by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Translated from the Japanese, VAMPIRE HUNTER D is a heady goulash of science fiction, Western, and melodramatic gothic horror. The first in a series, the book was adapted into an immensely popular anime in 1985. In the year 12,090 AD, humans scratch a hard living out of the Frontier by day and huddle inside at night, hiding from the vampires and the monstrous creatures the vampires have loosed upon the world. A powerful vampire lord, Count Magnus Lee, has selected the human girl Doris Lang as his bride, an honor that Doris would prefer to reject. To protect herself from the predatory count, she hires the itinerant, mysterious Vampire Hunter D. An apparent youth of incredible beauty, D is in fact a dhampir, a human/vampire hybrid devoted to protecting the humans who fear and despise him, while desperately resisting the call of his blood-starved vampire half. The book includes eight gorgeous black-and-white ink illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano, who served as the designer for the animated films VAMPIRE HUNTER D and VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST.

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by Christine on July 20, 2007

I'd like to think it was a poor translation that made this book so mediocre. I really wanted to like it, but the writing is just not very good.

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