Vampire Hunters

Vampire Hunters

Vampire Hunters are the enemies of vampires. They were created thousands of years earlier by one of the first vampires who desired to give humans a chance to defend themselves against the vampires that were turning the human race into their slaves. By drinking her blood deeply, she poisoned the humans, those who survived became Vampire Hunters who developed accelerated healing, the ability to sense vampires. They also are capable of using magic to detect and detain vampires. Only Vampire Hunters are capable of wielding anti-vampire weapons, such as swords and guns, that will only harm vampires and are the only weapons capable of killing the immortal pureblood vampires. The abilities were passed on through the genes, however as a result of sharing some vampire instincts, twins are rare, normally devouring each other in the womb and are stillborn. They set up an association of hunters with rules and regulations that they must follow in order to hunt vampires. The hunters maintain a list of vampires who have become dangerous and violated the rules as defined in the treaty with the vampires.

Kaien Cross

Headmaster Kaien Cross (黒主 灰閻理事長 Kurosu Kaien Rijichō^?) is over 200 years old^[9], the oldest and most powerful known Vampire Hunter. In spite of being a vampire hunter, Kaien maintained friendships with several pureblood vampire families. Kaien adopted Yuki and also took Zero into his home after they lost their families. Kaien retired as a vampire hunter and became the Headmaster of Cross Academy, he established the Day Class and Night Class with Kaname Kuran with dreams of promoting peace between humans and vampires. Kaien is an eccentric character who often provokes Zero and irritates other characters with his silly mannerisms, though he is a serious character when it comes to matters he cares about. He carries a hidden anti-vampire weapon in his cane^[10] which he uses to kill the President of the Hunters Association who had turned corrupt from drinking Rido Kuran's blood.^[11]

Voiced by: Hozumi Goda (Japanese), Christopher Corey Smith (English)

Kaito Takamiya

Kaito Takamiya (Takamiya Kaito) is a young hunter and a teacher-in-training. He is first introduced in the light novel Vampire Knight: Ice Blue's Sin (ヴァンパイア騎士 憂氷の罪 Vanpaia Naito: Aisu Burū no Tsumi^?) but does not appear in the manga until the second arc. He trained under Yagari with Ichiru and Zero after his former teacher was wounded, this is prior to Yagari losing his eye. During that time, Kaito picked on Ichiru for his physical weakness and Zero for his softness. Later, Zero and Kaito become more friendly. According to Kaien, Zero and Kaito share Yagari's attitude because they trained under him. He is a ruthless vampire hunter, hates purebloods, and trusts no one. His elder brother was bitten by a Pureblood and on his first mission with Yagari, he insisted on killing his brother himself. Kaito was invited to the academy by Kaien to be a student Ethics teacher, however it is really because they are relying on his competence as a skilled hunter to assist the updated Hunters Association's organization. Kaito makes his own plans including inviting Yori to sneak into the party, and revealing to Zero that he intends to use her as bait to stir up the vampires, so Zero would have a reason to kill Yuuki.

Toga Yagari

Toga Yagari (夜刈 十牙 Yagari Tōga^?) is currently the top ranked vampire hunter, as well as the one who trained Zero to be a vampire hunter. He lost his right eye trying to save Zero long ago when Zero's old school nurse turned out to be a level E vampire and tried to attack both Zero and Ichiru. Yagari told them to leave but in an attempt to help his teacher, Zero refuses and stays. It is during this time that the nurse goes for Zero, that Yagari stands in front of him and gets a blow to his face, losing his right eye. He appears at Cross Academy in the guise of being a Night Class substitute teacher of Ethics, there to follow a , and to assess if Zero is dangerous.

Yagari is shocked to learn the Council of Ancients' decision to punish Zero for the death of Shizuka Hio and later reappears to arrest Zero. Yagari subsequently joins the Chairman to protect Cross Academy from the Hunters Association.

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese), Travis Willingham (English)