Vampire Knight

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From Viz:
Yuki Cross has no memory of her past prior to the moment she was saved from a vampire attack ten years ago. She was adopted by the headmaster of Cross Academy and now works alongside Zero to guard the Academy's secret. Yuki believes that vampires and humans can coexist peacefully, but her partner has different ideas.

Type

Manga

Related Series

Vampire Knight Memories (Sequel)

Vampire Knight (Novel) (Spin-Off)

Associated Names

Caballero Vampiro

Hiệp sĩ Vampire

Vampir Şövalye

Рыцарь-вампир

ヴァンパイアナイト

ヴァンパイア騎士

吸血鬼騎士

뱀파이어 기사

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Latest Release(s)

c.Extra 5 by Amethyst eyes forum 9 years ago

c.Extra 4 by Rain Boots and Co. 9 years ago

c.Extra 4 by Amethyst eyes forum 9 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

19 Volumes (Complete)
10 Bunkoban Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (S1) / Vol 5, Chap 23 (S2)

Ends at Vol 5, Chap 22 (S1) / Vol 10, Chap 46 (S2)

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User Rating

Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (2951 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.69 / 10.0

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Last Updated

January 30th, 2025 8:05am PST - 3 months ago

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Genre

Action Drama Mystery Romance School Life Shoujo Supernatural Tragedy
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Year

Original Publisher

Hakusensha (2005, 2015)

Viz Media (Shueisha)

Serialized In (magazine)

LaLa (Hakusensha)

LaLa DX (Hakusensha)

LaLa Special (Hakusensha)

LaLa Fantasy (Hakusensha)

Shojo Beat (Viz Media)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Viz (19 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

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Monthly Pos #893

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3 Month Pos #1564

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6 Month Pos #1827

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Year Pos #1985

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Vampire Knight Fortune Telling Game

9 years ago

Musical & -Revive- Musical

10 years ago

Bunko Editions Available Now!

10 years ago

New chapter will be added!?!? What do you think?

10 years ago

which guy is the cutest in vampire knight?

11 years ago

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Blehness.

by Starkick
16 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

Okay, I started reading this manga because about ten different people recommended it to me, and because it's one of the top shoujo manga on pretty much every popularity list I've ever read.

Apparently, popularity doesn't count for much anymore.

I got to chapter forty-three, and just couldn't keep reading. It was alright at first, but it's just been a downward spiral since. Even the bishies can't keep me into it any more.

Yes, the art is pretty good. Yes, the plot is pretty original. Yes, it isn't just another love triangle. And yes, it does have uber-sexy, we-don't-drink-blood vampire-bishies.
But the plot drags, and there's no comic relief - it's all drama. The main character is annoying, perfect, and a major Mary-Sue (and the other characters aren't so very flawed either), and all three of the major characters (Yuki, Kaname, Zero) have traumatic pasts they just can't seem to let go of, which is boring and annoying to no end.(Um, did anyone else just think 'Twilight'? Sorry, I had to say it.)

I totally agree with all the points Synthoxide and Aristocrat have made. If you're looking for something truly entertaining, with great characters and a killer plot, this manga almost definitely isn't for you. ...But if you just want to look at cute bishies and don't particularly care what they're doing or how annoying they are, go ahead and read.

I, personally, am going to have to drop this, and go look for something with a little more depth, or at least something I can laugh at.

... Last updated 16 years ago

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Sh*tty Mary Sue

by Acradnxy
6 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

WTH! I like it at first, I LOVE the art the most. Yet, as the story progress, it becomes nonsense and stupid. Especially that main character, Yuki! She's wants Zero, but she wants Kaname too. Not only that, she also wants every men in this goddamn Mary Sue manga. All the characters in this turd, worship her like she's kind of a goddess. Yeah, a Mary Sue goddess!!

Seriously, the mangaka seems confused herself, like she didn't know what to do anymore as she stuck in her own creation and make the story more and more ridiculous with more and more Mary Sue main character. So much potential got waste. I used to adore Yuki, now for me she's just another ho who wants to build her own harem full of handsome non sparkling vampires.

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Sweet Jesus...

by Synthoxide
16 years ago

Rating: N/A

This is getting really tedious. It's still good, but I need it to end. Now it's doing that thing that everyone hates - crawling so slowly through a plot, you can't help but sit there and think 'Is this chapter really important?'

I do like the plot, I'm glad it's not just a love triangle because I don't really believe in those, anyway (chose one or have none, don't push them both through a painstaking process), and yes, there are a lot of pretty faces. And the plot was (key word being was) amazing.

Now the plot is like a downhill spiral, you have no idea what's going on and I'd like to think there was an end in sight but every chapter seems to prove me wrong. I've been feeling that way since the last chapter of volume 10.

I'm trying to figure out what the heck is happening, and yes, I know

Yuuki and Kaname are related, and that's grand. But if they are basically destined to marry, why in the hell is she hanging on to Zero like that? I understand it's saddening to lose a friend, but treating him as another love interest this late in the game is just wrong.

I pity Zero, but as Aristocrat said, his advances are almost so wrong, that he shouldn't suffer, because Yuki's not picking it up, but Kaname is. It's not funny when your love rival is laughing at you on the sidelines while you pining over a girl who doesn't even know it.

Kaname's my favorite, but he's just becoming insane now. I mean, he was already twisted, but now, he's twisted. You get my drift? And I can't embrace that and say "Kyaa, Kaname's so cool~!!" Instead, I'm sitting here like "Why in the hell did you do that? Or what are you doing?"

Anyway, back to the original point. Every volume after 11 without and ending in sight docks down my points for this. And unless Hino Matsuri-sensei comes back with an amazing ending that WOWs everyone and makes them want to read it again, I just can't see myself feeling that the last few volumes were worth my time. And yes, there were some good scenes, but I'm a plot person, so if in between those scenes there's a funky plot I can't get into, the whole manga is ruined for me.

I suggest reading the first few volumes and stopping at around 40. That might change, so don't hold me to it. Yet.

... Last updated 15 years ago

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Uggghhhhhhhh

by smily_lois
11 years ago

Rating: N/A

Yea, UGH.

One thing: The fking Melodrama** I can't stand it. PERIOD. I've seen so many melodramas before, despite my general distaste for them. But by god, Vampire Knight is a cut above all the rest. Most of the emotional conflicts never made sense to me, and the way the characters dealt with these conflicts even more so.

Also, I am very disappointed because I actually liked it in the beginning and saw that it had so much potential for a decent soap opera story. But no, it spiraled down into a convoluted mess that made ill use of its extensive cast.

Oh yeah, the Love Triangle is flat out ridiculous. The dynamics of their relationship felt so weird to me. Also, at least choose a goddamn man Yuki! Who the hell would be in love with two men at the same time?! (You could love, yes, but NOT be IN LOVE with both). Jesus, at least Bella Swan chose ONE guy. Yuki didn't, and that really disgusted me to an extent. Despite being boring characters IMO, I actually fell some sort of pity for both Kaname and Zero.

On the flip side though, this manga has some good qualities, although these didn't raise my opinion of the series at all.

Art is gorgeous:: simply put, Vampire Knight has one of the most aesthetically pleasing art I have ever seen in shoujo manga. I could just shut my brain off, miss all the annoying plot going on and only admire the beauty of the pages.

Dark portrayal of Vampires:: Well yeah, in my own opinion, the manga's portrayal of the vampire is quite dark and twisted: the way I like. But of course, this wasn't as consistent as it should've been.

OKay, enough of my rant. All in all, Vampire Knight was a glaring disappointment. Although I disliked it very much, it wasn't a total failure. It may be turned me off but of course it's understandable that others would like it.

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Unraveled messy plot

by PJ1
12 years ago

Rating: 2.0 / 10.0

This was the first manga that really hooked me. I loved the spunky, outspoken Yuuki. I was obsessed over Zero, the ultimate and greatest tsundere to ever be drawn on paper. Kaname was appealingly ambiguous. I was enjoying this story... words could not describe it.

Then Yuuki's mysterious past is revealed,

her parentage and her vampirism. She transforms not only physically (longer hair), but her personality as well. From being a "guardian" known to defend herself and fight besides Zero... Yuuki becomes a Kuran princess. Her personality was sucked dry at this point in the manga. Any inner-monologue she has is dedicated in love with Kaname (her older brother!) and their romantic relationship. She became the stereotypical, silent, powerless shoujo heroine who can only sigh and blush when the super popular, handsome and rich hero shows up to make out.

But, I still continued on reading. If you're a fan of something, you usually keep up with it during sucky points. I was positive it was just a bad arc and things would pick up again.

So I waited... and waited... The plot became even more convoluted. Let's kill purebloods, let's work for purebloods, let's kill Kaname, Kaname will kill all the purebloods.

Just... a MESS. I don't know how this went from being my favorite manga to being totally headache inducing.

The heroine is lame, her love interests are an emo boy and her possessive ancient brother. The storyline does not come close to making sense. Well, there's the art! The art gets better and better.

... Last updated 12 years ago

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What happened?

by shoufuu
13 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

Honestly speaking, I really did like Vampire Knight, some time two years ago. The gorgeous Vampires and art stunned me, as well as the interesting plot. It was my addiction, but I suppose Vampire Knight got swallowed by all the hype and popularity it was having that it forgot the story. Some of the now boring plot points ("twists", if you speak highly of them) are put together in the most unimaginative way possible.

Everything, in my opinion, tumbled downhill as Yuki became a Vampire. I was thinking, really? Is this a lazy and cliche way to keep the plot going, or...what is it? The execution was also lazy and I just really lost interest in this. That was weaksauce, Manga.

But I held on even after that. There was still hope that that was just one of the worst parts of the manga. I still had faith in this manga. But after that it was still like a snowball rolling down a hill. At first it's slow, but as it gains more snow it rolls faster and faster downhill. Yuki's quirkiness disappeared, and she continues to side with Kaname over and over again, even out of Reason's reach. She's passive and boring, and I swear, nothing happens. Ever. More and more problems pop up, but none of them are being solved. I don't even know why Kaname and Zero are fighting half the time (okay, I do, but...honestly, I'm just reading and suddenly..What? They're fighting now?). Can we have the old "better" Vampire Knight, or can we just have vampires camping around fires, singing songs, jumping over rainbows (and the moon), and generally just a happy end to all this gloom?

I swear, I'm mad at VK like it's my kid or something. Ugh. Though I can forgive, I suppose. And I just realized that my grammar is atrocious. I swear it's because I'm mad...

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Horrendous. Contains true yet offensive material.

by Aristocrat
16 years ago

Rating: N/A

The pun is as awful as the manga. Actually the manga was slightly better than the anime which I watched for a few episodes after I read the manga.

I give it 3 points because...

It's well drawn.
It's not just a love triangle plot.
The story is interesting.

But let's leave the praise there. First off I have problems with almost everyone in the manga except for the side characters. Sure this manga is absolutely wonderful if logic doesn't apply to you. No I don't mean logic as in, obviously vampires don't exist, logic. Let's go with this and see how this seems really really odd...

Yuki is in love with Kaname, well not love per say but has a crush on. Zero loves Yuki and stalks her and follows her about though she never knows because she's an airhead. Okay... that makes sense... but this is when everything gets twisted. Kaname likes Yuki back and it's so apparent and obvious that she's either in denial and actually refuses any thought that he may like her because she secretly doesn't even like him that way (be it because her feelings aren't all that romantic or because he's a vampire).

Let's go with it is because he is a vampire. Now that doesn't make any sense does it because she has no problem siding with Zero over Kaname and here is Zero biting her to death and Kaname saving the day.

Is she an idiot? The mangaka tries to make her a very good and selfless person but at the same time she is the most selfish girl I have ever seen. She tramples on Kaname's feelings and she refuses to let Zero go even if she can't return his feelings because... she's selfish and doesn't want him to leave her side because she thinks he's too weak to even stand up by himself.

And the part where she is attacked by the vampire and drops her weapon out of fear. WHO DROPS THEIR WEAPON OUT OF FEAR?!?! HOW DOES THAT WORK?! I mean first off she was paranoid that vampires were out to get her. She sees a little kid who left his balloon behind and tries to return it to him. The little boy runs off without taking the balloon and she chases after him to give it to him.

Okay here is the author making her seem like a good person once again yet failing to do so because it makes no sense whatsoever.

First of all... the kid doesn't want the balloon back or else he would've taken it from you in the first place instead of running away. What makes you think that after chasing him down as he is trying to get away from you will make him want the balloon anymore than he did? In fact if he was a normal little boy he would've been scared out of his right mind.

Second of all if you were so freaked out by vampires one second ago how stupid are you to go running off into deserted alleys like that?

Though Kaname is very pretty, don't get me wrong... he is one creepy guy. The guy is practically moaning her name as he watches her from his window. Not to mention the whole... incest thing.

Zero... OH ZERO... Yes he has every right to be the angriest SOB in the world... but his attempts to Yuki are really pathetic. Everyone here is squealing at his anguish and his desperation for Yuki but let's face the facts here... in real life this is the worst scenario ever because the girl never freaking even knows he's suffering for her. Doesn't that totally defeat the purpose of the suffering bishie?

And finally the worst for last Yuki. The girl who can't has everything all messed up and backwards. Logic has no place in her mind so the only thing that's in her mind is whatever people have said to her and perhaps random flashbacks of the snowy night every five seconds and feeling bad for Zero. Yeah we know you feel bad for Zero, you would be one heartless person if you didn't feel bad for that. I feel like a good portion of the beginning focused on her feeling bad for Zero... and maybe SOMETIMES... you know the guy she likes Kaname, maybe sometime for five minutes during the evening her heart will race for half a panel as she sees him.

Hopeless... I really couldn't read it anymore. Yuki fails as a Mary-Sue. You think she's capable but... no... let's not go over that part again.

The author needs to actually go outside and get a life and see how people actually interact and how the human mind actually works.

However if you really force yourself not to think about the inconsistencies and Yuki's dry dishrag of a personality I'm sure it can be an enjoyable manga with only the bishies, love triangle and dark vampire plots.

However... a normal person who knows something about actual people (and I hope I would know since I'm a Psychology Sociology Major) would find this so confusing and irritating that it can no longer be read.

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I'm telling you...

by Mehness
17 years ago

Rating: 5.5 / 10.0

Okay, this is overall good. When I first read this, it was funny, cute, and original. Basically, it was great. I would've gave it a full score.

But now? It's like all jumbled up with different plots and not so comical anymore.

That' the reason I rated it down.

Overall, this is pretty good: the art, the characters. The bad stuff: plot. Plot affects everything. It is the base of the story. Without it, the story wouldn't a story. Just a picture book of nonsense.

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From a Favorite to a Disapointment

by smacdona
12 years ago

Rating: N/A

This started as my favorite series, there was mystery, intrigue, romance presented in a few different ways, the supernatural and a little action too! Then somewhere around the middle (timeskip) things went downhill, it wasn't all bad though, there were parts I enjoyed but on the whole it wasn't as good. And then it became just rushed at the end, especially the last chapter. I was really disappointed, there were many ways to end this but I felt like the mangaka wanted to give everyone an end where they got some happiness, as a result nothing really 'felt'. I wasn't happy, I wasn't sad... I was just lukewarm and a little enraged that such a great series went astray into trying to please everyone and resulted in pleasing no one because it felt so ingenuine.

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It's Losing Its Specialness

by Sakura29
12 years ago

Rating: 7.8 / 10.0

I loved this manga to death. LOVED. It was my first manga series ever, but Hino has created a tragedy to all Vampire Knight fans.

The Plot
The plot at the beginning was pretty damn good. It had the right amount of suspense and mystery and the romance was developing not to fast but a little slow, which was great. There was action and scenes that made me blush. Oh those Zeki Scenes However, and I'm very certain that everyone will agree with me here, everything went downhill when

Yuuki, the vampire gal, went to live with her brother, Kaname

After that some mysteries were cleared up, other mysteries were brought up and the manga told me things that I shouldn't and didn't even want to know. It was a bunch of irrelevant information. Nothing interesting happened between I think Chapters 40 to Chapter 60 or 70. Except

They had that ball, an event that had so much potential, but even then nothing interesting happened.

Then when things start to pick up when

Yuuki started the Night Class again but it was just confusing and I had to reread some chapters just to understand what was going on and who did what.
It then began to get interesting when ! they had that ball and Zero and Yuuki kissed I loved that chapter so much.
Then IT happened, it changed EVERYTHING ! Yuuki erased Zero's memory of her and was 'deflowered' by Kaname in Chapter 89. I know a lot of people loved it or hated it, like me, because I'm a fan of Zeki.

It's picking up now, but it's still kinda boring and confusing.

The Characters
Yuuki, used to be my favourite shoujo lead, but her actions just disappoint me now. Before she was all confident and brave, protecting the ones she loved and you would think when

she turned into a vampire she would only get more stronger, right? WRONG. She becomes a too dependant on Kaname and on other vampires. I also hate how she complicates things for herself, especially with the Kaname and Zero feels.

Kaname was the perfect and ideal guy in the beginning, who hid a lot of secrets. However as the story progressed he got darker and more sinister and my image of this sweet and kind guy disappeared. I grown to hate him so much. In my opinion

he abandoned Yuuki which is just sad. I can't really complain about him though, he keeps the story interesting I guess...

Zero, I love you so much. He's the types of characters you just feel sorry for all the time because nothing good ever happens to him. He's emo-like and very sad but uber sexy at the same time. He''s strong and determined that's for sure, telling Yuuki

that the next time he sees her he will kill her after she turns into a vampire I ship ZeroxYuuki deal with it.

Other than that there weren't really any memorable characters other than the Chairman, who let's admit it is only there for comedic relief.

The Art
The art was superbly beautiful in the beginning but then Hino got lazy and in recent chapters, her art isn't as detailed and the characters lack any type of emotion, but nevertheless it's still good, it's just that it's not as great as it used to be.

Overall
This manga has gone downhill which really upsets me ;(
It doesn't have that feeling any more, that feeling when you get when you read each chapter.
I recommend this to shoujo lovers and people willing to skip a few boring chapters. ZEKI FOREVER!

... Last updated 12 years ago

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