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Vampire Knight (TV)

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[ adapted from Vampire Knight (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Vampire Knight Guilty (TV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Рыцарь-вампир (Russian)
فامباير نايت (Arabic)
ヴァンパイア騎士 (Japanese)
吸血鬼騎士 (Chinese (Taiwan))
뱀파이어 기사 (Korean)
Plot Summary: Yuki's earliest memory is of a stormy night in winter, wherein she was attacked by a vampire... And then rescued by another. Now 10 years later, Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a guardian of the vampire race, protecting her savior, Kaname, from discovery as he leads a group of vampires at the elite boarding school. But also at her side is Zero Kiryu, a childhood friend who’s hatred for the creatures that destroyed everything he held dear, is now determined never to trust them. This coexisting arrangement seems all well and good, but have the vampires truly renounced their murderous ways, or is there a darker truth behind their actions. Is Kaname's infatuation with Yuki the beginning of a forbidden romance, or is it something in her forgotten past that draws him to her. Because in this world of secrets, nothing is as it seems. And the price of misplaced trust may even be worse than death.
User Ratings: 1383 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 201 votes (sub:185, dub:9, raw:2, Ger.sub:1, Rus.dub:1, Ara.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, Pol.sub:1)
 Excellent: 347 votes (sub:321, dub:15, Spa.sub:4, raw:2, ?:1, Kor.sub:1, Por.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Very good: 372 votes (sub:344, Spa.sub:10, dub:9, Por.sub:3, Pol.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, raw:1, Ara.sub:1, edit.dub:1, Rus.dub:1)
 Good: 227 votes (sub:207, dub:12, Spa.sub:4, raw:2, Dut.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Decent: 116 votes (sub:107, dub:4, raw:2, Spa.sub:2, Fre.sub:1)
 So-so: 44 votes (sub:41, dub:2, Spa.sub:1)
 Not really good: 32 votes (sub:30, Spa.sub:1, dub:1)
 Weak: 22 votes (sub:20, Por.sub:1, dub:1)
 Bad: 11 votes (sub:10, Rus.sub:1)
 Awful: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Worst ever: 6 votes (sub:6)
Seen in part or in whole by 2529 users, rank: #210
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.834 (Very good-.16), std. dev.: 1.7606, rank: #599
Weighted mean: 7.642 (Very good-.35), rank: #660 (seen all: 7.77 / seen some: 7.01 / won't finish: 4.79)
Bayesian estimate: 7.641 (Very good-.35), rank: #470
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2008-04-07 to 2008-06-30
Releases: We have 6
Opening Theme:
#1: "Futatsu no Kodou to Akai Tsumi (ふたつの鼓動と赤い罪)" by ON/OFF
Ending Theme:
#1: "still doll" by Kanon Wakeshima
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 1
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Kiyoko Sayama

Series Composition: Mari Okada

Storyboard:
Keiji Gotoh (ep 12)
Kiyoko Sayama (OP1,ED1; eps 1, 3)

Episode Director:
Kiyoko Sayama (OP1,ED1; ep 1)
Ryuichi Kimura (ep 2)

Music: Takefumi Haketa

Original creator: Matsuri Hino

Character Design: Asako Nishida

Art director: Kazuhiro Itou

Animation director:
Asako Nishida (OP1,ED1)
Atsuko Watanabe (ep 1)
Eiji Suganuma (ep 1)
Kazuyuki Igai (ep 2)
Ken Mochizuki (ep 3)

Sound director: Hozumi Gôda

Director of Photography: Seiichi Morishita

Producer:
Fukashi AZUMA (TV Tokyo)
Tomoko Takahashi
Yumiko Masushima

2nd Key Animation:
Atsuko Furuya (eps 1-2)
Aya Maeda (eps 1-2)
Katsuyuki Sakairu (eps 1-2)
Miho Sekimoto (eps 1-2)
Tomoko Sugano (eps 1-2)

Animation Director Assistant: Yuuko Yamada (ep 1)

Assistant producer:
Candice Abe
Yasuyuki Morita

Background Art:
Emiko Sawada (eps 1-3)
Hiroshi Kaneko (eps 1-3)
Ken Naito (eps 1-3)
Manabu Kato (eps 1-3)
Michiko Yoshida (eps 1-3)
Sayaka Motogami (eps 1-3)
Takahiro Matsuura (eps 1-3)
Yasuhiro Takeishi (eps 1-2)

Color design: Takeshi Mochida

Color Inspection: Takeshi Mochida

Color setting: Hitomi Kawashima (eps 1-2)

Editing Assistant: Sayaka Mita (ep 1)

In-Between Animation:
Ayumi Yamada (eps 1-2)
Azusa Orikawa (ep 3)
Masaaki Miyoshi (eps 1-2)
Midori Saito (ep 3)
Miki Kaneko (ep 3)
Shogo Watanabe (eps 1-2)
Yoshiko Ando (ep 3)

In-Between Check:
Atsushi Sawamura (eps 1-2)
Ryuichi Akahori (eps 1-2)

Key Animation:
Aki Kobayashi (ep 3)
Akiko Matsuo (ep 2)
Asuka Shimizu (ep 2)
Atsuko Watanabe (OP1; ep 1)
Aya Nozawa (eps 1-2)
Ayumi Tsukamoto (ep 2)
Chizuru Tsukihashi (eps 1-2)
Eiichi Tominaga (ep 2)
Hideo Nakamura (ep 2)
Hiromi Ogata (ep 1)
Hiroshi Kuri (ep 2)
Hiroshi Tomioka (OP1)
Hitomi Fujii (ep 1)
Inosuke Naitou (OP1; ep 2)
Itsuki Imazaki (OP1)
Junnosuke Kawaguchi (ep 3)
Kaoru Takeda (ep 2)
Ken Mochizuki (ep 3)
Ken Takahashi (OP1; eps 1-2)
Koichi Usami (OP1)
Maki Murakami (ep 1)
Maki Sawai (ep 1)
Masayuki Uchiyama (ep 1)
Masumi Hattori (ep 1)
Masumi Hoshino (ep 1)
Sayaka Takase (eps 1-2)
Shunichi Imoto (ep 2)
Tetsuya Kumatani (OP1,ED1)
Tetsuya Nagai (eps 1-2)
Tokuyuki Matsutake (ep 1)
Tomoe Nishio (ep 1)
Yoshiko Takahashi (ep 1)
Yukari Matsuo (ep 2)
Yuuko Yamada (OP1; ep 1)

Paint:
Kozue Arai (eps 1-2)
Mai Sotozaki (eps 1-2)
Mariko Mima (eps 1-2)

Photography:
Daisuke Horino
Daisuke Kikuchi
Kojiro Iwamoto
Makiko Nakayama
Saori Takagi
Takeshi Aoki

Production Advancement: Mika Chiba

Program Publicity:
Isamu Akida
Kazuko Yamamoto
Naomi Enda
Yosuke Aoki (TV Tokyo)

Recording Assistant: Megumi Kato

Setting Production: Hitoshi Yoneoka

Sound Adjustments: Chikako Abe

Theme Song Arrangement:
h-wonder (OP1)
MANA (ED1)

Theme Song Composition:
Katsuhiko Kurosu (OP1)
MANA (ED1)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Kanon Wakeshima (ED1)
mavie (OP1)

Theme Song Performance:
Kanon Wakeshima (ED)
ON/OFF (OP)

Video Editing: Yoshiyuki Tokuyoshi

 

Daisuke Kishio as Kaname Kuran 

Mamoru Miyano as Zero Kiryū

Yui Horie as Yūki Cross

Daisuke Kishio as Kaname Clan 

Hiroki Yasumoto as Tooga Yagari

Jun Fukuyama as Hanabusa Aidou

Junichi Suwabe as Akatsuki Kain

Keiko Sonoda as Shizuka Hio 

Mai Nakahara as Maria Kurenai

Mamoru Miyano as Ichiru Kiryū

Risa Mizuno as Sayori Wakaba

Souichiro Hoshi as Senri Shiki

Susumu Chiba as Takuma Ichijou

Aika Noda as Female student (ep 6)

Aki Kanada as Female student (eps 5, 9)

Atsushi Kousaka as
Level E (ep 5)
Male student (eps 2, 7)
Man (ep 4)

Eri Kitamura as Rima Tōya

Eri Nogami as Female student (eps 2, 12)

Hozumi Gôda as Headmster Kaien Cross

Junko Minagawa as Luca Sōen

Kana Ueda as Sayori Wakaba 

Kanon Wakeshima as Maid (ep 8)

Keiko Naikai as Female student (eps 2, 5-6, 9)

Keiko Utsumi as Female student (ep 1) 

Keisuke Kougo as Male student (eps 2, 6)

Kouji Ishii as Asatoo Ichijou

Masami Iwasaki as Vampire (ep 1)

Masami Kikuchi as Hunter Consultation Chief

Mayu Hayakawa as Female student (eps 1-2, 6)

Mayumi Asano as
Mother (ep 10)
Shizuka Hio (ep 12)

Miki Suga as
Female student (eps 1-2)
Manager (ep 8)

Rion Kako as Male student (ep 6)

Risa Mizuno as Seiren

Ryo Naitou as Man (ep 8)

Ryusaku Chijiwa as Gatekeeper (eps 3-4)

Shinobu Matsumoto as Teacher (ep 4)

Taka Fujimori as Nadeshiko Shindou (ep 2)

Takahiro Matsukawa as Class president

Takashi Matsuyama as Teacher (ep 1)

Taya Fujimori as Nadeshiko Shindou (ep 5)

Yuuko Nishihara as Female student (eps 1-3, 9, 12)

Japanese companies 

2nd Key Animation:
DEXS (ep 1)
Frontline (ep 1)
Liberty (eps 1-2)
Mook Animation (eps 1-2)
Studio Wonbat (ep 1)
TNK (ep 1)

Animation Production: Studio DEEN

Background Art: Studio Tulip

Broadcaster:
AT-X (2008-06-06)
TV Aichi (2008-04-08)
TV Hokkaido (2008-04-08)
TV Osaka (2008-04-12)
TV Setouchi (2008-04-12)
TV Tokyo (2008-04-07)
TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (2008-04-10)

Clean-Up Animation: Golden Bell

In-Between Animation:
Golden Bell
Kino Production

Key Animation: GK Entertainment

Music Collaboration:
Sony Music Entertainment
TV Tokyo Music

Paint: Echo (ep 1)

Production: NAS

Recording Studio: Seion Studio

Sound Production: Darks Production

special effects: Digital Network Animation

English staff 
English companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Viz Media

English cast 
(none)

French cast 
French staff 

ADR Director: Bruno Meyere

Bruno Meyere as Kaname

Emmanuel Rausenberger as Zero

Isabelle Volpe as Yuki

Alexandre Coadour as Kain

Bastien Bourlé as Ichijô

Benoit Dupac as Directeur Cross

Catherine Desplaces as Ruka

Christèle Billault as Yori

Damien Da Silva as Chef

Grégory Laisné as Aido

Olivia Dutron as
Maria
Shizuka

Philippe Roullier as Yagari

French companies 

Distributor: Kaze

Dubbing: WanTake

Italian staff 
Italian cast 
(none)
 

Benedetta Ponticelli as Yuki

Patrizio Prata as Kaname

Renato Novara as Zero

Federico Zanandrea as Aidoh

Gabriele Marchingiglio as Ichijo

Gianluca Iacono as Dr.Cross

Jenny De Cesarei as Yori

Massimiliano Lotti as Yagari

Massimo Di Benedetto as Shiki

Maurizio Merluzzo as Kain

Roger Mantovani as Capoclasse

Italian companies 
(none)
German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Aline Staskowiak as Luca Soen

Christoph Banken as Akatsuki Kain

Dirk Petrick as Hanabusa Aido

Fritz Rott as Kaien Kurosu

Jan-David Rönfeldt as Zero Kiryu

Julia Kaufmann as Seiren

Konrad Bösherz as Takuma Ichijou

Michael Baral as Shiki Senri

Rainer Fritzsche as Kaname Kuran

Rubina Kuraoka as Rima Touya

Tanja Schmitz as Yuki Kurosu

German companies 

Distributor: Anime-Virtual

Dubbing: TV Synchron Berlin


Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Licensed by: Muse Communication Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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