Homeless and fresh out of employment, Mito Yamamoto faces familiar loneliness and despair. Luck is simply not on Mito's side; when he stumbles upon a cafe and cuts his hand, a strange server named Ruka Saotome licks the blood from his wound and even dramatically retches at its apparent disgusting taste. Offended and dispirited, Mito runs off to a bridge, hoping to put an end to his misery.
But when Mito accidentally slips, he is miraculously saved by Ruka, who reveals he is a vampire. Unable to drink blood from just any woman for mysterious reasons, Ruka proposes that Mito become his thrall—a vampire's human servant and primary source of food. In this deal, Ruka will shower Mito with love to sweeten his blood, and Mito will gain a warm place to call home.
However, there is an issue: Mito is a girl! Concealing her long, flowing hair and feminine body, Mito readily takes this chance and enrolls in the Hijirigaoka Boys' High School while working part-time at the cafe with Ruka. But the more Mito's bond with Ruka deepens, the more she struggles to hide her secret.
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ostoskori
Vampire Dormitory has cured me of my depression in a way that my therapist could only dream of. It has pulled me from a dark place that I thought I could never escape. Every week me and my best friend would tune in to watch this gift from God that has been blessed upon us. Mito is the most complex and fleshed out character I have ever had the pleasure of being introduced to. The way she keeps on going and fighting for her love despite her trauma is so beautiful and inspired. Speaking of her love interest, Ruka, our knight in shining armor, is such anamazing character that does NOT have a fuckass hairstyle that makes me feel better about my bob cut in 3rd grade. Every episode he blesses my screen and I get to watch as he treats Mito the way any sane would like for their S/O to treat them. I especially loved the episode where he said "It's Ruka time" and then Ruka'ed away.
Everyone and their mom should watch Vampire Dormitory. It's a true cinematic masterpiece (even though it isn't a movie, it deserves an Oscar) ((It's that good guys, trust)) that will change your perspective on life and leave you a changed person. 10/10
3/10 if I hadn't watched it with a friend
Curlybrace101
With every new season that passes by, dozens upon dozens of low-quality power fantasies for lonely, horny men are produced, and it’s gotten pretty exhausting. Vampire Dormitory is an absolute breath of fresh air, because it comes to deliver something I didn’t know how much we needed: a low-quality power fantasy for lonely, horny women! Vampire Dormitory is about a teenage girl named Mito Yamamoto who is poor and homeless ever since being orphaned, because despite how canonically beautiful she is, no one wanted to take her in! After getting fired from her job for being too pretty (no, really), she thinks about killing herself, fallsoff the bridge on accident, and is inexplicably saved by a hot vampire. I couldn’t make this up if I tried. I’m almost convinced it’s plagiarizing something from Wattpad.
But that’s not all—there’s something about Mito that makes her different from every other female protagonist of a trashy romance manga: for completely unexplained reasons, she’s a crossdresser! And, as it turns out, she’s wearing a wig—underneath it she has long flowing hair that looks exactly like the wig she’s wearing, and always looks perfect when she takes the wig off. How does she take care of long hair so well if she’s homeless? How did she afford such a realistic wig? Why doesn’t she just get a damn haircut because it would be 1000x easier? Why is she crossdressing in the first place when it would be way less complicated not to and she has no reason to? Who knows! Not the author!
This hot vampire happens to be a waiter at a local establishment, because men look sexy in waiter uniforms, and this is where the two of them actually first met; she wanted to apply for a job there and accidentally broke a vase on her way in. Huh, what does that remind you of…
Anyways! This vampire, a young man by the name of Ruka, goes to drink her blood after she cut herself on the vase, and he thinks her blood is absolutely disgusting! Just TERRIBLE. However, he wants to invite her to live and attend school with him as his personal…well, the word they use is “thrall,” but if there weren’t a word for it I’d say “drinking slave.” Why does he want to keep her around to regularly drink from if he thinks her blood is terrible? Well you see, blood tastes better if you’re loved, and the reason her blood sucks is because nobody loves her despite how jaw-droppingly beautiful she is, so he wants to make her blood taste better by loving her. Because…? Unclear. Why he doesn’t just find someone with good blood to drink from is beyond me.
Oh yeah, and don’t forget, he thinks she’s a guy! And he’s very explicitly doing this because he’s a degenerate otaku (specifically a magical girl fan) and real women scare him. Despite how buck wild that is, that’s actually unironically a good bit; I have to respect it.
Mito agrees to this, because she’s poor and homeless, so now she spends the series hiding her identity as a woman while wacky romantic hijinks ensue.
Yeah, romantic hijinks ensue while he thinks she’s a boy, meaning Ruka is just…explicitly bisexual. And he says explicitly that he’s in love with a man at the end of the show. Diversity win! The love interest from the stupidest show you’ve ever seen is bisexual!
Interestingly, at first he is deeply in denial about that fact, because he goes off on “how can I feel this way about a guy?!” rants MULTIPLE times, but the fact that he does is hilarious because nobody in this show is homophobic—not only that, but they’re the exact opposite, being shown supportive of the possibility of their relationship and wanting them to get together, so I have no idea why he starts off so deeply in denial over his feelings for a “man.”
Anyways, Ruka and Mito have romantic tension like, immediately after meeting each other, and make sure to get a dozen romance cliches out of the way in the first few episodes despite barely knowing each other, and after getting to know each other the tropes increase tenfold. It feels like the author was trying to win a competition to see if it was possible to fit every single stereotypical romance trope into twelve episodes of television.
Interestingly, Ruka says that he’s essentially using Mito as a placeholder for when he meets his “destined partner,” a woman who is supposed to be his one true love with the most delicious blood ever, and if you fall in love with someone else you’re cursed for life. Is this an actual provable thing that happens to vampires? Is it just a weird cultural value? I hope you’re seeing a pattern and can parse out that answer from there.
And this makes it get…weird. Because the whole “you have a woman destined for you so stop falling in love with a man” thing reads like an allegory for homophobia. Like, the only reason he reads as bisexual and not homosexual is because we know eventually her gender will be revealed and they’ll still be a couple. Granted, the guy pushing this idea says “don’t fall in love with anyone regardless of whether they’re male or female” so he isn’t actually homophobic, but regardless, his commands still have overtones of homophobia.
So…why not just commit to the bit and make it a yaoi, then? You literally wrote yaoi and then made one secretly a woman because…? (Actually, put a pin in the yaoi topic. I WILL be coming back to it) I know it’s meant for audience projection or whatever, but in that case…who is this for? Who is the target audience? How many teenage girls fantasize about falling in love with a man while crossdressing? Let me tell you, any teenage “girl” who fantasizes about that is going to make a huge revelation about themself in a few years, so what I’m saying is…this story would just make way more sense if the main character were transgender.
I’m not saying that just for the sake of diversity or anything. Genuinely her crossdressing is so nonsensical and weird, transgenderism feels like the occam’s razor here. Either that or just making the main character a cisgender male and making it a yaoi.
And I don’t just mean transmasculinity. Quite a few scenes of Mito expressing a desire to be seen as a girl and wear women’s clothes read as similar to the transfeminine experience.
It doesn’t matter. All that matters is her crossdressing is so contrived and weird it would somehow be simpler if she were just transgender in either direction.
Seriously, the plot of this show is the very definition of contrived. Not only is all of the drama stereotypical and overdone for the romance genre, but none of it has any reason to be happening at all. The drama is so manufactured you can tell the author really wanted to force in cliches where it didn’t make sense for there to be any. Genuinely all of this conflict could have been solved if the characters just thought about things like real people, but they’re not real people, they’re Vampire Dormitory characters, so their brains turned to mush the moment it started airing.
There’s also a pointless love triangle, because when I say this has every stereotypical romantic trope, I mean it. Her other love interest (you know, the one who stands no chance at winning so what’s the point of him even being here?), Ren, is dark and edgy to contrast Ruka’s sheer dorkiness. He has a tragic backstory and mysterious scars all over his back—the kind you’ve seen in a million romance novels before. He is also infinitely less interesting than the main love interest, as he doesn’t have the gimmick of loser otaku dweeb going for him so he’s just a bunch of overcooked tropes with nothing unique or special to care about.
Oh, and he sucks! Taking after Kaname Kuran before him, he starts off seeming fine enough, if mysterious and edgy, before devolving into a manipulative, controlling asshole who acts like he’s doing it all out of love. And I am absolutely not going to spoil it, but the things that Ren does near the end of the show are their own degree of 1) heinous 2) batshit fucking insane; I could not make them up if I tried. Yet he’s so easily forgiven and Mito still trusts him. But whatever, Ren was so clearly the loser of the love triangle from day one that I don’t care all that much.
All I can really say about it is that it involves underage marriage, and Ren is also by far not the only character to get wrapped up in it. There is so much child marriage in this show. You are all in high school. Ren is explicitly seventeen. Do vampires regularly groom underage brides?
Anyways, as for the rest of the supporting cast…
Okay, take out that pin from earlier; it’s time to address it. There’s actual yaoi in this show. Like, 100% explicit on-screen romance between two men. It’s between two of the supporting characters, who act as our beta couple. Now, making these two a thing was a good decision because it made two previously boring characters way more interesting, but it also just begs the question even further: why isn’t the main couple also yaoi? Why is this not a BL? What?
The only other supporting character worth mentioning is Ruka’s butler/the vampire king (it makes just as much sense in context), and he’s really only worth mentioning because his dub VA was so clearly doing his best J Michael Tatum impression. It’s not subtle.
Also, this show looks like shit. I don’t usually knock animation because I know it’s expensive and difficult, but it’s worth mentioning. Everything is just slightly off. Instead of animating anything that requires a lot of movement, they’ll just put voiced lines over stills. Episode three features a river with some of the strangest looking water I’ve ever seen in anime. CGI horses in the sky. This show was running on a budget of 1000 yen and a dream.
However, after all is said and done…I love Vampire Dormitory so much.
It is the dumbest, most ridiculous show I have ever seen in my life. Nothing that happens makes any sense. The dialogue is weird and unnatural. It looks a little strange at all times. But at the same time, it’s so genuinely charming. Despite its poor quality, I can’t help but get invested in the weird main couple. The love interest is a bisexual otaku loser vampire waiter (five words I never thought I’d say in succession) and the main character is crossdressing for no reason. That’s so unbelievably dumb it loops right back around to being highly shippable. The romantic moments are trashy and overdone, but at the same time are genuinely sweet (although it probably helps that I watched it in dub, and the dub voice actors did very well with the script they were given—which was absolutely not doing them any favors). Those two love each other so much, in a way that genuinely warms the heart underneath the stupidity, and I can’t deny it. In the end, I just can’t help but root for the main couple despite how poorly written the entire thing is.
In fact, the poor writing makes it all the more charming. It’s poor in a way that is not frustrating and boring, but so wild and insane you have to know more. It’s so unashamed of what it is, nothing but indulgent in sexy, stupid fun without a thought behind those eyes, and I have to respect that! While it may be low quality, I am genuinely charmed by how much Vampire Dormitory loves being Vampire Dormitory. It’s here for a fun time and a fun time alone, and it was never trying to be more than that, so why not have fun with it?
Is it good? Not technically. Do I recommend it? Absolutely.
Vampire Dormitory is the stupidest show I have ever watched, and I couldn’t stop smiling the whole time.
KANLen09
Vampire Dormitory - Please don't make this work as the definitive version of a legendary anniversary...let this be a learning lesson for all. Vampire stories are the bane and boon of any industry medium, both in the West and everywhere, and as a guy myself, I do love to take a gander at stories that can actually execute the vampire theme well, with recent examples ranging from the comedy series of Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu a.k.a The Vampire Dies in No Time, to growing modern classics like Yofukashi no Uta a.k.a Call of the Night and Vanitas no Karte a.k.a The Case Study of Vanitas. However, Ireally sympathise for the Shoujo audience, which has been really looking forward to some good Shoujo content for the past few years, to not only be baited by garbage/trash Isekai-esque standards of delivering nothing but the worst, but to feel like anime producers just don't want to gamble on actually good Shoujo works floating all around.
And in this season, Vampire Dormitory is that show, from a female author that I ACTUALLY respect for her past works: Ema Toyama, with 2009-2015's Watashi ni xx Shinasai! a.k.a Missions of Love, being her most prized work, winning Best Children's Manga at Kodansha's 36th annual Manga Awards, and a source work that I'm very closely knitted to being one of my favourite manga of all time. In fact, Ema Toyama got her start publishing stories for one of Japan's oldest Shoujo manga magazines: Kodansha's Nakayoshi, which features the classics of the likes of Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But to see Ema Toyama go from said manga to Vampire Dormitory, being the best that Nakayoshi has to offer currently, the Shoujo AniManga scene is truly in deep shit and trouble being so out of touch.
I'm not going to sugarcoat things: in the words of fellow reviewer @gingerholic, Vampire Dormitory is truly the "best of both worlds," combining Twilight with Ouran High School Host Club, because having a career of being a mangaka for 20 years be damned to write lots of stories, and yet, have a severe case of writer's block enough to produce this bullshit of a Shoujo work. This is the story of Mito Yamamoto, a beautiful Ikemen whose life is not so blessed by Lady Luck, and after having someone drink her blood but only being told that it tastes bad, he already declares himself defeated by life. The kicker: the same guy who drank his blood, saved him from a near-suicide, and soon reveals that he's a vampire in disguise, trying to seek out his destined partner to become the Lord of the Vampires. As if this plot isn't twisted enough, Mito is actually a girl, being feminine in nature, but with looks akin to those of an Ikemen, which also puts the girls to delight. It's a game of hide-and-seek about hiding secrets, but this game is infested with too many no-shit-Sherlock moments, which is the definition of tropes stacked one onto another with no end in sight.
I already knew that this cast of characters isn't going to stack up to the likes of Ouran High School Host Club, but even with them being a much more BL version of it, just doesn't make things anymore tropey and instead, just fuels for more braindead interactions between a girl who chooses to crossdress just because, and guys who are hot Ikemen by themselves, yet are dense in the larger scale of the picture, especially towards Ruka Saotome and Ren Nikaido, a vampire and a dhampir, respectively, for showering love to Mito in their own ways that only the likes of Twilight can manifest. To that end, I would say that this is indeed Japan's version of Twilight, only more cringeworthy and a clear frustration at the behest of Ema Toyama's crude half-hearted ass of a plot and, presumably, her version of a fiery drama of relationships gone horribly wrong. Again, even along with the co-conspirators of Komori being the cafe owner of a sweets shop that house both vampires and normal humans of Juri and Takara Kagurazaka, I just find myself being so baffled at what a Shoujo of a near-BL-esque this can be, to the point of puke.
Studio Blanc's production is serviceable, I'll give it that, and the same can be said about the OST itself, which is also decent, if not mediocre at best. Also, FANTASTICS's "Sugar Blood Kiss" for the OP song is such a perfect fit for the series, it almost seems like this is the ONLY true standout of the entire show.
Seriously, I was hoping better for the Shoujo market when it comes to anime, but aside from producers having cold feet to just go with the current trend of the Shoujo genre, having works like these just tells you that Shoujo anime is born to die once works get greenlit, and there's just no getting out of this seemingly never-ending winding trope of "bad boys being good for relationships."
For the love of God, AVOID this show at ALL costs. You're not missing much...unless you're a Twilight fanatic and want some more of these cringeworthy BS stories like this.
flandur
I was hoping it gets better but trust me. It does not. The love interests are both horrible in different ways. And look. I love vampires and I consume anything with vampires in it but this ain't it guys. The story seems interesting at first but in the end, it tries too much and achieves nothing. Ruka might look pretty but that's his only redeeming quality. Ren is just as bad or perhaps even worse, considering all the shit he does towards the end. The side characters have weird motives that most of the time are there just to drive the main characters toward certaindirection.
I wouldn't recommend this to even those who love vampires.
ArandomBAGUETTE
When I watch this anime, I feel like I'm a 14-year-old watching Twilight. It feels like a well-made parody. The plot isn't too interesting but not too lame either. I've never tought that a girl can turn peoples gay by made fell in love with her. Just bravo Mito ! I've realy like Ren too because this guy is litteraly the perfect theorycraft "chad" : handsome, black hair, great fighter, has a bike, asocial, brave, a great sense of justice, a sad past, and more... This anime is just fun to watch if you don't take it seriously. I didn't expect to enjoy this anime asmuch as I did. It was very fun, and I recommend it if you like wasting time.
aoisaku
My higher rating is a bit biased as I've been a fan of Ema Toyamas' works since 2011, when I read Koko Ni Iru Yo. She has written amazing works, but Vampire Dormitory is definitely not her best though. Relieved at least one of her works has gotten an anime though. I did enjoy the character interactions and chemistry with one another (Mito & Ruka) vs (Mito & Ren). It felt very Twilight-esque for my mid-20s heart that thinks about my younger days when I raved for the love triangle trope. Though the slight-BL bait kept deterring me from wanting to keep watching and readingat times. I get why it's there, but honestly felt like the story could've done well without it (and prevented a number of issues the main leads faced in the series)
Voice acting is amazing! I recognize mito's va as Fern from Frieren, Ruka as Akane from TBHK, and Ren from [insert the countless hot MCs Umehara Yuichiro plays]. Lotis VA also plays another vampire from the Diabolik Lovers (2013), and the Founder's VA is ALSO another vampire in the anime Dance with Devils (2015). They're like little cameos and both are animes I'd recommend if you want something similar to this show (and that isn't Vampire Knight.)
Animation is a bit wonky and inconsistent at times. Ema Toyama's art style is actually hard to replicate into animation now that I've actually seen a work of hers animated. While the main & supporting cast remains (for the most part) are drawn consistently in keeping the Toyama's art style, the background characters look completely different at times which feels a little jarring. I hope that improvements are made for the blu-ray release.
But overall, I can understand why people can have mixed feelings over this. This is a silly and cute little vampire shoujo romance with a variety of twists and crazy turns. When watching or reading, I would recommend not thinking about the situations too deeply to continue enjoying the work. Though as a Nakayoshi anniversary anime, really think her other popular work Watashi Ni XX Shinasai should've gotten animated instead of this work.
Miss-Hanabira
It is a story full of cliche tropes, flat characters, and massive contradictions. Vampire Dormitory is precisely what you expect based on the premise alone in that you already know how it ends before you even begin. While I am a big believer in the saying "enjoy the journey, not the destination," the journey to the aforementioned predictable ending brings nothing new to the genre. You can really tell this anime was made to pander to a specific demographic and not to actually tell a good story. I guess this anime is fine to watch if you want to look at pretty colors for twelve episodesor just have something on in the background; otherwise, skip it.
Flacion
To go from living a life where no one cares about you, to suddenly live in a boys dormitory with a vampire. Only one issue, you are secretly a girl. In Vampire Dormitory do we follow Mito, who is a girl hiding her identity as a boy, the vampire Ruka and the bad boy of the school Ren. We then follow them where a traditional drama is built up between the three of them, as mito is stuck between two people. The plot is a classic romance drama between three people, where it very much switches between having focus on Mito and Ruka, and Mito and Ren.It then builds up on how they start to get to know each other, and sets up the hard dilemmas for the characters. The plot is also influenced by the setting of the vampire world, which gives some twists and has some interesting effects on the characters. Though overall the plot is fairly predictable.
When it comes to the characters are they fairly detailed, though their actions and progress is very predictable. Which gives some characters that have a very broad set of ambitions and thoughts, but when they are in the scene do you rather quickly realize what their choice will be. So on the surface are the characters very interesting but in depth are they not.
It is a romance love polygon, which it lives up to without a doubt, everything is coated in romance. This is almost done to an extreme degree where it becomes too sugar sweet. Even the vampire lore they have set into the show, builds up around the romance and keeps the romantic tone through it all.
Overall is the show alright, it is not that impressive and is extremely coated in romance, but sadly also predictable. But if you like some extreme romance drama with some vampires splashed into it, could this be the show for you.
hbaby1093
At first I thought, Ouran Host Club meets Vampire Knight (minus the incest) … what more could you ask for?! Surely it was going to be great! And then I watched it… Now, it was watchable. It was even enjoyable. But, it was also horribly frustrating. First, Mito as a protagonist was really annoying. She self-sabotages herself all the time, in ways that are HUGELY perplexing. If there is a clear path to getting her happily ever after, she will run the other way. Literally! It makes no sense!!!! There were countless times she easily could have said something, and ended all this unnecessarydrama, and she didn’t. Why? Who knows!
Ruka, one of the love interests is pretty lackluster. I mean, I’ll give the show credit that both the love interests love Mito no matter their gender. And I like that, I really do. But, what does Mito like about him? I don’t know! We don’t know anything about him other than he’s a vampire.
Ren on the other hand has slightly more personality. But even he doesn’t offer enough to show me why he’s a worthy potential boyfriend.
It’s one thing in reverse harems when there are a bunch of characters vying for the MC’s love. It makes sense in that instance why we don’t get more than surface level because there’s simply not enough time. But this had only two boys, and so there should have been plenty to show us the type of people they really are.
Honestly, despite the major issues, I’d still recommend it. I’m desperate for new romance animes so I’ll take what I can get. And this does at least offer a good amount of romance! But this could have been amazing, and it just didn’t get there.
korsir
I have never been compelled to make a review on anime before, but this forced my hand. This show makes you go through a rollercoaster of emotions, at first, you wouldn't be alone in thinking: "The writer is absolutely terrible, this cannot be real." After a few episodes, you begin to realize it's not so clear, it's written specifically to toy with you, or so you think in that moment. As you cautiously make it past the absolutely unhinged twist at episode 9, you realize... The writer truly was absolutely horrendous, all along. It wraps up nicely, with some D tier sequel bait. If this typeof stuff is your cup of tea or guilty pleasure, I still wouldn't recommend it. But maybe, just maybe, you'll enjoy it.
Watch or read literally anything else and you'll be better off.
This was by far the worst written anime I've ever watched. I'm unsure as to why I sat here watching it all the way through. There are a million anime you can watch before this one. Perhaps what it offers is oddly unique, but it is executed so poorly it was a regrettable watch.
MisterHidden
It was certainly a fun experience going into ep. 1 not knowing the synopsis or anything at all, then being hit with the plot twist at the end, which only works if you haven't read the synopsis. The concept of having to hide your gender is interesting but it's not exactly well executed. Even so, it goes quite hard into the romance for most of its runtime and gives more into the BL. Unfortunately with Mito being a girl and how the anime handles their relationship, it really doesn't feel much of a LGBT story for the main characters. Mito isn't a crossdresser because shewants to, she's forced herself to because of her past. Involuntary crossdressing is a part which irked me more and more as the episodes went on.
Another issue that many romances suffer from are dense characters. But this also suffers from stupid characters too and one with an absolutely foolish plan. This isn't good when this story progression goes into a common trap where the feelings the MCs have for each other have gone too far too early into the season, and it ends in this typical limbo where no progression happens so there needs to be drama interjected to keep the runtime going. So the story just ends up stagnating just before it should've taken its moment as the buildup was getting to its peak, because the characters just don't realize because they're too dense or too stupid to take action. But the anime takes it a step further in the wrong direction, which is the main reason for giving my rating. This was supposed to be just a simple 9, just a completely inoffensive and warming romance, with some of the typical drama and tropes you see in many other romances. But no. It might work better for someone else, though you'd almost need to somehow treat this like a slice of life. It just ended up as a bitter disappointment for my enjoyment.
Cardcaptorkatara
I tuned in every week because its a trash fire I couldn't look away from. I actually had a lot of fun watching this pointless drama filled nonsense. That being said. Is it good? The short answer is: No. Absolutely not. But will you have fun? If you're looking for a trash anime with a soap opera feel that is not serious in the slightest, then you might have fun with this. It is entertaining. The story just isn't all that great, and the characters aren't all that interesting. Honestly if Mito wants to disguise herself as a guy she should just cut her actual hair and commit already. Thewig bit is so ridiculous.
Rika_Kim
Just please don't do any more vampire-themed works that make me feel so embarrassed and angry. There were many ways to make a story good but they chose the worst ones, the animation is good, the characters have great design but we just throw the story in the trash. I would just like to say that it was an atrocity to watch this, if someone makes me choose between Diabolik Lovers and this anime clearly you already know the answer. I don't know how I managed to bear watching this bomb until the end, there are so many media that use the vampire theme well but there arealways atrocities like the one I watched. . .
Take it from me, don't watch this.
