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The adventures of Vampire Hunter D continue! Vampires: murderous creatures in the shape of humans, they stalk the night feeding on the blood of innocents. Seemingly immortal, they can be destroyed only by the use of a stake through the heart, severing of their heads, or exposure to sunlight. By the year 12,090 AD. vampires have ruled the Earth for almost three hundred years, and it is only these weaknesses that have kept these foul monsters from totally overrunning the world. But what show more happens when those rules no longer apply? The village of Tsepesh sits in the eternal shadow of an abandoned castle, a onetime stronghold of the Nobility, the vampire lords who rule the devastated wasteland of the future. Ten years ago, four children disappeared while playing near the castle, only to mysteriously reappear a month later. Now vampires have begun to hunt in the daylight. Are the two events connected? The villagers turn to the vampire hunter known only as D, but as he follows the children, now adults, the answers he finds may be more terrifying than anything he could ever imagine. FOR MATURE READERS Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music! Performed by Scott McCormick, David Cui Cui, Taylor Coan, Steve Wannall, John Kielty, Terence Aselford, Michael John Casey, Rayner Gabriel, Niusha Nawab, Karen Novack, Alex Hill-Knight, Bradley Foster Smith,, Christopher Walker, Mark Harrietha, Yasmin Tuazon, Chris Stinson, Mort Shelby, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Matthew Schleigh, Colleen Delany, Triya Leong, Kelly Baskin and Shanta Parasuraman. show lessTags
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I love the Vampire Hunter D movies and was really looking forward to reading these books. The atmosphere was great and D was as cool as ever, but the translation was kind of funky and it made the book a little difficult to read. I had a hard time following things sometimes and the book took longer to read than I would have guessed seeing as it's only 216 pages. I might read another of these books, but probably not for a while.
D must fight with the leftover experiments of some great Noble Doctor, vampires who can live in the daylight.
Bloody, sexual and just pulp fiction. This stuff is about on the same level, literary wise, as the Mars series. Shallow and action instead of plot.
Bloody, sexual and just pulp fiction. This stuff is about on the same level, literary wise, as the Mars series. Shallow and action instead of plot.
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- Canonical title
- Raiser of Gales
- Original title
- 吸血鬼ハンター: 風立ちて"D"
- Original publication date
- 1985 (Asahi Sonorama Co. - Japanese) (Asahi Sonorama Co. - Japanese); 2005 (Dark Horse Books - English Translation) (Dark Horse Books - English Translation)
- People/Characters
- D
- First words
- Wintry sunlight fell from high in the hollow sky to the valley below.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Giving the engine full throttle, Leila pushed her vehicle to the top of the hill in one mad dash.
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- Fiction and Literature, Horror
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- 895.636 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese Japanese fiction 2000–
- LCC
- PL832 .I37 .K9813 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Individual authors and works
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- English, Japanese
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