Transferring to a new school's always a source of anxiety and confusion. But the school Tsukune Aono just enrolled in is a flat-out nightmare: it's a training school for monsters of all kinds. Even worse, Tsukune himself is no monster -- he's just an ordinary human kid, and if his classmates find out what he really is, they'll flay him and use him for a seat cushion!
Tsukune's problems don't stop there, either: he's also the object of (and the returner of) much affection on the part of one of his female classmates. Her name's Moka, she's everything any guy could want from a girlfriend ... and she's a vampire. Hey, nobody's perfect.
Such is the premise behind Rosario + Vampire, one of FUNimation's newest releases and a functional example of what's commonly known as harem anime. One guy suddenly finds himself the recipient of attention and affection from multiple women -- or, as is sometimes the case, one girl finds herself the center of attention courtesy of many men. Either way, the situation is typically played for laughs, although other complications -- the supernatural, various sociological aspects -- also get thrown in to make things all the more interesting.
A second season of Rosario + Vampire is also on the way, but check out our review of the first season to see what sort of approach its creators have taken to the one-guy-many-girls formula.
Image: Rosario + Vampire: Season One. Image courtesy Pricegrabber.
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