Vampire Hunter D Volume 1

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Vampire Hunter D Volume 1

Cover of the English edition of Vampire Hunter D Volume 1
Author Hideyuki Kikuchi
Original title Vampire Hunter "D" (吸血鬼ハンター"D" Kyūketsuki Hantā "D"?)
Translator Kevin Leahy
Illustrator Yoshitaka Amano
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Series Vampire Hunter D Vol. 1
Genre(s) Science fiction, Fantasy, Light novel
Publisher Flag of the United States DH Press
Flag of Japan Asahi Sonorama
Publication date January 1983
Published in
English
May 11, 2005
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages Flag of the United States 300
Flag of Japan 282
ISBN Flag of the United States ISBN 1-59582-012-4
Flag of Japan ISBN 4-257-76225-X
Followed by Raiser of Gales

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.

[edit] Plot

It is the year 12,090 A.D. The world has 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 was when the vampire lord Count Magnus Lee bit her. An agonizing transformation into one of the undead, 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 only one chance, and as she watched him ride in from the distance she knew there was hope. Salvation... from a vampire hunter named D.


[edit] 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.