I learnt that the main female character for Fruits Basket and Vampire Knight are quite similar as they start out all innocent and girly.

No wonder I didn't like Yuki much.

Apparently, the male leads are the same (Kyo and Zero) as they are both reticent and laconic. The tough guy image. Although I recall positively abhorring Kyo and thinking that he was just a Typical Shoujo Manga Bishie, I kinda liked Zero. Must be the fact that he's a vampire, has fangs, a gun and drinks HUMAN blood. Yum.

This only goes to show the extent of my obssession with vampires. o.0

Anyway, I listened to Vampire Knight OST today! All music pieces -- no lyrics or songs. It was a nice change. That's another reason why the Japanese rock (not in WWII, but no point digging up old wounds) - they are amazingly atristic and creative in their arranging of OST! I've read that some netizens think Vampire Knight is similar to Twilight...and come to think of it, why the heck didn't I notice?!!

Well, it just goes to show my obssession with REAL vampires that don't sparkle and actually drink human blood. And blood and murder and gore. Yay.

But! The soundtracks were different! The English people love putting whiny songs/sentimental ones that make absolutely no sense in this vampire romance. Urgh. Vampire Knight is better in my opinion because of the creepiness the music eludes (what is the style called? Dark ambience? Dunno) and the sheer mystery of it. I felt that the character's themes were very well done, particularly the males, a.k.a. Kuran Kaname (even if I hated the beginning of the piece) and Zero. Yuuki's was just to happy and innocent, with a subtle grace, but at least 'recollection' managed to salvage her image. I felt that 'recollection' was better than her theme song...it expressed what she was : her two sides.

There was some normalacy in the tracks: Ordinary Day Class, Usual Life (which sounded quite pink-panther like) and Everyday Affairs.

One track which was a letdown was 'Heart-rendering sorrow'. It was just too typical, there was absolutely no effect on me, it felt as if it was gilded in pink and bows as it walked off a typical horrid shoujo manga. I didn't feel the sorrow, I felt the cliches.

And that ends my unexpected review of the VK OST.