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by Hideyuki Kikuchi (Author), Yoshitaka Amano (Illustrator), Kevin Leahy (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition

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12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires-and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves.

Every village wants a Hunter-one of the warriors who have pledged their laser guns and their swords to the eradication of the Nobility. But some Hunters are better than others, and some bring their own kind of danger with them...

From creator Hideyuki Kikuchi, one of Japan's leading horror authors with illustrations by renowned Japanese artist, Yoshitaka Amano, best known for his illustrations in Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Dream Hunters and the Final Fantasy games.

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Hideyuki Kikuchi is a Japanese author famous for his horror novels. His most famous works include the Vampire Hunter D series, Darkside Blues, and Wicked City. He has been compared to both Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft. Kikuchi was born in Chōshi, Japan, on September 25, 1949. He attended Aoyama Gakuin University and was trained as a writer by famed author Kazuo Koike. His first novel, Demon City Shinjuku, was published in 1982. Kikuchi became close friends with writer and director Yoshiaki Kawajiri during his adaption of Wicked City and the two have since collaborated on Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and the OVA of Demon City Shinjuku.

Yoshitaka Amano is a comic book and manga creator, artist, and cover artist known for his work on Aliens, Sandman, and Speed Racer. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B00A7H2GQM
Publisher : Dark Horse Books; Translation edition (October 9, 2012)
Publication date : October 9, 2012
Language: : English
File size : 1986 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 195 pages
Lending : Not Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #170,275 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #107 in Japanese Literature
- #290 in Vampire Horror
- #456 in Movie Tie-In Fiction

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agentleila

A good story, despite some clumsy sentences

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2017

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It's hard to say whether this book has twists because having grown up loving the film based on book 1 of the Vampire Hunter series, I knew basically what was going to happen. The book had more information than the movie, which helped answer some questions I had, so that's good. I feel like the Vampire Hunter series, long as it is, is more of a slow-burn experience. The story is good, but sometimes the writing/translation is a bit awkward, especially when it comes to metaphors and descriptions - I don't know whether that's because of clumsy translation, or if it's a perfectly accurate translation of clumsy writing in the original, or if (because the original text is in Japanese), the translation is more technically faithful than it is faithful to the spirit of the story, turning poetic Japanese prose into a technically-correct but clumsy-on-the-tongue English version. If anyone has read this in the original Japanese and in translation, I'd love to know which is the case!

TL;DR, this is a fun read but not a life-changing one. Try not to trip over clumsy sentences here and there.

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Daria

Good addition to the anime but after reading the book I prefer to stick to manga

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2017

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4 star because I love the whole world of anime and manga.

Okay, so I watched the old anime classic in 2017 for the first time and immediately fell in love with it. I bought both manga and the book immediately because I fell in love with the world and the characters. I love weird worlds, and D's world is some of the best out there - medieval coupled with super advanced technology in the very very far future where vampires exist as a sort of predominant race.
I bought the book to learn more about the world and inner thoughts and motivations of the characters, because neither manga nor anime can't really show both of them completely. The book can achieve much much more in terms of descriptions, but unfortunately i wasn't prepared for such bad writing.

The book is terribly written. I don't know if its the fault of translation, but the ongoing descriptions of the beauty of characters, the statement of actions and constant addressing of the reader really grated on my nerves by the end. I still love the world and the characters and the story. The anime is one of my favorite things ever and I am happily reading the manga. But for my own sanity I will stay away from the books.

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Such Nostalgia

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2020

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I'm an older gent. I cut my teeth on the anime version long before I knew of the novels. I recently bought a kindle (extremely pleased with the latest model... I don't normally plug products in reviews unrelated but I got the epub version of this book and it looks fantastic on my reader... okay...moving on) and I was able to rediscover this book in the electronic format. I'd like to say I'm a writer or something with a little ethos to validate my opinion, but I am just a dude, so consider the review source... that said... I really enjoyed the heck out of this story. I also wasn't aware that it was a series and so, I look forward to continued reading. If I cast a critical eye on the novel, I'd say that it is appropriate for the time in which it was written (and bear in mind, this is a translation and I'm literally learning Japanese so I can read the original sans interpretation... langage makes the culture in many ways) but may strike some as being the opposite. D is a fun fellow to follow and having some insight into his backstory (no spoilers here) prompts one for a second read with a slightly adjusted perspective of the story. I am a gigantic fan of Yoshitaka Amano (I even own some of his work) and the occasional ink plate of his art adds a nice touch. Does the structure follow the standard hero's journey? Not exactly, but the difference is what makes the story unique. D is something of a 'hold over' static character with some of the hero/anti-hero tropes of pulp fiction story telling (extremely gifted/powerful... but still tragically flawed in many story creating ways). He is a hero (of sorts) that is basically going to work (like a daily grind job)... except that work involves pest control of the vampire type. The world building lends to some interesting visualizations of a future where the highest of tech meets the lowest of human living conditions (typified by a medieval living standards for the 'lowly Humans' and what I would describe as "star trek post scarcity/galactic level 2 society"... but with way more violence... for the 'High/Nobel Vampires'). It is a clashing world of the future that is nothing but a leftover from some greater civilization founded by... vampires. So, what you get with this world is a bit of a neogothic-cyberpunk-vampire science fiction/fantasy setting... that's a lot to wrap up into a single story but it is actually an easy and entertaining read (with 20+ more books in the series... so I expect to learn more about this world of complete opposites). It seems paced well (to an amateur) and given the number of sequels... it clearly stood the test of time. I highly recommend this book in any format you can get it in. So go get some!

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Vastad

Loved the style of translation.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2013

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I thoroughly enjoyed the book and was sad that I completed it so quickly. It is more a novella than a novel.

The translation was also particularly characterful and I feel honours the original work. While I cannot comment on the original Japanese since I don't understand it, I got the pleasant impression Kevin Leahy was conscientious of Hideyuki Kikuchi's "writing voice". There were peculiar turns of phrase that wouldn't be used in typical literary English but must be Kevin's best efforts at emulating what Hideyuki would have wanted.

It was also quite amusing to see a shadow of that awful trope anime has, where characters - particularly villains - will get 5 minute expositions to explain what their next level super move does, how it got it's name and why the rival needs to have his jaw on the floor. It's really not that bad, I am exaggerating a bit, though in his defense I do like the way Hideyuki delivers these expositions.I really don't know how to explain it, you'll recognise it when you read it.

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Brilliant vampire book in a partly sci-fi world!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2017

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I didn't know how a blend of future Sci-fi & vampire's could work, but this book blends the two brilliantly! I really enjoyed it and the main character is fantastic.

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Classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2018

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Very gripping and enjoyable. Much better than the animated movie.

Fantastic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 17, 2012

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I am halfway through this story and i must say it makes a nice change! What i don't like is the fact its not got as many illustrations as i expected but at the end of the day its the story that counts!

Babs

very happy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2015

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Great read, gripping story :)

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