Lunar Legend Tsukihime

Released: 2003-10-09

Runtime: 24 minutes

Episode Overview

Shiki Tohno, an ordinary high school student starts another day of school. At school he learns of a recent murder with the victim having what seems to be vampire marks on their neck. He also has a strange encounter with a girl named Ciel, whom seems to be his friend but he has no memory of her. On his way home from school he has a strange day dream of killing a girl he sees. He then wakes up in his sister's mansion, where he was moving to that day. He meets the two maids and they tell him he can't go out past 7 pm. Bored, he sneaks out to go get some magazines. On his way back he finds a man collapsed with teeth marks on his neck, he also sees a girl with a sword who looks like Ciel. Confused, he passes out. He awakes the next morning in his room again. He goes to read the newspaper but finds nothing on the incident, leading him to believe it was a dream. His sister also discovers about how he snuck out. On his way to school he runs into the mysterious girl that he had the dream of kil

Series Overview

Shiki Tohno sustained a life threatening injury as a child, and due to that incident he was sent away from the Tohno household and was given to a relative to be raised. Years later, when Shiki is in high school, the head of the Tohno household—his father—dies, and he is ordered to move back in by his sister Akiha, who is the new head of the household. However, Shiki holds a huge secret. Ever since that injury, he has been seeing lines on objects, and only with a special pair of glasses is he able to stop seeing them. Also he is unable to remember anything well from the time before his accident. The day he moves back to the Tohno household is the day he stumbles upon a woman named Arcueid Brunestud and decapitates her with one stab of his knife in a temporary fit of insanity. When she suddenly showed up beside him later alive and well, and ask him to be her bodyguard, Shiki's journey to unravel the mysteries of his past begins.