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Alternate Title

ぶらどらぶ

Synopsis

Mitsugu Bamba is a second-year high school girl who is a fanatic when it comes to donating blood and has a rare blood type called “Chimera.” She often visits the blood donation center but is treated poorly by the nurses due to her blood having almost no chance of being able to help others. One day, she encounters a beautiful foreign-looking girl at the blood donation center who is pale and looks ready to collapse. But before she can have her blood drawn, she ends up destroying the donation center before collapsing unconscious. Intrigued by this mysterious girl, Mitsugu decides to take her home with her.

Background

Vlad Love is an original net anime (ONA) created by Mamoru Oshii. The anime was first announced in May 2019 and is animated by Drive with cooperation from Production I.G. It features Mamoru Oshii as chief director and Junji Nishimura as director, with Kei Yamamura and Mamoru Oshii handling scripts, Issei Aragaki handling character designs, and Kenji Kawai composing the music. The anime’s opening theme songs are "Winds of Transylvania" by Lovebites for the “Mai Version” and "Where You Are" by BlooDye for the “Mitsugu Version.” The ending theme songs are “Akai Ame” by alan & Ayasa for the Japanese release of the anime and "Shingetsu" by Ayasa for the international release. The anime was first released online in February 2021 after being postponed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will premiere on TV in Japan on July 2, 2021 on Tokyo MX. It will be available to stream outside of Asia through Crunchyroll.

Characters

Mitsugu Bamba (Voiced by: Ayane Sakura)
A second-year high school girl who is a fanatic when it comes to donating blood and has a rare blood type called “Chimera,” though there is almost no chance her blood can be used to help others. She begins protecting a vampire named Mai after she encounters her by chance and scrambles to find blood for her when she is hungry. To that end, she creates a blood donation club at school and becomes its president.

Mai Vlad Transylvania (Voiced by: Rina Hidaka)
A beautiful vampire girl who comes from the famous Transylvania bloodline. She is shy and timid, and although a vampire, she is unable to bite others for their blood. She encounters Mitsugu when she was hungry and wandering around with nowhere to go, and they started working together.

Chihiro Chimatsuri (Voiced by: Romi Park)
A beautiful and mature woman who is the school nurse at Seijumonji High School and the director of the Chimatsuri Blood Research Institute. She has an unpredictable personality and is vulgar, but she is kind at heart. She is interested in Mai’s blood and supports Mitsugu. She proposes the creation of the blood donation club so that she can collect rare blood and food for Mai and becomes its advisor.

Nami Unten (Voiced by: Yu Kobayashi)
A tall and stylish girl who heads the dance club. She is strong-willed and curious and will stop at nothing to achieve her goals. She loves Okinawa.

Maki Watabe (Voiced by: Saori Hayami)
The chairman of the film study group who aspires to make her own films. She has a deep interest in watching and making films and is a self-proclaimed natural-born documentarist who wants to film everything. She is strangely knowledgeable about vampires.

Kaoru Konno (Voiced by: Kanako Takatsuki)
The short, nerdy, and naive president of the cosplay club. Despite her cute appearance and way of speaking, she is quite fearless. She is passionate about cosplay and is also a cat lover who has a pet cat named Tamasaburo.

Jinko Sumida (Voiced by: Yoko Hikasa)
She is the chairman of the discipline committee and is a stubborn perfectionist who doesn’t know the word “compromise.” She is feared for her “Ittokan” tin can attacks on those who violate public morals. She is also a video game otaku.

Masumi Katsuno (Voiced by: Kenta Miyake)
A muscular male student and member of the karate club. He considers himself Mai’s personal bodyguard and sometimes goes on a rampage because of this.

Mai's Dad (Voiced by: Hiroshi Iwasaki)
A vampire who is thought to be over 400 years old. He has had several wives, and because of this Mai has several stepmothers.

Mitsugu's Dad (Voiced by: Jouji Nakata)
A scholar and vampire researcher who is always traveling abroad. His wife divorced him because he didn’t take care of his family.

Okada (Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa)

Kambara (Voiced by: Ryunosuke Watanuki)

Horita (Voiced by: Taro Kiuchi)

Music

Opening Theme Songs:

  • Mai Ver.: "Winds of Transylvania" by Lovebites
  • Mitsugu Ver.: "Where You Are" by BlooDye

Ending Theme Songs:

  • Japanese Ver.: “Akai Ame” by alan & Ayasa
  • International Ver.: "Shingetsu" by Ayasa

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Staff

  • Original Concept/Chief Director/Series Composition: Mamoru Oshii
  • Director: Junji Nishimura
  • Script: Kei Yamamura, Mamoru Oshii
  • Visual Design: Uta Mizuno
  • Character Design: Issei Aragaki
  • Color Design: Hiroko Umezaki
  • Art Design: Yasutada Kato
  • Art Director: Kazuhiro Obata
  • Background Art: STEREOTYPE smartile
  • Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
  • Sound Effects: Kaori Yamada
  • Recording Adjustment: Takeshi Imaizumi
  • Sound Production: Production I.G
  • Music Production: AUBE
  • Music: Kenji Kawai
  • Production: Comic Animation
  • Animation Production Cooperation: Production I.G
  • Animation Production: Drive