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Chibi Vampire: The Novel #2
Chibi Vampire: The Novel, Vol. 2
Karin's classmate, Kenta Usui, carefully safeguards Karin's secret-that she is a "reverse vampire" who injects blood instead of drinking it! Despite a strange attraction between Kenta and Karin, they remain only friends. One day, Kenta offers his umbrella to China, a young novice sister. Karin convinces herself it's no big deal. Still she finds the entire scene surprisingly upsetting, and nothing her friend Maki does can console her. Karin watches as Kenta and China get closer and closer while mysterious incidents of arson and attempted kidnapping unfold. What will happen to Karin and Kenta?
Find out in this second volume of the school-vampire-love-comedy-mystery series, Chibi Vampire: The Novel.
Find out in this second volume of the school-vampire-love-comedy-mystery series, Chibi Vampire: The Novel.
175 pages, Paperback
First published May 8, 2007
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January 17, 2022
Karin Maaka is a "reverse vampire" or an "un-vampire" meaning she comes from a family of vampires except she can walk in the sun, is unaffected by garlic, and she even produces blood that she injects into people rather than sucking it. In this world, vampires have a type of blood that they're attracted to and it turns out Karin is attracted to misfortune/depression. When the new transfer student, Kenta Usui, arrives, Karin's blood reacts to him and the two have to figure out their relationship as an un-vampire and a human ally.
Chibi Vampire is originally a manga that was later adapted into an anime in the early 2000s that I absolutely adored in middle school. The anime wasn't great. I thought it was mediocre even as a young teen, but I always loved the manga. When I started collecting the out-of-print manga series at the end of 2021, I found out for the first time that the manga had a series of companion novels that took place between each volume. I had some loyalty points on an online book site that was going to expire so I thought "why not?" and ordered Chibi Vampire: The Novel volume 1 & 2.
The story wasn't great... which isn't too much of a surprise when the main conflict is that Karin thought Kenta was in love with a novice nun and there was a serial arsonist on the loose. This novel had very little going on. I didn't care for the supposed love triangle between Karin, Kenta, and China - yes, CHINA - the novice nun. Partly because Karin and Kenta are the OTP of the series so you know China never had a chance of doing anything to impact Karin and Kenta's relationship, and because China's interactions with the established characters were so trivial that she barely even had a platonic relationship with one of them.
The mystery behind the arsonist was also not interesting. Even when the arsonist and their motivation for their crimes is revealed, it just felt random because there was never any way that you could have guessed it was them or why they started the fires.
The weirdest decision made throughout the story was when Karin realized she was kidnapped. She threw cookies out of the window to leave a trail for someone to find her. I thought this was ridiculous because she had her cellphone with her and she didn't think to message someone or discreetly call someone? Why throw cookies out a window instead? I understand that, canonically, Karin is pretty ditzy and Kenta didn't have a cellphone because he was too poor to afford one, but did Kenta have to be the one save them? Why didn't Karin message her best friend Maki or her family or the police? What was even more ridiculous is that her trail of cookies actually caught Kenta's attention, who followed them, and was able to save Karin and China from the arsonist.
The best part of this novelization was the prologue and epilogue. I thought those chapters were genuinely written well - even beautifully when the author was describing the destructive nature of fire - and it's too bad that everything between the prologue and epilogue wasn't as great.
I wasn't expecting much and didn't get much so why did I pick up this light novel anyway? I wanted an easy, familiar read. I haven't been able to read a book since October of 2021, which is the longest I've gone without reading a book since I got back into the hobby in 2017. I guess things can only go up from here. Or at least I hope.
Chibi Vampire is originally a manga that was later adapted into an anime in the early 2000s that I absolutely adored in middle school. The anime wasn't great. I thought it was mediocre even as a young teen, but I always loved the manga. When I started collecting the out-of-print manga series at the end of 2021, I found out for the first time that the manga had a series of companion novels that took place between each volume. I had some loyalty points on an online book site that was going to expire so I thought "why not?" and ordered Chibi Vampire: The Novel volume 1 & 2.
The story wasn't great... which isn't too much of a surprise when the main conflict is that Karin thought Kenta was in love with a novice nun and there was a serial arsonist on the loose. This novel had very little going on. I didn't care for the supposed love triangle between Karin, Kenta, and China - yes, CHINA - the novice nun. Partly because Karin and Kenta are the OTP of the series so you know China never had a chance of doing anything to impact Karin and Kenta's relationship, and because China's interactions with the established characters were so trivial that she barely even had a platonic relationship with one of them.
The mystery behind the arsonist was also not interesting. Even when the arsonist and their motivation for their crimes is revealed, it just felt random because there was never any way that you could have guessed it was them or why they started the fires.
The weirdest decision made throughout the story was when Karin realized she was kidnapped. She threw cookies out of the window to leave a trail for someone to find her. I thought this was ridiculous because she had her cellphone with her and she didn't think to message someone or discreetly call someone? Why throw cookies out a window instead? I understand that, canonically, Karin is pretty ditzy and Kenta didn't have a cellphone because he was too poor to afford one, but did Kenta have to be the one save them? Why didn't Karin message her best friend Maki or her family or the police? What was even more ridiculous is that her trail of cookies actually caught Kenta's attention, who followed them, and was able to save Karin and China from the arsonist.
The best part of this novelization was the prologue and epilogue. I thought those chapters were genuinely written well - even beautifully when the author was describing the destructive nature of fire - and it's too bad that everything between the prologue and epilogue wasn't as great.
I wasn't expecting much and didn't get much so why did I pick up this light novel anyway? I wanted an easy, familiar read. I haven't been able to read a book since October of 2021, which is the longest I've gone without reading a book since I got back into the hobby in 2017. I guess things can only go up from here. Or at least I hope.
September 16, 2020
Well, it started very slow but I liked the way it ended. :-)
I'm always baffled when Japanese artists choose to depict nuns. Maybe they're just folkloristic creatures to them. Here we have a sixteen-year-old novice who lives in a convent with a bunch of old nuns. I haven't understood if she goes to school or not, to be honest. One day she is harassed by a man a Kenta helps her. Karin sees him and gets jealous, without even knowing that she's jealous.
Short after that, the K&K has to help the poor nun against a mean arsonist who terrorizes their neighborhood.
I like the cookie path and the ending. I also appreciate that Karin is way less clumsy than in the first volume.
Looking forward to reading the third one, even if I've mangled it trying to get the library marking out of it. :-(
I'm always baffled when Japanese artists choose to depict nuns. Maybe they're just folkloristic creatures to them. Here we have a sixteen-year-old novice who lives in a convent with a bunch of old nuns. I haven't understood if she goes to school or not, to be honest. One day she is harassed by a man a Kenta helps her. Karin sees him and gets jealous, without even knowing that she's jealous.
Short after that, the K&K has to help the poor nun against a mean arsonist who terrorizes their neighborhood.
I like the cookie path and the ending. I also appreciate that Karin is way less clumsy than in the first volume.
Looking forward to reading the third one, even if I've mangled it trying to get the library marking out of it. :-(
December 30, 2023
A little surprised at how different these light novels are from the manga series? This was a weird story, and the amount of violent drama makes these read like action novels rather than the slow burn romance of the main series. Weird choice, but I'm curious enough to keep reading.
August 14, 2007
This was definitely a cute story and it had the same good writing quality as the first, however it wasn't quite on par with the first novel. It's still worth reading I just didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first novel. As with the first it's set between two of the manga volumes, so reading them is a requisite to really getting the book. This one just kind of lacked something. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the added character is a nun in this one. Not really as much romantic tension as in the last novel.
March 16, 2009
In this second novel of Chibi Vampire, Karin has to help a young girl save herself from an old Nun who trys to kill her, with the help of Kenta.
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November 29, 2008
really great book sorta waky but kool
January 2, 2013
The second novel of the Chibi vampire series is much more dramatic than the first.
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