Shiki can see things others can’t. He has acute Death Perception. He can see the lines that bind things together, and seeing these lines, he can cut them. Fortunately, a helpful person gave him a pair a glasses that block him from seeing the lines, which saved his sanity during his childhood, or did it?

Now a high school student, Shiki discovers that his ability to see and cut these binding lines makes him a VAMPIRE SLAYER. He discovered this one day by cutting a vampire to pieces in the park; she disappeared, and he forgot about it. Until the next day, when the vampire showed up and said he had to make amends for killing her.

Turns out there are two types of vampires, the True Ancestors, (the good guys) and the Dead Apostles (the Bad Guys). Most TA don’t like to drink blood, they get their sustenance elsewhere. The DA are humans who have drunk the blood of a TA (evidently some TA get off on it). Arcueid, the Vampire that Shiki killed, is a TA type and is on a mission to exterminate the DA. She want to enlist Shiki to help, since if he can kill her, he should be able to slaughter those bad DA.

Meanwhile, Shiki runs across one of his high school classmates wearing long bladed fingers. She watches from a distance as he fights a DA. What is she up to? Does she blackout and not remember the evening events, like Shiki?

Meanwhile, Shiki is spending a lot of time with the vampire princess, causing problems at home in an already convoluted home situation. Shiki’s younger sister is the head of the household; their parents are dead; Shiki had been living with relatives since he first started seeing the lines that bind; now he has moved back in with his sister and the twin maids that wait upon him hand and foot.

This is all from the first disk, the first four episodes. I have no idea where they are going with this. Shiki appears to be another one of those completely oblivious high school students who whines a lot while being convinced he must use his powers for good.

There are some questions: What is the Lunar Legend? Who gave Shiki the glasses? Why does Shiki put up with his sister’s 7 PM curfew? Why doesn’t the rest of the world know about vampires, especially since they are so active in this world? Does anybody really care what is going to happen next?

Tsukihime – The Lunar Legend – a 6 out of ten?