Dance In The Vampire Bund

[Yukimura]

I didn't really like the whole game show/exposition thing, at first I just didn't feel drawn in and after a few minutes I was becoming more and more interested in fast forwarding or finding something else to watch. By the time the more active stuff started happening I was already partially checked out of the episode and I didn't care as much as I might have otherwise about what was going on.

I got the feeling that if one had read the manga some of the side characters in the first ep would have been familiar and cultured a sense of nostalgia or something and maybe it would have helped make the episode more interesting. However, for me coming in blind about everything except for the blond girl being a vampire I'm not sure I would continue with this series after seeing just this ep if it was not for all the hype I've heard over it from manga readers and the inkling that the whole show is not going to be like this episode. I find it kind of troublesome that the main thing that will bring me back for the next episode of the show is derived almost completely from information filtered through spoilers about the manga and not from much of the actual premiere episode. If I ever recommend this show to anyone who shares my tastes I'll probably recommend they skip to around the 12 minute mark in episode 1 to try and reduce the negative impact.