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DarkDub's Vampire Princess Miyu Tv Review

Vampire Princess Miyu

Vampire Princess Miyu tv Review

Stranded in the space between human and demon, Miyu was born a vampire and charged with the responsibility of returning evil demons called Shinma to the dark. Being eternally 15, she yearns to return to the dark herself but not until she has banished the Shinma from Earth. And since her awakening, she remains cut off by the facts of who and what she is.

Story & Characters

This was the fourth anime I ever saw in its entirety, and I got a shock. This dark piece jumps off the screen right down your throat and immediately lets you know what’s up.
I loved the gothic feel of this and didn’t have anything really to compare it at the time so in my book it remains a classic. Miyu is a Vampire Princess and the Guardian. So she doesn’t worry too much about saving the humans as she does exterminating Shinma. The TV Series does differ very much from the OVA, so I’ll let you know that this review is for the TV series only. Miyu has a couple of partners that help her out a little along the way. In the early going she has Sheena, this small rabbit beast that sits on her shoulder and gives the world the evil eye in order to see Shinma. I don’t know what episode it is, but at some point Sheena just stops coming around altogether.
Then there is everybody’s favorite, Larva (pronounced: Laava), a western Shinma that shared souls with Miyu at some point and became her servant / savior. He is cloaked from head to toe in black, wears a mask and carries a giant sickle…ooh scary.
What you wind up with in the story line is a different obligatory monster causing some sort of chaos in each individual episode, until episode 4, when Reiha is introduced. This girl is smaller and meeker than Miyu, unless she’s got something to say, then the doll that she carries everywhere with her, Matsukazi (I think), speaks up and then doesn’t shut up. This is a definite plus because she adds a mystic nature that if wasn’t already present, got escalated 3 fold with her appearance.
The story takes another cool twist because the surroundings for Miyu changes from the first episode where as a strange boy is interested in being a vampire to the following episodes where Miyu is in high school trying to fane interest in having a real life with real friends. This makes for a few awkward moments in the otherwise normal average lives of the people she hangs with. The doppelganger episode is especially nerve racking for her main friend in the high school, Chitose, this begins the oh so subtle plot that is Vampire Princess Miyu.
This was horror anime at its best.

Rating: 8

Art

I wasn't really planning on individual reviews on Art, Sound and Presentation, but I suppose it's appropriate.
Art, well remember this anime was made years ago, so don't expect any mixture of CG and Cell Art. For the times though, the art has moments where it can exquisite and still other moments (though few and far between) could described as lackluster. The background will speak to everyone, the delicate nature of the trees to the school to the out of the way paths they walk.
Miyu enters her own realm at times and this place is very well represented with shading and lots of red. This place feels like nothing else.

Rating: 7

Sound

Dark, brooding sounds that a horror anime gives off, mixed with the light laughter of innocent girls.
Kenji Kawai in the incredible composer behind the brutal and painful imagery that this music puts in your brain.
The soundtrack alone is worth buying, but if you're smart, pick up the entire box set with the soundtrack included.
The composser seemed to know exactly how it would feel to be lost and how to put it to to orchestrial music. It leaves the audience with a definitive feeling of disillusionment.

Rating: 9

Presentation

Subtle. In a word. This is an original anime, not because of its concept, but because of the way it affects without you even noticing. If you are not carefully paying attention you might have to watch the entire thing over again to find out where the story starts and where the beginning truly is.
I am not saying this anime doesn't have its faults. It definitely does. The whole kill a monster every episode thing is incredibly obvious and borders on insulting the audiance.
Somehow it manages to save itself from the drugery that single problem brings up with consentrating really hard on the enemy's past and reasoning. The torture that the human souls go through can be heartwrenching, but their release does come to one degree or another.
One more thing, don't expect to be smiling much after you see this. VPM can at times be truly depressing. However it's not enough to make you cry, just think really hard.
Sometimes no one is saved. Sometimes, like life, no point is made. This is something to enjoy on it's own level and VPM makes sure you know that it owns that level.

Rating: 8

Final Verdict

8.0000 (good)

Reviewed by DarkDub, Aug 04, 2005

Comments

  1. animefairy Aug 15, 2005

    You did a nice job on the review!!
    Good job! Keep up the good work! ^_^

  2. Matsukaze Oct 09, 2005

    Nice review!

    I'm watching this TV series (again) and I think that I prefer the OVA's. I feel that the series of VMP was too...mmmm..."simple".... but well... i always wanted to see Miyu in a TV Series so...
    I would liked an anime based in the "New Vampire Princess Miyu" manga (the story about Western Shinma is great!)

    [Sorry for my bad english :P]

    *One more thing: Reiha's doll is "Matsukaze"

  3. UberDog Mar 23, 2015

    Nice review, really like the details and how you bothered to state why you stated such things for said thing. I have yet to watch it, but you made me curious.

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