TV series
HATU: Vampire Syndrome
2002 · 1 season
A moody, slow-burning teen drama where supernatural hunger complicates everyday relationships, feeling earnest and slightly melancholic.
- Created by
- Chisato Ōgawara, Naoyuki Tomomatsu
- Starring
- Atsushi Harada, Hitomi Miwa, Kazumi Murata
- Overview
- The protagonist, high school student Akira Sakaguchi (played by Atsushi Harada), desires a normal human life, yet he is a vampire who cannot survive without consuming human blood. The series depicts the various human relationships surrounding Akira. It faced accusations of plagiarism for bearing striking similarities to Kazumasa Hirai's novel “The Wolf's Crest,” leading Hirai to publicly criticize Naoyuki Tomomatsu, who served as both screenwriter and director for this work.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, dark and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Identity, isolation, coming-of-age, love
- Content
- Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Chisato Ōgawara, Naoyuki Tomomatsu
- Starring
- Atsushi Harada, Hitomi Miwa, Kazumi Murata
