Vampire Princess Miyu
Japanese manga series
Vampire Princess Miyu (Japanese: 吸血姫（ヴァンパイア） 美夕, Hepburn: Vanpaia Miyu) is a Japanese horror manga series by Narumi Kakinouchi and Toshiki Hirano, as well as an anime adaptation by the same creators. The anime was originally adapted as a 4-episode original video animation (OVA) series released in 1988 and licensed by AnimEigo, and later as a 26-episode television series released in 1997 and licensed by Tokyopop and later Maiden Japan.
Plot
The series takes place in Kyoto, and follows Miyu Yamano and her Western Shinma companion, Larva. The daughter of a human and a Shinma, Miyu was born a vampire and awakened as the Guardian. She is tasked with hunting down stray Shinma and sending them back to the darkness. Before she turns 15, she longs to return to the darkness herself, but not until she has banished the Shinma from Earth and learned who she truly is, as this information has been withheld from her since her awakening.
Most locations in the series evoke traditional Japan.
Characters
Main
Miyu (美夕)
Miyu (OVAs) Voiced by: Naoko Watanabe (Japanese), Pamela Weidner-Houle (English, AnimEigo dub), Annemarie Zola (English, Manga Entertainment dub)
Miyu (anime) Voiced by: Miki Nagasawa (Japanese), Kimberly J. Brown (English, ep 1–7), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (English, ep 8–26)
A girl who appears to be around 13 or 15 years old, but is actually much older because she is a vampire. Her origins and personality differ between adaptations: in the OVAs, she is the child of a human father and a vampire mother in post–World War II Japan, while in the anime she is the child of a human mother and a Shinma father, who was the previous Guardian, in pre-World War II Empire of Japan. In the OVAs, Miyu is childish, manipulative, and playful, while in the anime, she is more reserved yet kinder.
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