For the record, this is my first exposure to Vampire Hunter D. I believe this to be the last of the comic books and manga that I picked up at ye local library.
This book starts off with an exposition explaining how society succumbed to a nuclear apocalypse, and later rebuilt itself, except run by vampires instead of humans. After thousands of years a select few humans got sick of vampires running everything, and organized themselves as hunters. So it’s a post apocalyptic world run by freaking vampires with lazer beams on their castles.
Anyway, on to our main character. Here we’re introduced to D, a rough and tough vampire hunter wearing a cowboy hat riding on a cyborg horse. Despite being the prettiest looking character in the book, he is also clearly the manliest. While riding on his robotic horse, he encounters another lead, (in this book at least) Doris Lane Doris is looking for a vampire hunter in order to slay a vampire that bit her recently. Hence, she hires D to slaughter the animal.
Plot is kind of generic, silent protagonist comes in to save some girl from the horrible monster, fights ensue, yada yada yada. What’s REALLY interesting about this book is the setting. Here we have vampires who manage to be total bastards, (why is that so rare?) freaking robots, and a wild west setting. Also, the fights are pretty entertaining, although they lack any sense of suspense. Designs look cool though, and a lot of the concepts introduced are pretty interesting.
The characters are sort of interesting. Nothing too memorable, but at least nobody does anything so stupid you want to facepalm. I like the combination of wild west with European knights and castles. The sci fi puts it directly into really awesome territory
Overall, This manga is really interesting, mainly due to the scenery being very unique and interesting to look at. Exposition starts out strong, no part really struck me as dull, and it ended in a nice spot. An overall very interesting book to read.
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