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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5952
EAN num: 9781569708279
ISBN number: 1569708274
Label: Digital Manga Publishing
Manufacturer: Digital Manga Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 250
Printing Date: November 28, 2007
Publishing house: Digital Manga Publishing
Sale Popularity Level: 215854
Studio: Digital Manga Publishing
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The year is 12,090 A.D., and what little is left of humanity has finally crawled out from the ashes of war and destruction. From the darkness of fallout, mutants and a race of vampires known as the Nobility have spawned. They rule the weak with no remorse. Once bitten by a Nobility, one is cursed to become a member of the undead. Villagers cower in fear, hoping and praying for a savior to rid them of their undying nightmare. All they have to battle this danger is a different kind of danger - a Vampire Hunter.
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I loved the novel, I loved the Anime and this Manga presentation fits beautifully in with very first Vampire Hunter D novels.
The scene when Doris comes to D to offer him payment before the job was finished is very well done but different from the Anime. I think this and Volume 2 are both must have for Vampire Hunter D fans.
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I'm not a big fan of the movie version of this, but I'd heard the novels were better and that the manga was more faithful to those so I picked these up. At very first the artwork surprised me. It's very busy. But then as I started to read I began to appreciate how the ornateness paired up with the spare dialogue to tell the story. The style reminds of a combination of Kaori Yuki (Angel Sanctuary/Count Cain) and Kouta Hirano (Hellsing), in a good way. It's dense with lines and textures, but most panels were easily understood despite that. There were only a few in battles scenes that confused me.
The story has been described by the others, vampire hunter with a mysterious past saves a buxom (waaaaaay too buxom) girl and her kid brother (who sounds like he stepped off the set of Bonanza). This is a Western at heart. The trappings though are new and original, and I was intrigued by this futuristic new world where horses were constructs and men could have hands that talked.
It looks like this could be a long string of volumes complete within themselves, but containing an arc slowly revealing D's past that strings them together. I've read the very first two and thought they were really entertaining, lively action and bits of the puzzle of D to think about. I'd recommend them to anyone who likes mature graphic novels, vampires, dark fantasy, and science fiction.
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As a Vampire Hunter D fan, I was happy to hear the manga come out, but I read it in Barnes and Noble, and I'm sorry to say, the manga was quite a disappointment to me. For someone new to manga publication, Saiko Takaki has potential, but she really needs to clean up some things.
1)Her drawings, while skilled, look more like sketches and drafts rather than the final print. Why? Because there's too many graceless lines drawn all over the place. She should clean it up.
2) She NEEDS to minimize Doris's breasts. They're ridiculously huge; how degrading towards females. The costumes are horrible too. She looks more like a whore rather than a feisty, resourceful, and gutsy heroine.
3) The flow of conversations and pacing of the story is a little choppy.
Despite these, it's a good read, but it's not something I would buy. Hopefully Ms. Takaki's drawings will improve with future volumes.
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It somehow seems surprising that with a pair of classic anime movies and several novels, Hideyuki Kikuchi's "Vampire Hunter D" has never been rendered in manga form.
Well, now it has. And it's a gorgeous, detailed rendering of Kikuchi's futuristic-western-by-Bram-Stoker style. And it does a solid job mingling dark science fiction with ancient mythical creatures -- werewolves, vampires, and a medieval futuristic world full of monsters.
Farmgirl Doris Lang stops a sword-carrying youth on a cyborg horse, and finds that he is a Vampire Hunter. Good thing, because Doris has been bitten by the vampire Magnus Lee, and needs this young man -- who calls himself "D" -- to save her and her brother from the vampire. Haughty vampire ladies, werewolves and feuding villagers all visit Doris' farm -- only to be repulsed by D.
But to deal with Lee, D must venture into a disgusting, labyrinthine castle, dealing with demonic serpent-women, lethal mutants, and the Count himself. Outside, Lee's servants and daughter Larmica grapple with various villagers, intending to capture or kill Doris -- but none of them realize what D, a dhampir, is hiding in his distant past...
The world Kikichi concocts is a pretty fascinating one. As the introduction explains, it's over ten thousand years in the future, in the waning days of a vampire empire that ran the whole planet, and Earth is overrun with vampires, werewolves, mutants and cyborgs. He's invented a gloriously rough, wild kind of world, sort of a postapocalyptic Wild West.
And his detailed, atmospheric writing is stripped down and translated into artwork and spare dialogue. The actual prose tends to be rather straightforward, in a "Shane" kind of way, but preserving much of the flavour of the original novel. And most of the stuff Kikuchi described is faithfully set down, and spun into detailed black-and-white illustrations.
And the artist should be commended for his work -- we have ornate satellites, cathedral-like castles, the dissipated-looking Count Lee and his sensuous (and big-haired) daughter, shadowed rapid-fire fight scenes, run-down wildernesses, and even the creepy monsters like Garou or the pretty-boy Rei-Ginsu. It's lusher and more ornate than a norma-sized manga could contain, and it adds to the gothic flavour of the story.
D himself is the absolute peak of the artwork, both in ink and in artistry. Ahe artist perfectly captured strength, inhuman stillness and melancholy age that he embodies, as well as the long lean body and beautiful youth's face. And he has a pretty cool costume as well -- think a medieval knight with a dash of cowboy.
The flaws? Well, the extremely rapid action scenes are a bit hard to follow. And Doris is absurd-looking -- her mouth is tiny, and she has giant torpedo boobs, each usually larger than her head. And they often appear to be trying to escape from her shirt and whap someone in the chin -- it says "Playmate" to me rather than "feisty farmgirl."
While it has a few errors, "Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D" is a magnificently rich, exquisitely dark manga. Definitely worthy of Kikuchi's work.
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First I would like to say this manga is an "adaption" to the very first Vampire Hunter D novel. It's not excately like the novel. It bit different. For me it seem to be a mixture of the novel and the movie. It was good, but not as good as the novels.
There was some parts that I got lost on. As the part with the satittle looking down on earth from space. That didn't make sense to me. D in the manga isn't like the D compeletly like in the novel or the movie. He doesn't deny himself blood or himself, but manga shows that annoying hatrad of his vampire side just like in the movies. I was little disapointed that the manga didn't show the scarastic humour that D has. I hope it shows more in the up-coming mangas. I miss seeing D's wicked grin when Doris says to him he could sleep with her if he wanted too. But I was happy to see that manga shows, he wouldn't say no, if a woman wanted to sleep with him. I was so happy for that. Because I was really afarid D was going to be like the D in the movies. Which isn't the D in the novels. The D in the novel is much cooler.
As I said it was good, but not as good as the novel. But I am still planing on buying the second manga.
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