Manga Vs Anime: Rosario + Vampire

Wow, all of my recent posts besides my Weekly Jump summaries have been about video games, I need to start doing more stuff about Anime, and that starts now with a type of post I haven't done yet, Manga Vs Anime, and of course Rosario Vampire (AKA Rosario + Vampire) is the perfect example for this topic. Oh and yes if you are familiar with Rosario Vampire then you know it's not exactly for little kids but it's not like it's as adult as Gantz, of course it still is for 16+ (I would say 15+ but the manga rating does say 16+ so whatever) so it's only right that I give you warning. Oh and this probably contains spoilers about the series too... Oh and it probably won't make too much sense unless you've seen the series or know the basics about it... but I've bored you enough with warnings let's just get the actual post...

Ok so to start off this topic let's begin with the story and whatnot shall we? Well, Rosario Vampire is an action series with some ecchi (adult) elements and humor, and the anime is an ecchi series with some action elements... but I'll get to that later, for now let's talk about the story. Ok so the story revolves around Tsukune Aono, a highschooler that doesn't want to be accepted by any high school until his parents find out about a school called Yokai Academy, and if you know what the word Yokai means then you should know exactly where this goes. Tsukune enrolls in the school only to find out that it is a school for monsters and if they find out he is a human he will most likely be killed for discovering it... He then befriends all of the female main characters, Moka Akashiya a vampire, Kurumu Kurono a succubus, Yukari Sendo a witch, and Mizore Shirayuki a yuki onna (if you don't know what that is then visit the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki_onna). Seems like your regular ecchi adult series right? Well actually the manga is more action oriented and the ecchi aspects only pop up around the begining of each arc but of course you can call me whatever you want for reading it but honastely I only read it for the comedy that comes from the ecchi and the awesomely epic fights. Quite frankly sometimes the story seems like a school lovey dovey drama anime... like School Days... which just make me wanna take a nap. However the fighting scenes are awesome and in the manga the main character fights more than twice and the battles last longer than 5 seconds.

Ok so you heard me praise the manga so much that you probably want to hear about the anime, now before I totally bash on the anime I want to make one thing clear, season 1 wasn't THAT bad and it was actually pretty watchable... but season 2... well you'll see. Ok so, let's talk about the anime, well in the anime alot was cut out including alot of major villains, the season finale was a BIT too over the top, especially the public execution thing and the crucifiction thing... and there is plenty of continuity, like how they publicly told the whole school that Tsukune was human and just because he was at the place that they defeated the guy who revealed him as a human everyone instantly beleived he was a monster like them even though it was PROVEN. And how Moka is able to give others Vampire powers by transfering her blood into other people, she did that once and in the manga it was explained that once he used the powers once Moka had to give him more blood to activate it again, unless she gives him too much blood and he is given the power to control it he can not use it at will, and yet somehow he does in season 2 of the anime even though she only gave him blood once, wow that was difficult to explain. Also in the anime each fight lasts about 10 seconds and the narrator even says how long the fights last so it's like their rubbing their laziness in our faces. Oh and Tsukune only fights twice in the whole anime, once for each season finale, the rest of the time he just relies on his friends and there is even several episodes that he mopes around about not being able to protect himself. I could go on and on about the flaws of this series but I'm sure to the one or two people who read my blog I have already bored you to death with all of this.