Get ready for a thrilling ride as Takaki’s new manga updates twice a month, on the 15th and 30th! The story follows the adventures of a Hunter, one of the warriors who have pledged their laser guns and swords to the eradication of the Nobility, a race of vampires that have dominated humanity for centuries.

Asahi Shimbun is not the only one excited about this new adaptation. Dark Horse Comics has been releasing the novel series in English, and it describes the story:

12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires-and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves.

Every village wants a Hunter-one of the warriors who have pledged their laser guns and their swords to the eradication of the Nobility. But some Hunters are better than others, and some bring their own kind of danger with them…

Graphic Audio published audiobook adaptations of the novels in 2021, and Asahi Sonorama began publishing the novels in Japan in 2005. The series has also inspired several anime adaptations, including the Vampire Hunter D OAV in 1985 and the Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust film in 2000.

Takaki is no stranger to the world of Vampire Hunter D, having launched a manga adaptation in 2007. Digital Manga Publishing released seven volumes of the manga digitally and in print, and Kadokawa later released the eighth and final volume of the manga in English digitally and in print.

Source: PR Times

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