Tried and true

This was something else I did over the weekend. Paid $68 for this. Worth every penny. I had actually forgotten that I picked this up in spite of the fact that it was produced by the same jokers who did Samurai Princess. Thankfully, this one is a much more competent and entertaining experience. Probably 'cause it's based on someone else's work. And that someone has talent.

Vampire Girl VS Frankenstein Girl is a stupidly entertaining move, almost from the instant it begins. Fountains of blood, faces getting ripped off, chicks with... erm, swords. It sort of begins like a standard high school drama, but gets to the point rather quickly, and doesn't really beat around the bush. The plot centers around the titular Vampire Girl (Monami, played by Yukie Kawamura) , who attends a local high school. She gives a guy she likes a chocolate that's intended to turn him into a vampire too, that way they can be together forever (high school girl logic). She states this pretty plainly to the guy in their second scene together. And we're off. The conflict arises, in typical high school drama fashion, from the fact that the guy already has a girlfriend (Reika, played by Eri Otoguro). When said girlfriend winds up dead after falling off of a roof, her mad scientist father turns her into the titular Frankenstein Girl. Hilarity, quite literally ensues, between Monami dancing under a shower of blood, Reika using her legs as a helicopter rotor to fly to the top of Tokyo Tower, or the creepy old grounds keeper named Igor, this movie doesn't even pretend to take itself seriously.

If the main feature wasn't bad enough, the two disc set includes a short that sort of vaguely retells the story. Except in the end Vampire Girl and Frankenstein Girl fuse into some sort of macabre defender of peace and love. Take that Osama bin Laden. Vempire Girl will get yo' ass.*

*May, or may not have happened. I was pretty drunk.

I sort of vaguely recall that the reason I picked this up was because Eri Otoguro was in it. While she certainly is, the show is completely stolen by Yukie Kawamura. She has a lot of fun being Vampire Girl the highschooler, and Vampire Girl the monster. And is mesmerizingly beautiful in either role, an important characteristic of any vampire. I was bummed I didn't have any prior works to base my newfound fandom on, or so I though. Turns out Yukie is a pioneer in another area of entertainment I can appreciate. I love it when a plan comes together.