This is a new anime series that I recently started watching. produced by SHAFT. (SHAFT also produced the massively popular Bakemonogatari)

The vampires in Vampire Bund cannot walk in sunlight, unless they are wearing a special gel that allows them to (essentially, really strong sunscreen, right?). And they do have the power to transform into various huge, violent beasties like spiders and lizards to fight each other.

“Dance in the Vampire Bund” is about vampires coming out and making themselves known to humans as their leader, the Princess Mina Tepes, is trying to create a land just for vampires off the coast of Japan.
This is quite interesting as it deals with the modern public, and how they would react to discovering that vampires are real. And there are a few clever twists as princess mina makes plans to have vampires live alongide (or take over?) human beings.

There are elements of clan rivalry between vampires both human and vampire policitics, human military involvement and smaller-scale tension between humans and vampires.

In true Anime style, there are elements of both drama and comedy. Predictably, the vampire princess transferrs to the main boy’s school, at home she is served by three old-fashioned maids, and there are frequent typical outlandish battles with increasingly powerful enemies.

There is some contoversy over Princess Mina, as she is a child character, who appears naked, or partially so, quite often.

As with most modern vampire stories, where there are vamps there must also be werewolves. However, the two don’t seem to be rivals or anything in this series..

overall, I like it so far because dealing with vampires coming out into the human world is interesting to see.

I realised that I never post about everyday life anymore, and that’s probably because now that I’m not living in Japan I personally don’t find everyday life very interesting.
Mostly, I’ve been looking for jobs with little to no success. Over the last 3 months I’ve had uncountable rejection letters, and two interviews, neither of which came to anything. Still, the hunt continues!

Today, is Pancake Day. And pancakes are arguably my favourite food ever. So, this morning for breakfast I had pancakes:

Yes, that is one strawberry pancake, and one bacon pancake.
And the same again, except bigger, for lunch!

Yesterday, I went to the UK Premiere screening of the new Evangelion films; Eva 1.0 and Eva 2.0.
Being and Eva newbie, I can’t compare it to the original, but I can say that it was pretty fantastic and I enjoyed it fully. There was a lot of people there, and a lot of familiar faces from other events and such. There was a great atmosphere, and everyone seemed very impressed by the films. (and so they should! They were great)
There are mixed opinions on the new character, Makinami Mari, but I personally really liked her.
Here’s a wee head-and-shoulders image of her with her pink plug suit and red glasses.

you know, my glasses were very similar to those.

Over the weekend, I went with Bry and his friend Steven, who was visiting from fife to Glasgow Cathedral and the Necropolis. Despite being from this city, I’d only been to the catchedral once before and I’d never been to the Necropolis before, so it was quite interesting.
Wikipedia informs me that the necropolis has aproximately 3500 tombs in it.
Quite impressive I think.