Карин: Манга, Роман және Аниме Сериясы

Japanese manga, light novel, and anime television series
In 2005, Tokyopop acquired the license to release both the manga and light novel series in English in North America. To avoid confusion with another of its properties, Tokyopop chose to release the manga under the name Chibi Vampire instead of under its original name of Karin. Tokyopop released the first translated manga volume on April 11, 2006 and the last one on September 29, 2009. They also released the novel series with the manga. Tokyopop also released a collection of Karin short stories under the title Chibi Vampire: Airmail on August 31, 2010. Viz Media later acquired the rights to the series and released a complete digital publication for Kindle. The series has also been released internationally by Pika Édition in France, and by Waneko in Poland.

A series of light novels, Chibi Vampire: The Novel (かりん増血記), were written by Tohru Kai with illustrations provided by Kagesaki. The novels were published by Fujimi Shobo, with the first volume released on December 10, 2003. As of April 2008, nine volumes have been released. Tokyopop, which also licensed the manga series, acquired the license to release the novels in English in North America. As the company had renamed the manga series from Karin to Chibi Vampire, it released the novel series under the name Chibi Vampire: The Novel. As part of this cut back, Tokyopop canceled the remaining releases of Chibi Vampire: The Novel after the fifth volume, due to be released July 8, 2008. The company later reversed the cancellation and announced that volume six would be released April 13, 2010. In the end volume 8 was published by Tokyopop on March 1, 2011, but volume 9 was not. Chibi Vampire: The Novel is closely tied to the manga series, with each novel volume designed to be read after its corresponding manga volume. For example, the first novel takes place between the events that occur in the first and second volumes of the manga series, and the fourth volume of the manga mentions characters and events from the first novel volume.

In 2005, an anime television series adaptation was animated by J. C. Staff, directed by Shinichiro Kimura, and written by Yasunori Yamada. Spanning twenty four episodes, the series aired in Japan on WOWOW from November 4, 2005 through May 12, 2006. It was licensed for an English release to Region 1 DVD, under the original name Karin, by Geneon USA; however, the company went out of business before completing the release of the series. On July 3, 2008, Geneon Entertainment and Funimation Entertainment announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America. While Geneon Entertainment will still retain the license, Funimation Entertainment will assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. Karin was one of several titles involved in the deal. While Funimation is distributing the DVDs, Geneon is the licensor of the series, and also produced the English dub in association with Odex.

A book entitled Karin All Nosebleeds Book (かりん まるごと鼻血ぶ〜っく) was published by Kadokawa Shoten on March 17, 2006 as a guidebook to give an overview of the Chibi Vampire series. The first portion of the book contains illustrations by Yuna Kagesaki; the second part contains an overview of the series' setting, including a map of the town featured in Chibi Vampire; the third part has the results of a reader questionnaire; the fourth part has descriptions of the characters, and outlines of some of the popular scenes throughout the series. Martin also did reviews for the fifth, sixth, tenth, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth volume. Martin referred to Elda as a "juicy" new character in the fifth volume, but said that some of the plot was too generic. He praised the sixth volume for having much drama and important plot info. but was unimpressed by the "true humor", and un translated sound effects. Martin gave both volumes an overall B rating. In the tenth volume which was also given a B rating, Martin again praised the plot developments but said that the addition of the half vampire character was "not particularly interesting". Martin gave the twelfth, and thirteenth volumes an overall grade of a B+ saying that there is more "intricate writing" than meets the eye. His criticism about these two volumes were that some of the content is too clichéd. The final volume received a B+ rating from Martin who gave a plus to almost all of the plot resolutions that didn't involve Maki. He said that reasons behind Sophia's existence were an issue though along with action scenes that were hard to follow. Chris Johnston from Newtype USA gave the first manga volume a positive review calling it a "charmingly macabre manga ". Johnston stated that the addition of the vampire plot accentuates the humor, and gives the story more of a purpose than just puppy love. Chris Beveridge from Mania also gave the fourteenth volume a review. Beveridge gave the volume a B rating saying he was glad the series ended on a good note before becoming too uninteresting. he also said that the artwork was spot on, and the franchise as a whole is "good fun". In 2007, the Chibi Vampire light novel series was a runner up for the Kadokawa Shoten's first annual Light Novel Award in the "Novelization" category.