# E12 - Interview With Mai
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G50UZ2128/interview-with-mai)
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**[01:31] Maki**
The Hollywood movie *Interview with a
Vampire* was released in fall of 1994.
**[01:38] Maki**
As I was a growing girl at the time,
**[01:42] Maki**
it would not be an exaggeration to say
that this movie shaped my personality
**[01:46] Maki**
and became the foundation of my interests.
**[01:50] Maki**
Lead actor Brad Pitt does an
impressive job portraying Louis,
**[01:54] Maki**
a man who struggles with being a vampire
due to his lingering human conscience.
**[01:59] Maki**
Achieving an unexpectedly delicate sexiness
**[02:02] Maki**
and covering up his crude
acting with his good looks,
**[02:05] Maki**
Tom Cruise, who plays Lestat,
undoubtedly gained new fans.
**[02:10] Maki**
The supporting cast were handsome, as well,
**[02:12] Maki**
and the casting was as thorough as
you'd expect from a Hollywood movie.
**[02:16] Maki**
...Is what I'd like to say,
**[02:18] Maki**
but the critical role of Daniel
the interviewer is played
**[02:21] Maki**
by the slightly uninspiring
Christian Slater.
**[02:24] Maki**
He performance is hardly bad, but it's
a little rough around the edges.
**[02:28] Maki**
He was good as the apprentice
monk in *The Name of the Rose*,
**[02:32] Maki**
but he's been lackluster ever since.
**[02:34] Maki**
If River Phoenix had been
cast as originally planned,
**[02:38] Maki**
I personally would have found it
to be an even more enjoyable film.
**[02:44] Maki**
But the interactions between beautiful
men and confessions of love
**[02:49] Maki**
lured not only fans of
homosexual and BL content,
**[02:52] Maki**
but also many fujoshi into its
gorgeous and aesthetic world.
**[02:57] Maki**
The original novel by Anne
Rice is a cult classic.
**[03:02] Maki**
The world depicted is so similar
to that of *Poe no Ichizoku*
**[03:05] Maki**
that it could be considered a
live-action version of the series.
**[03:06] Maki**
Its themes can be summed up as the
sorrow and suffering of vampires.
**[03:11] Maki**
Despite all his agonizing,
Louis ends up as an empty vampire.
**[03:16] Maki**
The delicious final scene ends with
a revived Lestat's triumphant smile.
**[03:22] Maki**
It's fine, though, since it's entertaining.
**[03:25] Maki**
The director would be to blame if he
failed to produce an entertaining film
**[03:28] Maki**
with such an extravagant cast.
**[03:30] Tsujimoto**
The girl who played Claudia
wasn't very cute.
**[03:34] Maki**
You think so?
**[03:35] Maki**
I think it's better that she wasn't
played by a beautiful girl.
**[03:39] Taguchi**
Why is that?
**[03:40] Maki**
Because this is a movie about handsome men.
**[03:43] Maki**
The women and girls can
simply be women and girls.
**[03:46] Taguchi**
Are you sure?
**[03:47] Maki**
Besides, I thought her
acting was impressive.
**[03:51] Maki**
She has the mind of an adult, but her
body is forever that of a child's.
**[03:54] Maki**
The suffering and frustration
she portrayed felt so real.
**[03:57] Maki**
By the end of the movie,
**[03:58] Maki**
she was making the kinds of expressions
you'd expect from a middle-aged woman.
**[04:01] Tsujimoto**
I imagine male fans were disappointed.
**[04:05] Taguchi**
You're right.
**[04:06] Taguchi**
Hetero men feel like they've wasted their time
if they didn't get to look at beautiful women.
**[04:11] Maki**
*Now that you mention it, you might be right.*
**[04:14] Maki**
* What type of beautiful girls*
* do hetero dudes like, anyway?*
**[04:19] Mitsugu**
An interview.
**[04:20] Maki**
That's right.
**[04:21] Mitsugu**
With Mai?
**[04:21] Maki**
Yeah.
**[04:22] Maki**
I want to film it and make a documentary.
**[04:26] Mitsugu**
What are you talking about?
We can't do that.
**[04:29] Mitsugu**
You'd be exposing Mai's secret to the world.
**[04:32] Mitsugu**
And besides, we've got to
respect Mai's privacy.
**[04:35] Maki**
She doesn't have to answer any questions
she doesn't want to answer.
**[04:38] Mitsugu**
You're lying. I know exactly what
you're up to since you chose Mai.
**[04:43] Mitsugu**
You'd be exposing the Blood Donation Club's
impure blood donation activities, too.
**[04:48] Mitsugu**
What if Mai gets kicked
out of this high school?
**[04:51] Maki**
Just because it's called a documentary
doesn't mean everything depicted is real.
**[04:57] Maki**
As a film, it's necessarily a fabrication.
**[04:59] Maki**
In other words, it doesn't
work without direction.
**[05:02] Mitsugu**
You mean you'll exaggerate
Mai's secret, right?
**[05:06] Maki**
I'll censor her eyes with a bar
and call her "Vampire Girl A."
**[05:13] Mitsugu**
In what universe is there an
anonymous "Vampire Girl A?"
**[05:17] Maki**
That's what makes it interesting.
**[05:18] Maki**
I won't be interviewing
some commonplace girl.
**[05:22] Maki**
You just don't understand.
This is why I can't stand amateurs.
**[05:26] Mitsugu**
And I don't care to understand.
**[05:28] Mitsugu**
I don't need you making waves in
my happy little life with Mai.
**[05:32] Maki**
Happy little life, huh?
**[05:35] Mitsugu**
What's wrong with that?
**[05:36] Maki**
Nothing, if you're happy with that.
**[05:39] Maki**
But normally, I'd imagine
people would be more curious.
**[05:44] Mitsugu**
Curious about what?
**[05:45] Maki**
Oh, sorry.
**[05:48] Maki**
I meant Mai's personal history. Her past.
**[05:52] Maki**
I was just wondering what
you even know about Mai.
**[05:58] Maki**
Well, if you're not concerned
about the true identity
**[06:00] Maki**
of the friend you're living
with under the same roof,
**[06:03] Maki**
I suppose that could be considered
magnanimous or cool.
**[06:07] Mitsugu**
Mai's past doesn't bother—
**[06:10] Maki**
It doesn't bother you, except for Franken.
**[06:12] Mitsugu**
What?
**[06:13] Maki**
And if you're happy now,
then none of it matters.
**[06:17] Maki**
I'm giving up on the idea.
You should forget about it, too.
**[06:21] Mitsugu**
Huh? Wha— Maki, wait!
**[06:33] Mitsugu**
*In order to minimize information leaks,*
**[06:36] Mitsugu**
* on the condition that even our blood*
* brothers and sisters would be excluded,*
**[06:41] Mitsugu**
*I agreed to help Maki make her movie.*
**[06:45] Chihiro**
Good grief.
**[06:47] Chihiro**
I thought I'd be able to go home early tonight
**[06:49] Chihiro**
and enjoy some sake while viewing the moon.
**[06:51] Mitsugu**
You say that, but you're itching to
use that clapperboard you're holding.
**[06:57] Chihiro**
As the instructor in charge,
**[06:59] Chihiro**
I can't allow you to perform
extracurricular activities without me.
**[07:03] Chihiro**
You're lucky you have such
an understanding teacher.
**[07:09] Mitsugu**
Mai, are you okay?
**[07:11] Mitsugu**
If you decide you don't want to
do this, we can stop anytime.
**[07:15] Mitsugu**
And you don't have to answer any
questions you don't want to—
**[07:17] Maki**
Hey, stay out of this.
**[07:19] Mai**
I'm okay. I'm actually kind of excited.
**[07:29] Maki**
Ready, action!
**[07:34] Maki**
M-san, let's dive right in.
**[07:37] Maki**
What's your favorite blood type?
**[07:39] Mai**
I don't have one. I was taught
not to be a picky eater.
**[07:43] Maki**
Do you prefer men's blood or women's blood?
**[07:46] Mai**
I actually prefer men's blood.
**[07:50] Mai**
But I'd never ask for it.
Not until we win the war!
**[07:53] Maki**
I see. You prefer the blood
of boys. Why is that?
**[07:57] Mai**
It's kind of thick.
**[08:00] Mai**
It has an animal-like smell
that whets my appetite.
**[08:03] Maki**
Then you must find the blood
of timid boys disappointing.
**[08:08] Mai**
I do.
**[08:09] Mai**
If I'm allowed to choose, I prefer
the blood of aggressive men.
**[08:13] Mai**
But I'd never ask for it.
Not until we win the war!
**[08:16] Maki**
You're such a good-natured vampire, Mai-san.
**[08:20] Maki**
Have you always been such a kind person?
**[08:24] Mai**
I'm not so sure.
**[08:27] Maki**
I'm sure you had lots of friends.
**[08:30] Mai**
It was a long, long time ago.
I don't remember very well.
**[08:34] Maki**
What's your greatest childhood memory?
**[08:37] Mai**
I forgot.
**[08:40] Chihiro**
Cut!
**[08:42] Maki**
Doctor, I'm the director!
**[08:44] Chihiro**
Our food has arrived.
**[08:48] Deliveryman**
Thanks again.
**[08:53] Chihiro**
It seems like she doesn't
want to talk about her past.
**[08:57] Maki**
Perhaps she has a secret.
**[09:00] Mitsugu**
A secret?
**[09:01] Chihiro**
Yeah, maybe.
**[09:03] Maki**
There's a reason Mai's too
timid to bite people?
**[09:09] Chihiro**
Maybe she experienced some
kind of trauma as a child.
**[09:13] Mitsugu**
You guys are overthinking it.
**[09:15] Mitsugu**
Mai's simply a pure girl.
**[09:17] Chihiro**
You're green.
**[09:19] Chihiro**
Green like the Jolly Green Giant.
**[09:22] Mitsugu**
Not only is that an old reference,
but it's kind of obscure.
**[09:26] Maki**
I kind of like his peas.
**[09:31] Mai**
I'm starting to feel sleepy...
**[09:41] Mitsugu**
Huh? Mai?
**[09:45] Mitsugu**
You bitch, you drugged her, didn't you?
**[09:48] Chihiro**
I just mixed in a tiny bit of blood
containing a sleep inducing agent.
**[09:53] Mitsugu**
What?!
**[09:54] Chihiro**
Don't worry. It has no side effects.
**[09:57] Maki**
Doctor, did you—
**[09:59] Chihiro**
I'm a public health doctor with no morals.
**[10:02] Maki**
Hypnotherapy...
**[10:04] Chihiro**
That lukewarm interview style you were
using earlier will never get us anywhere.
**[10:09] Mitsugu**
How could you do this without Mai's consent?
**[10:12] Maki**
As an orthodox documentary maker,
I have some doubts about this.
**[10:15] Chihiro**
That's exactly what makes you lukewarm.
**[10:19] Chihiro**
Like the Jolly Green Giant's thawed—
**[10:19] Maki**
I like his peas.
**[10:21] Mitsugu**
For the record, I'm against this.
**[10:25] Maki**
Mitsugu, are you sure you're not
scared to learn about Mai's past?
**[10:34] Chihiro**
I'll take your silence as consent.
**[10:36] Chihiro**
Let's continue the interview.
**[10:48] Chihiro**
Since you set this in motion,
let me tell you one thing.
**[10:53] Chihiro**
There are some things in this world
that you're better off not knowing.
**[10:58] Chihiro**
Let's get started.
**[11:01] Maki**
Ready, action!
**[11:08] Chihiro**
You are currently descending some stairs.
**[11:13] Chihiro**
One step.
**[11:15] Chihiro**
Two steps.
**[11:17] Chihiro**
Three steps.
**[11:20] Chihiro**
Your foot slipped.
**[11:23] Mitsugu**
Doctor!
**[11:24] Maki**
This isn't the time for jokes!
**[11:26] Chihiro**
You slipped on the third step
**[11:28] Chihiro**
but immediately regained your
balance and stepped down...
**[11:32] Chihiro**
...onto the final step.
**[11:38] Chihiro**
When you open the door in front of
you, you see yourself as a child.
**[11:53] Chihiro**
Where are you now?
**[11:58] Mai**
Inside a carriage. It's moving.
**[12:03] Chihiro**
Where is it traveling?
**[12:06] Mai**
A dark road. The scenery
outside is a blazing red.
**[12:11] Chihiro**
Who are you with?
**[12:13] Mai**
My Daddy, and...
**[12:15] Mai**
Oh, this brings back memories.
**[12:18] Mai**
It's my real mother who gave birth to me.
**[12:23] (Flashback) Mai**
Mother!
**[12:24] (Flashback) Mom**
It's all right, Mai. Father
will take care of it.
**[12:27] (Flashback) Dad**
Mai, I promise I'll protect you two.
**[12:32] (Flashback) Mai**
But it's so red outside!
**[12:36] (Flashback) Dad**
That's the evening sun.
**[12:38] (Flashback) Mai**
But I see so many black crosses!
**[12:42] (Flashback) Dad**
Those are the shadows of trees.
**[12:45] (Flashback) Mai**
I hear horrible groans and screams!
**[12:49] (Flashback) Dad**
Those are the crows cawing.
**[12:52] (Flashback) Mai**
But I smell flesh burning!
**[12:56] (Flashback) Dad**
Mai, you mustn't look at,
listen to or smell anything.
**[13:04] Chihiro**
Decades pass. Where are you now?
**[13:10] Mai**
I'm traveling from town to
town across unfamiliar lands.
**[13:17] Chihiro**
Where are your father and mother?
**[13:21] (Flashback) Mai**
Mother...
**[13:22] (Flashback) Mai**
Where is mother?
**[13:24] (Flashback) Mai**
Where is mother?!
**[13:31] (Flashback) Mai**
Mother!
**[13:33] (Flashback) Mom**
Mai, run! Run away!
**[13:37] (Flashback) Dad**
Run, Mai! Forget about Mom! Just run!
**[13:42] (Flashback) Mai**
No! No!
**[13:45] (Flashback) Mai**
Mother!
**[13:48] (Flashback) Mai**
No! No!
**[13:50] (Flashback) Mai**
Mother!
**[13:57] Chihiro**
They slaughtered her.
**[13:59] Maki**
It was a witch hunt. Poor woman.
**[14:05] Mitsugu**
Mai...
**[14:06] Chihiro**
Those who hunt humans are
in turn hunted by humans.
**[14:10] Chihiro**
Such is the fate of those
who drink human blood.
**[14:15] Mitsugu**
Let's stop. Let's not do this anymore.
**[14:18] Mitsugu**
Who cares about any of that?
**[14:21] Maki**
Mitsugu.
**[14:23] Maki**
Are you sure you're not afraid
to face the true Mai?
**[14:27] Mitsugu**
I just don't want to make
Mai suffer anymore!
**[14:31] Maki**
You're wrong.
**[14:33] Maki**
You're afraid to know what truth is
hidden behind Mai's pretty little face.
**[14:42] Chihiro**
Well, Mitsugu Bambam.
Should we continue or not?
**[14:47] Chihiro**
As interested party number one, you decide.
**[14:50] Mitsugu**
My name isn't Mitsugu Bambam.
**[14:53] Mitsugu**
It's Mitsugu Bamba.
**[14:56] Chihiro**
More time passes. Where are you now?
**[15:02] Mai**
I...
**[15:12] Mai**
My Daddy and I left Europe.
**[15:17] Mai**
We're heading to the New World.
**[15:20] Chihiro**
More time passes.
**[15:26] Mai**
It's different from Europe
and its tired traditions.
**[15:29] Mai**
The city was filled with people of different
races speaking different languages.
**[15:36] Mai**
We hid among the crowds
and continued our journey.
**[15:43] Chihiro**
More time passes.
**[15:49] Maki**
Where are you?
**[15:50] Mai**
We're near a river called the Mississippi.
**[15:54] Mai**
We live on a large plantation.
**[15:57] Mai**
We're surrounded by dark-skinned
nannies and servants.
**[16:01] Maki**
Sounds straight out of *Gone with the Wind*.
**[16:03] Mitsugu**
Gone with the what now?
**[16:06] Maki**
Just die, you ignorant savage!
**[16:08] Maki**
Based on a novel by Margaret Mitchell,
**[16:10] Maki**
produced by David O. Selznick,
and directed by Victor Fleming.
**[16:16] Maki**
Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.
**[16:19] Maki**
Leslie Howard, Olivia de
Havilland, and Thomas Mitchell.
**[16:23] Mitsugu**
Who?
**[16:24] Maki**
You've never heard of the masterpiece
that won nine Academy Awards?
**[16:29] Mitsugu**
Oh, that long-ass movie.
**[16:32] Mitsugu**
I've seen a bit of it on TV.
**[16:34] Maki**
The Keiko Toda and Toru Emori dub?
**[16:37] Mitsugu**
I forgot. Actually, I never remembered.
**[16:39] Maki**
By the way, the Warner Brothers dub
featured Akio Otsuka as Rhett Butler.
**[16:44] Maki**
Scarlett O'hara's sister Suellen
O'Hara was voiced by Atsuko Tanaka.
**[16:49] Mitsugu**
So, what?
**[16:52] Mai**
On that plantation, I met my first friends.
**[17:00] (Flashback) Dad**
Starting today, this girl
will be your friend.
**[17:03] (Flashback) Dad**
Her name is Caroline Irene.
**[17:06] (Flashback) Dad**
Call her Carreen.
**[17:09] Mai**
Carreen came from an orphanage.
**[17:15] Mai**
We quickly became friends.
**[17:21] Mai**
We were like sisters.
**[17:25] Maki**
It really is *Gone with the Wind*.
**[17:28] Maki**
Carreen, also known as
Caroline Irene O'Hara is—
**[17:31] Chihiro**
What happened next?
**[17:33] Mai**
One day...
**[17:37] (Flashback) Dad**
Mai, it's about time you began to
prepare to become independent vampire.
**[17:43] (Flashback) Mai**
Independent?
**[17:45] (Flashback) Dad**
That's right. A fully-fledged
vampire must hunt their own prey.
**[17:52] (Flashback) Mai**
Prey?
**[17:53] (Flashback) Dad**
You must sink your own fangs into your prey,
drink its blood, and control your prey.
**[18:00] (Flashback) Dad**
Naturally, you won't be able
to do that right away.
**[18:04] (Flashback) Dad**
You'll need a partner to practice
on in order to get used to it.
**[18:08] (Flashback) Dad**
Take a look. That's your first prey.
**[18:14] Mai**
Carreen had been brought to the
plantation for that purpose.
**[18:20] Chihiro**
I see. It's like how raptors will
offer live prey to their chicks.
**[18:25] Mitsugu**
Ugh!
**[18:26] Chihiro**
Cut the old-fashioned reactions.
**[18:28] Maki**
He offered a live human to his own child.
**[18:31] Maki**
Vampire parents are incredible.
**[18:34] Chihiro**
What happened next?
**[18:37] Mai**
Naturally, I rejected the idea.
**[18:41] Mai**
I couldn't drink the blood
of my precious friend.
**[18:44] Mitsugu**
Of course not.
**[18:46] Chihiro**
And then?
**[18:48] Mai**
Daddy became angry.
He exposed me to the sun—
**[18:52] Mai**
No, he forced me to fast.
**[18:56] Maki**
Fast?
**[18:58] Mai**
Pure-blooded vampires raise their children
by allowing them to drink blood from their arm.
**[19:05] Mai**
After I lost my mother, I was
raised on my Daddy's blood.
**[19:13] Chihiro**
He did it so she could become
independent and leave the nest.
**[19:20] Chihiro**
It's standard practice in the natural world.
**[19:22] Chihiro**
If anything, humans are the exception.
**[19:25] Maki**
Like a fox driving off her kits.
**[19:28] Chihiro**
And then?
**[19:30] Mai**
I dried up.
**[19:34] Mai**
I'd never experienced anything
like it in my life.
**[19:38] Mai**
I felt so dry.
**[19:40] Mai**
My hunger tore me apart.
**[19:43] Mai**
No matter how much I screamed and cried,
Daddy wouldn't offer me his arm.
**[19:50] Mai**
For three days and nights, I suffered
and cried until I couldn't anymore.
**[19:59] Mai**
Then that night arrived.
**[20:12] Mai**
I snuck into her room.
**[20:17] Mai**
I stood beside her as she slept peacefully.
**[20:33] Mai**
No!
**[20:42] Mai**
I feel so dizzy in the morning.
**[20:46] Mai**
Everyone knows what I'm thinking.
**[20:49] Mai**
My stomach is so excited.
**[20:53] Mai**
Don't push yourself too hard.
**[20:57] All**
The night is anxious,
your sleepiness will go flying.
**[21:04] All**
Blood vessels flow so
smoothly, not enough blood...
**[21:04] Chihiro**
So, what are you going to
do with the video you shot?
**[21:09] Mitsugu**
What? Maki...
**[21:10] Maki**
After the story she told us,
I can't release it to the public.
**[21:17] Maki**
If I'm empathizing with my subject,
**[21:20] Maki**
then I still have a lot to learn
as a documentary director.
**[21:24] Chihiro**
It may be the fate of vampires,
but it's a sad thing.
**[21:30] Mitsugu**
No, it's not.
**[21:32] Chihiro**
What's not sad?
**[21:35] Mitsugu**
Mai isn't alone anymore.
**[21:38] Mitsugu**
She has me...
**[21:39] Mitsugu**
...and her blood brothers and
sisters from the night school.
**[21:58] Chihiro**
Someday Mai may drink your blood.
**[22:05] Chihiro**
I hope you're prepared for that.