Kizumonogatari Part 1: Iron-Blooded

In his second year at Naoetsu Private High School, Koyomi Araragi crosses paths with Tsubasa Hanekawa, the class’s top student, and the two strike up an unexpected conversation. Hanekawa brings up an unsettling rumor making the rounds: a vampire with striking blonde hair and ice-cold eyes has been spotted somewhere in town.

Araragi dismisses it at first and continues on with his evening, until he notices blood smeared along the stairs leading down to the subway. Drawn by uneasy curiosity, he follows the trail into the station’s depths—only to come face-to-face with the source: the very vampire from the rumor, found grotesquely dismembered. When she begs for help, Araragi is forced to choose whether to intervene, a decision that could alter the course of his life.