For years, anime creators like Toyoo Ashida, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Mamoru Oshii have experimented with vampires in ways that Hollywood would never even attempt. The result is a surprisingly rich ...

Luna Ishikawa is a dark and mysterious vampire—or so she'd like her new classmates to believe. The truth is, while she may be one of the not-so-mythical bloodsuckers, she doesn't really live up to the ...

What's remarkable is how differently these stories treat vampires. Some are positioned as tragic immortals and others as raging monsters. Only a few blur the line between the two. Among anime's most ...