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The agreeably offbeat romantic comedy Karin (2005) turns anime conventions and familiar legends upside down. High school freshman Karin Maaka is the white sheep of her family. Her parents, brother, and sister are traditional vampires: they drink blood, shun sunlight, etc. Karin likes silver, eats garlic, and enjoys the sun. When she bites someone, she gives them blood, which makes them optimistic and energetic. Although she doesn't understand why, Karin reacts strangely to gawky transfer student Kenta Usui: she produces so much extra blood, she gets spectacular nosebleeds. Ren, her older brother, explains that she's drawn to un
The agreeably offbeat romantic comedy Karin (2005) turns anime conventions and familiar legends upside down. High school freshman Karin Maaka is the white sheep of her family. Her parents, brother, and sister are traditional vampires: they drink blood, shun sunlight, etc. Karin likes silver, eats garlic, and enjoys the sun. When she bites someone, she gives them blood, which makes them optimistic and energetic. Although she doesn't understand why, Karin reacts strangely to gawky transfer student Kenta Usui: she produces so much extra blood, she gets spectacular nosebleeds. Ren, her older brother, explains that she's drawn to unhappy people; just as he's drawn to attack stressed people and their father to proud people. That's the way vampires are. Karin decides that if she makes Kenta happy, she won't have these problematic attacks, and romantic contretemps begin. The set-up is as engagingly absurd as Ranma 1/2 or Fruits Basket, and the filmmakers play it for all its worth. (Rated 13 and older: minor violence, risqué humor) --Charles Solomon
Karin Maaka leads an ordinary life in spite of the fact that she is from a family of vampires. Unlike the rest of her family, she has no problem with bright lights, sleeps in a bed instead of a coffin and loves to eat garlic. She is such an abnormal vampire that she doesn't even suck blood? she makes it! Everything begins to unravel when she gets uncontrollable urges every time she gets near her classmate, Kenta Usui. Will she hold back the urge to purge or give in to her need to bleed?!
*Dolby Digital English & Japanese Audio
*Two English subtitle streams (Dialogue translation & Signs Only translation)
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Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
Release date: 29 May 2007
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0013023293595 UPC: 013023293595
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