“Beautiful girl Mito poses as a boy to become vampire Ruka's thrall at boys' academy.”
Vampire Dormitory
ヴァンパイア男子寮〈ドミトリー〉
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Synopsis
Beautiful girl Mito poses as a boy to become vampire Ruka's thrall at boys' academy.
Mito Yamamoto is a beautiful man, so much so that women swarm the restaurant he works at daily. When the restaurant owner decides that he has had enough, he fires Mito, leaving him unemployed and with no place to call home. Soon after, Mito happens upon a cafe and receives a cut on the hand from broken glass. A strange man named Ruka Saotome takes Mito aside to presumably tend to the injury, but instead, he licks away Mito's blood, remarking that it tastes disgusting before asking Mito to leave. Later that night, Mito accidentally slips off the roof of a building and is caught by Ruka, who reveals himself to be a vampire. Ruka explains that a man's blood tastes disgusting, and the blood of someone unloved has an even worse flavor. However, Ruka cannot drink from girls, so he has been looking for a beautiful boy to become his thrall. He proposes that Mito fill this role and that he allow Ruka's affections to "ripen" his blood. Mito accepts and begins living with Ruka in the Hijirigaoka Boys' Academy dormitory. However, there is just one problem in all this: Mito is actually a girl!
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
What 5 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.14 · split reception
3.5 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 3.5
↓ 0.80
Running avg · Jan 2024 → Aug 2025
- 7 “Please for the life of me, if you are 13 years old or had a vampire fase that you wanna go back to, this is the perfect manga for that. Yes it gets progressively cringier and i had moments where i...”
- 6 “Very based story, it's a nice shoujo I guess. The plot generally started nice, but towards the end it kept declining. I'm staying for the drama though. All in all the main character is a bit off,...”
- 6 “6/10 +Soft character designs and pretty animation +Explores bolder theme of accepting love of all types (LGBTQ) -Horribly executed story beats and cliches; poor world-building -No meaningful...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 57 × 14 ch × vol
- Total read 7h 36m approx
- Published Oct 2018 – Jun 2024
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M51185 catalog