In the year 12,090 A.D, humanity has led many uprisings against their vampire masters and are close to being on equal footing once more. I definitely recommend trying this series out if you're into vampires.Īfter humanity nearly wiped itself out during a brutal nuclear war that ravaged the world, vampires rose up from their shadowy tombs to enslave the last of mankind. You wonder if he will ever find piece, and you hope he does. There are so many drastic character design changes that you have to remember everyone's names to make sure they're the right characters. Since there are more visuals than the book, the manga is even more fun to try to compare to the movie. Most that have read the book and manga have probably seen the movie. I ended up liking the characters much more compared to their movie counterparts, even D himself. The manga is filled with vivid details, explanations, vivid action scenes, character development, romance, and just all out entertainment. Unlike the film, Doris is a brunette and she is D have a bit more romance than the film leads us to believe. D's definitely better looking than the illustrations in the novel which is great. Considering how dated the first movie was, I was sort of eager to see how it matched up to the modern manga art style. Like the novel, I thoroughly enjoyed the manga portrayal of the first Vampire Hunter D book. This book certainly gave me a lot of the hallmarks of that story/world, but I think I'm going to need to get my hands on a physical copy of the next in the series to have a better idea if this is actually good or I just want it to be good. My introduction to this world was through the 2000 film 'Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust' and that a pretty indelible impression.

Some of the panels were too small to really see what was going on and some of the art was seemingly just brush strokes back and forth across the page to show movement, but that really means it was just a panel of nothing. I blame the eReader for that, but it really did color my enjoyment of this. I read this through the Overdrive site/app and the formatting was terrible. I am slightly conflicted with this one and some of it isn't the books fault. It only sometimes cares that there is futuristic technology in a world where forms of magic also exist. It's juggling a lot for reasons I don't totally understand.

He kicks ass and takes names and somehow this is both a Western, Gothic, neo-futuristic story. Villagers cower in fear, hoping and praying for a savior to rid them of their undying nightmare.' Enter a Vampire Hunter, known as D. 'Once bitten by a Nobility, one is cursed to become a member of the undead. Mutants and a race of vampires known as the Nobility rose out of this as the ruling class. So there are several conceits out of the gate: It is 12,090 A.D., there was a gigantic war that basically blocked out the sun.

Vampire hunter d by hideyuki kikuchi