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7.1 IMDb

90 Rotten Tomatoes

Where To Watch Vampire Knight — Season 1

Vampire Knight Season 1 takes place at the mysterious Cross Academy, a prestigious school with a highly unusual arrangement: ordinary students attend the Day Class, while the elegant and seemingly perfect Night Class secretly consists of vampires. Standing between these two worlds is Yuki Cross, one of the academy's Guardians, whose job is to maintain peace and protect the vampires' secret. Yuki shares this responsibility with Zero Kiryu, a troubled vampire hunter whose hatred of vampires is deeply personal. Their lives become even more complicated because Yuki has a special connection with Kaname Kuran, the powerful pureblood vampire who once rescued her when she was a child. As Yuki tries to protect the fragile relationship between humans and vampires, memories of her forgotten past begin resurfacing.

Action Drama Fantasy Horror Mystery Romance

Release Date: April 7, 2008
Director: Kiyoko Sayama
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Horror, Mystery, Drama, Action
Duration: 24–25 minutes per episode
Language: English
Starring: Akatsuki Kain — voiced by Junichi Suwabe
Box Office: N/A
Where To Watch: Crunchyroll

More details about Vampire Knight — Season 1 and where you can watch

Vampire Knight is adapted from Matsuri Hino’s manga of the same name. The manga began in 2004, several years before the anime premiered. Season 1 contains 13 episodes, with the final episode airing on June 30, 2008. The second season, Vampire Knight Guilty, followed later in the same year.

One of the most memorable elements of Season 1 is its unusual combination of gothic vampire mythology and school-life romance. Instead of presenting vampires simply as monsters, the story creates a structured vampire society with different levels of power, including the especially dangerous pureblood vampires.

The anime’s opening and ending music also became closely associated with its identity. The ending theme “Still Doll”, performed by Kanon Wakeshima with music by Mana, is particularly distinctive for its dark, theatrical atmosphere.

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Did You Know

Vampire Knight wasn’t originally created as an anime—it began as a shōjo manga written and illustrated by Matsuri Hino. The series deliberately mixes classic vampire imagery with Japanese shōjo storytelling, creating a world where blood, romance, family secrets and social hierarchy are all connected.