Bailando con vampiros

Six episodes down and I still don't find much to like in this series, but I'm still going, so I'll happily give it the twenty minutes a week, maybe I'll be surprised. And lo and behold, it really surprised me in that 7th episode, and I'm thinking it might finally catch on. Nope, it didn't. It left me cold again – that is, girls, at times Akira was kawaii (you know the use of that word, right?), but what can we say, those eyes of his were the most interesting part of countless episodes. Thankfully, this series has only on 12 episodes. But it's true that it's got a sequel in the pipeline, which I don't want to see, I'd rather read the manga, and actually the manga is supposedly like 120% better. I don't know, maybe I'll read it and see. The tug-of-war between the "evil" vampires (and other non-monsters or humans) and the vampire lolita-queen didn't really grab me either. Anyone who's into the body of an 11-year-old girl will find it interesting. The story, well, what about it, as is already clear from the above, it didn't grab me, and it ends very stupidly (the last fight sucks). Even the hand they left him... But the truth is that I really liked the graphics in the series – I give it a big plus for that. Let’s just sum up whatever else I would about this: a better 2 stars, so I don't get too carried away :-) (09.04.2010)

Dance in the Vampire Bund is basically an animated version of Twilight, where the girl is a vampire, the boy is a werewolf, and the third side of the love triangle is an ordinary girl. Well, unlike Twilight, this is not some pointless over-emotional crap with awkward action scenes and ridiculous vampires. I watched it pretty much without any problems, although the animation was not very impressive. Still, that was balanced by the soundtrack. Also, it was not some crazy love story, but more of a look into the strange world of vampires and its struggle to coexist with human society. Sure, it had some pretty obvious holes, and some things were indeed very strange. Even some of the editing and constant shots of the main protagonists' eyes were more annoying than dramatic at times, although so be it, for me, it was again balanced by the action scenes and some of the fight scenes. For example, in the scene where "Mina's Elite Eight" stepped in against a huge band of vampires, I liked that one a lot. I would say it even had a quite believable atmosphere, and I found the resolution of the power struggles quite interesting at times. All in all, it was definitely not "awesome," although I was also hardly bored at all, so basically an acceptable and, for me, average experience - 5/10. (29.07.2015)