The official website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Ema Toyama’s Vampire Dormitory confirmed its premiere date with a new key visual. The anime will begin broadcasting on TOKYO MX and BS Nippon TV on April 7 at 11:30 PM JST. It will be distributed simultaneously on the streaming platforms Lemino and Anime Times. It will also air on AT-X on April 8, and MBS on April 9. Crunchyroll will stream the anime in select regions overseas. The new key visual, featuring the main heroine Mito surrounded by Ruka, Ren, Takara, Juri, and Komori in a boys’ dormitory room, can be seen below:
The previously announced cast includes Kana Ichinose as Mito Yamamoto, Shunichi Toki as Ruka Saotome, Yuichiro Umehara as Ren Nikaido, Yusuke Shirai as Takara Kagurazaka, Yuki Sakakihara as Juri, and Wataru Hatano as Komori. Japanese group FANTASTICS will perform the opening theme “Sugar Blood Kiss.” Nobuyoshi Nagayama is directing the anime at Studio Blanc., while Toko Machida is penning the scripts, with Naomi Tsuruta designing the characters.
Vampire Dormitory anime is an adaptation of the manga written and illustrated by Ema Toyama. The manga has been serialized since November 2018 in Kodansha’s shoujo manga magazine Nakayoshi. An anime adaptation by Studio Blanc was first announced in October 2023. Kodansha USA is licensing the manga in English and describes the story as:
“I’ll do it! I’ll become your thrall!” A crossdressing girl and an obsessive vampire find themselves entangled in a dangerous relationship. A heart-pounding BL-esque romance drama from the award-winning Ema Toyama (Missions of Love, Aoba-kun’s Confessions)!
Mito, who has no family to rely on, lives on the streets, disguised as a boy. Ruka, a vampire, saves her from a perilous situation and makes her an offer: become his subservient thrall from which he can feed whenever he wants, and she can live with him—in the boys’ dorm. Because her very existence depends on her secret not being found out, every day is a new danger—to say nothing of that vampire! Meanwhile, Ruka, not knowing Mito’s a girl, dotes on her night and day in an attempt to ripen her “disgusting male blood,” but when real feelings develop… this dangerous romance between a crossdressing girl and an obsessive vampire begins!
Source: Official Website
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