A novelization of a Japanese anime classic finds humans locked in a struggle for survival against vampires as civilization collapses and vampire slayers become powerful individuals within a new feudal social structure.
Out on the Frontier, the killers called the "Nameless" have no wanted posters--because everyone they go after winds up dead. Now D must measure his sword against these grotesque and deadly freaks! Hired by the mayor of Schwartzen to stop a corrupt political ploy that would sacrifice human lives to appease the local Noble, Grand Duke Bergenzy, the vampire hunter arrives in town to find his client has himself dropped dead under suspicious circumstances. His widow, wanting no more bloodshed, begs D to simply forget the job--but D's interest in the job is just beginning...
In a world where even the smallest and most remote village is being terrorized by the monsters that stalk the night, there is a hamlet, prosperous and peaceful, where mortals and vampires have lived in peace for years. It is there that sleeping beauty, Sheavil Schmidt, has slept, neither waking nor aging, for thirty years.
The Nobility have captured a young Frontierswoman named Tae and held her captive for eight years. The mysterious people finder Granny Viper has been charged with the recovery of the girl... but can she trust her hired escorts, the notoriously shifty Bullow Brothers?
D is a vampire hunter--and he's just been paid ten times his asking price to do exactly that, an assignment to destroy Duke Van Doren, administrator of the northern Frontier.Among the complications are that no less than three other groups, each with their own agenda, are headed for the Duke themselves...and D's supposed to hang back from striking until his target has eliminated all three! The question is, will the Duke oblige the terms of the contract--or does he actually want to be destroyed?
The mysterious D is a vampire hunter, one of those who protect the ordinary humans against the alliance of mutants and the race of vampires known as the Nobility, in the distant future of 12,090 A.D.
This omnibus collects volumes seven, eight, and nine of the Vampire Hunter D series, set in the dystopian future of 12,090 A.D. where immortal vampire lords reign over the remnants of humanity. The survivors, pushed back to the lawless Frontier, find themselves preyed upon by each other, as justice remains elusive. The half-vampire wanderer, D, offers a glimmer of hope, but only at a price. A young woman, gravely injured in the wastelands, entrusts D with a mission: to deliver a precious jewel to her sister Su-In in the North Sea town of Florence, once a haven for the vampiric Nobility. However, the town is now cursed, haunted by a malevolent force emerging from the ocean—something that strikes fear into the hearts of vampires. D's journey leads him to a confrontation with a misguided vampire hunter who disrupts a sinister ritual in the village of Sacri, only to become the target of the villagers' wrath. This raises questions about the dark pacts made with the Nobility that have unleashed their fury upon those who dare oppose them. This collection features Mysterious Journey to the North Sea Parts One and Two, along with The Rose Princess, all illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano, ensuring the legend of D continues to captivate.
Demon City Shinjuku, home to monsters and magicians alike. The warlock Gento Roran has broken his fifteen-year slumber and seeks dominion over the city. Now resurrected from his accursed sarcophagus, he is accompanied by the Hyota, the "small superman." A secret seal has proclaimed that "Those who control Demon City will control the world." And so the stage is set for a fateful battle between Gento and Setsura Aki! Meanwhile, Doctor Mephisto, the Demon Physician, is treating a curious new patient -- a girl named Mayumi. Any man who has sex with her dies soon afterwards! This deadly cause and effect appears to be nothing more than coincidence at first. But only at first. And, assassination squads possessed of the most unusual ways of dealing death come after Setsura. One after the next, he's caught up in the fight of his life! What is this secret seal? And how is it connected to Mayumi? Hideyuki Kikuchi has again unleashed his creative powers in a thrilling and hair-raising tale of the supernatural in Maohden!
Commissioned by a vampire ancient to recover the coffin containing the body of the demonic Gilzen, hated even by his own kind, D travels to a frightening mountain landscape perennially shrouded in snow. Within a castle piercing the mountainside, D discovers a group of knights tasked to protect Gilzen at any cost. It's time for D to use all the forces and powers at his command to prevent Gilzen's resurrection! This volume of the long-running series combines two novels and features eleven original illustrations by Final Fantasy designer Yoshitaka Amano.
A mysterious bead and a young woman's dying wish have brought D to the seashore village of Florence--a town that's perpetually stuck in winter. Summer comes to this shore but one week a year and it brings something more than just the warm weather--the sole-surviving Noble comes out of hiding too! That rare bead may hold all the secrets of the Nobility and humans. With such an enticing artifact in his hand (literally!), D is doggedly pursued by the henchmen of the young woman's murderer. These unscrupulous assassins have no qualms using the dead woman's sister as bait to draw out D, but the mysterious Noble has other designs on her. Finally remembering what he has been seeking all these years, the Noble won't let anything get in his way--even a notorious vampire hunter like D!