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7 episodes so far, and I decided to post this fe de erratas. Dance in the Vampire Bund is an anime that is sticking to the manga in the big picture sense. However, it lacks the details, both in the characters and the plot, that make this manga about vampires insightful and clever.

The anime has a lot of fillers which may have been intended to be creative, but turned out to be ridiculous. I really wasn't expecting much of a 13 episode anime in terms of the development of the story, but the amount of fillers will probably result in the abrupt truncation of ... the story (as opposed to anime where the story is cut short with respect to the manga but have well rounded endings)

The art is very "meh"... They use different cinematic techniques to emphasize scenes but it gets repetitive, which together with the insane amounts of censoring, make the storyline of some episodes difficult to follow. The music just sounds like a cut and pasta from a random anime--I was expecting Dance in the Vampire Bund to have some good music as in Bakemonogatari)

I will admit that when I published the first draft of this review around episode 3, I was biased biased by the fact that I am a big fan of the manga. Back then, I suggested people to continue watching this for at least a few episodes. But, now I guess that I must say, you should spend those 24 minutes reading the manga =).

I don't know what to say about this anime, as I have seen one episode only. Actually, I have three things to say:

1) The show is hillarious.
2) The characters are unique.
3) Nothing really seem to make sense, but it just as good as if it did.

Being a glum anime watcher, I don't fall to easily for comedies. However, this one's got me. I hope it keeps up the pace.

This anime was too short and that is the only thing that makes my rating drop.
I really did enjoy the flow of the events and the back stories, and such.
It kind of blew my mind.... yes yes, incest... I like the way they portray it in here: not all that tortured, sort of in between the lines...

I think this is another case of "Pocky Shoujo ai"... (I claim the term)... a reference to Ga Rei Zero.. a sweet kiss, so what? I guess it is only the creator who know the true meaning, and speculation is left for the rest of us mortals...

I ... think the relationship was really interesting. Was it sexual love? Was it familial love? Was it platonic love? It made me think a lot what truly defines the relationship between humans and what we need from each other. (In fact I just watched this anime after reading "The God of Small Things" by Arundarthi Roy... so it got me by the rational and dramatic side.

I like the little sister, her conflicts, the whole moving from the country side to the city aspect of it...

All in all, it is was a great late night watch... and it is totally worth re watching and discussing.