Poe no Ichizoku

Poe no Ichizoku
Cover of the first edition of Poe no Ichizoku volume 1, published by Shogakukan
ポーの一族
Genre	Drama, Supernatural, Historical
Manga
Written by	Moto Hagio
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Betsucomi
Original run	March 1972 – June 1976
Volumes	5

Poe no Ichizoku (Japanese: ポーの一族, Hepburn: Pō no Ichizoku^?, lit. "The Poe Family") is a Japanese shōjo historical manga by Moto Hagio that depicts a family of vampires from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The two main characters, Edgar Portsnell and Allan Twilight, as well as the family are named after Edgar Allan Poe. It was serialized by Shogakukan in Betsucomi from 1972 to 1976 and collected in nine tankōbon under the Flower Comics imprint. Poe was the first shōjo manga from Shogakukan to be released in this format. It was inspired by Shotaro Ishimori's story "Mist, Roses and Stars".

Edgar is born as an illegitimate child to Earl Evans. After the birth of Edgar's sister, Marybell, 4 years later, his step mother orders the nurse to kill Edgar and Marybell. The nurse does not kill them but abandons Marybell and Edgar in the woods, expecting them to die of starvation, where they are discovered by Hannah Poe. She takes them to her mansion near the village of Scotty. Hannah looks after the siblings. When Edgar is eleven, he learns the secret that Hannah and people in the mansion are Vampanellas. He is forced to promise that he will turn into a Vampanella, a member of Poe family, when he becomes an adult. Marybell is adopted by Baron Art due to Edgar's request. When he is 14 years of age, Hannah is killed by a villager and the villagers learn the secret of the mansion. Edgar is turned into a vampire by King Poe, effectively forcing him to join the Poe family, before the family escapes from the villagers.