 Her golden eyes, they are strange, and yet beautiful...
They'll close the gateway to your te...ars...
stopping the flow of the hourglass of time...
Severing the string... known as misery,
the sound... and the rhythm... disappear...
Vampire Princess Miyu is a tale about a girl, who just happens to be a vampire (family thing and all), who hunts the Shinma that delight in human misery and death. The anime has a dark feel. The main character is not Miyu but a spirituralist named Himiko who is intriguied about Miyu and begins looking for her more. Miyu is forced to hunt the Shinma that was released from their sleep during Miyu's and her mother's efforts to keep her from taking her mother's place. To do so, she is given immortality in her child-like form. Truthfully I really like this series more than any other.I'ts dark,sad and occaisionally filled with love.
Miyu is an eternally 13 year-old vampire charged with hunting shinma (god-devils) and returning them to the dark. In the Miyu manga and anime, vampires do not suffer from holy symbols, exposure to sunlight, garlic nor any other of their usual problems. They do, however, drink blood. By giving her blood to a human, she can give that person eternal life or let them live in a dream world. The similarities between Miyu and the shinma that she returns to the dark are frequently examined in the anime and manga,
Larva is a Western shinma that came to Japan to kill Miyu before she became a vampire. However, he waited too long; when he finally decided to kill Miyu his touch awakened her vampiric nature. Miyu gave him some of her blood, and he is bound to her because of this. Since that time Larva has worn a metal mask (in the anime, he is also forbidden to speak). Larva is Miyu's eternal guardian and her only friend. His presence greatly improves Miyu's skill in returning shinma to the dark. Presumably, when the last of the other shinma are returned to the dark, Miyu and Larva will follow.
Himiko Se is a spiritualist who appears in (and narrates) all of the anime, but she is not in the manga. Although she originally wanted to destroy Miyu, she later begins to accept that a vampire doesn't need to be evil. In the last episode of the anime, it is revealed that Himiko has carried Miyu's blood since childhood, and will eventually become a vampire.
Yui
Yui is a vampire of the same clan as Miyu. Her mother was bitten by Miyu and her father was a shinma. Miyu hopes that Yui will help her return the stray shinma to the dark. Just as most of Miyu's powers are associated with flames, Yui uses sakura blossoms. Yui, along with her friend Nagi, appears in most of the manga
Nagi
Nagi is the brother of a man that fell in love with Yuki, the vampire twin to one of Yui's ancestors. Like Yui and Miyu, he lives without aging; he is a member of a ``ghost clan''.
Ichirou
Ichirou looks implike or perhaps elfin, but is actually a werewolf. This is revealed in the third volume of Shin Vampire Miyu. In wolf form he defeats Water Lipper. He only appears in Shin Vampire Miyu.
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Miyu: You bought another painting?
Father: Paintings are wonderful. They can capture beauty forever.
Miyu: That's true ... but I think the sea is beautiful because it's always moving ... beautiful because it changes from moment to moment.
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