Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Rosario + Vampire CAPU2: The Complete Second Season



Entertaining Final For The Anime Series
The second season starts off with a smash,mostly because it's caused by a new character Kokoa Moka's younger sister who has arrived at Yokai academy to try and reunite with her long lost sister. The problem starts that Kokoa has no knowledge that Moka's powers and true personality has been sealed and a more demure and friendly outer personality is in control of the physical body. At first Kokoa has an intense dislike bordering on hatred for Moka but after a fight and when the seal rosary is removed realizes what has happened. Thus we now have Kokoa trying to undo the rosary seal and permanently free the inner Moka for good, the hijinx this causes are humorous and endearing but also pretty much standard in some animes as well. Of course the series still has Tsukune and his group of female admirers though his heart is set on Moka and so we'll also get our usual harem hijinx in a few episodes as well. The series animation and soundtrack are great and while most of the cast for the...

ROSARIO VAMPIRE FUMUFFU????
As a fan of the manga I got this and season one at the same time and watched both of them. While I mostly enjoyed it (especially the opening music number), there were so many things that did not make this season two, more like a filler between seasons like they did with Full Metal Panic. While seeing Moka's sister was funny, and also was happy to see the Mothers of the girls episode and the season one return home episode (end of season one in the manga), i think they went too far off the story line with this season, mixing some of season one with the first 2 books of season two. add to the fact that Ruby is regaled to a minor character status and the changes about the great seal situation just did not sit well with me (though I did enjoy watching inner moka trying to still be one of the group). Then the ending really made no sense.

Still it gets at least a B- with over the top humor, and fan service of the first season. Hopefully the producers will read some of these...

Good follow up
Tsukune failed his entrance exam. Luckily he was able to get into 1 school. He finds out that it is a school for youkai (monsters). On the way to his new school he meets a vampire girl named Moka. She's very self conscious from living in the human world through middle school. She quickly begins to cling to Tsukune. He also manages to attract a succubus named Kurumu, a snow woman named Mizore, and a little witch named Yukari. All 3 of these cute girls are all about him and fight like crazy people to win his affection. The problem he faces is his humanity. If he is discovered to be human he will be killed. The only other person that knows is Moka, but Moka is loving and loyal enough to keep his secret.

This season begins with all the characters going back for 2nd year. This time Tsukune meets Moka's sister, Kokoa, on his way to school. She's a feisty brat, and she's determined to remove Moka's seal and get her "real" sister back. There are also 2 episodes that involve Kurumu...

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