Vampire Knight

I love this manga!!! I had actually started to read the series about a week or so this was assigned, so the timing worked out perfectly. I probably wouldn't have finished it so quickly if not for the assignment, but that's fine. The biggest problem was in the 6th-8th mangas, where it was necessary to read them online since they're not out in the U.S. yet. I despise reading online (I love the tactile stuff), and there were several garbled translations that made things hard to understand at times. Other than that it was fantastic! The artwork was beautifully drawn, and the storyline was really good. This definitely goes by the view of the "modern day" vampire. It did put a fresh perspective on a fairly new concept of how vampires organize themselves (I guess the Senate is sort of like the Volturi in the Twilight series, but better). I know that there are a lot of mangas about high schools, and there are many stories about vampires, but Vampire Knight was able to combine these two without seeming cheesy or unoriginal.