* BadassNormal: Kohei, who valiantly fights for his friends despite lacking the spiritual powers the of his family possess. He eventually becomes [[EmpoweredBadassNormal more powerful after]] training himself in order to better protect his loved ones.

* CatGirl: Parodied. Hazuki is always wearing cat ears and it's a motif to see cat ears or cat ear-shaped things throughout the series. The cat spirit, Higei, is an actual cat girl, however.

** Taken absolutely UpToEleven when the entire HOUSE of the cast gets bonked by a giant washtup.

* {{Fanservice}}: There are random bits in the anime that consist of nothing but one of the characters (usually Hazuki) posing (sometimes suggestively) in various outfits (sometimes fanservicey). There's also the fact that most of the female cast members (particularly, the ones interested in Kohei) consist of young and [[OlderThanTheyLook young-looking girls]].

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Kouhei experiences this temporarily after his powers let him see [[spoiler:Hazuki's]] true form).

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Elfriede, Artei]]

* HimeCut: Hazuki and Heidi.

* KissOfTheVampire: Expected, given the premise of the series involves vampires.
* MagicalGirlfriend, [[DoubleSubversion doubly subverted]]

* {{Meido}}: Hiromi, when captured and put under mind control, is dressed in a maid costume for [[FetishFuel no particular reason]].

* MoodWhiplash: OnceAnEpisode

* [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish Surprisingly Good]] [[strike:[[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish English]]]] ''[[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish French]]!'': the ending theme
** Not so suprising considering Dimitri from Paris is a music producer/DJ [[ShapedLikeItself named Dimitri whom hails from Paris]].

* AccidentalKiss: Episode 21

* BadassNormal: Kouhei's grandfather is this.
** He does have the same spiritual powers as a lot of humans in the cast do, to be fair...

* CatGirl: Parodied. Hazuki is always wearing cat ears and it's a motif to see cat ears or cat ear-shaped things throughout the series.

* CuteMonsterGirl: Hazuki, [[spoiler: Artemis]].

* ElegantGothicLolita: Hazuki

* {{Fanservice}}: There are random bits in the anime that consist of nothing but one of the characters (usually Hazuki) posing in various outfits. There's also the fact that most of the female cast members (particularly, the ones interested in Kohei) consist of young and [[OlderThanTheyLook young-looking girls]].

* HermeticMagic

* IHateYouVampireDad
* InverseLawOfUtilityAndLethality

* KissOfTheVampire

* {{Miko}}: [[PolarOppositeTwins twins]] Hikaru and Kaoru. Hazuki gets a turn as one too.

* ''[[NotHimself Not Herself]]''
* OurVampiresAreDifferent
* ReligionIsMagic

* ScaryShinyGlasses: Most frequently Elfriede, but Seiji and even cute little [[TokenMiniMoe loli]] {{miko}} Kaoru flash them on occasion. Also notably, Seiji has one short scene where only one of his lenses is shiny and it's ''not'' played for sinisterness.

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Mistress Luna, for Hazuki

* CatGirl: Parodied

* WeirdnessCensor: Episode 26 [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates]] this beyond measure. To explain, the house the cast lives in is floating in the middle of the ocean, and about from Seiji absolutely no one finds this particularly strange. They even laugh at him for trying to convince them that this situation is bad.

* BadassAbnormal: Count Kinkel, [[spoiler: Kouhei]].

* SurrealThemeTune: Well, it's StudioShaft after all.

* WidgetSeries: StudioShaft were the ones that did the anime. The opening alone is pretty much a head scratcher.

* AccidentalKiss - Episode 21
* AccidentalPervert - Episode 25. Kouhei was just using the bathroom. How was he supposed to know Hazuki was taking a shower?
* {{Adorable Abomination}} - Hazuki when in Luna form.
* AnimalEaredHeadband - Hazuki and sometimes other characters.
* AntiMagic - Kouhei, who can't cast magic but is also impervious to it.
* BlackBlood - Red blood is okay for vampire bites, but blood from very serious wounds (like, say, a hole dug in someone's chest) is black.
* BadassAbnormal - Count Kinkel, [[spoiler:Kouhei]].
* BadassNormal - Kouhei's grandfather is this.

* BlandNameProduct - lots of it, often containing cat-related puns (Nyapporo beer, Nyankus convenience store). Notable others include Kouhei's Ninolta camera, and Hazuki flying Riftnanza Airlines.

* BrattyHalfPint - Hazuki, least at the start of the series. She cools down later as she get to know Kouhei.
* BreakingTheFourthWall - Closer to "shattering". The end of Episode 25.
* CatGirl - Parodied
* CulturalTranslation - The English dub replaced the closing trailers' horrid Japanese riddles with horrid English riddles. Apparently there's a law of Conservation of Corny involved in the translation process.
* CuteLittleFangs - Hazuki; also Hikaru from time to time.
* CuteMonsterGirl - Hazuki, [[spoiler:Artemis]].

* {{Dojikko}} - Kaoru. Her gigantic glasses don't do much good, it seems.
* DropTheWashtub - Done liberally throughout the whole series. Various characters will get bonked on the head numerous times by one whenever they do something remotely stupid. It's all for the RuleOfFunny, and at one point one character actually realizes exactly what he's saying, and [[LampshadeHanging catches the tub.]]

* ElegantGothicLolita - Hazuki
* EnemyWithin - Luna, Hazuki's "true" form.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses - Hazuki is a vampire princess [[spoiler: and later there's Artemis, Hazuki's half-sister.]]
* FalseCameraEffects - Strange things happen all the time, but one of the best examples has nothing to do with the camera itself. Instead it happens when a microphone hangs in the view as if the audio assistant had a weak arm and no one noticed during editing. Also a spotlight is standing around for no reason at all.
* FauxPaw - Hazuki does this especially in the opener.
* FightUnscene - Several of the fights in the anime, [[EpicFail rather annoyingly]], cut away from the action to show a piece of landscape or architecture ''while you can hear the fight going on''. A lot of this issue was [[BetterOnDVD fixed for the DVD release,]] leading to some confusion between groups of fans who have only seen one version.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires - Hazuki [kinda], [[spoiler:Elfriede]]
* GeniusLoci - [[spoiler:Vigo, the butler who serves Hazuki in Schwartz Quelle castle, also apparently IS the castle.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation - Kouhei experiences this temporarily after his powers let him see [[spoiler:Hazuki's]] true form).
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl - As it turns out, Hiromi.
* HeelFaceTurn - [[spoiler: Elfriede, Artei]]

* HimeCut - Hazuki and Heidi.

* KickTheDog - Pretty much everything Count Kinkel does.

* MegaManning - Vampires each have a unique ability that other vampires can borrow with a sip of blood, or steal permanently with a fatal drain. Hazuki's copyable ability is [[spoiler:not dying when exposed to sunlight]], hence her importance in the eyes of other vampires.
* {{Meganekko}} - Elfriede and Kaoru.
* {{Meido}} - Hiromi, when captured and put under mind control, is dressed in a maid costume for [[FetishFuel no particular reason]].
* {{Miko}} - [[PolarOppositeTwins twins]] Hikaru and Kaoru. Hazuki gets a turn as one too.
* MoodWhiplash - OnceAnEpisode
* MoonRabbit - The opening makes a bit more sense if you know about the Rabbit on the Moon and its mortar.
* MundaneUtility - Hazuki has the ability to completely eliminate her life signs and sit completely still for hours. She uses this catch thieving birds, and to allow Kouhei to take an amazing long-exposure photograph of her.
* NamesTheSame - There's another pair of [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub wealthy twins named Hikaru and Kaoru]].
* NobodyPoops - "This cat has no rectum!"

* RoseHairedGirl - Artemis, but she's actually a loner, subverting the GenkiGirl type that would be usual for a RoseHairedGirl.
* ScaryShinyGlasses - Most frequently Elfriede, but Seiji and even cute little [[TokenMiniMoe loli]] {{miko}} Kaoru flash them on occasion. Also notably, Seiji has one short scene where only one of his lenses is shiny and it's ''not'' played for sinisterness.

* SuperpoweredEvilSide - Mistress Luna, for Hazuki
* [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish Surprisingly Good]] [[strike:[[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish English]]]] ''[[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish French]]!'' - the ending theme

* SurrealThemeTune - Well, it's StudioShaft after all.
* TheThingThatGoesDoink - at the Kyoto shrine where Hikaru and Kaoru and their big wealthy family live.
* TookALevelInBadass (Kouhei, [[spoiler:from chapter 20 and onwards, suddenly becomes a powerful mage after submitting himself to months of TrainingFromHell]].
* {{Tsundere}} - Hazuki is a classic Type A towards Kouhei.
* WeirdnessCensor - Episode 26 [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates]] this beyond measure. To explain, the house the cast lives in is floating in the middle of the ocean, and about from Seiji absolutely no one finds this particularly strange. They even laugh at him for trying to convince them that this situation is bad.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes - in episode 18:

* WidgetSeries - StudioShaft were the ones that did the anime. The opening alone is pretty much a head scratcher.
* ZettaiRyouiki - Elfriede. Combined with OperaGloves for maximum {{Squee}}.

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