Studio: GONZO
Director: Takahiro Yoshimatsu
Screenplay: Natsuko Takahashi
In step with the manga by yukiusa
Train Cast: Ami Koshimizu as
Nyanpire; Jun Fukuyama as Nyantenshi; Noriaki Sugiyama as Masamunya Dokuganryū;
Yuko Goto as Chachamaru; Nozomi Maeda as Komori-kun / Mōri-kun; Shinnosuke
Tachibana as the Vampire; Shion Hirota as Misaki-chan; Shion Hirota as the
Narrator / Katsuo
Viewed in Jap with English Subtitles
To be persisted, meow.
Nyanpire is tragically minute, a cute premise for a longer sequence
which is ideal four minutes prolonged per twelve episodes, now no longer permitting it to face
out let by myself burn out a foolish premise to the level it doesn’t work. A kitten,
as explained within the pre-credit rating prologue, used to be left abandoned and hungry, ideal
for a male vampire to stamp empathy and keep it from death by giving them
eternal life, thus rising a “Nyanpire”. Happily a human woman
Misaki took him in and is responsive to his want for blood, as she is ready to talk
to him, one who is precocious and can win, whereas now no longer a loyal substitute,
that ketchup is ravishing even though Tabasco sauce is to be approached with
warning. Baring the closing episode playing on a tragic thought, Nyanpire interested by
his chums’ mortality in opposition to his immortality, it’s miles a fluffy stamp which performs
on skits engrossing our undead cat lord in his misadventures with mostly cat
chums. It’s fully as foolish a premise as it sounds too if cute.
Surprisingly for me, it’s miles a
production by studio GONZO, made
after a time when they had been an tall producer of titles as I used to be getting into into
anime into the 2000s. They collected exist, producing titles at some level of the 2010s
from this, however by 2008 and 2009, they’d tall financial problems which lead them
to be absorbed into their father or mother firm, GDH
Good ample.Good ample., in 2009. There would possibly be a transient melancholia to Nyanpire thanks to this,
despite its cuteness and GONZO’s
sporadic tune chronicle in quality, in how they are making this micro-sequence
below the shadow of those events, a firm who looked to be all around the keep
prominently of their releases from ADV Films when I used to be getting into into anime,
even making a music video for Linkin Park,
ideal to be less prominent of their dwelling as an animation studio. Previous this
nonetheless, there would possibly be a sense the production used to be made with enjoyable and that historical previous
intention minute barring the recognition of their title on the discontinuance credits, one
which went out of its design to be a corpulent are residing motion band musical quantity with cat
puppets, Gothic Lolita costumes and a blood I.V.
The shortness of the stamp, admire many
micro-sequence, creep away loads on the table for a Halloween acceptable sequence, Garfield for the Goths, in how this is
a motley crew of characters surrounding an impulsive however cute lead. This breaks
from loads of vampire traditions, admire the reality he can creep within the solar, however many
are for jokes, admire his care for of garlic ramen, or how there would possibly be a theory the
vampire that grew to change into him will possible be an obsessive collector of cats who retains them in
a void in his particular person. It’s a enjoyable forged around him too, starting with an
ex-angel cat, kicked out of heaven and a minute bit cad, making up reviews of being
thrown out for loving a female angel, to the adopted and more knowing minute
brother to Nyanpire. Two bats, more admire trolls of their behaviour, originate up
non-pussycat figures, however the personality of hobby is Masamunya Dokuganryū. Doubtless
a parody of Date Masamune, he is an
unexpected joke to consist of if for a figure even played by Ken Watanabe within the 1987 historical tv sequence Dokuganryū
Masamune among many diverse appearances in Jap standard culture: Masamune actually used to be a Justice of the Peace, tactician
and a regional ruler of Japan’s Azuchi–Momoyama duration through early Edo duration
who used to be acknowledged for his missing peep, dubbed the “One-Eyed Dragon of
Ōshū”. It could per chance per chance well maybe be a stretch, however interested by Masamunya is a cat with an peep
patch too, I would now no longer be surprise if the joke is revolving around an true
Jap historical figure of a identical form. Extra unexpected is that the samurai
cat is within the muse launched attempting to banish Nyanpire, ideal to wind up with a
smitten crush and realises he is gay when he learns Nyanpire is fully male. I
used to be now no longer expecting, on the bingo card of anime, a optimistic gay personality within
a stamp a few cartoon cat vampire, however with Nyanpire, right here we creep, and whereas Masamunya
is the butt of jokes, the appropriate ones in regards to this is Masamunya struggling
with attempting to particular his admire to Nyanpire, who is oblivious and his jealously
that the angel cat does feel any damage if Nyanpire bites him for blood.
Micro-sequence, unless we’re
talking about gdgd Fairies (2011-2013)
or Teekyu (2012-17), which got many
sequence, unfortunately feel admire the an analogous of primitive school forty minute OVAs,
keen minute snippets of a premise which, within the most rewarding, as a minimum
enlighten one thing attention-grabbing with a personality of its safe. Even one thing
more questionable in its production quality, admire Sparrow’s Resort (2013), a micro-sequence a few female workers who uses
her ninja abilities to raise a hotel at 5 stars in quality rankings, can collected
entice with a ludicrous premise. Personality is one thing I will attest to for Nyanpire. Nearly forty minutes, the
an analogous of an primitive straight-to-video project, this reveals ample to fancy
the divulge material however also leaves me wishing it had more to the project, both an true
optimistic, however unhappy in that as a 2011 project, this by no intention had a observe up
at some level of the 2010s.
