ヴぁんぷ! IV [Vanpu!]

Vamp! #4

by Ryohgo Narita, Katsumi Enami (Illustrator)

【３年ぶりだね、日本の紳士淑女諸君！　お待たせしてしまったねえ。ふむ、諸君との友愛関係を祈り、今宵は吸血鬼と人間の関わりについて話すとしよう】　【ドイツ南部にて発生した、村人達の集団失踪事件。我々の『組織』はその事件について会議を開く事になったのだが――時を同じくして、ミヒャエル君がある決意を胸にグローワース島を飛び出したようだ。当然ながら、そんな彼を追って我が娘のフェレットも島を飛び出し……そのまま若い男女の甘酸っぱい追走劇になれば良かったのだがね】　【人間と吸血鬼の男女。この組み合わせが生むのは果たして悲劇かロマンスか……過去と現在の物語の中で、君達がそれぞれの思いを抱いてくれれば幸いだ】

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

439 pages, Paperback

First published August 10, 2008

About the author

Ryohgo Narita (成田 良悟, Narita Ryōgo) is a Japanese light novelist. He won the Gold Prize in the 9th Dengeki Novel Prize for Baccano!, which was made into a TV anime in 2007.[1] His series Durarara!! was also made into a TV anime, which began airing January 2010


There are two traits found in most of Narita's works:
* Narita writes extremely fast, one volume a month if he wishes - with tons of spelling errors and missing words as a tradeoff. The editors like to leave them sometimes just for fun, though.
* His work titles often have an exclamation mark at the end (i.e. Baccano!, Vamp!, Durarara!!, etc.).

Kanji names: 成田 良悟 & 成田良悟.

Reviews

[handsfeetlegs · Rating 4 out of 5]

tl;dr: it was great, but not quite as great as the first 3 volumes.
the first half of this volume is incredible: new characters, new settings, lots of intrigue, and a compelling narrative. everything you loved about the first 3 volumes in the vehicle of the totally new type of story. and then, when everything converges, and mysteries reveal themselves,,,, it doesn't hold its momentum very well. the narrative style begins to feel less like "orchestrated pandemonium" and more like "piecewise storytelling."
part of why is that we just simply didn't spend enough time with these new characters to be fully immersed in the action-packed final act. (I also just really miss my fav watermelon vamp)
anyways, still a super fun read, it's absolutely worth your time, and I'm pumped for the final volume AHHH

(also!!! Durarara reference in the final chapter!!???‽‽‽ and the new characters are fucking dope as shit!!!! Romy Mars!!! Doubs Huey!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)