An important public service announcement

[kintarooe]

Since I recently wrote about Dance in the Vampire Bund, it may have convinced some of you to check it out. And having finally read it (or at least nine volumes of it), I can assure you it's well worth your time. Now take all of the awesomeness in the manga, systematically remove it, and replace it with complete ass. Now you have the anime. For the love of God, and I can't say this enough, stay the hell away from the Vampire Bund anime. I had heard it wasn't too great, but apparently they decided to adapt some other manga, because I have no idea who any of these characters are. I got one and a half episodes in before screaming and turning it off. Seriously, what happened? I have no idea. Somehow they took the manga's mildly creepy lolicon angle and made it infinitely more creepy and disturbing. They replaced the bad-ass hero Akira with some blithering "typical Japanese schoolboy". Mina is... she's just not Mina. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Cause I sure don't.

So yeah, Manga = Awesome. Anime = Vomit. And knowing is half the battle.

Currently watching the ADV dub for Ghost Stories with my wife... that shit is classic. And it doesn't hurt my eyes nearly as much as DitVB.