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When I read the first chapter of Vanitas no Carte, I was instantly hooked. Action sequences, incredible costumes, everything was drawn with extraordinary attention to detail and with a good deal of style. The relationship between the main two characters was funny and felt real to me, and the mangaka has some serious guts to reveal how the entire manga will end at the end of the very first chapter. It sunk its teeth into me as soon as I read that.

In short, I think it’s one of the best opening chapters I’ve ever seen. Which is why I’m mystified how it all got so

muddled so quickly to make me drop it. I think too many plot points and too many characters were introduced too quickly, until it reached a point at which I started flipping back pages to try and remember who was who. The art often has style overpower substance to the extent that I can’t figure out what’s happening, only that it’s being done with great panache, until reading the manga feels like riding a very attractive but still out of control roller coaster.

Secret organizations of vampires operating in steampunk turn-of-the-century Paris should be a slam dunk, but in the end not even Vanitas’ pretty smirk can save this.

What’s fascinating about bringing a manga into anime form is the expression of its ideas onto the television screen. Jun Mochizuki is best known for her work, Pandoras Hearts and she’s able to communicate her wealth of ideas to her fans. In respect, she’s able to formulate together a fictional setting with colorful characters and ultimately create this piece of work known as Vanitas no Carte.

Vanitas no Carte (or its English title ‘The Case Study of Vanitas’) takes place in France that adheres to a steampunk fantasy. Studio Bones helms the show with director Tomoyuki Itamura at the steering wheel. You’d think a guy who

Vanitas no Carte, known in English as The Case Study of Vanitas, is based on the manga created by Jun Mochizuki, since December 2015. It has since been collected into 11 volumes. The anime currently has one season that was split into two halves, the first of which aired from July to September 2021, and the second from January to April 2022.

As you may have picked up already, the major connection between these titles lies in how they use nomenclature; more specifically, the True Name concept as a major driving force in the story. For Mochizuki, The Case Study of Vanitas was an attempt to pivot away from Pandora Hearts, her previous success in manga, and draw something with compelling fight scenes and a focus on hidden identities as a thematic component.