Danica Davidson
March 19, 2024 
The premiere of the Vampire Dormitory anime is only a few weeks away, on April 7. Ahead of this its first full promotional video has been released. In it you can hear the opening theme song “Sugar Blood Kiss” being performed by FANTASTICS.
Looking at the cast, Kana Ichinose plays Mito Yamamoto, Shunichi Toki plays Ruka Saotome, Yuichiro Umehara plays Ren Nikaido, Wataru Hatano plays Komori, Yusuke Shirai plays Takara Kagurazaka, and Yuki Sakakihara plays Juri.
The anime is being made at Studio Blanc, with Nobuyoshi Nagayama of Ayaka: A Story of Bonds and Wounds helming the project as director. The scripts are being handled by Touko Machida, whose credits include Boruto: Naruto Next Generations.
Vampire Dormitory will be streamed in North America by Crunchyroll.
Kodansha USA is publishing the original manga by Ema Toyama and gave this description for the plot:
“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!
So far Kodansha USA has published 10 volumes of the manga in English.
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
