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Strike the Blood Light Novel #3
Strike the Blood, Vol. 3: The Amphisbaena
Kojou and Yukina join forces with Natsuki Minamiya to protect Itogami City from a new threat from the skies—but even Kojou's Beast Vassal can't take this new foe on, and who should rescue them from their predicament but Kojou's sister's friend, a silver-haired girl named Kanon Kanase! But when Kanon disappears, Kojou and Yukina may find that there are some problems not even the world's mightiest vampire can solve!
227 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 10, 2012
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June 18, 2016
Life as a vampire isn't easy. Life as the Fourth Progenitor, the most powerful vampire in the world, is even harder. Throw in a high school life, a beautiful exorcist to watch after him, a gorgeous friend who happens to be the world's best cyber hacker, a princess, and an angel and you have a catastrophe in the making. Such is the life of one Kojou Akatsuki, the mightiest vampire in the world and a high school student who seems to have unwittingly gathered several super powered females as a part of his increasingly large harem.
Oh. Wait. You thought I was joking about the harem part? No, sorry. This is no joke. Strike the Blood is your typical high school harem light novel series, which is probably one of the most prevalent genre of light novel culture. A guilty pleasure? Definitely. Fortunately, this guilty pleasure is better than most.
While the story itself is pretty cliche, I won't deny that I enjoyed reading this volume. It starts off slow, meandering along with Kojou Akatsuki as he blunders his way through regular teenage problems, which include but are not limited to: his gorgeous cyber hacker friend using him as inspiration for her art project, the beautiful watcher getting jealous over said hacker friend being with him, and trying to determine whether or not he should tell his hacker friend that he's a vampire... okay. So that last part isn't necessarily something that most high school teenagers have to worry about. The rest are--erm, could be, potentially... ya know, like, in another dimension where weird and improbable situations happen...
...Moving on.
Overall, I had to say that I enjoyed the volume. Sure, it started off slow, but it eventually picked up the pace and became really exciting somewhere around the middle before eventually culminating in an action packed ending. I can also appreciate the fan service. That said, I'm biased toward the series since it is one of my guilty pleasures. However, if anyone else enjoys this particular genre, I would highly recommend giving it a read.
Oh. Wait. You thought I was joking about the harem part? No, sorry. This is no joke. Strike the Blood is your typical high school harem light novel series, which is probably one of the most prevalent genre of light novel culture. A guilty pleasure? Definitely. Fortunately, this guilty pleasure is better than most.
While the story itself is pretty cliche, I won't deny that I enjoyed reading this volume. It starts off slow, meandering along with Kojou Akatsuki as he blunders his way through regular teenage problems, which include but are not limited to: his gorgeous cyber hacker friend using him as inspiration for her art project, the beautiful watcher getting jealous over said hacker friend being with him, and trying to determine whether or not he should tell his hacker friend that he's a vampire... okay. So that last part isn't necessarily something that most high school teenagers have to worry about. The rest are--erm, could be, potentially... ya know, like, in another dimension where weird and improbable situations happen...
...Moving on.
Overall, I had to say that I enjoyed the volume. Sure, it started off slow, but it eventually picked up the pace and became really exciting somewhere around the middle before eventually culminating in an action packed ending. I can also appreciate the fan service. That said, I'm biased toward the series since it is one of my guilty pleasures. However, if anyone else enjoys this particular genre, I would highly recommend giving it a read.
June 22, 2020
I really enjoyed the new characters of Kanon and La Folia. They saved what was an otherwise lackluster ending. The story itself was fun but the ending was too pat with none of the excitement of the first two volumes' climaxes. Which is wierd cause I like this ending in the anime better. Then again, given how powerful Kojou is, it is kinda inevitable that it would take an insanely powerful and/or smart enemy to give them a hard time.
4.5 stars due to most of the story being good and the new characters being some of my faves.
4.5 stars due to most of the story being good and the new characters being some of my faves.
June 30, 2016
this series for me has been getting better each book...I really enjoyed this one especially. La Folia's character is really entertaining and I like how Koujou continues to develop over the series...
April 16, 2021
Nothing new or exciting here! The characters were nothing special and the story dragged on and on.
Am I the only one who just can't seem to care about the characters?
Am I the only one who just can't seem to care about the characters?
September 19, 2025
I shall read the next
February 17, 2017
3rd book in the series, similar to the 1st and 2nd books as the group of friends grow and kick the bad guys asses. As I watched the Anime first I knew the plot before reading but it still was an enjoyable read.
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