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What really sucks about this manga, is how great it is at the start. Then the further you read you get more and more dissappointed. Yuuki was my favourite character at the start, and I even loved how they tried to make her seem more mature and sort of "distant" after her awakening. However, there is absolutely no logic behind her 180 personality change. She herself even blames it on her other personality "the other Yuuki" to be the real Yuuki before her vampire side were locked up, but even this isn't a logical explanation. She was a child when her mom locked up her vampire side, and in the flashbacks of her childhood we still see the Yuuki we fell in love with at the start. In the beginning most of us probably ships Yuuki and Kaname, but as the story progress it makes it perfectly clear that Yuuki can't destinguish the feeling of "love" and "obligation". She never really LOVED Kaname, she felt obligated to stay with him because he saved her life, because he told her that they were meant to be together because of their family's history, and because she pitied him. The one she really loved all along was Zero and even when she realises this, she pushes him away in favor for her feeling of obligation to Kaname. This is pretty obvious because as Kaname mentioned himself "she never smiled from her heart" when she was with him, and it was from the moment he woke her up and she realised that she finally got to spend the eternity with him that she started acting gloomy, never laughed, and started longing for Zero.

What's even more annoying is how the whole second part of the story doesn't seem as a continuation of the first one, it seems more like the mangaka had a change of heart and wrote a whole different manga. In the first part we see Kaname wanting to protect Yuuki, we learn the reason to why and during this whole time they both state that they want to live an eternity together. HOWEVER, during the second part it seems like Kaname has gone into depression, had a change of heart and wants to commit suicide in stead. I get that he never intended to unlock Yuuki's vampire side, so she could stay a human while he sacrificed himself to make stronger anti vampire weapons, but for Gods sake stick to your original plan then and don't doom the one person you love to an eternity alone for your own selfishness. He didn't even have a slight change of heart when he witnessed how heartbroken she was the moment she found out what he intended to do, nor by how much she begged for him to not do it. If there's something I can't stand about a story, it's when you spend volume after volume reading about someones love for eachother and when they can finally be together, one of them starts pushing the other away for their own selfishness.

Now the ending was just terrible, with a lot of unanswered questions. They found a medicine to make vampires turn to humans, but why on earth would you leave your vampire children, in favor to awake and give mortality to a person who has never met them before? What if their children didn't want mortality? What happenes to the vampires now since their daughter Ai is the only remaining pureblood of the Kuran family? And purebloods are the only ones who can turn a human to a vampire? What was the point of Kaname's pureblood killing spree, when (from my understanding) the very first purebloods to exist all had human parents? Wouldn't they be able to continue spawning from mortal parents?

Story 4/10: As much as I wanted to give the story a higher rating, I just couldn't bare to do it. I LOVED the first part of the story, but the second part annoyed me to the core.

Art 8/10: The art was beautiful and is probably one of the main reasons as to why I even bothered to finish the manga.

Character 4/10: The character development sucked just as much as the development between everyones relationships. The only character I really loved was Sayori, and I would honestly prefer this manga if she was the heroine. When we're first introduced to her she seems like Yuukis strict yet close classmate, and during the story you see how much she cherishes her going as far as secretly attending a ball filled with bloodthirsty vampires to assure that her friend is safe. Kaname seems like every girls dream guy during the first part of the story. Someone who cherishes and goes to great lengths to protect his one true love, cool, handsome and yet so gentle. However, during the second part he gets a huge personality change and decides to make his one true love hate him so he can commit suicide. Zero is just...Zero. I was really dissappointed that his character didn't really develope. He stays the same vampire/selfhating "sidecharacter" we met at the start of the story. Not even his love for Yuuki grows, in fact it actually decreases after he learns about her background and discovers that she's in fact a vampire. As the story progress from here on, it grows back to the same stage it was before he learnt the truth, only now he actually confesses it. The other characters are just kinda there, you don't really get much insight in their history, personality, goals or even relations to other characters.

Enjoyment 5/10: I enjoyed the manga at the beginning, but like I've mentioned countless of times by now, it get's really shitty at the end. I would't advise people not to read it, cuz people might have a different opinion than me, but for the art and the first part of the story it's definitely worth it. However, I'm starting to think that the second part of the manga was the reason to why there was never a season 3 of the anime, so you might be better off just watching that.

Sorry about any typos that might occure!