Vampire Hunter D Volume 6: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane [Paperback]

Hideyuki Kikuchi (Author), Yoshitaka Amano (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 22, 2009

Granny Viper is a "people finder," a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a forbidding wasteland. Her latest mission: the safe return of a young woman named Tae, kidnapped eight years ago by vampire Nobility and held in Castle Gradinia on the Frontier's far border. But rescuing Tae is only half the battle - Viper knows she and the girl can't cross the formidable expanse to the town of Barnabas alone. After making the fatal mistake of hiring the mercenary Bullow Brothers to help her, Granny turns to the legendary Vampire Hunter D for salvation. As they traverse the bleak desert between the Inner and Outer Frontier, the two women and D find themselves in a race for their lives. And they soon discover how cruel the desert is - and how very ruthless the Bullow Brothers are.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse Books/Digital Manga Publishing; 1st DH Press Ed edition (December 22, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595821066
• ISBN-13: 978-1595821065
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #250,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A character driven novel, February 14, 2007

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Anna "Johnnie girl" (Annapolis, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vampire Hunter D Volume 6: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane (Paperback)

The "bad guy" in this particular novel is largely environmental, so the installment focuses more on the charaters than the action sequences- a truly fabulous development in my book. D himself is somewhat more "emotional" in this novel, giving us a chance to see how he feels about being a dhampir and his father's mission.

Granny Viper is an interesting character, her angery outbursts at seemingly random intervals come together in the end to help highlight the character development of D with ever seeming designed for the purpose.

The novel's coquette, Tae, is likable even though she never seems to manage the depth of Doris or the forcefulness of Leila. She brings out the human-ness in D but not though swanlike tragedy but calm resolve.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars when is the end....?, March 31, 2008

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S. Yang (providence,ri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vampire Hunter D Volume 6: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane (Paperback)

This book dragged, really dragged, I wanted to stop so many times, but kept reading because I'm a fan. The antagonists were so menacing but yet it always and it did take just one swing/throw of his sword/left hand wooden spike to kill the bad guys. I like these books, but it builds you up just for that swing of the sword, usually and always one stroke will finish the opposing force. This makes me wonder, how damn powerful D really is, he never, never ever sweats a fight. over all, i'll keep reading, cause i'm a fan.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Far above the other books, September 10, 2007

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L. Adlergolden - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vampire Hunter D Volume 6: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane (Paperback)

I've been tearing through the D books for the past few weeks, enjoying them to varying degrees. This one breaks the mold of the previous books; there's no vampire to kill, no maiden to save, just a band of people attempting to cross a very dangerous desert.

I wouldn't call this book character-driven, but the characters are much stronger than in the previous outing. D gets shows some emotion this time around, even if his demeanor rarely changes. However, the real star of the book is Granny Viper, by far the most complex character that Kikuchi's written.

If you only get to buy one entry in the series, make it this one.