Today's post is on Vampire Hunter D volume 1 by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano and translated by Keith Leahy. It is i 235 pages long and is published by Dark Horse. The cover is a beautiful illustration of D and Doris on his horse in the moonlight. The intended reader is someone likes unique fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories. There is some foul language, no sex, and violence in this book. The story is told from third person close of different characters to give insight into this very strange world. There Be Spoilers Ahead.
From the back of the book- It is the year 12,090 A.D. The world has ended, ravaged in a firestorm of man's wars and madness. But from the wreckage a few humans manage to survive. A few humans... and something else.
Doris Lang knew what her fate was when the vampire lord Count Magnus Lee bit her. An agonizing transformation into one of the undead, to be stalked by her fellow villagers or cursed to become the bride of the unholy creature and face an eternity of torment, driven by the thirst for human blood. There was only one chance, and as she watched him ride in from the distance she knew there was hope. Salvation... from a vampire hunter named D.
Review- As someone who loves anime and has watched the two movies many times, I really enjoyed reading this first novel. The writing is so beautiful with the images that Kikuchi makes are so surreal but fully imagined. The world is so strange with interesting and frightening creatures in it. D is interesting and so different from how he is in the movie; in the movie he is very stoic not speaking much but in the novel he is more verbal and I liked hearing things from him. He is still mysterious with who he really is and what he really is doing as he travels the wasteland but he feels more real because of the verbal interactions. The villains were interesting and different from each other with different motivations for their actions and some are not 'real' villains just on the other side of the story. I look forward to reading more in this interesting world as D travels.
I give this novel a Five out of Five stars. I bought this book with my money and I get nothing for my review.
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