Tsukune and the News Club girls go on a field trip to the human world, where they are dropped off at a sunflower field known as the Witch's Knoll. "Can't We All Just Get Along?" ( 友達になれたら, "Tomodachi ni Naretara")."City of Humans" ( 人間のまち, "Ningen no Machi")."Summer the Color of Sunflowers" ( ひまわり色の夏休み, "Himawari-iro no Natsuyasumi").When the News Club distributes their first paper, the Security Committee confiscates the batch, leading Tsukune and the gang to a conflict with committee member Keito, who is a spider-woman. When the paperwork for the News Club goes missing before their deadline, Kurumu finds herself being blackmailed into modeling for a photographer who has been stalking her. Tsukune discovers that the art teacher Hitomi Ishigami is behind the ploy, and has to rescue Moka from her wrath. As Moka takes time away from Tsukune for a secret project Tsukune and the News Club learn about the disappearance of some girls. After they help her against some school bullies, she becomes their friend (with some romantic interest in both Moka and Tsukune). Tsukune, Moka, and Kurumu meet Yukari Sendo, a young genius witch who initially despises Tsukune for liking Moka. "Wish Upon the Moon" ( 月に願いを, "Tsuki ni Negai o").He, Moka, and Kurumu join the Newspaper Club where they meet club president Ginei Morioka a girl-chasing playboy who reveals to be a werewolf after he abducts Moka. When the clubs recruit members, Tsukune tries out the swim club, only to discover that its team members are deadly mermaids.
Rival classmate Kurumu Korono tries to attract Tsukune by charming him as a succubus, but Moka defeats her. When other students threaten him and Moka, he finds that he can remove the rosary from Moka's necklace and have her transform into a powerful vampire. He is about to give up until he meets Moka Akashiya, a beautiful vampire who immediately takes a liking to him and becomes his friend. Tsukune Aono, an average student who is unable to enter a regular high school because he flunked the entrance exams, enrolls at Yokai Academy and discovers it is a school for monsters where he is the only human. "Coexistence" ( 先輩とは仲よくね, "Senpai to wa Nakayoku ne")."Kurumu of Black Dreams" ( 黒い夢のくるむ, "Kuroi Yume no Kurumu")."The School Vampire" ( 学園のバンパイア, "Gakuen no Banpaia").
Individual chapters of the series are called tests, while each volume on the English releases are called lessons. The manga is licensed in North America and the United Kingdom by Viz Media under its Shonen Jump Advanced imprint, and in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment, with the volumes released between June 3, 2008, and November 3, 2009. The series is continued with Rosario + Vampire: Season II, a sequel that began monthly serialization in the November 2007 issue of Jump Square. A bonus chapter of Rosario + Vampire was serialized in the September 2007 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump.
The reason for the ending of the series was because Monthly Shōnen Jump had ended its 37-year run. The tenth and final volume was released on October 4, 2007, spanning 39 chapters during its run. In volume 9, Ikeda mentions that the series is going to be adapted into an anime series. In the Volume 7 author's notes, Ikeda mentions that he was working with a new editor. Each volume features a handful of four-panel bonus comic strips and author's notes. The first tankōbon was released by Shueisha on October 4, 2004. Rosario + Vampire began monthly serialization in the August 2004 issue of Monthly Shōnen Jump. Throughout his freshman year, Tsukune encounters various antagonists such as the Protection Committee and the Anti-Schoolers, and later starts to undergo changes which will solidify his role as the link between the human and monster worlds. He soon befriends other students: Kurumu Kurono, a busty succubus Ginei Morioka, a werewolf Yukari Sendo, a young genius witch Ruby Tojo, another witch and Mizore Shirayuki, a snow fairy, all of whom openly express their affections toward Tsukune. Upon his arrival, he meets Moka Akashiya, who is a vampire who takes a strong liking to the taste of his blood. The series revolves around Tsukune Aono, a mediocre high school student who accidentally enrolls into Yokai Academy, a special school for monsters and demons. The Japanese manga series Rosario + Vampire is written and illustrated by Akihisa Ikeda. The North American cover of Rosario + Vampire Vol.