Clingy Jealous Girl: Riho is a rather mild case.

Charm Person: Cain frequently attempts to mesmerize Shido, and the only thing that keeps it from working is Heroic Willpower.

Cain is the biggie, though - Shido doesn't even have a sire in the game.

Canon Foreigner: Technically there are many, since the show is an Alternative Continuity of the game it's based on.

In episode 4, Cain rips the cross off Riho's neck and gives her a mortal injury.

Call-Back: Shido buys a silver cross pendant for Riho in episode 3, jokingly acting like it has power over him.

Body Horror: What happens when a Nightbreed possesses a human.

(While Riho has yet to do so, the events of episode 12 suggest that she is capable of it.) Shido uses a number of forms, but seems to prefer a sword.

Bloody Murder: Vampires in 'Nightwalker' can transform their blood into weapons.

In the first set of designs, he occasionally wears a Conspicuous Trenchcoat to protect himself from the sun.

Badass Longcoat: Shido sports one in the second set of character designs.

Badass in a Nice Suit: Yayoi favors business-like attire ( short skirts not withstanding) and she's a secret agent.

Awesome Mccoolname: 'Tatsuhiko Shido' (purple-wysteria dragon-son) is merely the character's current alias, and too over the top for Guni to hold back from snarking about it.

The shift from lighter to darker and more intense colors may be the intentional result of a shift of tone in the anime, a visual way of expressing that the setting is becoming 'darker', literally and metaphorically.

Adaptational Attractiveness might be better. 'dye job' falls short of expressing how different Cain looks. Shido's eyes change from gold to blue and his hair gets a lot longer Riho goes from brunette to redhead Cain.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Yayoi has dark reddish hair until episode 5, when her hair becomes black.

Art Shift: From episode 5 onward the show has new character designs.The game also got an Updated Re-release around the time the anime aired.The Anime of the Game: Yes, the eroge visual novel came first by about 5 years.just as Shido strikes the final blow to Riho, he wakes to discover it was all a hallucination caused by Cain. The psychological trauma causes Riho to give in to her vampire nature, and she murders Yayoi and Guni. All Just a Dream: Episode 12, in which Riho's deceased parents return as nightbreeds, forcing Shido to kill them (again) in front of her.Agent Peacock: Cain can overpower Shido without even mussing his pretty hair.Action Girl: Gun-toting secret agent Yayoi.Aborted Arc: The Golden Dawn - some complex scheme involving human/nightbreed hybrids - is set up as a big deal event in the early episodes, but it gets dropped before the baby is even born.This is also notable being one of the very few dubs Bang Zoom! Entertainment did for Central Park Media. Joining him are Yayoi Matsunaga, an agent for a anti-Nightbreed organization dubbed the NOS Riho Yamazaki, a teenage orphan (courtesy of Nightbreeds) who works as Shido's Girl Friday and Guni, a little green imp with bat wings who often hides in Shido's hair.

It takes place in a Japanese city where our Friendly Neighborhood Vampire Shido works as a private investigator, specializing in supernatural cases - particularly cases which involve a race of demons dubbed Nightbreeds. Even in Japan.ĭespite the other inconsistencies, the same writers work on the show throughout and the setting remains consistent. Also it's based on a computer game that barely anyone has heard of. Also worth mentioning is the peculiar composition of the show - it's divided into two portions that don't feel quite alike, and look markedly different. It follows a repentant vampire named Tatsuhiko Shido in his struggle to covertly protect the citizens of his adopted city from other, less friendly creatures of the night. Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective ( Mayonaka no Tantei Nightwalker) is a 12-Episode Anime Vampire Detective series.

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