fukasenanairo:

This is just a fun generic vampire battle shounen, they said. It won’t be painful, they said. 

Ahem, anyway. Everything in here is the references and symbolism I have noticed in Servamp. Most of these are from literature, folklore and stage plays. There are a lot. Way more than I expected out of a vampire battle shounen.

Note: It’s long. And wordy. I’ve been told that it would be helpful to fic writers, but I don’t know myself. 

Most of the stuff here is obvious, but I have my speculations. Take everything with a grain of salt. Knowing Japanese authors, who, like us regarding Japanese stuff, google things, I have been searching most of these stuff in Japanese. One of my requirements for a foreign work to appear here is ‘it has to have a Japanese wikipedia entry’. As such, don’t expect some obscure sekrit stuff not in wikipedia.

I’ve given this to a fair few number of people to check out, and I have to say they have been absolutely wonderful! I have kept their comments here because I felt it wouldn’t feel right to delete them. Please direct your thanks to the lovely { @faecakes } and [@haloud]!! I wanted to ask more people, but the section has already ballooned so much…

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