Anime - Vampire Knight and Vampire Knight Guilty

Synopsis

Cross Academy is an elite boarding school with two separate, isolated classes: the Day Class and the Night Class. On the surface, Yuuki Cross and Zero Kiryuu are prefects of the academy, and attempt to keep order between the students as classes rotate in the evenings. As the night class is full of utterly gorgeous elites, this can sometimes prove to be a bit difficult. It is completely necessary, however, as those "elites" are actually vampires. Yuuki and Zero act as guardians, protecting the secrets of the Night Class and the safety of the ignorant day class.

As the adopted daughter of the academy's chairman, Yuuki takes her job with a serious and energetic attitude. It also allows her to interact with her secret crush and savior, the night class' dorm president, Kaname Kuran. Zero, on the other hand, has a deep-rooted hatred against vampires, and at times, does not hesitate to kill.

Can vampires and humans co-exist, even in the strict setup of the Cross Academy? Only time will tell.

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My Thoughts

I really liked this anime, the artwork was very dark and really made the atmosphere, and the vampires are beautiful but scary. The music was also great I loved the opening and ending songs again really suited the anime.
The overall story was great but it wasn't that good till the ends of Vampire Knight Guilty, when it all came together it seems so much better. But I have to say in the Vampire Knight the story did seem to be dragged out with not much of the plot moving forward and I got kind of bored with some episodes.
I really preferred the sub, I am normally lazy and watch the dubbed if there is one available. But Yuuki's voice did not suit the anime and took me out of the zone all together, why is her voice so sweet and cute? makes no sense at all, and with her being the main character you have to hear it constantly, the sound of the Japanese voices seemed to go perfectly.
It was all very dramatic and you could really feel the emotion in the characters, the fight scenes were fantastic, and while very dragged out the love triangle I thought was awesome.
Yuuki annoyed me she was always crying and I guess whiny, at first I was all for her....she seemed a strong female lead but over time she just got annoying.

I would give this Anime a 3/5 and would say give it a try. This is my first Vampire Anime so I don't have much to compare it to.