![\"\"](\"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/files\/2012\/10\/Vampire-Hunter-D-1.jpg\" "\\"Vampire")
<\/a>Originally reviewed by Dan Polley\nStory by Hideyuki Kikuchi; Art by Saiko Takaki
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Digital Manga Publishing
\nGenre:<\/strong> Sci-Fi, Horror
\nRating: <\/strong>Young Adults (16+)
\nPrice:<\/strong> $12.95<\/p>\n
It starts with D, who is riding around the countryside to Ransylva, but is confronted before he can get there. Instead, he faces a woman who refuses to let him pass. The two battle briefly, but D seems to handily defeat the woman.<\/p>\n
But as he starts to leave, she pleads with him. She realizes he is a vampire hunter, and that’s just the type of person she needs. The woman, Doris Lang, successfully convinces D, who then says he is a dhampir, to help her.<\/p>\n
Doris has been bitten by someone in the nobility, which means she is cursed to become a member of the undead. The villagers continue to provoke her and fear her for being bitten.<\/p>\n
Doris tells D about her interaction with Count Magnus Lee, who was the vampire who bit her. That night, Larmica and her minion, werewolf Garou, try to attack. D springs a trap on them, and defends against the intrusion.<\/p>\n
But trouble begins for everyone when D decides to force a confrontation by traveling to the count’s home. There, he faces the count and his daughter, Larmica. And he falls prey to the count’s traps.<\/p>\n
While he is gone, Doris is weak and a prime target for the count. As she follows a suspicious villager, she is trapped in the middle of a fight among a few others, and she, unfortunately, is unable to defend herself.<\/p>\n
After a reunion, Doris once again is encapsulated, this time in a trap. D must find his way out of the trap he was stuck in and battle against other foes who seem to interfere.<\/p>\n
Finally, D is able to get some closure, yet the mystery around his character seems to remain.<\/p>\n
D is the silent yet strong male character who has all the answers, yet his character does not entirely feel like a clich\u00e9. There is some mystery to him, which keeps the intrigue alive.<\/p>\n
And the first volume has a plot that sets up an undercurrent that could be a much bigger mystery for the rest of the series. And the art is a bit chaotic, which is a natural fit for the post-apocalyptic setting of the series.<\/p>\n
The first volume is not a great offering, but it sets a lot for a could-be fantastic series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nuclear war has ravaged the future, and the result is the last remnants of humanity fighting against other species. One of those species arose to become nobility: Vampires. Originally reviewed by Dan Polley Story by Hideyuki Kikuchi; Art by Saiko Takaki Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror Rating: Young Adults (16+) Price: $12.95 It starts with D, who is riding around the countryside to Ransylva, but is confronted before he can get there. Instead, he faces a woman who refuses to let him pass. The two battle briefly, but D seems to handily defeat the woman. But as he starts to leave, she pleads with him. She realizes he is a vampire hunter, and that’s just the type of person she needs. The woman, Doris Lang, successfully convinces D, who then says he is a dhampir, to help her. Doris has been bitten by someone in the nobility, which means she is cursed to become a member of the undead. The villagers continue to provoke her and fear her for being bitten. Doris tells D about her interaction with Count Magnus Lee, who was the vampire who bit her. That night, Larmica and her minion, werewolf Garou, try to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[65,83,99,110,170],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-manga-publishing","category-reviews","tag-horror","tag-manga","tag-older-teen","tag-review","tag-vampires"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/files\/2012\/10\/Vampire-Hunter-D-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2umma-Ow","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}