Tsukihime, Lunar Legend

The is anime was originally broadcast from October 9 to December 25, 2003, and has been broadcast in Japan by TBS, BS-i, and the anime television network Animax. Yes it is 2003... now than I get to watch it. Its a bit late but it is better than never.

The plot is about a 17-year old high school student name Shiki Tohno, who suffered from a fatal, life-threatening injury in his childhood. Ever since that injury, he has been seeing lines on the objects, which, when cut, will destroy the object they reside within.

This unique yet traumatizing ability of Shiki's is shielded by a pair of special glasses, a childhood gift from a mysterious woman, Aoko Aozaki. These glasses aid him in not seeing the death-lines and to live a relatively peaceful and normal life

Shiki is sent away from his household, the Tohno mansion, because of the fatal injury and the ill health that followed afterwards. He spends years living with relatives of the Tohno family, the Arimas. Finally, after eight years, following the death of his adoptive father, Makihisa, Shiki returns to the Tohno mansion to live with his sister, Akiha. Akiha had been given the responsibility of being the Tohno family's new matriarch.

The day he moved back to the Tohno household, he stumbled upon a woman named Arcueid Brunstud. At that monent, he decapitated her with one stab of his knife. To his dismay, one day she suddenly showed up beside him later alive and well, asking him to be her bodyguard.

As the story progresses, Shiki gradually discovers his past and numerous other mysteries surrounding him.