Trinity Blood: Reborn on the Mars, Volume 3: Empress of the Night

Trinity Blood: Reborn on the Mars #3

by Sunao Yoshida, Thores Shibamoto (Illustrator), Sue Shambough (Translator)

Struggling to save the lives of humans and vampires alike, Special Ops AX Agent Abel Nightroad teams up with a spunky young novice named Esther to try and stop Gyula, the bloodthirsty Marquis of Hungary, from unleashing the legendary Star of Sorrow. Original.

Genres: Manga, Light Novel, Science Fiction, Vampires, Fantasy, Japanese Literature

272 pages, Paperback

First published June 29, 2002

About the author

Sunao Yoshida (吉田直 Yoshida Sunao) is the pen name of late Japanese novelist Sunao Matsumoto. He was born in Fukuoka Prefecture and graduated from La Salle junior/senior high school in Kagoshima. He attended Waseda University and earned a Master's degree from Kyoto University. Yoshida died of a lung blockage in 2004.

In 1997, Yoshida was awarded the Sneaker Taisho literary prize for his debut novel, Genocide Angel. He was the author of the novel series Trinity Blood, which was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's The Sneaker magazine. The Trinity Blood series was published in North America by Tokyopop.

Reviews

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent entry in the series, we learn about the other side of the coin now. Abel and Esther travel to the New Human Empire, political seat of the vampire, that is, the Methuselah nation. Ruled over by the immortal Empress, the Methuselahs have a rigid hierarchy that protect all its members. All is not paradise it seems animated corpses are used to assassinate high-ranking members of the Empress' court and to lay the blame at the feet of her newly returned envoy, Ion Fortuna.
Fun and exciting, but sometimes the language is a bit stilted, it's a translation from Japanese so some of the ideas come across a bit confused. In fact, sometimes the actual words are hard to follow. All in all the story is solid, we learn a bit about Abel and his relationship to the events that have occurred in the past? And what is all this talk about an ominous second moon?
If you've seen the series you know, but let's keep it secret for now.

[Mizuki · Rating 5 out of 5]

This one definitely is the best book of the series, the rest is just so-so.

Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy this half Sci-Fi, half vampire legend series well, but the cliche about the orphaned heroine turns out to be the heir of a human kingdom at book 5 really is turn-off-ish.

[Carlos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Otro gran tomo de esta fabulosa serie de Sunao Yoshida. En este volumen Yoshida nos lleva a la capital del Imperio de la Verdadera Raza y sigue la trama de una facción belicosa que con la ayuda de la Orden Rosenkreuz quiere asesinar a la emperatriz y estallar la guerra contra el Vaticano. Yoshida balancea fantásticamente las presiones de introducir este nuevo mundo al mismo tiempo que trata de profundizar la trama general de toda la serie. Con una mezcla de nuevos y viejos personajes Yoshida nos da una visión de una coexistencia pacífica entre las dos razas mientras que nos da más datos presagiando el liderazgo de la Orden Rosenkreuz.

[Sarah Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

its a shame that they stopped translating the series when it really got interesting

[Timothy Finucane · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just like the previous two book, I love the setting and the techie vampires. That said, the dialog is just so bad some times that it really becomes hard to follow. I'm not sure if that is because the writer is not proficient in English, or if it is an issue with translation.

[ghostlibrarian]

I hope that I'll be able to get this book. Haven't found it yet.