Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu

Vampires are known to have many weaknesses that balance out their incredible power, but the vampire lord Draluc happens to be weak to pretty much anything.

The vampire hunter Ronald receives a job to infiltrate the castle of the so-called "Invincible Progenitor" and rescue a woman's son from the monster within. But upon arriving, he is dumbfounded to discover that the vampire quickly turns to ash by something as trivial as a clap of his hands! Moreover, the child he was sent to save had merely wandered in to play the vampire lord's video games while he slept!

In a disastrous turn of events, Draluc's castle is destroyed, and the fragile vampire decides to move in with the hunter who has only just defeated him. Ronald, Draluc, and the vampire's pet armadillo John form quite the eccentric team as they are forced to work together while fending off Ronald's violent editor, the lesser vampires plaguing the city, and even their fellow vampire hunters.

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John Main

Tamura, Mutsumi Japanese

Draluc Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Ronald Main

Furukawa, Makoto Japanese

Hinaichi Supporting

Hioka, Natsumi Japanese

Handa, Tou Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Satetsu Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Fukuma Supporting

Toki, Shunichi Japanese

Maria Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Tsujigiri, Nagiri Supporting

Seki, Toshihiko Japanese

Y-dan Ojisan Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Ogata, Mitsuhiro Producer

Nanbara, Mitsuhiro Producer

Yoshida, Yuuki Producer

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Oct 6, 2024

colelouch

Recommended

I discovered this show through *Re After Recording* and decided to give it a shot, being a huge fan of both voice actors Jun Fukuyama and Tamura Mutsukimi. It turned out to be a delightful surprise! Somehow, this anime had flown completely under my radar during its seasonal broadcast, and I’d even say it’s one of the most underrated shows when it comes to comedy, parody, and gag humor.

The anime draws a lot of inspiration from horror stories and the typical vampire-hunter trope, but it flips these expectations on their head, turning it into a refreshing comedy. Instead of portraying vampires as cool and merciless ... monsters, the show presents the main vampire as the weakest creature ever. While freeloading characters are common in comedy, it’s Draluc’s interactions with others that really make his personality shine. His dynamic with the hunter guild is particularly charming. Despite the guild members’ designs resembling archetypal hero classes, they all have distinct personalities.

The show’s world-building also makes sense, like how vampire hunters adapt to survive in the modern world. Each episode is fast-paced, packing two or three gags into 20 minutes, and the jokes are clever, often combining different events or settings to enhance the humor.

One thing I particularly appreciate is how the show handles its villains. The vampires remind me of those fun villains you’d often see in Cartoon Network or Disney shows. Instead of disappearing after a single appearance, they keep returning and become a part of the world. Each villain has unique abilities, and while some moments can be cringeworthy, they make for interesting challenges for the hunters.

The character designs are innovative, too. As a football fan, I found it hilariously iconic that the main character is named Ronaldo. John, the mascot, is an absolute gem, and Draluc’s personality lets Jun Fukuyama use both his voice ranges, reminiscent of his roles as Lelouch and Watanuki, which is awesome. Overall, I had a blast with this show and can’t wait to dive into season 2!

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 28, 2021

Jozuwa-_-

Mixed Feelings

Alright, gotta be honest right of the bat, I'm bias to Comedy Anime so my rating for this is quite forgiving (Also because of the Almighty John!). But I do have to be fair and judge it base on overall quality as a Comedy Anime.

I'm surprise that I ended up liking this by the end cause, I was so dismayed early-on as they immediately jumped into just doing random sketches/bits before a proper world-building. And while I understand that comedy Anime like this don't need a plot, it can help make connecting to characters easier if there's a world that's been properly built around them ... and give them roles that can play around on it. And that is important in Sketch-based Comedies.
But regardless, it ended up being quite fun by the end. Random-Fun that is. Most of the comical bits are the kind you can get from any Comedy Anime, and not specific to a Vampire-themed Anime.
But I do appreciate them for not pulling too much ecchi. There's a lot of "Oppai" and "Chin" jokes yes, but they rarely used ecchi situations as comical bits.

So yeah, not much to say about it. STORY is basically just about the odd-pairing of a Vampire (Draluc) and a Vampire-Hunter (Ronaldo) who together, will find bad vampires and... befriend them... then add them to the cast.
ART is undeniably meh, but works just fine for a comedy.
Appreciate the BGMs, OST, and VAs.
CHARACTERS? No one else matters other than the Almighty John!
Kidding aside though, there's a lot of them but, barely anyone made much impact. Heroine didn't have much on her (Great VA though). Other guy from the poster didn't quite work as well. Even Ronaldo's Sadistic-Editor bits got old too fast, and was written-out so soon. The Vampire-Hunters guild was fun but, they only got enough screentime near the end.

So yeah, I ended up liking it in the end, and am surely gonna check-out the 2nd season. BUT I only recommend this to people who likes Sketch-based Comedy Anime. Don't expect much from the "Vampire" theme, or any story direction at all. It'll mostly just gonna be generic, random, reference comical bits you can find from other Anime like "Aho Girl", "Danshi Kokousei no Nichijou", or "Asobi Asobase".

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Aug 17, 2024

Kaikaidou

Not Recommended

What do you get when a comedy anime doesn't know how to make a joke? A bad show and also The Vampire Dies in No Time.

The beginning of a review is where I would usually put a plot synopsis, but in trying to summarize the plot, I realized that The Vampire Dies in No Time doesn't really have one. Well, it does... in the way that Captain Planet has a story, but it's one that loses all importance after the first episode. Think of the story as more of a vessel to get the characters into silly situations than one to be thematically plotted. And ... hey, that's fine. It is a gag show first and foremost, so if the story isn't the main focus, they must make up for it with the gags. You can't have a comedy show without gags, right?

Well, if you find boob jokes and screaming loudly funny well then hoo boy are you in luck. I can sometimes find crass jokes funny, I'm not a stick in the mud all the time. Where it goes wrong, for me at least, is the fact that the author is so preoccupied with telling the same joke a million times over, that he doesn't have time (or should I say, can't be bothered) to come up with any new material. Repetition is the word of the day folks. When that man said The Vampire Dies in No Time, he meant The Vampire Dies in No Time. No exaggeration, the show repeats the same "Draluc dies at the smallest inconvenience" bit about 20 times per episode and it never gets any funnier than it was at the beginning, which wasn't all that funny to begin with. There's a reason that most comedies employ the rule of three. You're supposed to STOP at three. But alas, it's four minutes into the episode and Draluc has turned to ash for the 5th time this scene because he stubbed his toe on the wall or some stupid shit, and then I have to wait for the characters to make their exaggerated reactions and scream at the top of their lungs as my eyes glaze over and my pulse slows down to a crawl. It reads more like an annoying child who in making the class laugh once, has resorted to telling the same 3 jokes over and over again hoping it'll be as funny as it was the first time. Spoiler alert, it isn't and never was, and the only reason people laughed at his joke in the first place was because they thought he had a developmental issue but now it's snowballed into something unstoppable. He's made a career out of it. I get that it's supposed to be a gimmick, its the title for gods sake, but when your gimmick is actively ruining my enjoyment of the show, you have a problem on your hands. It's worsened by how lazy it all is. Disregard the repetitiveness for one moment, but the joke itself, the joke they based their entire show on, hasn't changed or been subverted once throughput the course of all 12 episodes. Most of the time, it doesn't even have a proper setup to lead into it. And the screaming too. Oh my god, don't even get me started on the screaming. Why is every second line delivered like the seiyuus are being stabbed in the recording booth? It's my number one pet peeve in comedies, because only unfunny people think screaming is funny. I'm sorry that's the truth. Go watch a YouTube video instead. I could've gotten the same enjoyment watching Kwebbelkop. I know comedy is subjective and I also know I just spent an entire paragraph shitting on it, but to those people who find this show funny, and I mean genuinely funny, don't ever make a joke around me.

The issues continue. Take the characters for example, who are all incredibly shallow. Almost every character reacts the same to every situation. It's like they have these loose personalities, in that they have the vaguest groundwork as to what their personalities should be, but the author is allowed to change it at any given moment to make, what he thinks, is a funny joke. Every character is the straight man and the funny man simultaneously. It leads to the characters having one homogeneous ill-defined personality. Here's a question, what's the difference between any character apart from their appearance? That one guy likes armpit hair? Is that the extent of their characters? It comes to a point where the character specifically written to be boring and emotionless ends up being my favorite just by the fact that he, unlike everyone else, doesn't scream every line. Another fan favorite is John, who by all means, is incapable of being ruined by the author because he's an Armadillo who can't talk.

The animation was... decent? Disappointing for such a big-name studio but expected. It wasn't terrible, everyone stayed on model but I wouldn't say there were any stand out moments. Well, apart from the opening and weirdly, the previews. Yeah, at the end of each episode, they would show these mock previews to get people excited for the next episode, and that's when the budget would kick in. On the part that's advertising the next episode, and the part most people would skip. What a baffling decision. Feels like even the executives didnt have confidence in this show. I genuinely hope Madhouse or whoever commissioned this show lost money for it.

The music of the show is so forgettable that I'm not sure they even played music during the show. Shout out to the voice actors tho. Although they made my ears bleed with their shrill screams, they gave it their all, and it's a shame that they weren't in something better. Absolutely none of my unjustified vitriol goes to them. They are victims as much as me, but at least they got a bag.

4. 4 times. I fell asleep a total of 4 times watching this. Like, I wasn't even watching the show late or anything, it would be 4:00 pm, I did nothing all day and I would still fall asleep. Not even their constant screaming could keep me awake. At a certain point, it just became white noise. There was nothing to keep my attention, not the lazy jokes, not the lazy animation, not even the borderline non-existent characters. If this were my first foray into comedy anime, I'd steer clear of all the others. I wouldn't recommend anyone watch The Vampire Dies in No Time. No, it doesnt even belong in the so-bad-its-good category because it's just boring. And the 4 hours and something minutes I watched the show for, I will never get back, and I will have to live with that for the rest of my life. Go watch 4-nin wa Sorezore Uso wo Tsuku instead.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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