Vampire Hunter D
Cover of the English edition of Vampire Hunter D Volume 1
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Vampire Hunter D
Raiser of Gales Demon Deathchase Tale of the Dead Town The Stuff of Dreams Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane Mysterious Journey to the North Sea The Rose Princess Pale Fallen Angel Twin-Shadowed Knight Dark Road Tyrant's Stars Fortress of the Elder God Mercenary Road Scenes of an Unholy War Record of the Blood Battle White Devil Mountain Iriya the Berserker Throng of Heretics Immortal Island The Hellish Horse Carriage Nightmare Village The Royal Tiger of Winter Battlefront of the Nobility The Golden Demon Sylvia's Road Home |
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| Author | Hideyuki Kikuchi |
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| Translator | Kevin Leahy |
| Illustrator | Yoshitaka Amano |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publisher | Asahi Sonorama |
| Published | 1983 - present |
| Published in English | 2005 - present |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
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To date, twenty-six novels have been published in the main series, with some novels comprising as many as four volumes. The series has also spawned anime, audio drama, manga, and comic adaptations, as well as a short story collection, art books, and a supplemental guide book.
D wanders through a far-future post-nuclear Earth that combines elements of pulp genres: western, science fiction, horror, high fantasy, H. P. Lovecraftian mythos, folklore and occult science. The planet, once terrified by the elegant but cruel Nobles (vampires), ancient demons, mutants and their technological creations, is now slowly returning to a semblance of order and human control — thanks in part to the decadence that brought about the downfall of the vampire race, to the continued stubbornness of frontier dwellers and, to the rise of a caste of independent hunters-for-hire who eliminate supernatural threats.
The year is approximately 12,090 AD. Some time in 1999, a nuclear war occurred. The Nobility were vampires that planned for a possible nuclear war and sequestered all that was needed to rebuild civilization in their shelters. They use their science combined with magic to restore the world in their image. Nearly all magical creatures are engineered, with a very small number being demons who survived the holocaust. Despite their technology being great enough to create a blood substitute as food, they still prefer to feed on humans. As such, they create a civilization where vampires and humans coexist, eventually developing the planet into parklands and cities. The society eventually stagnates when vampire technology perfects scientific prophecy, which determines they are at their zenith of existence and thus are doomed to fall, overthrown by humans. The human race was also transformed at this time, with fear for the vampires being woven into the genetic level, and the inability to remember vampire weaknesses such as garlic and crucifixes.
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