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4	[[caption-width-right:350:Full...Full...Full...Moon!]]
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6	''Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase'' is a {{Seinen}} manga series by Keitarō Arima which was serialized in ''Comic Gum'' from 2000 to 2008. It was adapted into a 25-episode anime series by Creator/StudioShaft that ran from 2004 to 2005, with a 26th non-canon OVA episode.
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8	Kouhei Morioka, BlackSheep of a family of powerful psychics and spiritualists, has less spiritual energy than the average {{Muggle}}. In his job as photographer for an occult magazine he encounters Hazuki, a young girl trapped in a castle by a magical barrier (Kouhei is so lacking in spiritual energy that the barrier didn't notice him). After he promises to help her out of her confinement, she insists on giving him a "kiss," then [[KissOfTheVampire bites him on the neck]].
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10	Now, usually [[OurVampiresAreDifferent in this story]] when a vampire bites a human, the victim loses all free will and becomes the vampire's slave. This doesn't happen with Kouhei because of his lack of spiritual power. ''This'' doesn't keep Hazuki from acting like it did and throwing a temper tantrum when he doesn't humor her.
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12	Kouhei smashes the crystal making the barrier, gets Hazuki out, and she spends the rest of the series living with Kouhei and his grandfather in the grandfather's shop, and fighting off attempts to bring her back to her prison by other vampires while bonding with her human friends.
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15	!!Provides examples of:
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17	* AccidentalKiss: [[spoiler:Episode 21, which has Hazuki and Hikaru end up kissing each other after a villain throws the latter onto the former.]]
18	* AccidentalPervert: In Episode 25, Kouhei just needed to use the bathroom, not knowing Hazuki was taking a shower.
19	* AdorableAbomination: [[spoiler:Once Kouhei gains the ability to truly perceive spirits, he sees Hazuki's true form (which was apparently hidden from ''everybody'') and freaks out at her.]]
20	* AnimalEaredHeadband: Hazuki wears a cat headband and sometimes other characters.
21	* AntiMagic: Kouhei, who can't cast magic but is also impervious to it.
22	* BlackBlood: Red blood is okay for vampire bites, but blood from very serious wounds (like, say, a hole dug in someone's chest) is black.
23	* BadassNormal: Kouhei, who valiantly fights for his friends despite lacking the spiritual powers the of his family possess. He eventually becomes [[EmpoweredBadassNormal more powerful after]] training himself in order to better protect his loved ones.
24	* BigBrotherInstinct: Luna appeals to this in order to suck Kouhei's blood in the first episode.
25	* BizarroEpisode: [[invoked]] Episode 26 invokes this, as the entire thing is completely off-the-wall random (for starters, the house is randomly ''in the middle of the ocean'') and only one character notices. He's eventually driven insane by how little sense anything makes, and it's all PlayedForLaughs.
26	* BlandNameProduct:
27	** Lots of it, often containing cat-related puns (Nyapporo beer, Nyankus convenience store).
28	** Notable others include Kouhei's Ninolta camera, and Hazuki flying Riftnanza Airlines.
29	** Episode 20 ends on a picture with Hazuki holding a camera. Of course it's a "Neko".
30	* BlindWithoutEm: TokenMiniMoe Kaoru can't see anything without her huge round glasses. An example in the anime; her twin sister pours a washtub of water over her during bathtime, causing her to lose her glasses and forcing her to get down on her hands and knees so she can start feeling around for them. Her glasses end up directly ''behind'' her while she's busy crawling and feeling around, to which [[BlindMistake the poor girl is oblivious to]] and [[ProneToTears ends up crying over her inability to find them]].
31	* BrattyHalfPint: Hazuki, least at the start of the series. She cools down later as she get to know Kouhei.
32	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Closer to "shattering". The end of Episode 25.
33	* BubblegumPopping: Artemis is almost always chewing gum, but the only time you know is when she blows a huge bubble.
34	* CastingAShadow: Artemis's powers are all shadow-based.
35	* CatGirl: Hazuki is always wearing cat ears and it's a motif to see cat ears or cat ear-shaped things throughout the series. The cat spirit, Heigi, is an actual cat girl, however.
36	* ChickMagnet: Kouhei tends to attract all the powerful female characters in the series.
37	* CostumePorn: Courtesy of the family, Hazuki wears several different outfits throughout the series.
38	* CulturalTranslation: The English dub replaced the closing trailers' horrid Japanese riddles with horrid English riddles. Apparently there's a law of Conservation of Corny involved in the translation process.
39	* CuteClumsyGirl: Kaoru. Her gigantic glasses don't do much good, it seems.
40	* CuteLittleFangs: Hazuki; also Hikaru from time to time.
41	* CuteMonsterGirl: Every female vampire, such as Hazuki, Elfriede, [[spoiler:and Artemis]].
42	* DaywalkingVampire: One of the vampires Kouhei meets has this ability, namely [[spoiler:Hazuki, though they only find out later on, after Elfriede temporarily gains the power through Hazuki's blood.]]
43	* DemotedToExtra: Hiromi becomes less and less involved with the plot as the show goes on.
44	* DirtyOldMan: Kouhei's grandfather has minor shades of this, as he's the one that initially bought Hazuki her outfits and seemed really keen on the suggestion that Elfriede suck his blood and make him her slave.
45	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Hiromi manages to crash into multiple things before getting thirty feet away from the driveway.
46	* DropTheWashtub: Done as a RunningGag throughout the series. Various characters will get bonked on the head numerous times by one whenever they do something remotely stupid. It's all for the RuleOfFunny, and at one point one character actually realizes exactly what he's saying, and [[LampshadeHanging catches the tub.]] Then the entire HOUSE of the cast gets bonked by a giant washtub.
47	* ElegantGothicLolita: Hazuki, [[UnlimitedWardrobe at first.]]
48	* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Heigi talks like this in the dub of the anime.
49	* EnemyWithin: Luna, Hazuki's "true" form.
50	* EnhancedOnDVD: The DVD release has improved artwork, improved animation, improved fight scenes... the list goes on. An entire episode that was aired on TV without any relevant video due to some issue with an animating contractor was transformed on DVD into one of the most intense and impressive episodes of the series.
51	* FalseCameraEffects: Strange things happen all the time, but one of the best examples has nothing to do with the camera itself. Instead, it happens when a microphone hangs in the view as if the audio assistant had a weak arm and no one noticed during editing. Also, a spotlight is standing around for no reason at all.
52	* {{Fanservice}}: There are random bits in the anime that consist of nothing but one of the characters posing in various outfits. There's also the fact that most of the female cast members, particularly, the ones interested in Kouhei consist of young and [[OlderThanTheyLook young-looking girls]].
53	* FauxPaw: Hazuki does this especially in the opener.
54	* FightUnscene: Several of the fights in the TV versions cut away from the action to show a piece of landscape or architecture ''while you can hear the fight going on''. A lot of this was fixed for the DVD release, leading to some confusion between groups of fans who have only seen one version.
55	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: The last episode takes place in the middle of the ocean for no good reason. One of the characters is driven insane by how little sense this makes.
56	* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Hazuki and [[spoiler:Elfriede]] are pretty friendly most of the time.
57	* GeckoEnding: The manga was still ongoing when the anime was made, so the show ends with [[spoiler:Artemis befriending Hazuki]] and the cast celebrating a proper way to end a show.
58	* GeniusLoci: [[spoiler:Vigo, the butler who serves Hazuki in Schwartz Quelle castle, also ''is'' the castle.]]
59	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:Kouhei experiences this temporarily after his powers let him see Hazuki's true form]].
60	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Heigi
61	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: As it turns out, Hiromi.
62	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Elfriede and Artemis both join the heroes.]]
63	%%* HermeticMagic
64	* HimeCut: Hazuki and Heigi.
65	* HonorableElephant: Balgus, the vampire with the pachyderm-esque mask, is not without compassion towards Arte, at least compared to Jeda.
66	* IHateYouVampireDad: [[spoiler:Elfriede despises her father, Count Kinkel, with good reason. He turned Elfriede into a vampire before slaughtering the human family who raised her. He then forced her to drink the blood of her best friend, gloating how Elfriede was his slave]].
67	%%* InverseLawOfUtilityAndLethality
68	* KarmicDeath: Count Kinkel, oh so very much.
69	* KickTheDog: Pretty much everything Count Kinkel does.
70	* KissOfTheVampire: Expected, given the premise of the series involves cute vampire girls. The number of times it's referred to as a ''bite'' instead of a kiss is minimal.
71	* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Seigi, who has long flowing black hair down to his waist. The "{{pretty boy}}" aspect is [[{{Gonk}} parodied]] in episode 26 of the anime, where [[GoMadFromTheRevelation he goes insane from the situation the family is in]].
72	* MadeASlave: Happens to anyone who's blood is sucked by a vampire. It doesn't work on Kouhei even though Hazuki of course refuses to believe he isn't her slave and still tries to treat him like one.
73	** In Chapter 71-72 Hikaru becomes a slave to [[NoNameGiven [=The UnNamed One=]]] when she sucks her blood after Hikaru released her.
74	%%* MagicalGirlfriend: [[DoubleSubversion doubly subverted]]
75	* MalevolentMaskedMen: Vigo the monster butler has a vaguely operatic face covering, while several of the later vampiric goons wear animal-themed masks. They're all jerks.
76	* MayflyDecemberRomance: All the relationships involve people who are ReallySevenHundredYearsOld but don't look anywhere near the age of their partner. The biggest examples being Kouhei with Hazuki, and Grandpa with Elfriede.
77	* {{Meido}}: Hiromi, when captured and put under mind control, is dressed in a maid costume for [[{{Fanservice}} no particular reason]].
78	* {{Miko}}: [[PolarOppositeTwins Twins]] Hikaru and Kaoru. Hazuki gets a turn as one too.
79	* MoodWhiplash: OnceAnEpisode, the show will flip from seriousness to comedy and back in an instant.
80	* MoonRabbit: The opening makes a bit more sense if you know about the Rabbit on the Moon and its mortar.
81	* MundaneUtility: Hazuki has the ability to completely eliminate her life signs and sit completely still for hours. She uses this catch thieving birds, and to allow Kouhei to take an amazing long-exposure photograph of her.
82	* NobodyPoops: "This cat has no rectum!"
83	* NotHimself: [[spoiler:Part of Hazuki's character development involves her internal struggle with her alternate self, Luna.]]
84	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They can steal powers from other vampires, and these various powers can range from [[MasterOfIllusion bending light]] to [[CastingAShadow manipulating shadows]] [[spoiler:to [[DaywalkingVampire temporarily walk in daylight]]]].
85	* PowerCopying: Vampires each have a unique ability that other vampires can borrow with a sip of blood, or steal permanently with a fatal drain. Hazuki's copyable ability is [[spoiler:not dying when exposed to sunlight]], hence her importance in the eyes of other vampires.
86	* ProneToTears: Young {{miko}} Kaoru is definitely a crybaby who sniffles over the slightest thing, although she sometimes uses this as an act to disguise a more mischievous side.
87	* Really700YearsOld: The majority of the vampires, even Hazuki. Elfriede is around 500 years old and Count Kinkel is 900 years old.
88	* ReligionIsMagic: The mysticism practiced by Kouhei's family seems to have roots in Shinto.
89	* RoseHairedSweetie: Artemis, but she's actually a loner, subverting the GenkiGirl type that would be usual for this trope
90	* ScaryShinyGlasses: Most frequently Elfriede, but Seiji and even cute little {{miko}} Kaoru flash them on occasion. Also notably, Seiji has one short scene where only one of his lenses is shiny and it's ''not'' played for sinisterness.
91	* SolemnEndingTheme: All three ending themes are much more serious than the opening.
92	* SplitPersonality: Luna is Hazuki's alternate personality, and generally acts much more mature than Hazuki.
93	* SproutingEars: happens occasionally in the manga, mainly in the early parts before the CatEaredHeadband became a standard part of her costume.
94	* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Mistress Luna, for Hazuki.
95	* SurrealThemeTune: Well, it's Creator/StudioShaft after all.
96	* TookALevelInBadass: Kouhei, [[spoiler:from chapter 20 and onwards, suddenly becomes a powerful mage after submitting himself to months of TrainingFromHell]].
97	* {{Tsundere}}: Hazuki is a classic Harsh Type towards Kouhei.
98	* UndyingLoyalty:
99	** {{Justified\|Trope}} InUniverse among Ludo, humans turned vampires chosen to serve their full-blood vampire masters. The KissOfTheVampire is supposed to make them completely obedient.
100	** In Balgus's case he isn't controlled and just has a special bond with Artemis, [[spoiler: as her grandfather]].
101	* VampireLolitaArchetype: Hazuki is a long-haired preteen vampire girl who greatly prefers long dresses of the ElegantGothicLolita style. She's a {{Tsundere}} with a major case of BelligerentSexualTension going with Kouhei and treats him like a slave. She also comes from a very rich background.
102	* WeirdnessCensor: Episode 26 [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates]] this beyond measure. To explain, the house the cast lives in is floating in the middle of the ocean, and apart from Seiji absolutely no one finds this particularly strange. They even laugh at him for trying to convince them that this situation is bad.
103	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Seen in episode 18:
104	-->'''Hazuki:''' Blob monsters?! Why did it have to be blob monsters? I '''hate''' blob monsters!

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