History Anime / VladLove

** When pointing out the litany of crimes the students have committed in Episode 5, Jinko lists Kaoru's Chun-Li cosplay as an instance of near copyright infringement.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Unlike traditional depictions of vampires, who are often described as walking corpses, Mai has a heartbeat and normal blood pressure. Her fangs and pointed ears also don't appear until she's ready to feed, causing her to look normal for the most part. Subsequent episodes reveal that while she has no reflection and can't be photographed, usual vampire weaknesses like crosses and running water don't affect her. Garlic also doesn't repel her, but instead causes her to become aggressive and violent when she eats it (which her dad claims is the result of her food allergies). Maki also claims that unlike in fiction, real vampires are not immortal, just exceptionally long-lived. Mai backs this up by saying that her stepmother has lines on her face, indicating that vampires ''do'' age in this universe, just very slowly. Mai also temporarily takes on the personality traits of whoever's blood she drinks, something that Mitsugu initially thinks should be impossible.
* PunnyName: The "Vlad" in the title, when filtered through Japanese language, which pronounces V as B, reads as "Blood Love", which suits Mitsugu.

** The Halloween party in Episode 3 features cosplayers dressed as [[Anime/{{Yatterman}} Doronjo]] and Film/{{Robocop}}. Kaoru is able to convince Mai to dress as Morrigan from ''Videogame/{{Darkstalkers}}''.

** Kaoru cosplays as [[Videogame/StreetFighter Chun-Li]] for her fight scene in Episode 4, and also attempts to perform Pai's Renkan Tenshinkyaku (which she explicitly name checks) from ''Videogame/VirtuaFighter''.

* SnapBack: [[spoiler: The town is seemingly destroyed by Mai in her dragon form at the end of Episode 4, but is completely back to normal by the start of the next one. The gyoza restaurant she wrecks in Episode 3 is likewise shown rebuilt by the time of Episode 5.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Unlike traditional depictions of vampires, who are often described as walking corpses, Mai has a heartbeat and normal blood pressure. Her fangs and pointed ears also don't appear until she's ready to feed, causing her to look normal for the most part. Subsequent episodes reveal that while she has no reflection and can't be photographed, usual vampire weaknesses like crosses and running water don't affect her. Maki also claims that unlike in fiction, real vampires are not immortal, just exceptionally long-lived. Mai backs this up by saying that her stepmother has lines on her face, indicating that vampires ''do'' age in this universe, just very slowly. Mai also temporarily takes on the personality traits of whoever's blood she drinks, something that Mitsugu initially thinks should be impossible.

* SnapBack: [[spoiler: The town is seemingly destroyed by Mai in her dragon form at the end of Episode 4, but is completely back to normal by the start of the next one. The restaurant she wrecks in Episode 3 is likewise shown rebuilt by the time of Episode 5.]]

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Mitsugu gets smacked around a lot.

* YouWannaGetSued: When pointing out the litany of crimes the students have committed in Episode 5, Jinko lists Kaoru's Chun-Li cosplay as an instance of near copyright infringement.

* VoluntaryVampireVictim: Mitsugu desperately ''wants'' to be this for Mai, but the vampire refuses to drink directly from her as doing so would turn Mitsugu into her thrall. She can drink her blood if it's been drawn out by other means.

** Nami and the other girls in the Dance Club dress in leotards that look like the ones worn by the protagonists of ''Manga/CatsEye''.

** Nami and the other girls in the Dance Club dress in leotards that look like the ones worn by the protagonists of ''Anime/CatsEye''.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Unlike traditional depictions of vampires, who are often described as walking corpses, Mai has a heartbeat and normal blood pressure. Her fangs and pointed ears also don't appear until she's ready to feed, causing her to look normal for the most part. Subsequent episodes reveal that while she has no reflection and can't be photographed, usual vampire weaknesses like crosses and running water don't affect her. Maki also claims that unlike in fiction, real vampires can't shapeshift into bats or wolves, and are not immortal, just exceptionally long-lived. Mai backs this up by saying that her stepmother has lines on her face, indicating that vampires ''do'' age in this universe, just very slowly. Mai also temporarily takes on the personality traits of whoever's blood she drinks, something that Mitsugu initially thinks should be impossible.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Unlike traditional depictions of vampires, who are often described as walking corpses, Mai has a heartbeat and normal blood pressure. Her fangs and pointed ears also don't appear until she's ready to feed, causing her to look normal for the most part. Subsequent episodes reveal that while she has no reflection and can't be photographed, usual vampire weaknesses like crosses and running water don't affect her. Maki also claims that unlike in fiction, real vampires can't shapeshift into bats or wolves, and are not immortal, just exceptionally long-lived. Mai backs this up by saying that her stepmother has lines on her face, indicating that vampires ''do'' age in this universe, just very slowly.

* ShoutOut: Chihiro is the kind of person who plays ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' on her UsefulNotes/PlayStation4.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Unlike traditional depictions of vampires, who are often described as walking corpses, Mai has a heartbeat and normal blood pressure. Her fangs and pointed ears also don't appear until she's ready to feed, causing her to look normal for the most part. Subsequent episodes reveal that while she has no reflection and can't be photographed, usual vampire weaknesses like crosses and running water don't affect her. Maki also claims that unlike in fiction, real vampires can't shapeshift into bats or wolves.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Unlike traditional depictions of vampires, who are often described as walking corpses, Mai has a heartbeat and normal blood pressure. Her fangs and pointed ears also don't appear until she's ready to feed, causing her to look normal for the most part.

The TwelveEpisodeAnime was originally scheduled to premiere in October 2020, but it was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On December 17, 2020, the official [=YouTube=] channel aired the first episode.

The TwelveEpisodeAnime was originally scheduled to premiere in October 2020, but it was delayed due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. On December 17, 2020, the official [=YouTube=] channel aired the first episode.

* {{Expy}}: Chihiro resembles Eriko Takeda from ''VisualNovel/YuNo''.

Mitsugu Banba is a high school girl with an unusual fixation on donating her blood. Her "interests" lead her to frequent the local blood bank, and it's there where she meets Mai, a beautiful, fragile-looking girl who looks like she's about to faint at any second. But to Mitsugu's shock, the delicate waif suddenly begins to tear up the place! After Mai loses consciousness, Mitsugu pulls her out of the blood bank (which then explodes), and it's then that she learns that Mai wasn't there to donate blood... she was there to ''drink'' it.

Described as a "girl-meets-girl" vampire slapstick comedy, VLADLOVE is the first anime series to be helmed by Creator/MamoruOshii in over thirty years, and is also his first return to comedy since ''Manga/UruseiYatsura.'' Junji Nishimura serves as director, and the series is produced by Drive.

The TwelveEpisodeAnime was originally scheduled to premiere in October 2020, but it was delayed due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. On December 17, 2020, the official Youtube channel aired the first episode.

* ABNegative: Mitsugu is revealed by Chihiro to be a "chimera," a person with a combination of two blood types. In an inversion of this trope, this means Mitsugu's blood is unfit to be donated.
* AsYouKnow: Lampshaded. Nurse Chihiro annoyedly claims to have already explained the situation with Mitsugu's blood type multiple times, but says it bears repeating because it's important. Mitsugu has heard it so many times that she actually ''falls asleep''.

* LesYay: Mitsugu falls for Mai almost immediately, and
* {{Moe}}: Mai.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Unlike traditional depictions of vampires (who are often described as walking corpses), Mai has a heartbeat and normal blood pressure. Her fangs and pointed ears also don't appear until she's ready to feed, causing her to look normal for the most part.
* PunnyName: "Vlad" in Vlad Love, when filtered through Japanese language (which pronounces V as B), reads "Blood Love", which suits Mitsugu.
* ShoutOut: Chihiro is the kind of person who plays ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' on her [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 PS4]].

* HelloNurse: Despite being a SchoolNurse, Chihiro wears a form fitting red dress with a [[AbsoluteCleavage plunging neckline]] under her lab coat.
* HospitalHottie: Chihiro is the school nurse and wears a dress that should definitely violate some sort of dress code. Mitsugu actually tries using the promise of the "hot school nurse" being the club advisor as a way to get people to join her club at the end of Episode 1.

* Moe: Mai.

Marketed as a "girl-meets-girl" vampire slapstick comedy, VLADLOVE is the first anime series to be helmed by Creator/MamoruOshii in over thirty years, and is also his first return to comedy since ''Manga/UruseiYatsura.'' Junji Nishimura serves as director, and the series is produced by Drive.

VLADLOVE is the first anime series to be helmed by Creator/MamoruOshii in over thirty years, and is also his first return to comedy since ''Manga/UruseiYatsura.'' Junji Nishimura serves as director, and the series is produced by Drive.

VLADLOVE is the first anime series to be helmed by Creator/MamoruOshii in over thirty years, and is also his first return to comedy since ''Manga/UruseiYatsura.'' Junji Nishimura serves as director, and the series is produced by Drive. The anime was originally scheduled to premiere in October 2020, but it was delayed due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. On December 17, 2020, the series official Youtube channel aired the first episode.