Originally Reviewed on Serializd Once again we have here another short little anime series that I had never heard of before nor had I read the original manga for and yet another one I dont really have too much to say about either.... or at least not as much as usual. I was just primarily looking for something short and sweet to check out for the sake of adding to my Spooky Month catalog and this managed to come out of the blue and I figured Fuck it why not? Dont have anything else I could check out instead. So I watched all four episodes of the series in one sitting and as a whole yeah Id say it was decent enough. It definitely does show its age in plenty of areas and doesnt really have that much meat on its bones to keep you invested for too long but it still manages to be a decent distraction for how long it lasts. The story is pretty simple most of the time revolving around Dracula here they dont call him that but he may as well be Drac giving pets to these people for they can be more happy and some dark shit goes down in the process and it is all relatively interesting and entertaining stuff even if it isnt taken as far as I wouldve liked it to go the characters are mostly just whatever with Detective Leon probably being my favorite character of the bunch being much more energetic and full of life then everyone else and providing several good laughs but the rest are just sort of.... there for my liking the voice acting sounds about right for this kind of show being cheesy enough to where it fits in the decade it came out in but not bad enough to where I consider it to be anything grating on the ears so it just kind of exists in this little bubble that it does take pride in which is good enough for me the animation is also just about right for this kind of show once again looking appropriate for the type of other anime coming out at the time and being VERY cheap cutting corners all over the place and not having that much full animation in plenty of instances which does suck but eh what can you do the scares and kills in this show can be gruesome and somewhat creepy but it doesnt come off as remotely scary or intimidating at all which makes sense consider that is what the show was aiming for but still and it does end on a bit of an empty note with no real conclusion to speak of and no proper way of seeing these characters off but what you would expect from a series that is only 4 episodes? That right there though is probably the biggest issue this series has: it is only 4 episodes with the original source material having way more then that they couldve potentially used so why were they restricted to only making 4 episodes that get released in the span of less then a month? It is pretty odd and thus it kinda does make this show feel a little like a waste of time at points but again it still managed to be creepy mysterious and even funny enough to where I still really enjoyed it at the end of the day. And hey who knows maybe this original story will get the proper adaptation it deserves sometime in the future but then again..... probably not. I mean who here even knows who the hell Matsuri Akino is?............. yeah I thought so.
65 /100
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