They are beautiful, immortal, and dangerous.
Vampire themes have been in demand ever since Bram Stoker's Dracula was published. Japanese animators have not shied away from it either, creating a ton of manga and original series in this genre over the past half century.
1. The Case Study of Vanitas, 2021-2022
An alternative 19th century: vampires exist and live in a parallel dimension, and airships are not a luxury, but an alternative to ship or train. On one of them, the last representative of the Noe clan, who can read the biographies of humans and vampires from a drop of blood, arrives in Paris.
He is searching for a powerful grimoire that can wipe out his people, and it is there, on the airship, that he meets a mere mortal named Vanitas. He has the artifact and intends to use it for good: to cure vampires of the disease that turns them into dangerous predators.
2. Vampire in the Garden, 2022
Momo and Fine were born in a post-apocalyptic world where humans and vampires have been at war for many years. The first is the daughter of a commander of a human citadel in a perpetual state of war. The second is the heir to the vampire throne, who does not want to continue the work of her ancestors and multiply senseless deaths.
Their paths cross by chance on a frozen lake – and the two women go on the run, hoping to find a place where humans and vampires can live in peace.
3. Mars Red, 2021
Tokyo, 1923. Taisho era, on the eve of World War I, Colonel Yoshinobu Maeda is sent to the capital to deal with vampires. There, his fiancée Misaki, who has already been turned into a vampire, awaits him.
Maeda will lead a secret squad to fight the bloodsuckers, whose members are now separated from their families forever. But this is only the beginning of a battle for the soul of Japan, torn apart by imperial ambitions.
4. Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut, 2021
1960, the post-war world is divided between two superpowers – the Union of Zirnitra Socialist Republics and the United Kingdom of Arnack. Both countries are in the midst of a space race – and Zirnitra wants to get ahead of the competition by sending the first man into orbit.
However, this is preceded by the Nosferatu project: in order to reduce the threat to the future cosmonaut's life, the vampire Irina Luminesk must be the first to leave Earth. Her training takes place in the strictest secrecy under the supervision of the brave lieutenant Lev, who is demoted from the rank of candidate for failure to comply with subordination.
5. Seraph of the End, 2015
In the pursuit of forbidden knowledge, mankind made a mistake – in 2012, a deadly virus broke free and began to mow down humanity. Adults started dying, and then, out of nowhere, vampires appeared and drove the remaining children into their underground city, declaring that from now on they would live under their protection and pay in blood.
Yuichiro lived like this for four years and realized it was time to leave – along with his adopted brother Mika and the entire Hyakuya Family, a group of children who grew up in the same orphanage. The vampires easily caught up with the fugitives and killed them, but only one escaped.