The 5 episode series follows the human soldier Momo and the vampire queen Fine as they both decide to escape from their repressive societies and find their own Eden.
Vampire in the Garden has the following tropes:
- After the End: The setting of the series is a post-vampire apocalypse world.
- Anti-Villain: Momo's mother wants her back in no large small part because she would lose face if her daughter ran off with a vampire, while her uncle wants to get her back out of genuine concern having been betrayed by his vampire-lover in the past.
- Bat People: The vampires can transform into this. They also have a drug that allows them to mutate into huge, monsters with wings.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Momo's mom and Allegro both want to get to Momo and Fine and separate them and want to kill the one they see as deluding their family member.
- Bittersweet Ending: Fine and Momo's journey to find Eden winds up being in vain, as the place they thought was Eden turns out to be a community where vampires have enslaved others of their own kind for energy farming. The war between humans and vampires continues on, and most of the characters die in the end—with Fine being one of them. However, Momo is able to grow as a person and stand up to her mother in a way she couldn't before. In the after credits we see an older Momo leading a community of vampires and humans, the Eden that didn't exist in the world before now built by her hands. Even if elsewhere, humans and vampires continue to war with each other, in this dark and cold world, there is now at last a light of true hope.
- Child Soldiers: Central uses child soldiers. Momo, who is 14, is sent on a mission to root out vampires in the opening scene.
- Crapsaccharine World: Eden aka Volskaya is a community where vampires have enslaved other vampires as a means of providing themself and their human collaborators with energy. In exchange, the humans donate blood to the vampires. All vampires who are lured into the community are enslaved to provide energy.
- Crapsack World: The world is in a pretty bad state for everyone except the vampire elite, but Central's insistence on outlawing music has made it pretty much unbearable.
- Death Equals Redemption: Allegro uses his last breaths to tell Momo to find and help Fine because he realizes this is the best he can do for her then.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: The plot is about the families of two girls trying to prevent them from being together because it's not acceptable in their culture. With the Russian-coded setting, it's not hard to read the story as a parable about gay rights in Russia.
- Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The overall is based on Russia, with Central being akin to the Soviet Union with its design and totalitarian iron curtain culture.
- Volskaya ("Eden") seems a lot like Finland with Finnish, Sami, and Swedish elements mixed together (the latter are major minorities in Finland). Finland was part of the Russian empire for a century before gaining independence.
- The vampire court seems very much like old Imperial Russia or the White Russian faction of the revolution, with a decadent nobility and monarch.
- Fun-Hating Villain: Momo's mom due to Central having banned music for being "the culture of the vampires".
- Lesbian Vampire: Fine was previously in love with a human woman named Aria, who Momo reminds her greatly of. Over the course of their travels, Fine falls in love with Momo, but only confesses her feelings on her deathbed.
- Meaningful Name: The main vampires Fine and Allegro are named after musical terms.
- Volskaya is the name of an actual town in Russia. It's also the last name of Tamara Volskaya, a Russian traditional musician.
- Mini-Mecha: A new invention by Central against the vampires.
- Mutual Disadvantage: Both Central and the vampire aristocracy misjudges their situation against their enemy. The vampires believe Central are preparing a grand attack on them and wants to attack first. Central is in reality running on low morale and dwindling supplies and are performing desperate raids to gather supplies and kill off vampires. Central themself has no idea that vampire morale is pretty low too due to said raids or that the majority of the vampire population can't feed itself.
- Psycho Serum: The syringes vampires facing sure death use turn them into hulking bat monsters able to soak up tons of damage, but at the cost of not being able to change back, and either dying to in combat or to instability from the serum.
- Soviet Superscience: Central (which is pretty toned down Diesel Punk) has developed anti-vampire mechas.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: One is a world-weary Queen of a group of vampires, who live off drinking human blood. The other is a naive daughter of a General, who is intent on the destruction of all vampires.
- Vampires Are Rich: Defied. While the vampire elite is this and lives in splendor, most of the vampires live in mundane or right-out appalling conditions.
- Vampire Dance: Fine is introduced doing an impressive dance with another lady vampire, which is aided by her wings. It's also mentioned that she tends to do this a lot, and that her current lover isn't her first or will be her last.
- Vampires Sleep in Coffins: Referenced when Fine gets locked up in a coffin when she's incapacitated.
- Vegetarian Vampire: At the start of the series, Fine has stopped drinking blood which is weakening her at worrying levels. At least once she is overcome by blood lust and attempts to attack Momo.
- Voluntary Vampire Victim: In several flavours to boot. One society has humans barter with vampires in an uneasy alliance that clearly wasn't providing enough blood for poorer vampires. One has humans freely give blood in exchange for food, shelter and the occasional nordic hootenanny. And of course, Momo repeatedly attempts to give blood to Fine.
- Weakened by the Light: While it's not lethal, sunlight hurts the vampires a lot and weakens them. Huge UV lights are pretty effective at keeping them at bay at least.
