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REVIEW: Chibi Vampire GN 1

Purist might want to consider learning Japanese to read it in its truest form.

It's pretty standard forum practice here to highlight the name of another forumite when speaking directly to them in a post. I wasn't trying to "rub it in," as you put it.

Anyway:
Fine then, keep your view and I'll keep mine, but I only wonder why if people can get used to reading manga 'backwards' then there shouldnt be anything wrong with the sound effects, it's part of the cultural integrity and all, much like name monikers etc.

Not the same issue, since the forward/backward thing doesn't affect the translation in any way. That's about like saying "there shouldn't be anything wrong with signs/on-screen text not being translated" in an anime.

Purist might want to consider learning Japanese to read it in its truest form.

I've now seen the series up until the point where spoiler[that idiotic vampire hunter is introduced]. Until that point the series is, on balance, more of a semi-serious drama than a comedy, so it taking a tearjerker turn later on wouldn't surprise me. That's common enough even in full-blown romantic comedies.

More followup on the anime: I've seen through episode 22, and my angst-breaker finally tripped at that point. It is pretty fun and flippant until spoiler[Winner's grandfather shows up intending to kill all the Makaa clan], and at that point all the conflicts that have been slowly building over the prior 20 episodes come smashing down at once.

I felt a bit gypped*; I'd thought I was getting a romance/comedy/fanservice series with a twist on the old horror story, sort of a sexy Addams Family, if you will. Instead it turned into a shoujo tearjerker romance. If the anime is faithful to the G. novel, then be warned, the novel will turn on you if you're thinking the same that I was.

*not in the financial sense, obviously.

(Edited for clarity. Dang pronoun references...)