Vampire Dormitory (Japanese: ヴァンパイア男子寮, Hepburn: Vanpaia Domitorī) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ema Tōyama. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōjo manga magazine Nakayoshi from November 2018 to June 2024. An anime television series adaptation produced by Studio Blanc aired from April to June 2024.
Plot
Teenage orphan Mito Yamamoto has spent most of her early childhood living with numerous relatives who saw her as nothing but a burden since her parents died in a house fire when she was a child until years later, she is kicked out by one of her relatives and is forced to fend for herself. Now homeless, she secretly starts sleeping at the ramen shop where she currently works as a waitress at until she fired by her boss for doing so; she then starts cross dressing as a boy to protect herself and prevent drawing unwanted attention from leering strangers. While searching for another job, she suddenly stumbles upon La Fraise, a popular cafe with handsome waiters where she accidentally breaks a vase and cuts her finger, causing it to bleed; one of the waiters Ruka Saotome takes her to the back room to tend to her injury.
Not knowing that she's a female, he licks off the blood from her cut until he feels disgusted from the taste of it, making her leave. Feeling like she has nowhere and no one to turn to, Mito later that night contemplates committing suicide by jumping over a bridge; when she begins having second thoughts she slips and falls off the bridge until she is rescued by Ruka, who is revealed to be a vampire and suddenly bites on her neck, while sucking her blood. Afterwards he comments that the flavor of mens blood tastes gross and the blood of someone who is unloved has a much bitter taste-(explaining Mito's cut from earlier), he proposes for Mito to become his thrall to fill this position. Despite being a girl, Mito moves in with Ruka at the dormitory of Hijirigaoka Boys' Academy, where she continues to conceal her real gender by posing as a student on the campus; she then takes up a job at the cafe with Ruka and several others.
Written and illustrated by Ema Tōyama, Vampire Dormitory began serialization in Kodansha's shōjo manga magazine Nakayoshi on November 2, 2018.[5] The series ended its first part on July 1, 2022, and began its second part on December 1 that year.[6] The series ended serialization on June 3, 2024.[7] Its chapters were collected into fourteen tankōbon volumes from April 12, 2019 to July 11, 2024.[8][9]
During their 2019 San Diego Comic-Con panel, Kodansha USA announced that they licensed the manga in a digital-only format.[10] On March 24, 2021, Kodansha USA announced a print release would be released in Q4 2021.[11]
An anime television series adaptation was announced on October 30, 2023. It is animated by Studio Blanc and directed by Nobuyoshi Nagayama, with scripts written by Touko Machida, and character designs handled by Naomi Tsuruta.[36] It aired from April 7 to June 23, 2024, on Tokyo MX and other networks.[37][38] The opening theme song is "Sugar Blood Kiss", performed by Fantastics,[39] while the ending theme song is "Mata Ashita" (また あした, "See You Tomorrow"), performed by Every Little Thing.[40]Crunchyroll licensed the series.[41]
As of July 2024, the anime has adapted the first 6 tankōbons
