History Manga / VampireKnight

** Blood drinking does satisfy, but full satisfaction only comes by drinking from someone the vampire loves. Could count as DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything [[note]]Given that biting is a [[FreudWasRight metaphor for sex.]][[/note]]

* YourCheatingHeart: In [[FreudWasRight the vampire sense]], [[spoiler:Yuuki nearly cheats on Kaname in chapter 60, and then completes the cheating in chapter 74 by drinking Zero's blood, which she had promised Kaname she wouldn't.]]

* [[spoiler:NoRomanticResolution: Nope. Regardless how canon either fandom should percieve their interpretation to be, Yuuki never makes it official which man she loves more. It doesn't help that the ending can also be taken as Kaname either ''telling'' Yuuki to be with Zero, or ''letting'' her.]]

* {{Badass}}: Yagari Touga. At least his introduction is.

** Yuuki/Zero [[spoiler: at first.]]

* [[spoiler:BabiesEverAfter: A more trolling version. After a thousand years has passed in the last chapter, Yuuki is seen with two children, to which it's made ambiguous whether both of them are Zero's, or one is Kaname's. With the release of a bonus chapter however, the girl is confirmed to be Kaname's.]]

* BetaCouple: [[spoiler:Ruka and Kain, Rima and Shiki]].
** In a bonus chapter released after the ending, [[spoiler:Aidou and Yori are revealed to have been a couple.]]

* [[spoiler:DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Kaname, at the very end.]]

* [[spoiler:DistantFinale]]

* WifeHusbandry: A part of the story to Yuuki and Kaname's relationship.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Yuuki and Zero in the second arc. [[spoiler: They do.]]

* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies:]] [[spoiler:Both Yuuki and Zero at the end, Zero from old age and Yuuki from sacrificing herself after Zero's death in order to turn Kaname human.]]

* MayflyDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:With Yuuki and Zero. In the last chapter Zero's implied to have died from old age while Yuuki's still a young pureblood, being "only" one thousand years old. Never having wanted to live an eternity however, she sacrifices herself in order to give Kaname a human life and limited lifespan as well.]]

* BookEnds: The story begins with a memoryless Yuuki waking up as a human in a blizzard, [[spoiler:and it ends with a memoryless Kaname waking up as a human in his tomb.]]

* BlondesAreEvil: [[spoiler:Sara and Touma.]]

However, since the original story's finale, the mangaka has released up to four special chapters detailing the character's lives after the end and providing further back story on the side characters, giving special focus to Aidou, Yori, Seiren, Ai and Ren. Arguably these chapters captured the original spirit and appeal that the first half had with its viewers, breathing life into its fanbase again. Now, its been announced that later this year, the mangaka will revitalize the series and choose to focus more on Yuki, Zero and Ai and the relationship they had as a family growing up.

* AcademyOfAdventure

The manga became a victim to ExecutiveMeddling which caused it to end at 93 chapters while the author had originally meant for it to have been more than a hundred. Later it's mostly remembered as the shoujo that used to have its famous GloryDays, ranking top spots in several shoujo lists in Japan, [[spoiler:until SeasonalRot heavily kicked in and it ultimately ended on an abrupt note, culminating in the story being considered the mangaka's CreatorKiller instead.]]

* CoitusEnsues: In [[spoiler:chapter 89, even though Kaname's established that Yuuki isn't happy with him, and Yuuki's established that Zero sated her (previously stated as what proves love between vampires), the two of them still randomly end up sleeping together, to which it's afterwards treated like it never happened. It became a SharkJump to many.]]

* AMinorKidroduction: The serie begins with showing us Yuuki as a child, before skipping ahead in time to when she's 16.

* TheUnreveal: Kaname's mentioned to have been part of [[spoiler:"the most sinful crime in vampire history"]], but it's never explained what that was.

The anime has been licensed by Creator/VizMedia. It aired in Australia on Creator/{{ABC3}} and became one of the channel's more popular shows. The manga became a victim to ExecutiveMeddling which caused it to end at 93 chapters while the author had originally meant for it to have been more than a hundred. Later it's mostly remembered as the shoujo that used to have its famous GloryDays, ranking top spots in several shoujo lists in Japan, [[spoiler:until SeasonalRot heavily kicked in and it ultimately ended on an abrupt note, culminating in the story being considered the mangaka's CreatorKiller instead.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Kaname gives his heart to the hunter's furnace and returns to slumber after an emotional goodbye with Yuuki. She and Zero then live happily together for presumably a thousand years until Zero eventually passes away. Afterwards, Yuuki arguably repays Kaname the happiness he allowed her in being with Zero by sacrificing herself to make him human.]]

* RavensAndCrows: A bunch of crows can be seen in the background in chapter 57 for ominous effect, when Zero is interrogating a vampire and then killing him.

* HotDad: Yagari Touga, Zero's shishou and father figure. (Also uncannily resembles Cross Marian from D.Gray-Man.)
** Haruka Kuran as well.
*** Although he's only an adoptive dad, Kaien Cross is pretty hot himself, once he stops clowning around, undoes the silly pigtails and un-chibifies his face.

* TimeSkip: It skips a year shortly after [[spoiler: Rido's defeat and Yuuki and Zero's separation.]]

* TogetherUmbrella: Haruka and Juri.

The anime has been licensed by Creator/VizMedia. It aired in Australia on Creator/{{ABC3}} and became one of the channel's more popular shows. The manga became a victim to ExecutiveMeddling which caused it to end at 93 chapters while the author had originally meant for it to have been more than a hundred. Later it's mostly remembered as the shoujo that used to have its famous GloryDays, ranking top spots in several shoujo lists in Japan, [[spoiler:until SeasonalRot kicked in and it ultimately ended on an abrupt note, culminating in the story being considered the mangaka's CreatorKiller instead.]]

The anime has been licensed by Creator/VizMedia. It aired in Australia on Creator/{{ABC3}} and became one of the channel's more popular shows. The manga became a victim to ExecutiveMeddling which caused it to end at 93 chapters while the author had originally meant for it to have been more than a hundred. Later it's mostly remembered as the shoujo which used to have its famous GloryDays, ranking top spots in several shoujo lists in Japan, [[spoiler:until SeasonalRot kicked in and it ultimately ended on an abrupt note, culminating in the story being considered the mangaka's CreatorKiller instead.]]

* AwesomeYetPractical: [[spoiler: Zero's metal vines that he can control like whips or to trap his enemies, or order them to drain blood.]]

** BigBadWanabee: [[spoiler: Despite being built up as a new threat, Sara Shirabuki ends up accomplishing very little, if anything at all, and ends up as a mere bump in the road.]]

* BigBad: Once Rido Kuran comes into the picture, it's clear that Shizuka Hio was only a DiscOneFinalBoss by comparison.
** BigBadEnsemble: In more recent times, it stands between [[spoiler:Sara]] and Kaname, despite that Kaname's [[AntiVillain not directly evil]]. (See also ByronicHero and WellIntentionedExtremist.)
*** [[spoiler:Sara ended up as a BigBadWannabe however.]]

* BrokenAesop: [[spoiler:Apparently there's no use striving for coexistence between two different species/societies, in the end it never gets better, so the solution is to mass murder one of the societies in question and then create a cure that can transform everyone into the publically preferred society (in this case, turn vampires into humans.) Whether this will be done against their will or not? Never explained.]] It doubles as a FamilyUnfriendlyAesop.

* [[spoiler:NoRomanticResolution: Nope. Regardless how canon either fandom should percieve their interpretion to be, Yuuki never makes it official which man she loves more. It doesn't help that the ending can also be taken as Kaname either ''telling'' Yuuki to be with Zero, or ''letting'' her.]]