MoonPhase

Kouhei ranks among the best in paranormal photography, but he's never actually seen a ghost! While on assignment in Germany for Occult Magazine, he fails to capture a hauntingly beautiful young girl on camera and knows there must be an explanation. Driven by curiosity, his spiritual insensitivity proves a curse indeed as the young photographer crosses barriers best left alone, stumbling into a medieval castle and a world he cannot comprehend. Some riddles can prove dangerous indeed!

Unable to master Kouhei with her vampire wiles, Hazuki changes tactics, convincing the photographer with pleading and tears to help gain her freedom. Tapping into his protective instinct, Kouhei sets out to destroy the crystal orb, the source of the castle guardian's power. As Kouhei wages war within, his cousin and co-worker Seiji, a powerful mystic, joins the battle from outside the barrier. The unforeseen ace: as a psychic null, Kohei proves immune to spiritual attacks!

As Kouhei learns more about his adopted sibling, Hazuki's memories awaken misplaced resentment. A misunderstanding sends her fleeing into the night, and Kohei is forced to find the young mistress before the dawn's light. Temporary safety and trying traveling accommodations allow the pair to seek out Hazuki's childhood home, so that the young vampire may fulfill her last promise to her mother... The mother who abandoned her to her fate and imprisonment two years past.

Kouhei and his family welcome the young vampire and her newfound feline friend, Haiji, into the household, the only stipulation being that Hazuki must wear the neko mimi ("cute little cat ears") at all times. A month has passed, and the full moon's return is accompanied by an insatiable thirst for blood and ominous strangers in the night. Unwilling to serve as the cocktail, Kouhei's denial sends the little bloodsucker out on the hunt, where they both must face the fate that awaits.

Elfriede, a servant of the fearsome Count Kinkel, has come to retrieve Hazuki and return her to the castle. But the little vampire is less than agreeable, and a fierce and furry battle begins. Kouhei revives in time to stop things in his own spiritually-retarded style, and the relationship between "master" and "servant" gives the Count's vampire food for thought. Elfriede decides to pay the pair a second visit on their home turf to see what else she can discover.

Kouhei and his family take Hazuki and Haiji to seek mystical assistance at the Mido family home in Kyoto. The young vampire stirs up a bit of feminine rivalry, but it doesn't stop there... Elfriede has followed them beyond the city limits and seems to have lost sight of her goal. Intrigued by Kohei, she arranges for a clandestine rendezvous. Incensed by this level of interest in her slave, Hazuki steps in to set things straight. And as family rises up against the petite fanged, family also seeks to save her.