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EP. REVIEW: The Case Study of Vanitas

Thinking about it, I took my interpretive cues from the way all of the vampires reacted to Vanitas' statement - they seemed fairly aghast, which makes it look more sinister than he perhaps intended. I suppose they could have just been horrified that he dropped from the balcony to the chandelier.

I have to admit that he still seems very sinister to me.

Anyone else curious about what's going to happen to Jeanne? I mean, she's sucking the blood of a member of the blue blood clan. Would she become a member or remain the same seeing as Vanitas is a human and unable to pass on the bloodline? I get the feeling it's the latter

Also, not convinced that "we are Charlatan" means that there is an organization

As for Vanitas x Noe' shipping, the last Ep showed they are both "straight" and I'll not hear otherwise unless they kiss or "suck"

Let's get this out of the way first: the fifth episode of The Case Study of Vanitas is preceded by a content warning from Funimation. That at first seems a little silly – after all, it's a series about vampires, so violence is, to a degree, understood to be part of the deal, plus last week's episode featured a pretty gory “meal” by Jeanne. So what's with the warning? The reason, it turns out, is that this time the violence is perpetrated by and on children, and yes, it is pretty unsettling.

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Let's get this out of the way first: the fifth episode of The Case Study of Vanitas is preceded by a content warning from Funimation. That at first seems a little silly – after all, it's a series about vampires, so violence is, to a degree, understood to be part of the deal, plus last week's episode featured a pretty gory “meal” by Jeanne. So what's with the warning? The reason, it turns out, is that this time the violence is perpetrated by and on children, and yes, it is pretty unsettling.

I'm not that familiar with why certain episodes get content warnings and others don't, so someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong and take this with a grain of salt, but I also think it has to do with rating/intended audience. For example while an episode of Wandering Witch and Vanitas might get one for violence against children - Higurashi Gou/Sotsu, a show that's at least 50% made up of violence against children, is out here 25+ episodes in without any disclaimers whatsoever. I feel like whether a show would have the equivalent of a TV-14 rating vs a TV-MA one probably plays a factor as well.

the minute we first see him carving, we know that this is a child getting ready to die – possibly by his own hand.

Until the box full of stakes was opened, I was thinking he was intending to kill Noé for some reason. So every time Noé would approach him with the currently in-progress stake inches from his chest, I was worried Louis might yield to the temptation and decide this stake was good enough. °;°

Thanks for the note about why Noé's uniform was white. I figured it was just a stylistic choice to contrast the colors (or lack thereof) of his phantasmal encounter with Charlatan with those of the real world. I would never have gotten the actual symbolism on my own.

Hiroki not Takuya wrote:

As for Vanitas x Noe' shipping, the last Ep showed they are both "straight" and I'll not hear otherwise unless they kiss or "suck"

Everybody knows that there is no such thing as a straight vampire. They have to at least be bi.

DuskyPredator wrote:

Hiroki not Takuya wrote: ...Can you say psycho-sexual??... Everybody knows that there is no such thing as a straight vampire. They have to at least be bi.

... For my tastes, this series runs the gamut of vampire stories from the hyperviolent to the hypersexual ...Where they really combine is 70s Eurotrash cinema where you can have both blood flowing and sexual gushing. Gay vampires both male and female abound and de Sade is more than just a name, it's an entire brand....To make a long story sort, Vanitas is my favorite vampire story because it is every vampire story and then some....

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