Audience reviews
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SvvXd
As someone who loves a good vampire anime, especially one with hot guys and a decent story, this was EXTREMELY underwhelming and bad.
Went into this with relative high hopes since I was recommended this by a friend who said “it’s the best vampire anime of all time!!” except I was met with a weird Twilight x OHSHC x Vampire Knight love child. All the main characters have the personality of a brick and it was hard to decide which one would be better for the MC since they’re both awful with next to no character development.
Shit story, shit characters and overall shit take on the vampire romance genre. Although I couldn’t stop watching even while I was filled with immense cringe and second-hand embarrassment.
Read at the sourceNeoCiTizen_
I honestly liked the premise, I thought it would be similar to "My Happy Marriage" where MC healed from her past while gradually falling in love with ML, but no... The more I watch, the more I lost my braincells. The AMOUNT of cliché moments is ridiculous—You don't need that many just to make a supposedly couple grew closer.
The personalities were bunch of templates that felt generic and has no growth, both ML need more 'oomph' to root for, need the tenseness that REALLY played with your feelings. Side characters were alright, but MC's friends' relationship felt a little half-assed, it's just 'cat-and-mouse' game all over again like it was 'second MC'.
MC fall in love too easily with Male Leads and vice versa, felt rushed considering there's 12 Eps... Also, need more creatively fun, pla…
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6/10
Vampire Dormitory is more than just a buddy love story. It’s an example of what happens when the worst kind of cliches are all dumped together, resulting in a bowl of slop that’s total inedible.
A beautiful, perfect girl with no character growth that does nothing to earn her partner’s love. A trite love triangle with an abusive love rival. Horrible pacing that wastes time on cookie-cutter side characters. Story beats that flow together poorly. There is no character development, horrible world-building, and the overall structure does not make sense. The soft animation and pretty character designs only make this watch even more offensive, signaling what could have been. It even attempts to take a bold risk with greater themes of “loving someone despite their gender” but does not commi…
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I have never been compelled to make a review on anime before, but this forced my hand. This show makes you go through a rollercoaster of emotions, at first, you wouldn't be alone in thinking: "The writer is absolutely terrible, this cannot be real." After a few episodes, you begin to realize it's not so clear, it's written specifically to toy with you, or so you think in that moment. As you cautiously make it past the absolutely unhinged twist at episode 9, you realize... The writer truly was absolutely horrendous, all along.
It wraps up nicely, with some D tier sequel bait. If this type of stuff is your cup of tea or guilty pleasure, I still wouldn't recommend it. But maybe, just maybe, you'll enjoy it.
Watch or read literally anything else and you'll be better off.
This was by far the…
Read at the sourceMiss-Hanabira
It is a story full of cliche tropes, flat characters, and massive contradictions. Vampire Dormitory is precisely what you expect based on the premise alone in that you already know how it ends before you even begin. While I am a big believer in the saying "enjoy the journey, not the destination," the journey to the aforementioned predictable ending brings nothing new to the genre. You can really tell this anime was made to pander to a specific demographic and not to actually tell a good story.
I guess this anime is fine to watch if you want to look at pretty colors for twelve episodes or just have something on in the background; otherwise, skip it.
Read at the sourceRika_Kim
Just please don't do any more vampire-themed works that make me feel so embarrassed and angry.
There were many ways to make a story good but they chose the worst ones, the animation is good, the characters have great design but we just throw the story in the trash.
I would just like to say that it was an atrocity to watch this, if someone makes me choose between Diabolik Lovers and this anime clearly you already know the answer.
I don't know how I managed to bear watching this bomb until the end, there are so many media that use the vampire theme well but there are always atrocities like the one I watched. . .
Take it from me, don't watch this.
Read at the sourceCurlybrace101
With every new season that passes by, dozens upon dozens of low-quality power fantasies for lonely, horny men are produced, and it’s gotten pretty exhausting. Vampire Dormitory is an absolute breath of fresh air, because it comes to deliver something I didn’t know how much we needed: a low-quality power fantasy for lonely, horny women!
Vampire Dormitory is about a teenage girl named Mito Yamamoto who is poor and homeless ever since being orphaned, because despite how canonically beautiful she is, no one wanted to take her in! After getting fired from her job for being too pretty (no, really), she thinks about killing herself, falls off the bridge on accident, and is inexplicably saved by a hot vampire. I couldn’t make this up if I tried. I’m almost convinced it’s plagiarizing something fr…
Read at the sourceMisterHidden
It was certainly a fun experience going into ep. 1 not knowing the synopsis or anything at all, then being hit with the plot twist at the end, which only works if you haven't read the synopsis. The concept of having to hide your gender is interesting but it's not exactly well executed. Even so, it goes quite hard into the romance for most of its runtime and gives more into the BL. Unfortunately with Mito being a girl and how the anime handles their relationship, it really doesn't feel much of a LGBT story for the main characters. Mito isn't a crossdresser because she wants to, she's forced herself to because of her past. Involuntary crossdressing is a part which irked me more and more as the episodes went on.
Another issue that many romances suffer from are dense characters. But this also…
Read at the sourceLovelykawaiiyume
Vampire Dormitory is definitely a must watch! It gives you those shoju “butterflies” we all know and love. The main character has a great balance between masculine and feminine energy so it’s perfect for everyone (my personal opinion of course). It is a lovely short anime series, but will leaving you begging for more episodes towards the end. It’s cute and funny with a refreshing plot twist! Definitely, give it a watch if you enjoy yelling at the screen on every plot twist , lol! I enjoyed watching this anime so much , because it was very dynamic and entertaining to watch. I feel like every episode keeps you engaged. The animation style is perfect for the storyline. I think everyone would love this cute series if they saw it for themselves. Highly recommended 10/10!
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I tuned in every week because its a trash fire I couldn't look away from. I actually had a lot of fun watching this pointless drama filled nonsense. That being said. Is it good? The short answer is:
No. Absolutely not.
But will you have fun?
If you're looking for a trash anime with a soap opera feel that is not serious in the slightest, then you might have fun with this.
It is entertaining. The story just isn't all that great, and the characters aren't all that interesting.
Honestly if Mito wants to disguise herself as a guy she should just cut her actual hair and commit already. The wig bit is so ridiculous.
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At first I thought, Ouran Host Club meets Vampire Knight (minus the incest) … what more could you ask for?! Surely it was going to be great!
And then I watched it…
Now, it was watchable. It was even enjoyable. But, it was also horribly frustrating.
First, Mito as a protagonist was really annoying. She self-sabotages herself all the time, in ways that are HUGELY perplexing. If there is a clear path to getting her happily ever after, she will run the other way. Literally! It makes no sense!!!! There were countless times she easily could have said something, and ended all this unnecessary drama, and she didn’t. Why? Who knows!
Ruka, one of the love interests is pretty lackluster. I mean, I’ll give the show credit that both the love interests love Mito no matter their gender. And I lik…
Read at the sourceflandur
I was hoping it gets better but trust me. It does not. The love interests are both horrible in different ways. And look. I love vampires and I consume anything with vampires in it but this ain't it guys.
The story seems interesting at first but in the end, it tries too much and achieves nothing. Ruka might look pretty but that's his only redeeming quality. Ren is just as bad or perhaps even worse, considering all the shit he does towards the end.
The side characters have weird motives that most of the time are there just to drive the main characters toward certain direction.
I wouldn't recommend this to even those who love vampires.
Read at the sourceaoisaku
My higher rating is a bit biased as I've been a fan of Ema Toyamas' works since 2011, when I read Koko Ni Iru Yo.
She has written amazing works, but Vampire Dormitory is definitely not her best though. Relieved at least one of her works has gotten an anime though.
I did enjoy the character interactions and chemistry with one another (Mito & Ruka) vs (Mito & Ren). It felt very Twilight-esque for my mid-20s heart that thinks about my younger days when I raved for the love triangle trope.
Though the slight-BL bait kept deterring me from wanting to keep watching and reading at times. I get why it's there, but honestly felt like the story could've done well without it (and prevented a number of issues the main leads faced in the series)
Voice acting is amazing! I recognize mito's va as Fer…
Read at the sourceArandomBAGUETTE
When I watch this anime, I feel like I'm a 14-year-old watching Twilight. It feels like a well-made parody. The plot isn't too interesting but not too lame either.
I've never tought that a girl can turn peoples gay by made fell in love with her. Just bravo Mito ! I've realy like Ren too because this guy is litteraly the perfect theorycraft "chad" : handsome, black hair, great fighter, has a bike, asocial, brave, a great sense of justice, a sad past, and more...
This anime is just fun to watch if you don't take it seriously. I didn't expect to enjoy this anime as much as I did. It was very fun, and I recommend it if you like wasting time.
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Vampire Dormitory has cured me of my depression in a way that my therapist could only dream of. It has pulled me from a dark place that I thought I could never escape.
Every week me and my best friend would tune in to watch this gift from God that has been blessed upon us.
Mito is the most complex and fleshed out character I have ever had the pleasure of being introduced to. The way she keeps on going and fighting for her love despite her trauma is so beautiful and inspired.
Speaking of her love interest, Ruka, our knight in shining armor, is such an amazing character that does NOT have a fuckass hairstyle that makes me feel better about my bob cut in 3rd grade. Every episode he blesses my screen and I get to watch as he treats Mito the way any sane would like for their S/O to treat th…
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Vampire Dormitory - Please don't make this work as the definitive version of a legendary anniversary...let this be a learning lesson for all.
Vampire stories are the bane and boon of any industry medium, both in the West and everywhere, and as a guy myself, I do love to take a gander at stories that can actually execute the vampire theme well, with recent examples ranging from the comedy series of Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu a.k.a The Vampire Dies in No Time, to growing modern classics like Yofukashi no Uta a.k.a Call of the Night and Vanitas no Karte a.k.a The Case Study of Vanitas. However, I really sympathise for the Shoujo audience, which has been really looking forward to some good Shoujo content for the past few years, to not only be baited by garbage/trash Isekai-esque standards of deli…
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To go from living a life where no one cares about you, to suddenly live in a boys dormitory with a vampire. Only one issue, you are secretly a girl.
In Vampire Dormitory do we follow Mito, who is a girl hiding her identity as a boy, the vampire Ruka and the bad boy of the school Ren. We then follow them where a traditional drama is built up between the three of them, as mito is stuck between two people.
The plot is a classic romance drama between three people, where it very much switches between having focus on Mito and Ruka, and Mito and Ren. It then builds up on how they start to get to know each other, and sets up the hard dilemmas for the characters. The plot is also influenced by the setting of the vampire world, which gives some twists and has some interesting effects on the charac…
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