He's My Only Vampire, Vol. 2

純血＋彼氏 [Junketsu + Kareshi] #2

by Aya Shouoto

You are bound to each other by a crimson chain. Never, ever forget that. When Dealer Swallow suddenly appears, Kana learns in the ensuing scuffle just what it means to be a pureblood vampire's 'thrall.' With the lycanthrope Jin now fighting beside Kana and Aki as an ally, the three begin their search for the other Stigmas in a dangerous quest...

Genres: Manga, Vampires, Romance, Fantasy, Shojo, Paranormal, Graphic Novels

176 pages, Paperback

First published June 7, 2011

About the author

Aya Shōoto is a Japanese mangaka.

She publishes under two names in Japanese, that spell the same but are written with different characters.
- 硝音あや: for shōjo manga
- しょうおとあや: for BL manga

Associated Names:
Aya Shōoto
Aya Showoto
Kashi

Reviews

[haven ⋄ f (hiatus) · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don’t know how to feel about this series.

It rehashes out old and worn shojo story elements, dabbing in some of their own occasionally. That’s fine, of course. I’m not totally enjoying the way the author does it.

This one was interesting, sure, but it didn’t move the plot on. There were a bunch of incidents that were helpful but no one ever acted on that. The one thing that this has was stuff about the characters. (Growth, explanations, backstory, etc)

Not too sure I’ll be continuing this one. I’m glad I gave it a shot.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I almost gave up on this volume, but the final story caught my interest.

[Yoyomaus Die Büchereule · Rating 4 out of 5]

Zum Inhalt:

Nachdem Kana auf der Straße ihren alten Sandkastenfreund Aki entdeckt hat, rennt sie ihm nach und erleidet einen schweren Verkehrsunfall. Um sie zu retten, trinkt Aki von ihrem Blut. Dadurch wird Kana automatisch zu seiner Dienerin.
Aki ist in der Stadt, um die mit dämonischen Kräften behafteten sieben Stigmata zu sammeln, um so seinen kleinen Bruder Eriya zu retten.
Als herauskommt, dass der völlig außer Kontrolle geratene Jin Shiranui ein Stigma hat, will Aki es ihm sofort nehmen – egal, was danach auch mit Jin passiert…



Cover:

Das Cover hat mir wieder sehr gut gefallen. Vampirfans werden es sowieso lieben. Zu sehen ist hier in super zeichnerischer Qualität der Charakter des Aki, welcher hochherrschaftlich und im Anzug auf einem Thron zu sitzen scheint und dem Betrachter etwas überheblich entgegen blickt. Ich jedenfalls find das abolut klasse, das hat mich sofort neugierig gemacht.



Eigener Eindruck:

Da Aki Kana das Leben gerettet und sie dadurch an sich gebunden hat, soll er zur Strafe sterben, da er gegen die Regeln seiner Welt verstoßen hat. Dies will der „Dealer“ Swaro durchsetzen. Jedoch berührt er Kana und da diese noch Jungfrau ist, wird er zu einem Pinguin. Kana stellt fest, dass sie in dieser neuen, magischen Welt noch viel zu lernen hat und ist entsetzt, als sie erfährt, dass Aki stirbt, sollte sie sterben. Auf der Suche nach den 7 Stigmata, mit denen Aki seinen kleinen Bruder retten will, bekommen der Vampir und seine Dienerin ausgerechnet von Jin, dem Werwolf Hilfe. Doch der Kontakt zu Aki, der nun auch ihre schule besucht und ein absoluter Mädchenschwarm ist sowie Jin, welcher in der Schule als absoluter Schlägertyp verrufen ist, führt dazu, dass sie in der Schule Probleme bekommt. Außerdem muss sich Kana auch ihren Ängsten aus der Vergangenheit stellen…



Der zweite Teil der Reihe kann sich durchaus sehen lassen. Die Geschichte lässt sich noch gut nachvollziehen, auch wenn man wirklich sehr viele Informationen präsentiert bekommt. Doch leider kann die Story von der Spannung her nicht mehr wirklich mit dem ersten Band mithalten und durch die vielen Informationen wird dem Leser auch ein bisschen der Wind aus den Segeln genommen. Trotzdem begeistert der Manga aber weiterhin durch tolle Ideen und die Zeichnungen sind nach wie vor der absolute Wahnsinn. Nun wird man als Leser besonders angefixt, weil man natürlich wissen möchte, was es denn mit Akis Bruder auf sich hat und ob es denn zwischen Aki und Kana vielleicht doch noch zu einer Romanze kommen wird. Das ist raffiniert gemacht und lockt den Leser in den nächsten Band. Ich für meinen Teil freue mich schon auf die Fortsetzung und hoffe, dass die Story in diesem auch wieder etwas mehr zu Potte kommt. Schön wäre es jedenfalls, denn der Manga hat so stark angefangen.



Fazit:

Leider muss ich feststellen, dass der Manga in diesem Band mit seiner Handlung langsam nachlässt. Trotzdem ist die Geschichte aber noch immer interessant und macht Spaß. Deshalb kann ich sie noch mit ruhigem Gewissen weiter empfehlen.



Idee: 5/5

Charaktere: 5/5

Logik: 4/5

Spannung: 4/5

Emotionen: 4/5





Gesamt: 4/5



Daten:

ISBN: 9783551768155

Sprache: Deutsch

Ausgabe: Flexibler Einband

Umfang: 178 Seiten

Verlag: Carlsen

Erscheinungsdatum: 30.07.2013

[Grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

This review originally appeared on my blog, Books Without Any Pictures: http://bookswithoutanypictures.com/20...

In He’s My Only Vampire Volume 2, we start getting to the meat of the story. This wouldn’t be a shojo vampire manga without a love triangle (that isn’t really a love triangle, but rather pretends to be one, because there’s already so much sexual tension between Aki and Kana that it’s ridiculous). But every Edward needs his Jacob, and so we are introduced to Jin, one of Kana’s classmates. And Jin is a lycanthorpe. He’s also involved with the Stigma competition, but Aki easily overpowers him, and they end up as uneasy allies held together by their feelings for Kana.

Meanwhile, back at school… This is one of the things I find hilarious about this series. We jump from serious supernatural grimdark plotlines to light fluffy scenes from high school. If I were a vampire, werewolf, or servant of one of the above (or any other immortal magical creature, for that matter), I’d forget about high school, use my powers to build myself some kind of library lair, and read all the books there.

Kana’s school is really into clubs. And Kana was always a pushover, because she liked pleasing people and didn’t know how to say no. But now Aki is pushing Kana into not letting herself get taken advantage of by mean girls. And so Kana ropes Aki and Jin into starting their own club that does good deeds, which she convinces them might somehow kinda sorta connect to finding more Stigmas.

[DonutKnow · Rating 3 out of 5]

For the art ❤️ And the hot guys 😜 I kind of ship Jin and Kana- I think I’ll have to turn to fanfics though 😭

[Hisgirl85 · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found volume 1 a little disjointed, but that seems to have been fixed in volume 2. I like that we now have a cute little trio: Aki, the vampire, Kana, his thrall and the "normal" girl, and Jin, the werewolf. This volume was great because it wound up being a school story, where the trio have to solve the mystery of postings on a school social media site that predicts someone will die. We also got to meet the all powerful and beautiful student council. It's interesting to see supernatural characters like elegant Ali and rambunctious Jin based in everyday school life. That makes this series very different to Shouoto's other series, Demon Prince of Momochi House, who's story takes a really long time to come into reality, taking place moreso in a magical house and other realms.

[Victoria ✮⋆˙ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Re-reading the series up to Vol 4 in scans ✨

I’m realising i only really remembered volume 1 so everything feels like new, i’m loving it so far

[kuristina- tabreez · Rating 3 out of 5]

With the beginning of this volume being a fast resolution to the cliffhanger of the previous volume, everything ensuing afterwards feels to be a very sharp change from what the first volume had potentially set this series up to be. This manga tries to appear dark and broody, but it far more so comes across as a mysterious school comedy involving the supernatural. There were still some attempts at touching at more mature and deeper themes and emotions in this volume, but overall, most or all of it came across as fairly hollow. There’s an obvious bond and good dynamic between Kana and Jin Shiranui, but anytime anything involves Aki, everything feels so disconnected that it’s almost awkward. I know that this is intentional, but as a reader, I don’t feel the tension or awkwardness, but rather it simply feels like Aki isn’t there. He’s a cold spot in the room. Kana also has a very two-dimensional personality thus far, mostly right now. She feels like the over-achieving-but-always-fails sporty childhood friend that never gets the boy out of a romcom, but with less personality.
Overall though, this volume was still fun and entertaining. It’s simply that the characters themselves are not engaging and also typically don’t bounce off each other well without it looking somewhat forced (the only one who feels natural is Jin Shiranui), and the set up in the first volume was far more brooding and dark than this volume has proved to be.

[Michelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read in Japanese.

Okay, so, this is basically the reason why I stopped watching 12/13 episode anime. It gets dull so easily. I was bored throughout this volume almost the whole time. It's just not that interesting to me... all those missions and extra things they have to do. I am only interested in the main plot line, but that only continues in a few pages...
The only thing I did enjoy is... holy hell, Aki looks very hot in those last few pages.
Though... it also tells me already that the next volume will be very annoying to me, too... so I am not looking forward to it -sigh-

[R. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kana is still a bit naïve, but we finally see her brother out of his room and slowly seem to be gaining new pieces to the story and each of these characters. This installment leaves off with another cliffhanger introducing a new character once more - this time the nemesis/fiancé. There seems to be something up with the stupid council as well given their intel and how involved they seem to be under the radar. Hopefully at least having this club formed will get the council off Kana's back even if the boys don't particularly care about school requirements.

[-moonprismpower- · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dealer Swallow turning into a penguin because of the touch of a virgin... Haha. I didn’t see that coming!

Anyway, I didn’t realize that this series would be set in high school but that’s okay. I actually like it a lot.
I like the idea of Kana, Jin and Aki being in their own club, solving mysteries. It’s a nice side thing to the whole Stigma game.

And the ending of this volume definitely makes me want to read the next one!

[Cecille · Rating 3 out of 5]

The storytelling remains this series' weak point even as the art and character designs remain strong. Was a little tempted to give this volume 2 stars for some particularly bad attempts at mystery writing and setting stakes, but I wouldn't say it's sunk that far for me yet.

[Cassandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

this volume got messier and we got away from the plot of searching for the stigma's in this volume. A club at school is created to help students and then he has a fiance? There was attempted SA by some guys in this volume. I love the art still.

Just felt like we didn't move forward much.

[Lex · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is unexpectedly GOOD!

[gabi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this. It is surprisingly intriguing and intense.

[Moriah Venable · Rating 5 out of 5]

This story is really starting to pick up. After that cliffhanger, I need the next volume!

[Lepicentrecult · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5

Bonne lecture, une fin qui m'étonnes mais sans plus. Je m'attendais à ce qu'il y ait un ennemi féminin qui se met sur la route d'Aki et Kana

[Stephanie Garza · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great!

Loving the story so far! Kana’s a riot! And I hope Jin & Aki’s relationship turns into a cool bromance of snark and sarcasm! Can’t wait to read on!

[Micheala · Rating 3 out of 5]

This feels like a different book than the first but I’m trying one more installment before I decide to finish or to not finish this series.

[Rae · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit predictable in this volume, but the plot is starting to settle & we get a pretty good cliffhanger.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Me está gustando bastante

[Alexandra Lacau · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 🌟

[Austin (Weird) · Rating 2 out of 5]

why did I read this....

[Aurora · Rating 2 out of 5]

I still like the characters, but jeez, all the situations they were in during this volume were terribly written.

[Laura Martinelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although volume 2 doesn’t have as strong of a story arc and some very "Wait, what?” moments, I still think that this series is going a lot better than the first few volumes of Shouoto’s other currently running in America series. (I’m really trying not to keep comparing He’s My Only Vampire with Kiss of the Rose Princess, but it’s also really hard not to when there’s such a marked difference in my enjoyment of the respective series.)

Volume 2 starts moving in more towards a “client-of-the-week” style in this volume, with Kana establishing a “helper’s club” to guise the fact that she and Aki are looking for people infected with Stigmas based on Jin’s behavior in the previous volume. It’s kind of a smart move to incorporate the school’s requirements with moving the plot along, although their initial case—trying to stop a suicide attempt ordained by a “fortune-telling” website popular with the St. Agatha’s students—doesn’t quite entirely work for me once we find out who the culprit is. Being that we really haven’t seen much with Kana’s brother up until this volume (which is saying something), I honestly don’t buy his reasons for starting the website and thinking of himself as a “god.” I do think there should have been a little bit more of him in the previous volume, aside from Kana saying “Oh yeah, he’s home and he wouldn’t care anyway.” I did like the first red herring twist with the computer club president.

What I do like about this volume is that Shouoto doesn’t waste any time with Dealer explaining what the Stigma game actually is and what it means if Aki wins—we still don’t know Aki’s full reasons for competing aside from wanting to bring Eriya back. I like that we know what the stakes are right off the bat here, and plus that Kana takes the initiative to scout out the town for the rest of Stigma carriers. (I also really like Dealer after we got the reveal. When he showed up at the end of the first volume, I nearly rolled my eyes at the whole “Mysterious player who can’t interfere, but I’ll sit here and taunt you” schtick, but once we got the reveal of his “tengu” form and started being straight (to a point) with Kana, I did end up liking him. Also, aside from the virgin hug, I really loved his alternate form. “You’re…a penguin.” “I AM TENGU! POWERFUL DARK CREATURE SPIRIT!” “….Penguin.”)

(The comedy in this volume really hit this time. Aside from Dealer wailing about Kana being a virgin (cue eye roll for that trope), there were a lot of really funny bits that had me giggling. I also really loved the student council president sorta being able to see through Aki’s glamour powers but he’s not too sure if he should start accusing them just yet. “Ah yes, it seems that someone is stealing the school uniforms with an alarming regularity.” “I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT. AHAHA.”)

Although volume 2 does stall in the story progression, this does a really great job with fleshing out the main characters more. We do get a little more of Kana and Aki’s backstory, and specifically, Kana’s fear of fire and how it lead to her injury (also that kind of body horror moment when she’s letting her skin burn off trying to save the two girls in her class—it’s not terribly graphic but gaaaaah.) (Also more clues pointing to my “Kana is secretly a vampire with her powers and memory locked away.”) As I said, the reveal of the main mystery doesn’t quite work for me once we find out who the culprit is, but it think does a good job of developing the characters and establishing their friendships. We’ll see where volume 3 takes us in terms of story, but fingers crossed that Shouoto keeps up the pace she’s established so far.

[Séverine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nous retrouvons Aki, Kana et Jin en compagnie de Swalo, l'arbitre du jeu auquel notre vampire participe -la chasse au stigma-, en apprenant en même temps qu'ils sont tous dans la même ville à l'occasion du jeu. Donc, Aki n'est pas le seul à chercher les stigma, ça va être la fête à la bestiole surnaturelle dans les prochains tomes. Ça fait du bien de savoir qu'on ne s'arrêtera pas au vampire et au loup-garou dans cette saga !

Vu que l'appartenance à un club est obligatoire au lycée, Kana décide donc de créer un club de service à la personne, puisque les stigma créent des soucis, les gens viendront s'en plaindre, donc ils les trouveront plus facilement. Mais de mon point de vue, les stigma ne sont pas tous des lycéens, ne sont pas tous dans leur école et qu'est ce qui lui dit que tous les stigma causent des problèmes ? Pour seul exemple Jin ? Ça fait très peu de preuves (toutes trouvées dans le premier tome), pour pouvoir se lancer dans cette entreprise...

Kana n'a toujours pas l'air d'être gênée d'être devenue une esclave (être immortel chargé d'offrir son corps pour l'éternité au vampire qui est son maître, aka être sa poche de sang sur patte). Mon problème est que le feu ne la tue pas, alors que vampire + feu = mort assurée (considérons un seul instant qu'elle est devenue un « vampire inversé »), mais elle peut mourir par des armes sacrées, comme celles que ce sert Swalo. Bref, Kana et moi, je crois que ça ne marchera pas.

Aki est un mystère à lui tout seul, ne laissant quiconque révéler quoique ce soit sur lui, au point que j'en viens à me demander si c'est vraiment pour son frère qu'il recherche tous les stigma. Loin d'être aussi naïf que Kana, rien ne me dérange dans son personnage, si ce n'est qu'il ne brûle pas au soleil, sans aucune protection. Reste à voir si au dernier moment il ne trahira pas Kana et Jin pour une quelconque raison, il cache trop de choses pour rester honnête jusqu'au bout.

En bref, un shôjo tout ce qu'il y a de plus classique, une héroïne naïve, un vampire mystérieux, seul reste à savoir si tout ira aussi bien dans la suite...

[Judyth · Rating 4 out of 5]

~3.5-4/5

A little off topic to start: I don’t understand why Aya Shouoto has suddenly had so many releases. She’s had at least three series picked up at once. Doesn’t that seem weird? Did something happen for her rise in popularity that I missed? Not a complaint, mind you, as I am enjoying her series and art, but it just seemed odd to me.

Now, for the actual manga.

This volume had a very different feel than the first one. Here, we get full on school life mode.

Kana goes back to school, along with Aki and Jin, mostly with Aki learning what her normal day life is like. Kana figures out what to do with her club situation, and decides to start her own. Jin is kind of adorable, and pretty much just follows them. Aki gets popular, for a while, but everyone else is afraid of/dislikes Kana and Jin, though Kana is determined to change her public image.

We officially meet Kana’s younger brother in this volume, and I like him. I’m interested to see more of him, and hope he gets a bigger presence in the series. We also got more of an idea of how the whole thrall and vampire, and the stigma hunting thing works. I’m intrigued to see where it goes next.

Then there was a cliffhanger, and I’m interested to see where that goes. I feel like there’s still a lot to learn and develop in this series. I’m looking forward to reading more, though.

[Read more at my blog, Geeky Reading!]

[Melissa Kh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dopo aver finito il primo numero, eccomi qui a parlare -recensire- il secondo numero.
Allora, parto dal fatto che ho messo 5 stelle perché mi ha colpito molto più del primo volume in sé.
Si inizia ad entrare nella vera dinamica della storia, e si aggiungono molti più elementi a quelli precedenti, lasciando sempre un velo di mistero.
Mi è piaciuto molto Jin come personaggio, la sua posizione è stata rivalutata e si capisce molto meglio come è realmente.
Aki Kirito continua a nascondere qualche mistero, e la sua storia non è ancora chiara al 100%.
Partecipa alla competizione per trovare le sette stigmata che dovrebbero riuscire a salvare il fratello.
Eriya è un personaggio di sottofondo, che non appare quasi mai, e viene nominato solo da Aki o da Cana. Di lui non si capisce quasi nulla, e praticamente si sa solo il nome e si sa che Aki ha bisogno di vincere quella competizione per poterlo salvare. Questo mi sembra abbastanza strano, anche perché all'inizio sembrava che Cana fosse 'innamorata' di Eriya, mentre -forse- ora sta iniziando a provare qualcosa per Aki.
Non vedo l'ora di leggere il terzo volume, sperando che riesca a chiarirmi qualche dubbio.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

More straightforward and exciting than Shouto's other series currently (as of this moment) being published in English, Kiss of the Rose Princess, this volume ups the action as Kana proves her new immortality while also working well within the conventions of romance, i. e. Kana being totally oblivious to how much Aki likes her. The addition of her younger, shut-in brother Masayuki bodes well for future plotlines, and the romance is definitely about to hit jealousy land by the time the volume ends. Even if her other series didn't do it for you, this one is stronger and worth checking out.