ヴぁんぷ! V [Vanpu!]

Vamp! #5

by Ryohgo Narita, Katsumi Enami (Illustrator)

【暫くぶりだね、日本の紳士淑女諸君！　再び出会えて歓喜の極みだ。この再会を全ての夜に感謝しようではないか】　【だが、夜の一人歩きは危ないから気を付けたまえ。今回の話は、グローワース島で起こった猟奇的な殺人事件の話だ】　【心を読む吸血鬼、無口な人狼の少女、吸血鬼探偵、とある『血族』の男女、そして、事件を追うＴＶクルー。カメラに映し出される島の夜、その闇に潜むのは、我が息子ことレリックと、夜を受け入れた人間の少女、ヒルダ。そして、偉大なる小物ことヴォッド市長だ】　【吸血鬼と人間、そして半人半鬼は、猟奇的な夜に何を思うのか――この続きは、是非君の目で確かめてくれたまえ】

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

386 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2010

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

[Cecille · Rating 4 out of 5]

It hurts my heart that the last book in Narita's indefinitely-hiatus'd would also happen to be the one book that really, finally got me invested in these characters and this world.
It's easily the best one; while this one does introduce more quirkly new characters, the conflict is focused on characters I already care about, and their inward and outward struggles feel more grounded here than in previous books. One protagonist is uncertain about his ability to be an adequate vampire lord and boyfriend, while the other just really wants to prove he's a force to be reckoned with despite his disenfranchised status.
I would've especially liked to have seen these characters evolve from this point, but at the very least the ending is pretty satisfying and mostly conclusive. Shame neither this series or Etsusa were deemed profitable enough to continue.

[Candy · Rating 5 out of 5]

All hail the petty villain! You've earned your place as one of my favorite fictional characters in terms of personality!