Vampire Hunter D

[JOJO]

Has anyone here read the Vampire Hunter D novel? :evil: is it any good? and can anyone tell me if its a manga or a novel?

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[Zushio]

It is a novel. I finished up a few days ago, and found it to be quite good. My only complaints are in the very odd writing style. It will be perfectly normal, and then suddenly, after D does something cool the next line will start

"And this is how D managed to defeat his foe:"

and it will describe the bizzare set of abilities and circumstances that allowed D to win. It does other weird things to, like suddenly asking the reader a question as in

"And then, who should suddenly appear?" "It was the doctor, riding over the hill."

These odd bits of grammer really disrupt the flow of reading, and usually come at just the wrong time. Other than that, it was a great read and I would reccomend it, and since it's like 4 bucks less than most manga (I paid 11, I pay 15-20 for manga) it's worth it. Hopefully when the next one comes out in August someone will have done something about the annoying parts.

[Dtortot]

Yeah OK, Jojo I admit the mistake of considering this a manga and not a full text novel with occasional pretty pictures, so this goes back to the Misc forum where you placed it at the very start.

Hats off to Jojo.

[JOJO]

I dont know if i should be happy because i was right or sad because no one believe me until someone prove i was right....anyway, the novel sounds interesting, so maybe i'll check it out next time i'm at the book store(and maybe also look for the first volumen of Lone Wolf And Cub on the way :))

[Hunter]

Zushio, you are right.... that writing style you talked about is really annoying.

I guess it best suits children stories...

[Zushio]

Zushio, you are right.... that writing style you talked about is really annoying.

I guess it best suits children stories...

That's what it reminded me of, children's writing. Although VHD is hardly a child's book. I wonder why it was written that way, or is it actually a problem caused by the translation.

[Liegenschonheit]

I read it, it's quite good. I attribute the odd writing style to the fact that it's a translation, most translated novels are a bit awkward. It really is worth the read, and after reading it I really wish someone would remake VHD and follow the novel more closely.

[Sae]

awesome anime yet not at all good animation due to the time it was made...Bloodlust was far better quality animation in my opinion. yet in both the stories are perfect!^-^

Sae

[Zushio]

awesome anime yet not at all good animation due to the time it was made...Bloodlust was far better quality animation in my opinion. yet in both the stories are perfect!^-^

Sae

Way to read the topic Spam-dawg.

An update on the novels, the seem to go from good to bad every diferent one. Not bad, bad, just bad as in not as good as the others. VHD was kinda stupid but fun, Raiser of Gales was excellent, Demon Deathchase was better than VHD, but not great.

From the preview in the back the next one sounds good, but I haven't read it yet.

[silan]

I've read four of them so far. I haven't had too many issues with the style of writing. In my opinion, it actually adds a bit more to the story, by making the author really feel like a narrator, as though he's talking right to you instead of writing. It's not a style that will work for everyone or every novel, but I think it works here.

In fact, the thing that annoys me sometimes about these novels is the constant emphasis on D's apparent ultra-uber-mega-coolness, which can get trying. It also kind of weakens the drama, in my opinion, with a kind of Superman effect: if he's so all-powerful and so much more intelligent than everyone else, then you can't really fear that anything will happen to him. You know that, by the end of each book, he'll be riding off into the sunset, alive and well. The events that take place, then, are really only a curiosity rather than events through which characters develop and grow.

Anyway, I agree. I liked Raiser of Gales the best so far. Although, Vampire Hunter D was a good introduction, and Demon Deathchase (the book on which Bloodlust was based) is really pretty good as well. I thought the fourth book, Tale of the Dead Town had a lot of interesting concepts in it, but I think the book stopped way too soon. It is the shortest novel so far, and there are a lot of parts in it that could have been fleshed out, the ending being one of them (it feels kind of like the story just stops, rather than ends with the full conclusion that the other books had).

Anyway, I think they're good reads. They're not the best books I've ever read, but I like them and I'll continue to pick them up as they're released.