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<\/a>Adapted by Saiko Takaki; Story by Hideyuki Kikuchi<\/strong>\nPublisher:<\/strong> Digital Manga Publishers
\nAge Rating:<\/strong> 16+
\nGenre:<\/b> Horror
\nISBN:<\/strong> 9781569707876
\nPrice:<\/b> $12.95<\/p>\n
Ten years later, a new breed of vampire emerges; one which can seemingly hunt during the daytime.\u00a0 Losing the safety daylight offers, panic and mass hysteria begins to grip the townspeople–inciting riots and lynch-mobs.\u00a0 Amidst the turmoil, the enigmatic vampire slayer known only as “D” is called in to investigate.\u00a0 Can he solve the mystery of the walking dead’s newfound powers and unravel the truth behind the missing children’s connection to the secret of the ruins?<\/p>\n
After all the action in the first volume for this series, volume 2 pulls back a little, letting D flex his brain more than his brawn.\u00a0 There’s a lot more talk than taking of heads, mostly about the nature of the Nobility.\u00a0 Those who like more variety in their manga will enjoy the slowdown, but action junkies may be disappointed with the fewer fight scenes.<\/p>\n
I loved the first volume of Vampire Hunter D<\/i>, so looked forward to this second volume with some anticipation.\u00a0 The sudden change from nearly non-stop action to lots of talking between D and Lina, the story’s female protagonist, was a little surprising, but none the less interesting.\u00a0 This volume seems to play the part of expanding D’s universe.\u00a0 As D is investigating the origin of the vampire attacks during the day, Lina is constantly asking him questions about the Nobility.\u00a0 Through her curiosity, we learn about the Nobility’s weaknesses, and the existence of the “gene of Darkness”.<\/p>\n
We also learn about D’s limitations as a dhampir.\u00a0 How he’s affected by the same things as the Nobility, but not to the same degree.\u00a0 There are also a few more clues dropped about D’s past.\u00a0 He almost says the name of his father (4 letters get out).\u00a0 We learn that D was the “one and only success”, implying a connection to the mystery of the story, but not much more is given.<\/p>\n
We also see more of the technology of the world, something the first volume didn’t get into.\u00a0 D has a laptop computer that lets him do chemical analysis, and the Nobility could project holograms and create artificial life.\u00a0 The town also has a tank, though against even old Nobility technology, is still useless.\u00a0 So even though the outer villages appear less sophisticated, there does seem to be quite a bit of advanced technology around.<\/p>\n
The action, as I said above was few and far between.\u00a0 D confronts some lower creatures before facing the antagonist in a duel, but otherwise there aren’t a lot of battles.\u00a0 Lina sees more “action”, or attempted “action”.\u00a0 It really sucks being a woman in D’s universe.\u00a0 If you aren’t being bitten by Nobility, you’re getting raped or threatened to be.\u00a0 These scenes are the ones I disliked the most in this volume.\u00a0 It almost seemed like a subplot of ‘who’s gonna try to do Lina next?’ But, almost as an offset, there are several scenes with D looking hot and acting cool.\u00a0 It almost makes it worth it.\u00a0 Almost.\u00a0 One thing I do appreciate about Takaki’s adaptation, is that in the comedic moments (of which there are a few), other characters can go silly, or near-chibi, but never D.\u00a0 It wouldn’t be right for his character, and I’m glad to see she respects that.<\/p>\n
The art was better in this volume, but the pacing was still a little off.\u00a0 DMP’s presentation of the volume is of course, top-notch.\u00a0 There is a color plate at the beginning, and the book has a true dust cover, not a pseudo cover that tries to mimic one.\u00a0 There’s a short afterward from Takaki as well.<\/p>\n
Overall, this was another good read.\u00a0 The background about the Nobility and D really made it worth it, though the resolution of the mystery was a little confusing.\u00a0 Still I enjoyed the volume, and would have scored it higher if it weren’t for all the rape\/attempted rape.\u00a0 It just didn’t seem relevent to the story.\u00a0 I still recommend this title of real vampire action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Towering above the sleepy village of Tepes are ancient ruins once erected by the Nobility.\u00a0 One day, four of the town’s children wander into the ruins and vanish without a trace, only to mysteriously reappear a few weeks later.\u00a0 But only three return, bearing no memory of what had happened to them. Adapted by Saiko Takaki; Story by Hideyuki Kikuchi Publisher: Digital Manga Publishers Age Rating: 16+ Genre: Horror ISBN: 9781569707876 Price: $12.95 Ten years later, a new breed of vampire emerges; one which can seemingly hunt during the daytime.\u00a0 Losing the safety daylight offers, panic and mass hysteria begins to grip the townspeople–inciting riots and lynch-mobs.\u00a0 Amidst the turmoil, the enigmatic vampire slayer known only as “D” is called in to investigate.\u00a0 Can he solve the mystery of the walking dead’s newfound powers and unravel the truth behind the missing children’s connection to the secret of the ruins? After all the action in the first volume for this series, volume 2 pulls back a little, letting D flex his brain more than his brawn.\u00a0 There’s a lot more talk than taking of heads, mostly about the nature of the Nobility.\u00a0 Those who like more variety in their manga will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3704,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[65,83,99,110,118],"class_list":["post-3228","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-senien"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/files\/2009\/08\/Vampire-Hunter-D-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2umma-Q4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3713,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}