History Manga / DanceInTheVampireBund

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The original manga was announced to end on September 5th, 2012 follow but was followed by the above spin-offs. In 2013, the series continued with the subtitle "Scarlet Order" which takes place seven years after the events of the first series and sees Mina and Akira once more facing a threat to the Bund, this time from human opponents. It lasted four volumes.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: [[spoiler:The father of all vampires gave rise to ''ninety-nine sons and one daughter''.]][[MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial This led to the female pureblood vampires being the rulers of all vampires.]] Also, girls fathered by a werewolf are human; [[spoiler:there are exceptions to this one (well, at least one)]].

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: [[spoiler:The father of all vampires gave rise to ''ninety-nine sons and one daughter''.]][[MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial This led to the female pureblood vampires being the rulers of all vampires.]] Also, girls fathered by a werewolf are human; [[spoiler:there are exceptions to this one (well, at least one)]].

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No, really.]]

Now has a [[Characters/DanceInTheVampireBund Character Page]].

!!Tropes:

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: This argument could be made about Mina's claim of paying off Japan's national debt[[note]] specifically, about how that would actually affect Japan's economy[[/note]] at the start of the story.

** 'True Blood' vampires such as Mina and the Great Lords can also sexually reproduce, which means they don't need to convert in order to propagate. Too bad females can only have one child and there's only one female.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: "Tepes" is the nickname Vlad III Dracula was known by (which is Romanian for "The Impaler"), not a clan or family name.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: "Tepes" is the nickname Vlad II Dracula was known by (which means "The Impaler"), not a clan or surname name.

** [[spoiler:Hama]] has this, as revealed in "The Memories of Sledge Hammer." It involves torture and human experimentation, for starters. Then there's [[spoiler:Akira]]'s having been forced to kill a close friend at the tender age of fifteen.

* BadassAdorable: [[spoiler:Akira's baby brother Yuuhi]]: seven years old, absolutely adores his "Onii-chama," and will rip out your throat with his ''teeth'' if he catches you being mean to his big brother.
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:Mina was spirited away by Rozenmann whose allied with Telomere. She managed to escape once but was taken hostage again. The second time she's rescued by Akira, Nanami, the Maids, and the Werewolf Senators]], ''and'' she refused to sleep or eat the entire time.

* BattleCouple: Akira may be Mina's bodyguard, but it doesn't in any way suggest that [[LadyOfWar she couldn't look after herself]], [[WaifFu thank you very much]].

** The name of army corps of the Earth Clan, Beowulf, is an Old English kenning (a type of poetic name) for "bear" (it literally translates to "bee wolf"). (Whether this was an error or intentional is hard to say.)

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: [[spoiler:Creator/AmbroseBierce and [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia Anastasia]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Romanova]] became Vampires. Rasputin was an alias of Lord Ivanovic]].

** While Mina occasionally allows herself half-staged hissy fits [[spoiler:or genuine tears]] among those she actually trusts, she does have a couple of things that will genuinely ''make'' her lose her composure: threatening or seriously harming Akira [=and/or=] Yuki. '''Especially''' Yuki, since Akira can take a lot of punishment. [[spoiler:Angie discovers this the hard way]]. Never, ''ever'' [[spoiler: call Mina's deceased mom a whore. Ivanovic]] also learned this the painful way.

* BedmateReveal: Done for rather {{squick}}y shock value by [[spoiler:the fake Mina]] at the start of volume fourteen to [[spoiler:Alphonse]], what's worse is that they're both completely naked.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Do not mess with [[spoiler:the Fangless -- vampires who willingly pulled out their fangs to preserve their humanity -- because being hated by both vampires and humans made them develop countermeasures that make them an ''amazing'' guerrilla fighting force]]. For example, when [[spoiler:Ivanovic invaded the Bund and started rounding them up, the Fangless responded by leading Ivanovic and his best vamps into a tight hallway filled with RazorFloss and ''dropping their entire apartment complex'' on the rest]].
* BigBadEnsemble: [[TheChessmaster Rozenmann]] and [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Ivanovic]], two of the [[TheOlderImmortal Three Vampire Lords]], seek to wed and impregnate [[VampireMonarch Mina Țepeș]], thereby securing rule over all vampires and ensuring the royal vampire bloodline remains "pure" (i.e., not mixed with humans). The third lord, Li, is a GreaterScopeVillain; dangerous and powerful in his own right and also wishes Mina as his bride, but, unlike Rozenmann and Ivanovic, never orchestrates a plot to seize her by force. [[spoiler:Later on, [[EvilDoppenganger Fake Mina]] joins in; she starts out as a part of Rozenmann's plan to [[TwinSwitch secretly kidnap and replace Mina]], but once she plays her part in his scheme the two part ways, with her pursuing her own goal of finding the ElixirOfLife and Rozenmann having no further interest in her.]]
* BigDamnReunion: ''Scarlet Order'' has the fangless vampires who were lost underground beneath Mt. Fuji returning to their families after seven years, causing many tearful reunions. There's also the vampire lovers Arthur and Okiyo being reunited after being apart for 170 years because he was trapped in a coffin under the sea for all those years.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Lower class vampires can be "reprogrammed" to serve a different master and be controlled by them like slaves; usually when this is seen they're no better then rabid animals. Mina of course is against such a practice, but two antagonists in the second and third volumes have no such qualms. Volume seven has at least two of them. Volume nine shows us a third, and a particularly tragic one at that.

* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Rozenmann. His plan fails spectacularly: Akira is alive, Mina escapes him, and five elderly werewolves utterly demolish his army and his palace. He can't take any pride in their deaths and is left staring in disbelief at the ruins of his castle in something of a DespairEventHorizon which is revealed in "Scarlet Order" [[GoMadFromTheRevelation to have destroyed his sanity]].]] The omake even has insult added to injury.

** Akira has shades of this and any HeroicBSOD he gets -- usually thanks to his DarkAndTroubledPast -- worsens this condition. He tends to alternate between this state and being [[TechnicalPacifist mentally unable to hurt others]]. By the end of the first series, Akira has [[spoiler:managed to achieve and maintain a more healthy attitude]] for the most part.

* ButNotTooForeign: This series loves this trope. Akira Kaburagi Regendorf, son of Wolfgang Regendorf, is half-German and half-Japanese. Yuuhi, his little brother is the same. Inspector Seiji Hama is half-Navajo and a sixth Japanese. Apparently, [[spoiler:Gotoh and her twin]] are half-Japanese, as well. The [[spoiler:Akira Fujisaki]] is half-Brazilian and half-Japanese.
* CanonForeigner: Mei Ren, who takes over Hama's role in the anime as he does not exist in that version. [[spoiler: The only difference is that while Hama has sorta friendly rivalry with Akira, Mei Ren is actually in love with him.]] [[spoiler:The anime's episode twelve changes this a bit: Mei Ren is Akira's EQUIVALENT, to another Mina, the "True Blood Legacy". Mei Ren is also of a lost weretiger clan, the "Forest Clan". And dies.]]

* CollapsingLair: The temples of the Cradle under the Amazon rainforest and Mt. Fuji collapse after the unpure blood of one of the two Minas trigger its self-destruction system. Mina and Akira barely manage to escape on time in both cases.
* ColonyDrop: [[spoiler:The fangless drop ''their entire apartment complex'' on Ivanovic's army.]] Later, there is [[spoiler:the Necropolis' self-destruct system]].

* {{Doppelganger}}: In the anime, [[spoiler:Mina gains one when the leader of Telomere is revealed -- to be a "sister" of hers (in a rather disturbing scene at the beginning of episode twelve, which also explains Akira's LaserGuidedAmnesia), with the goal of controlling both the human world ''and'' the vampire world. Mina's goal is just to establish equality, and a home for vampires -- her doppelganger wants more, a LOT more.]] In the manga, [[spoiler:this doppelganger is apparently the head of Telomere. She shows up at the end of volume nine, has Mina spirited off as Rozenmann's eventual bride, and usurps Mina's rule. In volume eleven she revels herself to apparently be the '''real''' Mina.]] The anime was aired before this development came to light in the manga, so it's not known at this time if they were aware of this or if they just came up with it by coincidence. [[spoiler:It turns out the doppleganger is the fake, for one thing, she could not activate an artifact that requires pure vampire royal blood, yet protagonist Mina, and even Rozenmann, could.]]

** [[spoiler:Rozenmann]] gets this in spades once his plans a foiled. In fact, he takes his [[BreakTheHaughty humiliating defeat]] and what he sees as the final end of the pure-blooded royal line so badly that [[GoMadFromTheRevelation he's next seen ''insane'']].

* BigDamnReunion: ''Scarlet Order'' has the fangless vampires who were lost underground beneath Mt. Fuji returning to their families after seven years, causing many tearful reunions.

* BetaCouple: [[spoiler:Nanami and Yuzuru]].

* DistantSequel: The sequel ''Scarlet Order'' starts seven years after the end of the first series.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Vera]], due to the confusion inflicted on her by [[spoiler:the fake Mina claiming that the protagonist Mina is a fake]], she gets better.

* OutOfFocus: After the initial series publication [[spoiler:Ryohei and Yuuhi (Akira's best friend and werewolf younger brother respectively) as well as Tatiana]] simply vanish, to despite their involvement in the plot and relationship to the other characters, furthermore, as of "Scarlet Order," they are the only characters significantly involved in the main plot to do so, since others are (at bare minimum) mentioned. Yuuhi would eventually return as a major recurring character in "Age of Scarlet Order."

** A major plot point of volume three. [[spoiler:There is a chemical which reacts explosively when mixed with the vampire blood, so implanting a vial of it set to open with a cell-phone receiver turns the vampire ''him[=/=]herself'' into a (potentially BrainwashedAndCrazy) bomb. The idea supposedly originated among ''human'' terrorists, a literal "suicide capsule" to prevent themselves from being captured or interrogated that, when exposed to air, would burst into flames and immolate the person]].

* ColonyDrop[=/=]DeathFromAbove: [[spoiler:The fangless drop ''their entire apartment complex'' on Ivanovic's army.]] Later, there is [[spoiler:the Necropolis' self-destruct system]].

* DudeLooksLikeALady: [[spoiler:Angel Arvenanto]] and ''does'' he milk it.

* ActionBomb: A would-be assassin tries this on Mina during a press conference by purposely letting herself get turned, then [[BodyHorror sewing the bomb inside her now undead body with the trigger on her tongue]]. Fortunately, she's less than successful.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Mina's hair is light pink in the manga while it's blond in the anime which makes her resemble a certain [[VideoGame/BlazBlue vampire of a fighting game]], [[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi as well as another young-looking aristocratic blonde vampire]].
** In later volumes of the manga they start coloring her hair blonde in that as well. So this is one case where the dye job went back into the source material.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Vera's sexuality is not a matter of any great discussion, but her past relationship with Hysterica is heavily implied to have been romantic, and some have speculated she was in love with Mina's mother.

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Inspector Hama]], who, despite being one of the assassins sent after Akira in volumes four and five, seemed genuinely friendly to him and actually lets him go at least once in order to not harm a bunch of children, and later does a full HeelFaceTurn. In "The Memories of Sledgehammer," it is revealed that [[spoiler:Rozenmann was threatening Hama to force the same to work for him]], meaning that Hama was never truly a villain to begin with, anti- or otherwise.

* BackstoryHorror: [[spoiler:Hama]] has this, as revealed in "The Memories of Sledge Hammer." It involves torture and human experimentation, for starters. Then there's [[spoiler:Akira]]'s having been forced to kill a close friend at the tender age of fifteen.

* BattleButler: This is one of Akira's roles.

* BearsAreBadNews: [[spoiler:Inspector Seiji Hama]], easily [[TheAce the coolest character]] of the later part of the manga, is a ''werebear''. [[spoiler:It's rather good for the protagonists that he did a HeelFaceTurn.]] It's later averted: [[spoiler:at the end of the "The Memories of Sledgehammer," it's revealed that his beast form is actually a [[PantheraAwesome giant panther]].]]

* BerserkButton: While Mina occasionally allows herself half-staged hissy fits [[spoiler:or genuine tears]] among those she actually trusts, she does have a couple of things that will genuinely ''make'' her lose her composure: threatening or seriously harming Akira [=and/or=] Yuki. '''Especially''' Yuki, since Akira can take a lot of punishment. [[spoiler:Angie discovers this the hard way]]. Never, ''ever'' [[spoiler: call Mina's deceased mom a whore. Ivanovic]] also learned this the painful way.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Lower class vampires can be "reprogrammed" to serve a different master and be controlled by them like slaves; usually when this is seen they're no better then rabid animals. Mina of course is against such a practice, but two antagonists in the second and third volumes have no such qualms.
** Volume seven has at least two of them. Volume nine shows us a third, and a particularly tragic one at that.

* BrokenBird: Akira has shades of this and any HeroicBSOD he gets -- usually thanks to his DarkAndTroubledPast -- worsens this condition. He tends to alternate between this state and being [[TechnicalPacifist mentally unable to hurt others]]. By the end of the first series, Akira has [[spoiler:managed to achieve and maintain a more healthy attitude]] for the most part.

* CuteAndPsycho: An oddly ''suicidal'' example. [[spoiler:Angie (if his motive rant is to be taken at face value) believes that neither he nor Yuki nor Ryohei are as important to Akira as Mina is, and fears that they all will be forgotten eventually, unless they all die in a manner that would traumatize Akira enough to leave a 'scar on his soul']].

* DancingTheme

* {{Doppelganger}}: In the anime, [[spoiler:Mina gains one when the leader of Telomere is revealed -- to be a "sister" of hers (in a rather disturbing scene at the beginning of episode twelve, which also explains Akira's LaserGuidedAmnesia), with the goal of controlling both the human world ''and'' the vampire world. Mina's goal is just to establish equality, and a home for vampires -- her doppelganger wants more, a LOT more.]]
** In the manga, [[spoiler:this doppelganger is apparently the head of Telomere. She shows up at the end of volume nine, has Mina spirited off as Rozenmann's eventual bride, and usurps Mina's rule. In volume eleven she revels herself to apparently be the '''real''' Mina.]] The anime was aired before this development came to light in the manga, so it's not known at this time if they were aware of this or if they just came up with it by coincidence. [[spoiler:It turns out the doppleganger is the fake, for one thing, she could not activate an artifact that requires pure vampire royal blood, yet protagonist Mina, and even Rozenmann, could.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Rozenmann]] gets this in spades once his plans a foiled. In fact, he takes his [[BreakTheHaughty humiliating defeat]] and what he sees as the final end of the pure-blooded royal line so badly that [[GoMadFromTheRevelation he's next seen ''insane'']].

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Ivanovic's true form]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Angie. This could also count as a IKnewIt since he shows up a bit antagonistic to Mina when they first meet. Over what exactly? Akira]].

* FantasticRacism: Very typical since the masquerade is uncovered. Most of the humans hate and fear the vampires, regarding them as little more then mindless monsters. Most of the royal vampires seen hate werewolves (making Akira's job much tougher then usual) and those that decide to live fangless (i.e. they don't wish to drink blood) are hated by the usual vampires, and the humans don't see them any better for their choice.
** The Fangless are actually starting to subvert this; they're still the subject of racism from other vampires, but some have started interacting with normal humans and they get along just fine. Which makes sense, since they seem more human. That's already two reasons for the mortal populace to like them over most of the 'normal' vampires.

* FullFrontalAssault: Akira is ''much'' bigger as a Werewolf than a human, and he has no MagicPants. Then there's Mina when [[spoiler:she artificially ages herself when she unlocks her true power]]. So far, she's never worn ''any'' clothing when in that form. Also has a fondness for this in general.

* HeroicSacrifice: The end of [[spoiler:the Akira vs. Mina fight. Some collateral damage in the form of a roof of a church -- complete with cross -- comes flying at Mina, who is protected from the mother of all stakes through the heart by Akira jumping in the way -- and getting staked himself. Of course, a large cross through the chest isn't nearly as fatal to a Werewolf as it would be a Vampire]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How Hysteria is beaten when [[spoiler:Nanami, whom she "reprogrammed" (and not to mention mercilessly abused), is secretly "reprogrammed" back by Mina]] and delivers the final blow to her, with her own weapon, no less.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Akira's pretty tall for a seventeen-year-old Japanese highschooler (he ''is'' a [[ButNotTooForeign half-German]] werewolf after all), but not abnormally so. Mina's just that tiny -- she barely stands to his chest, and it's even more apparent in his wolf form, where he towers over her. This is less true when [[spoiler:Mina is in her true form]], but Akira is still a bit taller in his human form.

* InterspeciesRomance: Played straight with almost all the romantic parings in the series. Especially the leads: Mina is a vampire, Akira is a werewolf, and their affection for each other is mutual. Reinforced in the anime when [[spoiler:Mina and Akira make a promise to each other that is tantamount to a marriage vow]].

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Yuki has this view, which is most likely how she deals with her present situation. The best insight into her attitude and feelings is given in chapter sixty-one, where it becomes apparent that her "beloved" is [[spoiler:both Akira and Mina]], for somewhat different reasons.

* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:TheMole in Mina's palace]] is revealed in volume seven to be one of these. [[spoiler:She's just a random maid, infected with a nanomachine that causes her to believe that any order she receives comes from Mina]].

* ManipulativeBastard: Almost every vampire, with Mina as the apparent alpha of this trope, however, it tends to be a IDidWhatIHadToDo situation.

* MayflyDecemberRomance: If Duke Ivanovic is any indication, Mina will actually grow old eventually, and Akira's regeneration will probably extend his lifespan some decades beyond the human norm, but we are still looking at life expectancies differing by an order of magnitude here. On the other hand, Ivanovic may not be a true example of vampire aging, as Mina states he has been in his decayed form for thousands of years, apparently a result of his own rotten soul. The manga also addresses how [[spoiler:vampire werewolves were once possible, creating the possibility of Akira being able to stay with Mina in this way. Mina is eventually forced to feed on Akira to survive, and while he does not become a vampire werewolf, he does become some kind of mysterious super werewolf and in the years since this he has not physically aged at all]].
** A sidestory collection included some information about relative werewolf/vampire lifespans. Old age for a werewolf is 150-200, and most of them don't live that long because they tend to go into dangerous careers. Mina is ''already'' over 400 years old. Of course "the kiss of the rose" allows for werewolves to more than double their normal lifespans too (the lords of the Earth Clan Senate were all alive before Mina was born).

* OlderThanTheyLook: Many vampires, but notably Mina, who appeared to be ten or so when she met Akira as an infant. He is now sixteen while she hasn't really changed.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Some vampires remove their fangs and become "Fangless," and are hated by both humans frightened of vampires and vampires contemptuous toward those who do not embrace the predatory life-style.

* RapeAsDrama: This shows up a few times, although mostly as subtext. First, there's the vampire attack in the church has rape undertones (although this could be due to the way being bitten feels), and in the anime, especially, it pretty much goes past undertones.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Mina is the poster child, since she's at least four hundred years old. She still looks about ''twelve'', though.
** Turns out this also happens a lot among natural-born vampires: they can age naturally, however the first time they ever use their vampiric powers, they become permanently locked at that age.

* ShoutOut: [[TheAce Seiji Hama]] = Series/SledgeHammer. [[TotallyRadical You dig it?]]

** As well as most vampire media, including ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', Béla Lugosi, and Hammer Horror.
** Mina is the most obvious, as Mina Harker is a character from Stoker's novel.

* SoProudOfYou: The look on Wolfgang's face when he carries Akira to the infirmary along the saluting ranks of the Earth Clan.
** Subverted in the anime [[spoiler:This entire scene is changed. Instead of Akira making it to the throne room, the Three are forced to kneel in front of Mina, acknowledging her authority. Mina then leaves the throne room, and gradually hurries to where Akira is entering the castle. At the end she's running full-tilt, and leaps into Akira's arm. Akira asks her to smile for him, she does and he collapses. She holds his head in her lap, laying on the floor with him heavily wounded, while Wolfgang calls for a four-howl salute from the other members of Beowulf stationed there in full uniform, carrying swords. In the next scene, he's had his arm reattached and is looking at Mei-Ren's grave in the Cradle.]]

* SuperMode: Vampires are capable of assuming a "true form" which is the ultimate expression of their power and usually involves turning into a monstrous form. In Mina's case, [[spoiler:she turns into a [[BoobsOfSteel buxom]] adult blonde who looks a lot like her mother, with a Comicbook/{{Witchblade}}-esque carapace (with optional wings) that partially cover her arms and legs, [[{{Stripperific}} and, usually, little else]]. It's also the form that she will do anything to avoid revealing to her political rivals.]]

* VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle: First we have Akira/Mina/Yuki, which is somewhat unusual for this trope in that the [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent relatable teenage girl]] is one of the rivals drooling over the studly teenage werewolf alongside the cradle-robbing vampire queen ([[spoiler:who winds up becoming her best friend]]).

* TheVoiceless: [[spoiler:Yuki]], as a result of brain damage suffered from [[spoiler:Angie's attempt to kill her]]. [[spoiler:She is able to get her voice back in volume fourteen, just in time to save Mina from being killed by the fake Mina]].

* WhamEpisode: The end of volume eight, when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Angie has betrayed Mina and the Beowulf, nearly killed Yuki, and sold Mina's secret to the other vampire lords out of his twisted love for Akira]].

* YaoiFangirl: Yuki's latest novel is apparently a BoysLove story, and the protagonist is based on Akira. Also, Mina (although she didn't understand some of the, er, [[{{Uke}} "advanced]] [[{{Seme}} vocabulary"]] at first) absolutely ''loved'' this story when she read it, to the point of ''personally'' translating it into Latin, the official language of the vampire world, so it could be published in the Bund (make of that what you will). Nero got a lot out of it as well, seemingly being a full-blown {{otaku}}.
** In chapter 33, Mina puzzled out that the book is essentially about her boyfriend's romance with another man and that this made her like it ''more'', and even started actively contributing to the 'creative process.' Upon discovering this, Akira was ''not'' amused.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Mina's hair is light pink in the manga while it's blond in the anime which makes her resemble a certain [[VideoGame/BlazBlue vampire of a fighting game]], [[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima as well as another young-looking aristocratic blonde vampire]].

* {{Expy}}: Mina looks suspiciously similar to Evangeline A.K. Mcdowell from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''.

* EagleLand: Type 2. One could be forgiven for thinking that the author has a scathing, undying loathing of the United States. In the original story, the US is controlled by Rozenman, from the shadows, until his organization's complete collapse at the end of '''Memories of a Sledgehammer''', but by the time of '''Dance in the Vampire Bund ASO (After Scarlet Order)''', the pendulum has swung way, way too far in the other direction, with the US being openly controlled by an extremist anti-vampire group, so extreme that it was ''thrown out'' of Christianity, thousands of years ago, happily indulges in terrorist acts, like setting off V-X gas in a stadium attending the opening of the Olympics, and routinely holds purges of people for the "crime" of being vampires, even if they're fangless, and if you dare complain? Well, you're just a heretic who needs to be purged too. The American Citizens even call these folks "NAZIS" to their face.

* ShapeShifterWeapon: [[spoiler:Ivanovic's assassin and its siblings]].

* GenderEqualsBreed: [[spoiler:It's revealed that the daughters of the first and only pureblood female vampire can only give birth to girls, as the father of all vampires give this "blessing" to his daughter: as she was the only female among his children, she will only give birth to girls and those girls will only give birth to girls and so on. Because of that, it's strongly implied that Mina would only give birth to a girl]].

* OutOfFocus: After the initial series publication [[spoiler:Ryohei and Yuuhi (Akira's best friend and werewolf younger brother respectively) as well as Tatiana]] simply vanish, to despite their involvement in the plot and relationship to the other characters, furthermore, as of "Scarlet Order," they are the only characters significantly involved in the main plot to do so, since others are (at bare minimum) mentioned.

* MayflyDecemberRomance: If Duke Ivanovic is any indication, Mina will actually grow old eventually, and Akira's regeneration will probably extend his lifespan some decades beyond the human norm, but we are still looking at life expectancies differing by an order of magnitude here. On the other hand, Ivanovic may not be a true example of vampire aging, as Mina states he has been in his decayed form for thousands of years, apparently a result of his own rotten soul. The manga also addresses how [[spoiler:vampire werewolves were once possible, creating the possibility of Akira being able to stay with Mina in this way]].

Seven Seas distributes Kaoru Shintani's (of ''Manga/{{Area88}}'' fame) Young Miss Holmes in which Mina makes a guest appearance in the Case of the Sussex Vampire (Nozomu Tamaki provides art for the arc's epilogue - which takes place during Mina's voyage to establish the bund itself).

* ParentalAbandonment: A short scene shows Yuzuru noticing that [[spoiler:Nanami]]'s parents are moving away after their daughter was turned. [[spoiler:Yuzuru's mother]] was already nonchalantly practicing neglect, which is what [[AloneTogether brought him and his aforesaid childhood friend together]]. Even after [[spoiler:Yuzuru comes home with Yuki and his mother is informed that Yuzuru was ''attacked'' by a vampire, she only tells Yuki that she'll ''let'' her take care of him]]; this woman would make a lizard proud.

** [[spoiler:Angie, unless his throat fully recovers from Yuuhi ripping it out. [[LaserGuidedKarma Serves him right]]]].

The story is told from the point of view of Akira Kaburagi, a Werewolf and Mina's chosen guardian. Giving up a life as an ordinary high school student when Mina decides to out the entire vampire population, Akira has his work cut out for him, as Mina has pissed off just about ''everyone'' with her announcement -- the humans want to wipe the Bund off the face of the Earth, rival vampire clans want to wipe the Bund off the earth, and even members of her own family want her for their own reasons.

* ObligatoryWarcrimeScene: '''Dance In The Vampire Bund (A.S.O.)''' begins with the U.S. attacking Mina and Akira with a ''cruise missile'' while the two are touring a lighthouse. What makes this a war-crime is that Mina is the sovereign leader of a country officially recognized by the U.N..
** When the anti-vampire cult tries this again on a ship of refugees that Mina and Akira just rescued from a death chamber, Akira uses his super-senses and an extreme-long-range sniper rifle to shoot down said cruise missile, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which then lands on explodes right on top of the cultists involved.]]

* TakeThat: In DanceInTheVampireBund (A.S.O.), Mina Tepes decides to get her news and information from Fox News, and mentions them by name. While she openly decries what she sees as their "right wing" ideology, she also mentions that she chooses to watch them ''because their reporting is the most accurate.'' It's a TakeThat both ways!

* EngagementChallenge: Volumes four and five are about [[spoiler:Mina's utterly repulsive 'suitors' setting one up for Mina's hand without her knowledge or consent. The challenge? Kill Akira before sunrise]]. Somewhat subverted when [[spoiler:Mina bets on Akira winning for the right to chose her groom]].

* FantasticRacism: Very typical since the masquerade is uncovered. Most of the humans hate and fear the vampires, regarding them as little more then mindless monsters. Most of the royal vampires seen hate werewolves (making Akira's job much tougher then usual) and those that decide to live fangless (i.e. they don't wish to drink blood) are hated by the usual vampires.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: The official public face of the Bund at large. Closer inspection, however, subverts this by showing that majority of the Bund's populace seem to be, if not "evil," then at least huge jerks. Also played straight in that there ''are'' several (Vera, Nanami, the Fangless) who really are harmless, or at least would be if left to their own devices. Mina herself, can be considered as such, if not for her sometimes [[IDidWhatIHadToDo ruthless tactics]].

* GirlishPigtails: Mina's default hairstyle.

** [[TinyGuyHugeGirl Inverted]] with the BetaCouple.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While the series generally likes kicking the notion of stereotypes in the balls, it seems to subtly lean towards this by the end. While a few vampires, namely Rozenmann, Ivanovic, and Li are horrible, horrible people, vampires for the most part are shown to be more self-destructive than anything. The worst we see of the citizens of the Bund is on the level of minor organized crime, and those uninvolved with such things are shown to just want to be left alone, even those who haven't become Fangless. Humans, on the other hand, are shown to form into lynch-mobs because of fear and jealousy, and murder anyone who gets in their way. Often, humans are a greater danger to vampires (and, near the end, each other) than vampires are to humans. On the other hand, the series also has some humans being incredibly kind, even in the midst of life-threatening chaos (and other really trying circumstances), so it is ultimately more of a subversion than anything else.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: The Fangless, those vampires willing to extract their own fangs are the ones that are serious about keeping away from the whole predator thing.
** Most of Mina's motivation for enrolling in Akira's high school.

* IndirectKiss: Akira and [[spoiler:Mei Ren]], in episode ten, [[spoiler:via a piece of hard candy, which is shot from one mouth into another]]. It's a subversion: [[spoiler:the candy was laced with a drug that inhibited Akira's ability to transform into a werewolf. This causes much hassle for him, especially after Mei Ren's true nature is revealed in episode twelve]].