夜型愛人専門店DX―ブラッドハウンド

by Kaori Yuki, 由貴香織里

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Genres: Manga, Vampires, Comics, Comics Manga, Horror, Mystery, Supernatural

125 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2003

About the author

Kaori Yuki (由貴香織里) is a Japanese manga artist.

She debuted in 1987 with Natsufuku no Erii (Jap: 夏服のエリー) on the manga anthology Bessatsu Hana to Yume published by Hakusensha.
She is best known for her gothic manga works, such as the Earl Cain series (Jap: 伯爵カイン, Hakushaku Cain) and Angel Sanctuary (Jap: 天使禁猟区, Tenshi Kinryōku)

Her work is typically serialized in one of Hakusensha's two shōjo manga anthologies, Bessatsu Hana to Yume and Hana to Yume. In 2010, Kaori Yuki was one of many manga artists whose work would appear in the new shōjo manga anthology Aria by the publisher Kodansha on July 28, 2010.
Her doujinshi-ka name is MoonClock.

Reviews

[Bibliothecat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rion's best friend has gone missing! Her prime suspect: a suspicious looking host club. She is convinced that the hosts are vampires and makes sure to keep a close eye on them.

Bloodhound has potential but just doesn't go anywhere. The art is nice and it has a good enough start. There's a hint of horror but otherwise, it's pretty much a comedy - in a good sense. There was definitely also room for some romance but, as mentioned, it doesn't go anywhere. The manga just ends and you only know that it ended because you reached the end of the volume.

There is neither a conclusion nor any feeling of closure. The story built up a few elements such as reincarnation but is never really explored. The hint of romance is dropped and the last we see of our characters is a prank. There's not even a hint of how it might go on. Simply put: wasted potential!

[Pflanzis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meine Ausgabe von Blood Hound ist total abgerockt, weil ich sie als Jugendliche so oft gelesen habe. Trotzdem hatte ich gar nicht mehr so viele Erinnerungen an den Inhalt. Oder besser gesagt, ich kannte noch das grobe Gerüst, aber all die feinen Details in den Dialogen oder den Hintergründen hatte ich total vergessen. Ein bisschen habe ich auch das Gefühl, dass mich die Geschichte heute anders angesprochen hat, als vor über 10 Jahren. Ich kann’s nicht so richtig in Worte fassen, also belasse ich’s dabei. ;-)

Von den drei Kapiteln mochte ich das erste am meisten, das zweite war auch gut, das letzte mochte ich weniger. Das vierte Kapitel wurde separat als Chibi-Büchlein „Blood Hound Special“ veröffentlicht und löst das Geheimnis um Ellione erst richtig auf. Ohne dieses Zusatzkapitel ist die Geschichte leider unvollständig.

Die Zeichnungen von Kaori Yuki sind total schön und ich wurde ein bisschen nostalgisch beim Betrachten und Lesen. <3

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rion the destructive Domperignon crucher, is a highschool girl searching for her missing best friend. Her only clues are the fact that her best friend's seeing a "vampire" and there are numerous girls disappearing and reappearing later on with their blood sucked dry. There's also a business card from a Gothic Host Club.

I'm going to keep it to that, I find it funny that I can't give this manga a proper introduction for this review without me spoiling anything. I thoroughly enjoyed this story, although I wish there were more volumes and expanded on the main characters. This manga has a little bit of everything, romance, comedy, mystery, school life (not much thought, but school uniforms yes!), etc.

My honest opinion is read the manga! I don't want to say more, because odds are I'm going to ruin it for you or spoil it. Great read.

[kirsten · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know how to review this one. There are a lot of good things in this, a lot of good ideas - ideas that if expanded upon would have been amazing. There is also a lot of confusing plots, which seem to lead nowhere and that ending... what?

I read the first few chapters of this in the early oughts. I loved it. For some reason it popped into my head the other day and at the time I couldn't remember the title, the character's names or the author. Luckily my Google-fu paid off and after a few attempts, I was able to track it down.

I still love those first few chapters that focus on Rion investigating the disappearance of her best friend. If the entire volume was about that I easily would have given this a higher rating. But it's not, and in many ways a lot of what happens afterwards causes this book to fall off the rails.

So this book is about Rion, an incredibly brash teenager who dyes her hair unconventionally and doesn't use honourifics unless she has too (which as we're told at the start of the scanlation is a big deal and worth noting). Her best and seemingly only friend (until later?) has gone missing and Rion believes the men who work at the host club Kranken Haus are behind it. She also believes they are vampires.

I really, really wish this is what the entire book was about. About Rion's investigation, about her working at Kranken Haus, about her relationship with the other vampires. I also wish we got to know the vampires more. Other than Suou I can't remember their names. We also could have gotten more parallels between Rion and Ellione, a woman with divine blood they believe Rion to be the reincarnation of. If we had more time with this Rion's epiphany that the vampires haven't hurt her friend wouldn't feel so sudden. Also yes... the shipping part of me wanted more development because obviously I ship Rion/Suou.

The rest of this was pretty weird... and confusing (but I don't know if that was the scanlation I was reading or not). First the vampires have left and the host club is shut down. Rion's friend she tried to save seems to dissapear, then this other girl at her school who seems to be obsessed with her appears. It turns out she's a witch using dark magic she learned on the internet that she can control using her flip phone. Also she's caught all the vampires and is controlling them via collars?

And then Rion smashes a bottle of wine and turns into a boy. It's only temporary but Suou decides to play a prank on her and tells her is she doesn't kiss someone in 24 she's stuck as a boy forever.

WHAT.

Then it gets interesting again. Suou's brother returns. He's out for revenge. There is a fight. Stuff happens. And then the vampires all die... except maybe not? It's kind of confusing.

Surprisingly throughout this book there are some really emotional moments. Rion runs away as a child believing no one loves her. She meets a vampire and tells him he can drink her blood because no one would miss her. The vampire asks her "do you really believe no one loves you?" This comes into play a few times at different parts of the story. Suou's brother also plays with Rion's emotions implying the vampires only care about her because of Ellione.

For the most part I really liked this. I love Rion. I love Suou. And I'm glad I sought this out again after all these years. I really wish there was an official translation because I think a lot was lost in it. I also wish we could get more with these characters because everything seems rushed and/or filler. Maybe Kaori Yuki wanted a break from long series so she wrote this? But I feel it suffers because it's so short.

lookireallyjustwantrion/suoustuffdon'tlookatme

[B · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rion was such a great protagonist! Probably the most fired up, and lively one. I've seen in a shoujo manga! The final and fifth chapter was confusing in terms of translation, but I thought it was a good chapter nonetheless. I do wish that this went on longer, for the fact that I feel that all the characters should get their own chapters for building up their character. The thing that I enjoyed the most, was probably the fact that the protagonist wasn't some doe-eyed high school girl falling in love. She was a tough, smart (as in commonsense) type of girl, and ended up befriending the hosts rather than having one of them as a love interest. However, because this was shoujo, there were a few elements of that happening, but not as much or often. I really enjoyed this and hope that you do too!

[Chrissie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Das war ja mal so gar nicht meins. Und dann fehlt auch noch gefühlt die Hälfte der gesamten Geschichte? (Nicht, dass es dadurch sonderlich besser geworden wäre aber es kam immerhin zu einer Art Ende.)

[Niratisaya · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pertama kalinya... mengecewakan.

[Séverine]

Rion Kano, une jeune lycéenne excentrique dans une école pour filles de bonne famille, apprend que sa seule amie à disparu. Sa seule et unique preuve ? La carte de Suo, un hôte d'un host club nommé Krankenhaus (littéralement en allemand : la maison des malades, que l'on pourrait traduire par ''hôpital''). Évidemment, ses soupçons se portent sur ce jeune homme, qui n'est rien d'autre qu'un vampire.

Encore une fois, Kaori Yuki nous montre son travail d'investigation avant l'écriture du manga, ce qui fait toujours plaisir à voir. Malheureusement (je ne m'attendais pas à sortir ce mot en faisant une chronique d'un des mangas de Kaori), cette édition est un one-shot non fini. Ça laisse un arrière goût désagréable, surtout quand l'on apprend que la fin se trouve dans la version deluxe sortie quelques années plus tard (si quelqu'un arrive à me trouver un scan du dernier chapitre, je l'embrasse ! Ou un câlin. Ou ma reconnaissance éternelle *-* ).

L'histoire n'a pas le côté trash des autres mangas de l'auteure, il est gore et nous laisses entrevoir une relation homosexuelle assez bizarre (enfin, je dirais normale vu l'univers de Kaori), mais je le trouve quand même assez soft suivant l'univers auquel nous avions été habitués. C'est dommage. Il manque ce petit quelque chose de sombre et dérangeant comparé à ses autres œuvres. Il se laisse lire, mais ce n'est pas un des mangas que je conseillerais à quelqu'un qui veux découvrir le petit monde de Kaori Yuki.

[Starbubbles · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was pretty bad and disjointed. As soon as I would piece together enough story, the chapter would end and a new, equally disjointed story would commence. This could have ended after chapter 3 and had a nice well-ish rounded story with a concise ending. Well, whatever. Once you get over the gross inaccuracies of Christianity and weird melding of folklore, it wasn't terrible.

[Hannah Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This manga collection was good, but weird at the same time. I agree with the previous comment: there are pieces missing from the plot that could've helped with understanding what was going on. In the beginning, it did give a good a laugh :)

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un manga piuttosto simpatico e senza pretese, in cui vengono riproposti alcuni dei cliché dell'autrice in chiave vampirica. Alcuni spunti li ho trovati davvero buoni. Sarebbe stato interessante leggere come avrebbe proseguito la storia.

[Wildchildd]

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bloodho...

[Patricia · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected something far better! This was just.. mhe for me.

[Violet]

i love it

[Rida · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read the first chapter but! No matter how many times I try to read it or fin it I can't sigh