History OurVampiresAreDifferent / AnimeAndManga

* ''{{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 has to be a virgin. Otherwise you just become a ghoul. This is how Seres joins the undead.

* Seraphim, Maelstrom/[[strike:Tomonori]]Yuki and Sarasvati/Kirara from ''KoreWaZombieDesuKa'' are [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja ninjas]]. All they need is to occasionally suck blood; their kiss helpfully makes it painless for whoever they're feeding on. Also being kissed by the opposite sex [[spoiler: equals marriage.]]

* From ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' we have the Myotismon lines and GranDracmon. Myotismon (who's 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.

* From ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' we have the Myotismon lines and GranDracmon. Myotismon (who's 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 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.

* From {{Digimon}} we have the Myotismon lines and GranDracmon. Myotismon (who's 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 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.

* The vampires in the MadHouse adaptation of ''{{Anime/Blade}}'' 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.

* How different are the "Vampires" in Osamu Tezuka's ''Vampires''? Well, they're actually [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves.]]

* In ''Record of Fallen Vampire'' there is only ''one'' pure vampire (the rest are Dhampirs); according to lore they came to earth from beyond the moon and over time lost the need for blood (they kept the fangs). They're immortal, very sensitive to sunlight and the ''shape'' of the cross can effect them. [[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...]]

* In Suehiro Maruo's "The Laughing Vampire" 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.

* The Count in ''{{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 [[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''.

* In ''{{Digimon}}'' BigBad Myotismon was clearly a vampire, right down to causing a massive fog to cut off the area of Tokyo his was terrorising, and actually drinking the blood of young human women. Suprisingly enough, his blood drinking habits was kept in the American dub.

* Hazuki in ''TsukuyomiMoonPhase''.

Occasionally vampires in Japan may be portrayed as a type of {{Yokai}}, or something like it. It is interesting to note that the Japanese word for vampire contains the character for oni. As such vampires are sometimes portrayed as outright [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]].

* According to ''RosarioToVampire'', 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 ammount of ''youki'' or spiritual energy. Sunlight does not seem to bother them, and neither do religious icons nor garlic. 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.

* How different are the "Vampires" in Osamu Tezuka's "Vampires"? Well, they're actually [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves.]]

*** Like in 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.]]

* The male crossdressing vampire Lady Bat from {{Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch}} is rather mysterious; it's said that he feeds from memories instead of blood, but in a later manga chapter he said:

* In ToAruMajutsuNoIndex, their vampires ''aren't'' different. Not from normal people anyway. Presumably, we haven't met any since they're apparently in hiding, but we're informed that they're just like normal people; They love, live, laugh etc. Aisa Himegame is rather horrified with her [[PowerIncontinence natural ability]] to draw them in and then simply kill them due to something about her blood.
* TrinityBlood has vampires called Methuselah, the result of humans being infected by a extra terrestrial bacterium; they are living creatures, look almost totally human and at puberty develop a weakness to sunlight. They are able to breed with each other. They are naturally faster, stronger and more resilient then humans, although some humans can match them in combat with enough training. Biting humans results in the death of the victim.

* YamiNoMatsuei featured a vampire girl who turned out to be something closer to a zombie.

* Master of Mosquiton is a perfect example of this trope.

* {{Soul Eater}} 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 bishounen (each form older and stronger than the last). The kind of blood seems to matter, as Mosquito is very interested in 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.

* In {{Digimon}} BigBad Myotismon was clearly a vampire, right down to causing a massive fog to cut off the area of Tokyo his was terrorising, and actually drinking the blood of young human women. Suprisingly enough, his blood drinking habits was kept in the American dub.
* In LotteNoOmocha, Elika is a vampire, which, similar to succubus and their semen diet, must drink blood to survive once puberty hits. But until then she can make do with just tomato juice as training.

* The vampires of {{Satou-kun To Tanaka-san}} are cold-blooded, like reptiles, and cannot stomach human food without having to regurgitate it later. They also have two seperate kinds: first generation, which are stronger and can withstand sunlight, and vampires who have been bitten as a human, and are therefore weaker.
* The [=Protodevlin=] from {{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.

** 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.

* ''{{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's HeroicSociopath, 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 has to be a virgin. Otherwise you just become a ghoul. This is how Seres joins the undead.

* In Suehiro Maruo's "The Laughing Vampire" 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.

* The Count in ''{{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 [[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''.

* ''JojosBizarreAdventure'' is rather... complicated about vampires. For starters, the most powerful ones are created by Mayan artifacts called the Stone Masks. While they 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. They don't need to drain blood constantly, but doing so keeps them young and, if the person they drain was particularly powerful, it makes them exponentially stronger. Those killed by Stone Mask vampires rise again as undead, but are much weaker and are usually called "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 Vanilla Ice). The only method short of sunlight or [[BattleAura the Ripple]] that slays a vampire, Stone Mask or zombie, is grievous head trauma; decapitation merely leads to a living, severed head that can then attach to and take over any handy body, [[spoiler:as Dio did to Jonathan Joestar's corpse]]. 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 "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 liquid [[strike:metal]] blood from their eyes, blood freezing, and the ability to walk on walls and ceilings.

* The [=Protodevlin=] from {{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.

* The {{Nasuverse}} (emphasis on ''{{Tsukihime}}'') muddles the meaning of "vampire" quite a bit:

** In any case, neither are susceptible to stakes, or the traditional anti-vampire weapons. While cannon fodder vampires can be harmed by guns and swords, most of the stronger Dead Apostles (and ''all'' of the True Ancestors, as well as the strange group of Dead Apostle Ancestors) cannot be harmed by "real" weapons. By the rules of the {{Nasuverse}}, this means something mythical on the same scale as a "mythical" being like a vampire. Not to mention, even if they ''are'' hurt, the stronger ones can come back to life by ''reversing time''. The most extreme example? [[spoiler:Roa regenerating himself after being slashed apart down to his ''ankles'' by Arcueid]] in ''{{Tsukihime}}''. Granted, that was only possible because the moon was full.

** More on Alucard: as noted above, he is practically immortal and has regenerative abilities beyond almost any other character in fiction. He also has superhuman senses, superhuman strength, incredible accuracy with any weapon, intangibility, super speed, invisibility, the ability to defy gravity, the ability to manipulate shadows (literal and figurative) into physical form, weather control, teleportation, telekinesis, mind control, mind reading, 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. 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 MegaManning. The demon dogs are a result of Alucard having drunk the blood of the Hounds of Baskerville.

* The vampires of {{Satou-kun To Tanaka-san}} are cold-blooded, like reptiles, and cannot stomach human food without having to regurgitate it later. They also have two seperate kinds: first generation, which are stronger and can withstand sunlight, and vampires who have been bitten as a human, and are therefore weaker.

* Bisco Hatori's manga ''Millennium Snow'' features vampires similar to the ones in ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'': 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.

* ''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 [[EyesOfGold 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 "[[FetishFuel possibilities]]")

** According to ''FateZero'', there are even some mages who experiment on creating Dead Apostles. The only example given of this phenomenon is via the creation of a potion. Even so, the results aren't [[CameBackWrong as planned]].

* In ''Record of Fallen Vampire'' there is only ''one'' pure vampire (the rest are Dhampirs); according to lore they came to earth from beyond the moon and over time lost the need for blood (they kept the fangs). They're immortal, very sensitive to sunlight and the ''shape'' of the cross can effect them. [[spoiler: the Vampire King and his Dhamphir enemies are currently teaming up to fight alien invaders, who are coincedentally hiding behind the moon and only want to kill half the earth's population...]]

* TrinityBlood has vampires called Methuselah, the result of humans being infected by a extra terrestial bacterium; they are living creatures, look almost totally human and at puberty develop a weakness to sunlight. They are able to breed with each other. They are naturally faster, stronger and more resilient then humans, although some humans can match them in combat with enougth training. Biting humans results in the death of the victim.

** In the anime adaption of the ''YamiNoMatsuei'' manga, 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 abuse of her stepmother. [[spoiler: In the anime, Maria still gets a BittersweetEnding: she has some bits of energy left for a brilliant and very succesful last performance before she truly dies.]]

* Hazuki in ''TsukuyomiMoonPhase'' partly fits the trope by having royal lineage, but her hair and eyes are dark.
** Justified by her parentage - her mother is implied to have been Japanese.

* Miyu of ''VampirePrincessMiyu'' [[SubvertedTrope fails this on every count]]; she has brown hair; normal eyes when pretending to be human, and predatory EyesOfGold otherwise; and despite the series name, is not of royal or noble descent. 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. It's an unusually extreme JapaneseVampire version of OurVampiresAreDifferent.

* ''[=~Jojo's Bizarre Adventure~=]'' is rather... complicated about vampires. For starters, the most powerful ones are created by Mayan artifacts called the Stone Masks. While they 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. They don't need to drain blood constantly, but doing so keeps them young and, if the person they drain was particularly powerful, it makes them exponentially stronger. Those killed by Stone Mask vampires rise again as undead, but are much weaker and are usually called "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 Vanilla Ice). The only method short of sunlight or [[BattleAura the Ripple]] that slays a vampire, Stone Mask or zombie, is grievous head trauma; decapitation merely leads to a living, severed head that can then attach to and take over any handy body, [[spoiler:as Dio did to Jonathan Joestar's corpse]]. 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 "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 liquid [[strike:metal]] blood from their eyes, blood freezing, and the ability to walk on walls and ceilings.