Vampire Knight Guilty: What Kind Of An Ending Is That?

My first post of the year and I’m going to bitchrage about Vampire Knight Guilty. Well, not really. I just watch it because of the Shiki-and-morbid-curiosity-and-having-to-write-something-for-Certifiably-Insane combo. Damn straight I placed Casshern SINS on hold (awaiting series completion) and continued to watch this one.

Characters:

And I really got annoyed with so many of Yuuki’s contemplations about what’s going on with the people around her and how much she wants to help Kaname and Zero even though she has no understanding at all about what is actually happening to her surroundings. -> Being helpful is good but at least know what’s going on first. But it’s not like she can be blamed for it, every little attempt that she has on knowing the truth has been thwarted by someone who just wants to protect her – may it be Kaname, Zero or Kaien.

And then there’s Kaname. All he wants to do is to protect Yuuki. Protect Yuuki so he got an army of vampires to do his every bidding, which isn’t really something he has to exert effort on since he’s a pureblood and most vamps are genetically-encoded to recognize their master. So he wants to protect Yuuki so he turned her into a vampire before she cracks because she’s so weak-willed. After he turned her into a vampire THEN he tells her that she has things to do on her own. ~Wow, thanks! All that coddling and not letting her develop any skills that would make actually stronger  and NOW you want her to do things on her own??? Shit.

Zero… OK, I just feel sorry for the guy. He definitely couldn’t get a break and he ended up being exactly what his biggest rival intended him to be: a pawn in his game. He didn’t even have the chance to shine or change his own fate. He just ended up exactly as Kaname wanted him to be. And what’s more, he didn’t get the girl in the end. It’s kind of sad that he started out lonely and he ended up lonelier. His life just officially turned suckier than his already-sucky life that he’ll probably just end up killing himself. -_-”’

Story:

This story was ok at the beginning but the mounting frustration hits it’s peak when I realized that that when watching (which I never realized while reading) was that the series is dragging and was just too much thinking and not enough killing. I actually dropped the manga after Yuuki turned evil because I didn’t like the execution of the bigger plot. It was like, it was supposed to be a straight forward story, then the mangaka suddenly decided that there is a war with the vampire ranks. I just felt like the politics, the war and all the other things other than the ZeroXYuukiXKaname love triangle were half-assed that it didn’t seem like a very solid story.

To be honest, I thought the series had a “just as planned” plot to it. Kaname set out to come out the winner in all this and he did. And he did… even if meant that he will be ruining one life (Zero) and turn everyone into his minions (the whole Night Class) in order for him to get some order in his life with his child-bride. There is nothing to really throw everything off to make a much more creative, not-as-it-seems series. Except for the whole who Yuuki will end up choosing in the end thing, watching this has been as predictable as watching Nogizaka Haruki no Himitsu. I thought the whole Kaname’s last minute giving up on Yuuki was just a last ditch effort to deceive the audience. I would have been more content if all of them ended up alone – but that’s not gonna happen on a shoujo manga/anime.