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Vampire Hunter D (novel)

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Translator
  
Kevin Leahy

Language
  
Japanese

Originally published
  
31 January 1983

Illustrator
  
Yoshitaka Amano

Country
  
Japan

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Author
  
Hideyuki Kikuchi

Adaptations
  
Vampire Hunter D (1985)

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Original title
  
Vampire Hunter "D" (吸血鬼ハンター"D", Kyūketsuki Hantā "D")

Series
  
Vampire Hunter D Vol. 1

Followed by
  
Vampire Hunter D: Raiser of Gales

Genres
  
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Light novel

Similar
  
Yoshitaka Amano books, Vampire Hunter D books, Vampire books

Vampire Hunter D Volume 1 is a Japanese novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi. It was first published in Japan in 1983, and was translated into English in 2005.

Contents

Plot

It is the year 12,090 A.D. The world has all but ended, ravaged in a firestorm of man's wars and madness. But from the wreckage a few humans manage to survive. A few humans... and something else.

Doris Lang knew what her fate would be when the vampire lord Count Magnus Lee bit her: an agonizing transformation into one of the undead, doomed to be stalked by her fellow villagers, or cursed to become the bride of the unholy creature and face an eternity of torment, driven by the thirst for human blood. There was but one option left, and as she watched him ride in from the distance she knew there was hope. Salvation... from a vampire hunter named D.

Magnus has his own problems. His beautiful daughter Larmica refuses to let a human into her family. Enlisting the help of Garo, a werewolf retainer, she attempts to kill Doris before the wedding, only to find D standing against her.

Greco Rohman, son of the chief, wants Doris for himself. The same goes for the skilled fighter Rei-Ginsei and his Fiend Corps. Both men are eager to eliminate D, as his skills and Doris' favor makes them see him as a threat. Doris knows she isn't the only one in trouble - her younger brother is perceived as her weakness, and there is more than one person out there willing to use him as leverage against her.

Adaptations

The novel is adapted into a direct-to-video film of the same name in 1985 and a manga series, Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D, in 2007.

References

Vampire Hunter D (novel) Wikipedia