Manga Review: Record of a Fallen Vampire
Akabara Strauss is not your typical vampire, and Record of a Fallen Vampire is not your typical vampire manga. The story may as well be titled “Record of a Fallen King With Great Supernatural Powers.” And whatever you get out of the first few volumes, you may as well forget, because the whole story will be turned on its head several times by the time you get to the end. That, plus the strong female characters, makes this story worth reading, in my opinion.
Should you choose to read it, I daresay your heartstrings will be played by strokes of sympathy for many of the characters, and your mind will be suitably entertained by the numerous plot twists therein.
I wasn’t planning to read this at all, but my daughter saw it in Barnes & Noble, liked the cover art for volume 8, and talked me into it. I was reading it to her at bedtime for a while (a teen-rated story mind you…my kindergartener learned about grenades!) but then she lost interest. I continued the series to its 9-volume long end.
Like any story that might appeal to me, this thing has cuteness. Behold the cuteness!
Our forlorn, but ridiculously powerful protagonist, Akabara Strauss:
His mortal enemy "Black Swan" Kayuki, with her teddy bear.
Oh and this thing has space aliens, too.
Should you choose to read it, I daresay your heartstrings will be played by strokes of sympathy for many of the characters, and your mind will be suitably entertained by the numerous plot twists therein.
I wasn’t planning to read this at all, but my daughter saw it in Barnes & Noble, liked the cover art for volume 8, and talked me into it. I was reading it to her at bedtime for a while (a teen-rated story mind you…my kindergartener learned about grenades!) but then she lost interest. I continued the series to its 9-volume long end.
Like any story that might appeal to me, this thing has cuteness. Behold the cuteness!
Our forlorn, but ridiculously powerful protagonist, Akabara Strauss:
His mortal enemy "Black Swan" Kayuki, with her teddy bear.
Oh and this thing has space aliens, too.