Anime and Internal Logic

[Asuka Soryu]

I think the thing to realize is that all stories when drawn out for a long period of time, especially when each chapter has a week to be produced, including new story, art, inking, dialogue, editing and publication, you just can't expect nothing to ever be contradicted. Some stories do get away with it, but they usually are smaller or have less things going on at one time.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

Wait, wait. No. The Twilight argument is invalid. Twilight was hated so much, that 'light' thing was overblown and even then, it wasn't vampires in sunlight as much as it was that they sparkled.

Also, there are vampire designs that had them immune to sun light way before Stephanie. Hell, pretty sure Nosferatu was immune to sun light.

I'm sure if a vampire movie had come out that was good, even if the vampires were able to travel in sun light, the complaints if any would be small.

well actually, the whole "can't handle sunlight" is meant to make the vampire this "mysterious outsider" since they can't normally go about in public, but that is only one aspect to vampire lore, albeit a significant part.

the point still stands though, even if the film was good, if it starred a character that didn't suck blood/life force/ magic whathaveyou, walked about in sunlight, died through conventional means but was still called a vampire, people would ***** about it, simply because it lacks the defining features of a vampire.

to coma back to the original point, the same applies to ninja's and samurai, only they fall under less scrutiny because we, as a western audiance, are far less familiar with their background.