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| 10 | There are plenty of examples of vampires in anime, but as vampires were imported to Japan through western literature, their vampires tend to be different from what a non-Japanese audience would expect. Whereas Chinese folk legend has the indigenous ''[[ChineseVampire jiangshi]]'', the Japanese supernatural tradition is notably free of blood- or lifeforce-sucking animated corpses. Being derived largely from Anglo-American twentieth-century pop culture, the Japanese vampire is based almost entirely on the "[[ClassicalMovieVampire decadent aristocrat]]" stereotype rather than the shambling horrors of European folktales. They are usually "supernatural" rather than TheUndead and, Christianity being rare in Japan, any religious elements will be used for coolness and exoticism rather than to show them as unholy and unnatural. [[KissOfTheVampire Blood-sucking]] is more likely to be treated as a source of healing or superpowers rather than a physical necessity, and in some cases isn't even included. |
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| 12 | The Japanese vampire typically has very pale hair (usually blonde, though [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white]] and lavender also work) and [[RedEyesTakeWarning bright red eyes]]. This may reflect the influence of Creator/YoshitakaAmano's illustrations for the ''Literature/VampireHunterD'' series and for the Japanese adaptations of [[Literature/TheElricSaga Elric of Melnibone]] (which stars a handsome Albino). It may also be part of the idea that vampires are European and [[PhenotypeStereotype will look like it]]. They are also usually very "beautiful" (see {{Bishonen}} and {{Bishoujo}}), but, possibly surprisingly, they rarely [[BishieSparkle sparkle]]. |
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| 14 | They also tend toward being (and in some works exclusively are) members of highly wealthy families, and usually reside in a BigFancyHouse at the very least, and a massive ominous castle if possible. |
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| 16 | [[HalfHumanHybrid Half]]-[[{{Dhampyr}} vampires]] are common, and [[IHateYouVampireDad will not be happy about it]]. |
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| 18 | Sometimes a HandWave is given towards why they don't have certain [[YourVampiresSuck traits and weaknesses]] common in depictions of Western vampires; "[[CharlesAtlasSuperpower I trained]]" or "I grew out of that". |
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| 20 | One particular type of "vampire" that has been portrayed multiple times in anime and manga is the ''shinso'' or "true ancestor". These vampires tend to be portrayed quite differently from the typical vampire because they're more [[AnthropomorphicPersonification living forces of nature]] born out of the Earth itself. They're usually noted to be ancient or even TheAgeless, usually aloof (because nature tends to not care about the general machinations of humanity), but if pressed terribly powerful. |
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| 22 | Occasionally, vampires in Japan will be portrayed as a kind of {{Youkai}}, or even a kind of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]]. The reason for this is the Japanese word for vampire, ''kyuketsuki'' (written as 吸血鬼 in Kanji). ''Kyuketsu'' simply means "bloodsucking". The ''ki'', represented by the 鬼 character, is where it gets interesting. Due to AlternateCharacterReading, 鬼 can instead be read as ''{{Oni}}'', referring to the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] [[OurOgresAreHungrier ogre-like]] [[{{Youkai}} monsters from Japanese mythology]]. Thus, the Japanese word for vampire can be translated as "[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot blood-sucking ogre-demon]]". No wonder Japanese vampires are different! |
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| 25 | !!Examples: |
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| 27 | * Creator/JunjiIto: |
| 28 | ** ''Manga/JunjiItoKyoufuMangaCollection'': |
| 29 | *** "Bio House" features a vampiric epicurean and his servants, who try to feast on his guest's blood. |
| 30 | *** "The Bloody Story of Shirosuna" features something like vampiric ''land'', [[spoiler:as the town is powered by a giant subterranean heart which pumps blood in and out of its citizens and can take over circulation for new members of the town]]. |
| 31 | *** The vampires in "Blood-bubble Bushes" feed on the fruits of the titular bushes. An arch-vampire implants the bush into the wounds of human victims, and the plant will continue to grow and [[BodyHorror bear succulent globes of blood]], until the victim's body is reduced to a dry husk. The only way a victim can save herself is to consume the fruit sprouted from her own wound, but that will turn her into another vampire. |
| 32 | ** In ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'', the pregnant women at the hospital are an interesting example. Their behavior is based off of mosquitoes more than on traditional or mythological vampires. |
| 33 | ** The ''Manga/VoicesInTheDark'' story "Blood Sucking Darkness" features a concept of transferred blood, with bats drinking from one source and feeding a target with that blood. |
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| 35 | * ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita: Last Order's'' vampires have a lot of notable differences from the mythical standard. First, they're more literal representations of TheVirus; their condition is due to genetic modification from a factor called the V-Virus, which transforms them via an excruciatingly painful experience called Altered Shock. (They consider "vampire" to be an insult, and [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord prefer the term]] "Cognate".) Less than one percent of individuals bitten by infected hosts survive this process, and those that do often commit suicide out of inability to cope with the increased carnivorous urge colloquially termed the "thirst for blood". Cognates don't have any particular aversion to sunlight, holy symbols, or garlic (though individual tastes and cultural stigma, as usual, do vary), and they do show a reflection. However, they also lack many of the more fantastical abilities of mythical vampires. They are not truly immortal (aging is halted, however), as their mechanism for fending off physical injury and aging (unlimited cell division) makes them highly susceptible to another means of death: cancer. Their regenerative capabilities can also be overridden with enough damage (decapitation and striking vital points are handy). The shapeshifting and hypnotic powers are also lacking, though individual Cognates that are very long-lived can sometimes undergo second "Altered Shocks", which tend to grant them unique and powerful abilities such as the ability to read minds by detecting neural pulse flow or the like. |
| 36 | * One of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'''s filler arcs focused on the Bounts, a tribe of [[spoiler:artificially developed]] supernatural soul-suckers. Historically, they've been known as vampires although they notably don't conform to many of the usual tales; for example, people simply die after being a Bount's meal. And no one knew about the [[EmpathicWeapon talking supernaturally powered dolls]], all with [[ThemeNaming German names and summon commands]]. |
| 37 | * ''Manga/BloodBlockadeBattlefront'' has its own vampires in the form of Blood Breeds, who were created by combining magic with normal DNA. They are near-invincible and lack any traditional weaknesses normal vampires have. However, if one [[IKnowYourTrueName knows the true name]] of the Blood Breeds, one can seal them away for good. |
| 38 | * ''Anime/{{Bloodivores}}'' distinguishes its bloodsuckers from regular old vampires by calling them... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin take a guess]]. Their bloodsucking ailment is the unfortunate side effect of a drug. |
| 39 | * ''Anime/BloodPlus'' stretches Our Vampires Are Different nearly to the limit by including several different types of vampires -- referred to under the general heading of "chiropterans", from the word for bat -- none of which display many of the traits listed above. The vampires are communal, [[BeePeople like bees]], the mook Chiropterans are the workers, the Chevaliers are the drones, and Saya and Diva are the Queens of their "Hives". |
| 40 | ** The source of all the various types of chiropterans are the chiropteran queens, of which there are apparently only two at a time, always born as twins. Each queen's blood is lethal to her sister (with one noteworthy caveat revealed towards the end of the series, [[spoiler: specifically, that a pregnant queen's blood is ''not'' dangerous to the other]]) and to any chiropterans created from her sister's blood (in a rather gruesome way; the moment the two bloods make contact, all blood in contact crystallizes). The queens need blood to live (transfusions work fine, although drinking it makes them more powerful) and are basically immortal, but that's about where their resemblance to classical vampires ends; they have none of the usual vulnerabilities, and aside from the opposite queen's blood, the only thing that might ''possibly'' be sufficient to kill them would be complete exsanguination or decapitation. Maybe. They also alternate between a few years of activity and thirty years of hibernation wrapped in a cocoon. |
| 41 | ** The queens can create "chevaliers" by feeding a human some of their blood; the chevaliers, even more than the queens, are supernaturally strong, fast, and resilient, with the ability to shapeshift in various ways, most notably into monstrous batlike forms or into the forms of people whose blood they have drunk. They can also go for quite a long time without drinking blood, although it makes them increasingly weaker -- a manga side story establishes that Haji, Saya's chevalier, swore it off entirely for something like twenty years without losing the ability to function, and is still much more powerful than mook chiropterans. |
| 42 | ** The application of Mad Science to a queen's blood created a drug called Delta 67, which turns humans into huge, batlike, mostly mindless monsters who feed on the blood of other living things. These are slightly easier to kill than the queens and chevaliers, but still resilient enough that the two best options are either the opposite queen's blood or encasing them in concrete and dumping them in the ocean. |
| 43 | ** Then there are the Schiff, a group of people created via experimentation with chiropteran blood to be weapons; as incomplete beings, the Schiff are the closest thing the series has to classical vampires, mostly in that they're the only kind of chiropteran which is injured by sunlight (it causes them to burst into green flame). They are afflicted with a disease they call Thorn, which gradually crystallizes their bodies. |
| 44 | * ''Anime/BloodC'' takes a page from its predecessor and similarly redefines and reframes vampires into "Elder Bairns", monstruous ancient horrors who feed not just on blood but all maner of human flesh; at some point in the past the Elder Bairns hunted humanity to near extinction, in order to prevent the destruction of both races the influential Nanahara family stroke a deal with them: Feeding would be limited to a small timeframe, known as Shrovetide, in which the Elder Bairns would be allowed to roam specific feeding grounds (Mainly isolated villages) and have their fill; this in turn had the opposite effect, and Elder Bairns themselves became near extinct while human populaitons boomed. |
| 45 | ** The series itself proper provides two examples of Elder Bairns that are much closer to the classical depiction of vampires, namely [[spoiler:Saya and Tadayoshi]], and seems to imply that these vampiric creatures, who simply feed off of blood rather than flesh, and others like them are the result of hybridization between Elder Bairns and humans; moreover, [[spoiler:Saya]] through another pact, has sworn off feeding off of humans and must instead feed exclusively off of Elder Bairns, which puts the whole story in motion when [[spoiler:Fumito Nanahara]] realizes the impending extinction of Elder Bairns means she will die too. |
| 46 | * ''Manga/CallOfTheNight'' has the [[TechnicallyLivingVampire technically-living]] variety. Once a human becomes a vampire they stop aging physically, but still require substenance. While they can consume normal food and drink and it's not made clear if they can go without it, they do require regular ingestion of blood, as the alternative is [[HorrorHunger slowly losing their lucidity the longer they go without blood]] until they die after ten years without a single drop. Compared to normal humans, vampires are [[SuperStrength physically stronger]] and possess [[SuperToughness superhuman durability]], {{flight}}, {{intangibility}} and a HealingFactor that allows them to reattach [[AnArmAndALeg severed limbs]] and regrow [[TorsoWithAView chest cavities]] after ingesting a few drops of blood. They can also [[TheEmpath get an idea of the emotions and thoughts their prey is experiencing]] as they drink their blood, and the same process allows them to experience the last memories of dead people or even [[TheFogOfAges refresh their own]]. All vampires, without exception, possess a "[[KryptoniteFactor weakness]]" in the form of an object from their human lives to which they have a particularly strong emotional attachment; said weakness can be used to injure or even kill them just by keeping it close to them, though it can also make them go feral as it causes them physical and mental discomfort. Finally, [[VampireProcreationLimit the single most important requirement for a vampire to turn a human into their offspring]] is that their prey must fall in love with them first; failing that, the human has a time limit of one year after the first bite to fall in love with their would-be sire before they can no longer turn at all, which has the side effect of [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth making their blood taste particularly foul to vampires]] as a warning that they can't be turned. Because feeding is the only way for vampires to reproduce conventionally, [[VampiresAreSexGods they instinctively become more alluring in order to make it easier for humans to fall for them]]. |
| 47 | * In ''Manga/TheCaseStudyOfVanitas'', vampires are closer to a MageSpecies that drinks blood. Because of their direct connection to the World Formula, they have abilities similar to magic that allow them to increase their physical strength and stamina, and in the case of more powerful vampires, use ElementalPowers and such. They apparently won't die unless directly killed via decapitation and their bodies [[ReducedToDust instantly turn to dust]] after losing their head. Drinking blood is not a necessity for them and they can easily suppress their blood cravings unless they become Curse-Bearers, vampires who went insane after their true name was corrupted. |
| 48 | * The antagonists of ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' are not called "vampires" (they're "{{Oni}}" in Japanese, "[[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]]" in English; see above) but [[CallAPegasusAHippogriff that may be the most accurate description]]. They eat humans (though all of them instead of just blood), they are killed by sunlight and the only other surefire way to kill them is decapitation. They even turn humans into demons. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'' featured a vampire girl who turned out to be something closer to a zombie. |
| 50 | ** In the manga, Muraki is described almost like an energy vampire of some kind. |
| 51 | ** In the anime adaptation, the singer Maria Wong (who was brought back from the dead and turned into a vampire by Doctor Muraki's sorcery in the Nagasaki Story Arc) has brown hair and eyes when she is human, but while possessed her hair and skin (and clothing) turn white, her eyes bright red, and she grows fangs and sharp fingernails. Once the spell is broken, she returns to her normal appearance... Unfortunately, she's still (un)dead, having killed herself months earlier after cracking under the FinancialAbuse of her stepmother, who is the one who had her revived via Muraki. [[spoiler:In the anime, Maria still gets a sort-of HappyEnding (or at least [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] -- she has some bits of energy left for a brilliant and very successful last performance before she truly dies, and right before that she gets to [[CallingTheOldManOut call her stepmother out on her bullshit]].]] |
| 52 | * In ''Manga/DevilsLine'', the vampires look virtually identical to humans. They are labelled "devils/[[{{Oni}} oni]]" and the "red-eye" race. Devils are small in number (0.01% of the total population in Japan) and their existence isn't known to civilians. They are biologically unchanged from humans, except for having a low body temperature (10 degrees lower than humans), pale-colored skin and heavy eyebags. They also have enhanced physical abilities (super strength, speed, reflexes and senses) and the ability to heal their injuries. However, when a devil sees human blood or experience sexual arousal their body starts to transform; their eyes turn red, their canines and nails grow to long lengths, their blood vessels bulge out and they lose their sense of self to their instinctive need to drink blood. In order for devils to suppress their bloodlust, they need to inject themselves with sedatives. Lastly, devils have short lifespans, living up to an average of only 39 years. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/DGrayMan'' has the Exorcist Krory, who bears a Parasite-type Innocence in the form of [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily a set of teeth a shark would feel afraid of]]. This gives him the ability to cure Akuma poisoning by biting a person infected, as well as making his teeth his weapon of choice to fight Akuma -- he bites them to death, or just latches in and sucks them dry. Consuming Akuma blood also boosts his SuperStrength and SuperSpeed, as well as giving him a HealingFactor. He eventually gains the ability to [[BloodyMurder manipulate his blood]], as well. However, despite this, he's ActuallyNotAVampire; he's a human with vampire-like powers, and such he has none of the vampire weaknesses. |
| 54 | * From ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' we have the Myotismon lines and [=GranDracmon=]. Myotismon (whose Japanese name is Vamdemon - Vampire Demon) is basically the traditional aristocratic vampire hiding as a gentleman interpretation. He is weakened in the sun, controls bats, sucks blood (or data), controls the weather, and has Telekinetic powers. His evolution, [=VenomMyotismon=], is representative of the Beast from Literature/TheBible, and seemingly loses all of his vampire traits. [=MaloMyotismon=] continues in this vein, being more like the Devil than a vampire. [=NeoMyotismon=] brings back the bat look. [=GranDracmon=] is another vampire Digimon, but looks more like an EldritchAbomination than Dracula. |
| 55 | * ''Manga/DragonBall'' has Fangs (a.k.a. Dracula Man), a Muay Thai kickboxing vampire who can turn into a bat and has no problems fighting in broad daylight. He bears the other weaknesses, such as garlic and crosses. |
| 56 | * In ''Manga/DragonGoesHouseHunting'', vampires are basically human-sized, bipedal bats who can use magic [[{{Humanshifting}} take human forms]] for a limited amount of time. They also lack the typical vampire weakness of sunlight, silver and holy water, although they dislike minty smells. This is lampshaded a few times when Letty and Nell questions if Victor is really a vampire because he behaves so differently from what they expect a vampire to be like. |
| 57 | * ''Literature/TheEminenceInShadow'': Vampires in this series who refrain from drinking blood can lose their weakness to the sun and be [[BroughtDownToNormal brought back down to something resembling regular human beings again]]. However, this doesn't apply to Vampire Lords and if they swore not to drink blood, the Red Moon intensifies their pain and hunger. |
| 58 | * The Proxies of ''Anime/ErgoProxy'' might qualify. They have at least one traditional vampire weakness [[spoiler: (namely, they are supposed to die if they come into contact with UV light)]], and some of them, particularly Ergo Proxy himself as well as Kazkis Proxy, look a lot like the Crusnik forms in ''Literature/TrinityBlood''. This resemblance might be deliberate, as like the Crusnik, Proxies are [[PhysicalGod ludicrously powerful]] and evoke OurAngelsAreDifferent. |
| 59 | * The Count in ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' [[NotUsingTheZWord isn't called a vampire]], but clearly seems to be one, and a very traditional one at that, in a literalization of a theory raised about the Count in [[Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo the original novel]]. He does not show up in photographs, has fangs, in one instance displays the vampiric teleportation ability, and is basically incapable of normal eating (although he relies on drugs rather than blood). He is not soulless, but is essentially possessed by a demon, which allows him to regenerate from injury. [[spoiler:However, he is still ultimately killed by the traditional sharp object through heart, and experiences DyingAsYourself.]] The only really non-traditional thing about him, is that he's ''blue''. |
| 60 | * [[http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/7/115598.jpg The main character named Nyanpire]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyanpire from the Manga and Anime series "The Gothic World of Nyanpire"]]. Was formally a dying cat, that was found by an actual vampire who decided to feed the weak cat by cutting his finger to let his blood drip into Nyanpire's mouth. Which turned Nyanpire from a normal cat, into an actual vampire cat complete with wings,a yellow cross on his stomach, and sharp teeth. Since then he found a new owner who would feed him a bowl of strawberries to him and [[http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/5462/neko1l.jpg her second pet cat named Chachamaru.]] He would later make friends with a [[http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/16/115597.jpg Samurai named Masamunya]], [[http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/2/115596.jpg and a fallen angel named Nyatenshi.]] |
| 61 | * ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'''s vampires diverge somewhat from the norms. Humans who are artificially "turned" via special chips [[spoiler:or, in the manga's case, by surgically implanted bits of Mina Harker's remains]] exhibit "standard" weaknesses. However, more powerful "true" vampires can ignore the rules. This is especially notable in the series' SociopathicHero, Alucard, who survives decapitation, holy bayonets and any number of other attacks. He dislikes sunlight, but it won't kill him. (It's also been said by his boss that the organisation has spent 100 years "enhancing" his abilities beyond the normal limits.) In Volume 8 of the manga, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Alucard contains within him the lives of all those he has fed off of, making him nearly indestructible. He can also summon these souls forth into physical form to fight for him, at the cost of substantially reducing his own power.]] The only thing that finally stops him is [[spoiler: a serious case of existence failure. But even then, he eventually returned after thirty years of reestablishing his existence, more or less pulling the vampire equivalent of a Doc Manhattan.]] There's also a rule that to be turned into a true vampire you have to be a virgin. Otherwise, you just become a ghoul. This is how Seras joins the undead. |
| 62 | ** More on Alucard: as noted above, he is practically [[{{Immortality}} immortal]] and has regenerative abilities beyond almost any other character in fiction. He also has [[SuperSenses superhuman senses]], [[SuperStrength superhuman strength]], [[ImprobableAimingSkills incredible accuracy with any weapon]], {{Intangibility}}, [[SuperSpeed super speed]], {{Invisibility}}, [[GravityMaster the ability to defy gravity]], [[CastingAShadow the ability to manipulate shadows (literal and figurative) into physical form]], [[WeatherManipulation weather control]], {{teleportation}}, telekinesis, [[CharmPerson mind control]], mind reading, [[SealedArmyInACan summoning an army consisting of souls whose blood he has sucked]], gaining a person's knowledge and memories through blood sucking, hibernation, and the ability to sense superhuman activity, to name a few. None of the other [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] in the series show these traits, implying that it might have to be something you gather over time after leveling up; no one has drunk more levels than he. This might be a case of PowerCopying. The demon dogs are a result of Alucard having drunk the blood of the Hounds of Baskerville. |
| 63 | ** Another consideration is that vampires are not "truly" vampires until they drink someone's blood and take the victim's soul into him/herself. Those souls are the source of Alucard's power, and the power of the soul is considerable. When Seras finally really drinks someone's blood (as the victim's LastRequest, in Volume 7), she suddenly becomes so powerful she makes the hardened SS vampires quake in their boots. So as Hellsing vampires get more powerful through acquiring more souls they start moving out of the traditional skillset into LovecraftianSuperpower territory. |
| 64 | * In Kōji Matsumoto's manga ''Higanjima'', the vampires are humans who have been infected with a mutagenic virus. Those who have been infected and die become vampires which look like normal humans with fangs, but when they become excited their hair turns white and their eyes become blood-red. Vampires have very poor eyesight but a fantastic sense of smell, the typical vampire is three times as strong as a regular human, and their saliva is a powerful drug that induces unconsciousness and euphoria. Oddly the vampires still need real food and water; what they need blood for is to prevent the virus from further mutating them. A vampire that hasn't had blood in a few days will mutate into a multi-headed "deceased one" if their body can't handle the change, or they will become a so-called "devil". These devils are abominations that can be twice the size of a man to something out of ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' and while many have fish-like heads, there are rare ones that include a stone-skinned Schmoo and a long tongued cyclops. |
| 65 | * The horror/drama tragedy manga "Hitsuji no Uta" (Lament of the Lamb) portrays the main characters Kazuna Takashiro and his sister Chizuna as normal people whose blood hunger is a blood deficiency disease with no superpowers as a tradeoff. They need to drink the blood of others to stay alive. Chizuna uses a TitleDrop to describe their situation as "lambs living with the fangs and hunger of a wolf." |
| 66 | * In ''Manga/InterviewsWithMonsterGirls'', one of the title girls is a cheerful young vampiress. The main character, a teacher with a background in demi-human research, once asks her how much of the vampire folklore is true. She feeds on government-provided packs of blood, but some "vegan" vampires are known to subsist without them. She loves garlic, which causes the teacher to surmise that while garlic is effective due to attacking the vampire's heightened sense of smell, it has no effect if the vampire likes garlic. She is sensitive to light and heat, so bright sunlight does weaken her, but it only does that--it doesn't kill her. Crosses have no effect on her. In all, she comes off as less a supernatural terror and more a person with a weird disability. The one thing that she does come up with was "Oh, yeah! I'd die if a stake is driven through my heart", to which the teacher thinks to himself, "So would I." |
| 67 | * ''Manga/{{Jiya}}'' has Vamp, a powerful vampire who appears to have been terrorizing the entire Earth for several months by the time Jiya arrives. He can fly and shoot energy beams, along with drinking blood. |
| 68 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is rather complicated about vampires. |
| 69 | ** For starters (as established in both ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'' and ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]''), the most powerful ones are created by artifacts called the Stone Masks which have mostly been found in {{Mayincatec}} ruins in Mexico. While Vampires have fangs, they feed through their ''fingers''. They are not adversely affected by water, but direct exposure to sunlight means instant disintegration and permanent death for them. Other than sustaining them, sucking blood can heal their wounds and stop their aging. Those killed by Stone Mask vampires rise again as Zombies; this variety has a simple personality based on their most outstanding personality trait and, unlike Stone Mask vampires, cannot heal wounds. Stone Mask vampires ''can'', however, create other Stone Mask vampires by giving a human their blood (as Dio did to [[spoiler:Vanilla Ice]]). The only method short of sunlight or [[SupernaturalMartialArts Hamon]] that slays a vampire, Stone Mask or Zombie, is grievous head trauma; decapitation merely leads to a living, severed head that can [[spoiler: attach to and take over any handy body,]] as [[spoiler:Dio]] did to [[spoiler:Jonathan Joestar]]. While it was never 100% explained why blunt head trauma was deadly to the vampires, it is most likely due to the fact that the vampires in ''[=JoJo=]'' were originally humans that had specific points in the brain exposed to a severe acupuncture, which awakened what was supposedly a human's "[[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain true potential]]". That being said, getting punched in the head really hard may damage one of the activated brain points. Their powers are also outside the norm, including (but not limited to) the ability to shoot high-pressure fluid from their eyes and absorbing ambient heat to freeze any living being that touches them. |
| 70 | ** And that's not even counting the Pillar Men from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', Kars, Esidisi, Wamuu, and Santana. Kars created the Stone Masks to make their already-powerful species even more powerful. Needless to say, nothing short of top-tier Hamon Users can kill them, and even ''that'' takes an eternity to work. Sunlight only turns them to stone for as long as they're exposed, and even if you were to grind up the remains into dust, Hamon is still needed to finish the job. Even a second of usable dark while encased allows them to escape, which is how [[spoiler:Caesar]] was killed. They feed by absorbing anything they touch (typically vampires and humans), and can [[LovecraftianSuperpower shapeshift their bodies around to utilize their bones and veins for weaponry]] or to fit into tiny drainpipes and stretch their body parts. Also, they have horns on their heads, and the number of horns denotes their potential power levels. |
| 71 | *** To get even more complicated, ''those'' Pillar Men were actually superpowered members of their kind. [[spoiler:Kars and Esidisi themselves were empowered by the Stone Mask, giving them their increased sun and Hamon resistance along with their ElementalPowers. Indeed, the Mask's ''true purpose'' was to unlock ''their'' true potential, with the end goal of CompleteImmortality. This gave them a greater need to consume other lifeforms, which made it fortunate that the mask ''also'' turned humans into much more substantial meals. From what we see of the rest of the Pillar Men and Women, they aren't anywhere near as powerful. They appeared to wield conventional weaponry and stood up to Kars and Esidisi because of how deathly afraid they were of the duo’s power. They were entirely wiped out by the two empowered Pillar Men.]] |
| 72 | *** And the Stone Mask's true purpose for the Pillar Men was to unlock an even further potential than they already had and become an immortal [[UltimateLifeForm Ultimate Being]], with the abilities of and resistance to all life on Earth [[spoiler:including the sun and Hamon]], which can only be attained if a certain flawless Red Stone of Aja is in a Stone Mask and its wearer is exposed to sunlight ([[spoiler:natural or artificial]]). A semi-religious sect of Hamon warriors protect the flawless Super Aja to prevent the Pillar Men from becoming Ultimate Beings. There is no way to defeat an Ultimate Being… except for [[spoiler:turning its reactive evolution against it.]] Through sheer luck, [[spoiler:Joseph Joestar]] managed to [[spoiler:push Kars out of Earth’s atmosphere, forcing him to “Evolve” into an [[FateWorseThanDeath perpetually conscious, half-organic half-mineral]] creature floating through the vacuum of space for all of eternity; after all, nothing ''on Earth'' can stop one.]] |
| 73 | * ''Manga/{{Karin}}'' has a family of vampires, and they explain that it's not the fact garlic is harmful, they just have much more sensitive senses of smell. They have no idea where the running water weakness came from, can stand short stints in sunlight (which they can then heal with rest), and point out that "A stake through the heart would kill anybody!" They are pretty much all atheists, so religious icons have no power against them. As far as feeding habits are concerned, they don't suck their victims dry or really take over their wills. Instead, in a manner more reminiscent of Japanese Gaki than Western vampires, they suck out some aspect of the person they're drawn to -- stress, lying, pride, sadness -- erasing the victim's memory of that aspect in the process and leaving them less stressed, unable to lie, more humble, and very happy and energetic respectively. (Some vampires are stuck draining things like love, though.). Once they reach a certain age they become intolerant to normal food which takes on the taste of sand. Oh, and they ''can'' be seen in mirrors, are the bearers of CuteLittleFangs, can't change into bats (but can control them -- and these are some ''incredibly'' versatile bats), and animals don't seem to be all that upset about them. It is also very [[{{Anvilicious}} on-the-nose]] with the blood metaphors: when Karin and Anju's respective first times at biting a victim are shown, both of them have the fronts of their white dresses conspicuously covered in "virginal" blood. Afterwards, both are referred to as vampires and adults. |
| 74 | ** As a double inversion, the eponymous character in ''Karin'' is different even from the vampires in the rest of the series. She is called a "blood-maker" by her family (when they aren't calling her "mutant" and "loser"). She produces ''too much'' blood, and must bite "victims" to ''give'' them her extra blood. As side effects, the extra blood tends to energize them ''and'' (due to her affinity for sadness) cheer them up as well; the effect lasts about a month. If she fails to do so, she eventually has a ''spectacular'' nosebleed. On the flip side, she can eat normal foods, is immune to sunlight -- she's actually quite a morning person -- and in most respects resembles a normal human girl. |
| 75 | ** Karin's brother seems exploitative but is actually a decent gentleman. Since his affinity is stress, he seeks out overworked young ladies and romances them. It's a win-win; he sates his hunger and the ladies appreciate having the emotional load taken off their shoulders. |
| 76 | ** In this series, vampires do not transform humans into vampires, instead they reproduce the same way humans do. [[spoiler: And while they can interbreed with humans, all {{Dhampyr}}s are sterile due to humans and vampires being separate species.]] |
| 77 | ** They can also die naturally, if deprived of blood for extended periods of time (Depending on their age, anywhere between several years and several decades). |
| 78 | ** There are some vampires out there who sell commercial blood flavored after specific emotions. Calerra usually beats the snot out of Henry if he doesn't bring her blood from a truly despicable liar. Henry himself has been shown drinking himself to sleep off of bottled Pride blood, though he hates draining the pride from people. |
| 79 | * The short film ''Anime/{{Kigeki}}'' is about the Black Swordsman, who is heavily implied but never outright stated to be a vampire. Case in point: devouring the corpses of an army he annihilates, skin, bones, blood and all. Not only is he more thorough than traditional vampires, he also shows no signs of having fangs, or a weakness to sunlight, nor does he seem to rely on blood to keep himself alive. He is, however, implied to be several centuries old, yet appears young, tall, dark and beautiful. |
| 80 | * ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has an interesting take on this in the form of Kamui: vampiric sailor fuku that drink the blood of their wearers to transform into [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman more powerful forms.]] Ryuko's Kamui, Senketsu, even has a red and black motif to go with the vampiric comparisons (though [[DarkIsNotEvil he's more considerate of Ryuko and fights with her as a team]], while the opposite Kamui, the blue-and-white Junketsu, [[LightIsNotGood is a mindless monster that Satsuki has to dominate through force of will to keep it from devouring her.]]) |
| 81 | * In Creator/SuehiroMaruo's ''Manga/TheLaughingVampire'', vampires are created in two ways. The first way is by being "rejected" by the earth when you're buried. The other way is to drink the blood of a vampire. They possess vampire powers like flight, super strength, and immortality. It is not said whether or not they will die without drinking blood, it appears that drinking blood makes them orgasm. They can be killed by sunlight, being staked, or beheaded. Also while they are immortal, drinking blood causes them to age physically. |
| 82 | * The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent "demans"]] of the KoreanWebtoon ''Lessa'' have [[HornedHumanoid horns and reddish skin]] but they're basically vampires who eat souls instead of blood. They can turn humans into demans and they're weak to sunlight; personality- and fashion-wise they're like ''Film/{{Blade}}''[='s=] vampires. Lessa is [[spoiler: the creator of the demans, but isn't one himself -- he's actually a weakened god and the first deman was a friend he brought back to life and [[CameBackWrong you know]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong how that goes]]...]] |
| 83 | * ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'': Camilla from "Lupin Becomes a Vampire" (aka "But Your Brother Was Such a Nice Guy") has most of the typical vampire traits, but a unique backstory: she was the ''secret twin sister of Jesus Christ''. |
| 84 | * The [=Protodevlin=] from ''Anime/Macross7'', which can be best be described as [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Alien Space Vampires]] who suck life energy out of people and can do it from a distance. |
| 85 | * The vampires in ''Anime/MarvelAnimeBlade'' are vulnerable to sunlight, silver and {{white magic}}, but not to holy symbols, garlic or running water. There are also a large number of sub-species (enhanced by [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetic tinkering]] courtesy of [[BigBad Deacon Frost]]), able to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting change shape]] between human form and creatures from the mythologies of the regions where the show takes place. |
| 86 | * The male crossdressing vampire Lady Bat from ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is rather mysterious; it's said that he feeds from memories instead of blood, but in a later manga chapter he said: |
| 87 | -->'''Lady Bat:''' Ah, the sweet scent of mermaid blood emanating from your necks... |
| 88 | ** He also can sing a song which cause hypnosis to anyone who hears, which enables him to suck memories/blood without resistance. Oh, and he can also turn into a swarm of bats. |
| 89 | * Bisco Hatori's manga ''Manga/MillenniumSnow'': they are not hurt by sunlight or crosses, and are not really immortal, living for about a thousand years. ''Millennium Snow'''s vampires do not strictly have to drink blood to survive, although doing without requires them to eat a lot of food to keep up their energy. When one of these vampires drinks the blood of a human, it forms a bond between them which extends the human's lifespan to match the vampire's, and that human becomes the vampire's sole source of blood. These vampires are also able to fly, and drinking some of their blood can heal a human, although ItOnlyWorksOnce. |
| 90 | * The vampires of ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' take after vampire bats, with batlike wings for arms that enable them to fly but suck for fine manipulation, pointed batlike ears, and the ability to produce ultrasonic waves they can apparently use to control bats. Their digestive system can only take in nutrients in liquid form, requiring them to drink blood, and they have sharp teeth to enable them to feed. They have sensitive skin, so the sun's ultraviolet light is very dangerous for them, they show allergy-like reactions to garlic and silver, and Ms. Smith puts their issue with crosses down to a cultural taboo (though they do seem to like upside-down crosses). They do tend to sleep in coffins -- Ms. Smith hypothesizes it's partly because they need to keep out of sunlight and partly species-wide habit -- but they can't turn into mist, and they do show up in mirrors. Actual supernatural powers are ambiguous -- one of them showed supernatural abilities, but that might have been just that one. As a species, they're on the verge of extinction, since the vampire virus has a very low infection rate, and their numbers have been steadily decreasing. Like zombies, they can infect humans with the virus, but it does not cause a physical transformation and only makes the human a new vector for the virus. This has led to in-universe speculation that vampires are actually bat liminals who were infected long ago by "true" vampires, a liminal type that no longer exists. |
| 91 | * ''Manga/MusukoGaKawaikuteShikataganaiMazokuNoHahaoya'': |
| 92 | ** Lizette sustains herself from human blood and can not handle even the slightest exposure to sunlight without being burnt. However, while Minami describes Lizette as a vampire, she is not undead, but rather a specific breed of demon. The main vampires abilities she has demonstrated are SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, and an incredible HealingFactor when drinking blood. |
| 93 | ** In Chapter 123, Lizette reveals reveals some odd quirks about her vampiric biology; specifically her digestive system and that she doesn't have a stomach as humans do. This means she's incapable of eating solid foods and her body is able to only process liquids. Normally she only drinks blood, but she's capable of drinking any kind of fluid, with the stuff she can't absorb building up in her bladder and making her need to pee faster than usual. |
| 94 | --->'''Lizette ''(while drinking apple juice)'':''' My body doesn't die-vest the bad things! But instead I end up needing to pee.\ |
| 95 | '''Chiharu:''' Makes sense.\ |
| 96 | '''Lizette:''' I already need to pee. |
| 97 | * [[SerialKiller Himiko Toga]] from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' is a superpower variation; her Quirk allows her to Shapeshift into whomever's blood she's ingested, and ingesting multiple people's blood allows her to switch between forms ([[spoiler: she later learns she can copy other people's Quirks as well]]). While she has sharp teeth and her costume has a collar designed to look like a grinning, fanged mouth, Toga uses [[PsychoKnifeNut knives]] and syringes for her bloodletting. |
| 98 | * ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'': As a {{Dhampyr}}, Youko Shiragami has all the traditional weaknesses of a vampire but downplayed entirely for comedy: [[DaywalkingVampire being exposed to the sun makes her tan very quickly]][[note]]And even then, [[TheDitz she never thought to use suntan lotion until someone else mentioned it]][[/note]], garlic makes her cry like it was a peeled onion, [[CannotCrossRunningWater being in or over water]] (even in a boat or airplane) makes her uncomfortable, [[HolyBurnsEvil crucifixes just annoy her a bit]], and [[MustBeInvited she can enter buildings uninvited but feels really bad about it]]. Whereas traditional vampires can transform into bats or mist, the best Youko can pull off is making [[LittleBitBeastly cute bat ears]] or a tiny puff of steam appear from her head. Additionally, they can drink blood but seemingly don't need to; when Asahi Kuromine brings up the subject, Youko reacts as if he was sexually harassing her, explaining that [[KissOfTheVampire drinking blood is an incredibly intimate act]] to the point where vampire weddings use it in place of the traditional kiss. [[spoiler:Later in the series it turns out that Youko doesn't fully understand what drinking blood entails. As vampires drink more and more blood, it increases their "purity", making them more vampiric, which threatens to expose Youko's secret. It also turns out to be an alternative to sex, with female vampires capable of getting pregnant by drinking their partners' blood. This ends up happening to Youko and Asahi, and her father is surprisingly understanding about the whole thing.]] |
| 99 | ** Since the series is a RomCom, the weaknesses are still PlayedForLaughs even when dealing with a full-blooded vampire like Youko's father Genjirou. He can't fly over water on his own power (Youko managed an airplane flight, but was still uncomfortable), and he can't even enter his daughter's bedroom in his own house without permission, which became useful in one story arc when he was on a drunken rampage directed at Asahi. It's even suggested that a WoodenStake to the heart isn't fatal, since Genjirou's wife Touko has brandished a stake and mallet in order to make him calm down and stop harassing Asahi. [[spoiler:Except for the aforementioned blood purity, since when Genjirou was in high school he lost control of his vampiric powers in the middle of homeroom, which destroyed his life by exposing his identity and driving away the people he had considered his friends. Part of the reason he was against Youko going to a human school is because he didn't want her to go thought that herself; thankfully her friends are far more accepting and understanding.]] |
| 100 | * The only example of vampirism in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is the true ancestor Evangeline A. K. [=McDowell=], an AntiHero mentor figure for the main character. As far as vampiric traits go, she's fairly lacking: Rather than being bitten by another vampire, while she was asleep on her tenth birthday a mage used a ritual on her, causing her to awaken and slaughter the inhabitants of the castle before regaining control. Much to her annoyance, she's now stuck at that age, though her body doesn't seem to be undead nor does it require blood to sustain itself. She is no longer vulnerable to sunlight (although it does make her sleepy), is unaffected by holy symbols and can create vampiric spawn as well as return them to normal. Finally, as a vampire she has immense resistance to dark magic and seemingly limitless regenerative ability. Coupled with being one of the three strongest mages in the series it's quite understandable why she would be so feared. |
| 101 | * Svetlana Chmakova's ''Manga/{{Nightschool}}'' plays with the "no reflections" rule a bit; a vampire who's been very recently turned still has one, which means that they can still regain their humanity if they're taken to a healer quickly enough. They also face losing their minds and turning into "Rippers" as they get older, which are little more than withered husks with a ravenous desire to feed. |
| 102 | -->'''Teresa:''' It's not even blood they want. It's life. A taste, any taste of what they once had. |
| 103 | * ''Anime/{{Nightwalker}}'' generally follows the generic Ricean mold with a few differences. Vampires are ex-humans that consume fresh human blood in non-lethal amounts to survive. They cannot consume normal food or liquids other than blood. Their physical attributes and senses are enhanced to superhuman levels. The conversion process is vaguely defined but seems to involve sharing blood with a dying individual, reanimating them upon death as a vampire; a simple bite does not infect victims. Vampires are burned by sunlight, but the damage varies with exposure and intensity: heavy clothes or cloudy weather can mitigate the effects. Vampires can magically create whips and swords [[BloodyMurder out of their own blood]] (but must first open a vein to do so). The bite appears to be a [[KissOfTheVampire pleasurable experience for the victim]]. The centuries-old Cain demonstrated powers like levitation, hypnosis, retractable claws, prehensile hair, and the ability to induce incredibly vivid dreams of his own design. Vampires appear to psychically sense one another in close proximity, but a centuries-old child-seeming vampire was able to disguise her nature from Shido. |
| 104 | * In the one-shot yaoi manga ''Nosferatou Kiss'', vampires are living creatures that age and reproduce just like humans, except that they enjoy sleeping in coffins for some reason, possess certain supernatural powers (like levitation), and have a taste for human blood (particularly virgin blood, because it's unlikely to have venereal disease). As children, Kura (a vampire) plays hide and seek with Shuichi (his human friend) and hides in a coffin, then Shuichi promptly loses interest in the game and walks off, completing forgetting about Kura. Kura remains lying in the coffin for a decade, [[PerpetualMotionMonster apparently without needing to eat, sleep, or attend to any other bodily functions]]. When Shuichi returns later looking for him and opens the coffin, [[BrickJoke Kura pops out, now aged into a teenager]]. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext In a bizarre twist]], Kura then demonstrates to a surprised Shuichi that vampires aren't limited to drinking their victim's blood: blowjobs work just fine too. |
| 105 | * ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' has the minor antagonist Pureblood, a vampire member of the Monsters Association. Unlike most other monsters (who are made/transformed), he claims to be born from a long line of vampires and is stereotypically arrogant and haughty. He also has the typical vampire powerset, sucking blood to regenerate himself, turning into bats, high levels of [[SuperStrength strength]] and [[SuperSpeed speed]]. [[spoiler: He's actually quite powerful, but he gets killed by the S-Class Hero [[ResurrectiveImmortality Zombieman]] due to the latter ultimately having a ''much'' stronger HealingFactor and being able to outlast him.]] |
| 106 | * ''Anime/PhantomQuestCorp'' has [[NiceGuy Bosco]], a vampire who's trained himself to tolerate crosses and garlic and to avoid staring directly at the sun (according to him, it's specifically ''that'' that causes vampires to burn), but he's also anemic, due to only feeding 4 times a year while taking supplement tablets in-between. It's left him severely weakened, but [[WillfullyWeak he's content that way]]... because he wants to be an upstanding member of society and also [[LoveRedeems he's in love with a 19 year old college student]]: [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Makiko.]] It also helps that (a) she's a clean (doesn't do drugs or alcohol) virgin and he takes great pains to keep it that way since her type of blood is the only kind his body will tolerate, and (b) she understands his situation and offers her neck willingly; Bosco respectfully only partakes lightly: less than a transfusion unit at a time. The same episode also had a second, more typical vampire featured: [[spoiler:a reincarnated Dracula.]] |
| 107 | * In ''Manga/ThePoeClan'', they're referred to as ''vampanella''. They don't need blood, and can sustain themselves on roses (and rose-based dishes), as well as energy. Someone can be bitten/drained without being turned, as there must be an intentional energy transfer behind the bite. There's a VampireMonarch in the form of King Poe, whose blood is the strongest. Edgar is his direct successor. They don't have reflections or heartbeats (but can fake those), and are superhumanly durable (Edgar complains about having to pretend to be in pain when he shuts a door on his hand). They can be wounded with normal weapons, though staking or being shot with a silver bullet kills them, turning them to dust. Religious icons and prayers can repel them, [[YourMindMakesItReal but only if the vampanella is afraid of those]]. They retain enough of their humanity to pass as normal humans (with concerted effort), though a newly-turned Edgar did give in to HorrorHunger and bite the flower girl. |
| 108 | * In an early episode of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries}'' Misty pulls out a crucifix, some garlic, a wooden stake, and a hammer to attempt to ward off a Gastly. Since Gastly are a kind of ghost and not vampires, it doesn't work, although the sun rises and drives him away immediately afterwards. |
| 109 | * In ''Manga/TheRecordOfAFallenVampire'' there is only two living pure vampires during the course of the series (the rest are Dhampirs); according to lore they came to earth from beyond the moon. Though they first used blood-sucking as a way to incorporate DNA of Earth's lifeforms, they've since lost the need for blood (they kept the fangs). They age but are extremely long lived and have extremely powerful regeneration, but sunlight causes any part of them exposed to it to wither in seconds and requiring centuries to heal (exceptions exist). While crosses in and of themselves have no effect on vampires, the shape of the cross is suitable for storing spiritual energy, one of the only tools available to non-vampires to match a vampire's magical power. [[spoiler: the Vampire King and his Dhamphir enemies are currently teaming up to fight alien invaders, who are coincidentally hiding behind the moon and only want to kill half the earth's population...]] |
| 110 | * According to ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', a vampire is an S class monster, and as such one of the most powerful monsters in existence. Vampires have super strength and super speed, and a huge amount of ''youki'' (monster energy). Sunlight does not seem to bother them, nor garlic. Religious icons only weaken/limit them. They are, however, extremely vulnerable to water due to its purifying properties; even touching it will cause immense pain. To compensate for this, water used for bathing and cooking is treated with herbs. Vampires do not need blood to survive, but they find it a delicious treat and can consume it alongside regular food. Human blood is supposed to be especially tasty to vampires, compared to that of a monster (and because Tsukune was Moka's first taste of human blood, it kinda got her hooked). Vampires can also shapeshift, but most consider it a lost art due to vanity. Lastly, ''shinso'' exist and are naturally the strongest of the strongest: the ultimate monsters in this world. The BigBad of the second year is one. [[spoiler:Moka's mother was one also, Moka eventually becomes one herself. So does Tsukune. By the third year, Moka, Kahlua (Moka's 2nd sister, who was revived via blood transfusion from The BigBad, transforming her into a Shinso as well) and Tsukune are the only three ''shinso'' alive.]] |
| 111 | ** Vampires are capable of having children. They can donate their blood to a human, giving them temporary vampire traits (HealingFactor and super strength and speed). However, the human risks turning into a ghoul, a mindless, souless berserker that cannot be restored except with sealing magic. That's what happened to Tsukune as time passed, and it forced him and everyone else to adapt to this. [[spoiler:It's possible under special circumstances (ie transfusion of ''shinso'' blood) for a ghoul to be further transformed into a full vampire, as happened to Tsukune during the final battle.]] |
| 112 | * ''Anime/SailorMoon'': In a ''[=SuperS=]'' special, Lyrica Hubert gets possessed by a vampiric [[MonsterOfTheWeek Lemure]] that can walk around during the day and feeds on fresh flowers as well as blood. |
| 113 | * The vampires of ''Manga/SatouKunToTanakaSan'' are cold-blooded, like reptiles, and cannot stomach human food without having to regurgitate it later. They also have two separate kinds: first generation, which are stronger and can withstand sunlight, and vampires who have been bitten as a human, and are therefore weaker. |
| 114 | * ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'''s vampires are a rather traditional type. Full-blooded vampires have pointy ears, red eyes, and gradually lose their human emotions if they live long enough. They produce no body heat and have no libido, though drinking blood, especially straight from a human, is very pleasurable to them. They also have to wear special armbands or rings to protect them from sunlight; UV rays create a toxin in their bodies. Oddly, some high-ranked female vampires appear to have horns. |
| 115 | ** Humans can be turned by drinking a progenitor (the highest ranked vampires)'s blood, though this is frowned upon as the vampires don't like increasing their numbers. Until they drink human blood, these vampires will age and retain their normal eye color. |
| 116 | * ''Manga/SoulEater'' has Mosquito, whose appearance, depending on the amount of blood he's consumed, varies from a little old man, a giant insect, something kind of resembling a gorilla, to a black suit-clad [[BishonenLine bishounen]] (each form older and stronger than the last). The kind of blood seems to matter, as Mosquito is very interested in [[{{Shinigami}} Death the Kid]]'s 'D-type' blood. He doesn't get to drink it, merely cause the boy to lose quite a bit through (temporary) loss of limb. |
| 117 | * One character in ''Anime/SpeedGrapher'' compares the Euphorics to vampires, noting how [[GenreSavvy in modern works, vampirism is often made "scientific" by being transmitted through viruses]]. Euphorics likewise get their powers from a virus, and like many vampires, possess a HealingFactor. Also probably important is the sexual violence element of vampires, which is mirrored by the fact that Euphoric powers are their (sexual) fetishes weaponized. |
| 118 | * Of course, there are no real vampires in ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'', but when Miu randomly dresses up like one: |
| 119 | ** She's picky about the youth of the person she "bites". 11-year-old Matsuri is a viable target, but she figures 16-year-old Nobue would have "old lady blood", and declines. (Nobue takes offense, of course.) |
| 120 | ** A cross Chika draws has no effect... mainly because it went a little crooked at the top. Chika goes for some garlic, but by the time she returns, Miu has the costume off, so we never find out how she would've reacted. |
| 121 | * ''Manga/TimeStopHero'': Vampires in this setting are evil beings who feed off blood and can [[OneToMillionToOne turn into swarms of bats and back]]. Staking them through the heart will only incapacitate them for half a day, then they will revive, pull the stake out, and heal. Similarly, decapitating or dismembering them will only neutralize them until they can pull themselves back together. The only way to kill them permanently is exposure to sunlight or holy light. |
| 122 | * ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' features a variation on the standard vampire tropes, although since Tsubasa is essentially a multiverse AU it is not clear whether this particular vampire definition applies to the whole CLAMP multiverse or just the unknown world the vampires in question originated from. So far, the established rules are that vampires can be both "pure blood", presumably by birth, or "turned", by drinking the blood of a vampire. Kamui and Subaru are pure blooded and Kamui is responsible for turning [[spoiler:Fay]]. Vampires are explicitly stated not to be vulnerable to sun or holy water and while they are long-lived and have incredible healing capacity, they are not outright immortal. (This is also basic rule of the CLAMP-verse, everything no matter how powerful dies eventually.) Vampirism comes with a couple nifty side effects like enhanced speed and strength, nails that can turn into massive claws, and [[AnimalEyes golden, slit-pupiled eyes like a cat's]]. There is also an interesting twist on the need to drink another's blood, at least for turned vampires, as when the turning is performed, [[spoiler:the old vampire's blood can be mixed with the blood of a human who will become the new vampire's sole host. Kurogane agrees to become Fay's host in order to save his life]]. The only on-screen feeding seen so far has NOT gone for the usual jugular-biting, but rather from an intentional wound in the wrist. The [[HoYay relationship]] between the particular vampire and host may have had something to do with it... (not that it's stopped the fans from imagining the "possibilities") |
| 123 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' takes the vampire motif in various directions, starting with Arcueid. She's a ''shinso'' which is why she survived (albeit in a weakened state) even when Shiki cut her up with his mystic powers. Demon Lords and Dead Apostles depict the vampire motifs more traditionally. Half of the plot revolves around a family of HalfHumanHybrids descended from [[{{Oni}} oni]]. Why are they in a story about vampires? Because as noted above, the Japanese word for vampire literally means "blood sucking oni". |
| 124 | * Hazuki in ''Anime/TsukuyomiMoonPhase''. Like in ''Manga/BlackBloodBrothers'', each lineage of vampires have different special powers or don't posses a weakness. If another vampire sucks the blood of another, they temporary gain that vampire's powers, or permanently if they drain them completely. [[spoiler:This is the reason why everyone wants Hazuki's blood. She is the only one who possess the ability to walk in the daylight.]] |
| 125 | * A story arc of ''Manga/UshioAndTora'' features a Vampire as the main villain. He mixes and matches traditional vampire traits with other, unusual features: he masquerades as a pharmacist and doctor, preys exclusively on women and young girls, all his teeth are sharp as needles and he has a variety of powers, which include turning into mist to avoid attacks and move around, turning parts of his body into whole vampiric animals such as wolves or bats, emanating powerful invisible blasts from his forehead (Tora referred to this as "Telekinesis"), and turning people he bites into his thralls (not always). As part of his weaknesses, he cannot stand fire, is unable to turn into mist if he transformed into an animal, is powerless in front of a crucifix, and is ultimately finished off with a wooden stake to the heart. He's also a rather pathetic figure obsessed with his sire, which was his own mother, a Japanese woman who left for the continent. Tora stated that he met a Vampire once on the continent (China). |
| 126 | * According to Aria of ''Manga/VampeerzMyPeerVampires'', everything that Ichika heard about vampires was incorrect. For one, vampires don't shapeshift into bats; they have reflections in mirrors; and they are tolerant of crosses. At most, Ichika was partially right that some vampires didn't like garlic. |
| 127 | * In ''Literature/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'' movie, the mere presence of a vampire noble causes all sorts of minor disasters -- crosses bend out of shape, mirrors crack, flowers die... They must find it hard to make any kind of casual visits which is probably why most nobles keep a retinue. Also helps in regards to the few things that ''can'' affect them. |
| 128 | ** They also have immense supernatural powers at night... and are [[TheStoic stoic]] as all hell, a trait D the {{Dhampyr}} has inherited. |
| 129 | ** Killing them, or at least keeping them down can be somewhat difficult, [[spoiler:Carmilla]] was stabbed in the heart by [[spoiler:Dracula]] with a giant sword, it was effective in causing death but the ghost still hang around waiting for a chance to revive itself [[spoiler:all she needed was a sufficient amount of human blood and she would have been up and about again.]] |
| 130 | ** Sunlight is effective however, even on half-breeds. Pure-breeds can catch fire when exposed to sunlight while Dhampyrs can only stay out for so long before experiencing sunstroke-like symptoms. In both cases, they need to get back into the shade and cover themselves until nightfall to recuperate. |
| 131 | ** Male vampires seem to be able to reproduce with human women (producing dhampyrs) and its implied that two pure vampires can also reproduce. Biting also seems to work and only requires that the victim be bitten. |
| 132 | * The vampires in ''Manga/VampireKnight'' are ranked by how "pure" their lineage is. Pure-blooded vampires -- those that don't have any human blood in them -- have all sorts of mystical powers and suffer little to none of the typical weaknesses. It seems acceptable for them to indulge in [[RoyalInbreeding incest to keep their blood pure]]. Other vampires, that are descended from pure bloods but have some human ancestry, have some of the weaknesses of traditional vampires but still seem very powerful. Both types crave blood, but are able to satisfy their cravings with special blood tablets. However, humans that are turned into vampires have a much more difficult time controlling their bloodlust, and eventually lose their humanity and turn into nothing but monstrous, mindless killers. |
| 133 | * Miyu of ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu''. Also, in the setting, vampires are a form of EldritchAbomination called a Shinma, who police the rogues of their race and return them to their own reality when they escape to torment humans: Miyu is the one who carries out this mission. Also, Miyu does not seem to choose "victims" arbitrarily: only those who come to her for her "special gift," usually those on the DespairEventHorizon. It appears those she draws from don't necessarily die but instead their minds are left in an eternal bliss. |
| 134 | * How different are the "Vampires" in Osamu Tezuka's ''Manga/{{Vampires}}''? Well, they're actually [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves.]] |
| 135 | * ''Manga/WitchWatch'': Vampires, including series deuteragonist Miharu Kiryu, are described as having evolved from witches' bat familiars over centuries. Their evolution means they no longer directly suck blood for sustenance, but instead [[EnergyAbsorption leech off the vital energy of other people]] through direct contact. Additionally, they retain classic vampires' aversion to sunlight, being weakened if left exposed for too long. |
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