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Blood Alone #1-3
Blood Alone, Vol. 1-3
600 pages of heartfelt vampire romance at one low price!
This omnibus edition contains the first three volumes of Masayuki Takono's Blood Alone, with all-new translations and lettering.
There are worse things than being a vampire. For recently turned vampiress Minato Misaki, there is nothing more painful than watching her human companion, the former vampire hunter turned investigative author, Kurose Kuroe, risk his life to protect her.
For Misaki, vampirism and the beastly powers that come with it are something that she wouldn’t wish upon her worst enemy, let alone her beloved Kuroe. But Kuroe’s supernatural investigations make him a regular target of vampires and all sorts of undead creatures of the night. The only way to save him from these deadly threats may be to do the one thing that Misaki fears the most: to turn Kuroe into a vampire for his own protection.
This omnibus edition contains the first three volumes of Masayuki Takono's Blood Alone, with all-new translations and lettering.
There are worse things than being a vampire. For recently turned vampiress Minato Misaki, there is nothing more painful than watching her human companion, the former vampire hunter turned investigative author, Kurose Kuroe, risk his life to protect her.
For Misaki, vampirism and the beastly powers that come with it are something that she wouldn’t wish upon her worst enemy, let alone her beloved Kuroe. But Kuroe’s supernatural investigations make him a regular target of vampires and all sorts of undead creatures of the night. The only way to save him from these deadly threats may be to do the one thing that Misaki fears the most: to turn Kuroe into a vampire for his own protection.
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First published April 26, 2011
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August 9, 2020
I have to admit that I never would have picked this book up if I wouldn't have needed to read a manga for a reading challenge. Graphic Novels are just not my thing. Every time I give one a try I discover once again how much I miss the inner monologue, the thought process, the nice little details that help me to connect with a character even better. And I already was quite certain that this would happen with Manga too.
Let me start this review with saying that the artwork of this book is lovely. The characters are easy to tell apart and I loved all the small little details helping to make the story. If you want a manga with some nice artwork this is for sure a great choice. However, I read because I want a story. I want someone else's adventure to feel like mine and I want to meet and make new friends. And I didn't feel like that worked with this manga.
Although the individual stories were quite amusing, I missed the depth, I missed the deep and raw emotions and I missed that one big story arc that goes through all the books, binding all the short adventures. I'm sure that there is some storyline in there, most likely the "will they date or will they not" storyline that is already very present in every episode of this story, but I missed a storyline that would really make it interesting instead of easy to forget.
I also really missed getting to know the characters. I don't feel like I really know what they're doing and who they are. Maybe in future episodes more details will be added to turn them into more complete characters, but now they feel kind of simple and one dimensional. It was also hard to grasp their shared history and how they became who they are today. I would have loved more and a better backstory for them too and most of all earlier.
So, I'm going back to my proza again. However, I gave it a try and it was an easy and quick read for a lazy and most of all hot Sunday.
Let me start this review with saying that the artwork of this book is lovely. The characters are easy to tell apart and I loved all the small little details helping to make the story. If you want a manga with some nice artwork this is for sure a great choice. However, I read because I want a story. I want someone else's adventure to feel like mine and I want to meet and make new friends. And I didn't feel like that worked with this manga.
Although the individual stories were quite amusing, I missed the depth, I missed the deep and raw emotions and I missed that one big story arc that goes through all the books, binding all the short adventures. I'm sure that there is some storyline in there, most likely the "will they date or will they not" storyline that is already very present in every episode of this story, but I missed a storyline that would really make it interesting instead of easy to forget.
I also really missed getting to know the characters. I don't feel like I really know what they're doing and who they are. Maybe in future episodes more details will be added to turn them into more complete characters, but now they feel kind of simple and one dimensional. It was also hard to grasp their shared history and how they became who they are today. I would have loved more and a better backstory for them too and most of all earlier.
So, I'm going back to my proza again. However, I gave it a try and it was an easy and quick read for a lazy and most of all hot Sunday.
August 25, 2019
[This is an old review I'm just now adding to GR.]
I reread this so that I could read the next volume in the series and have a fresher memory of what had already happened. I'm rereviewing it because 1) my reviewing style has changed since I first reviewed this back in 2011 and 2) I'm even less impressed with it now than I was back then.
Blood Alone is an odd mix of vampire, crime, and sweet slice-of-life manga. The main characters in the omnibus are Misaki and Kuroe. Misaki is a young vampire - I don't think her age was stated, but I've seen guesses that range anywhere from 10 to 12, which is kind of horrifying when you consider how much of this omnibus focuses on Misaki's crush on Kuroe. Kuroe is a young man (maybe in his mid-to-late 20s?) who used to hunt vampires after one kidnapped his sister and possibly turned her. Now, though, he spends most of his time taking care of Misaki, writing, and doing occasional work as a private investigator. He seems to do everything from finding missing pet cats to tracking down serial killers, and his eyes are magically immune to trickery.
Misaki and Kuroe are aided by Sainome, Higure, and several others. Sainome was the daughter of the doctor who took care of Kuroe's sister, and she has the ability to see the last few minutes of a deceased person's life when she touches them. She often encourages Misaki's crush on Kuroe, while also being attracted to him herself. Higure looks to be about the same age as Misaki, but he's actually a much older and more powerful vampire. He acts as a sort of vampire mentor for Misaki.
I'll start with the good. The artwork was nice, although a bit bland, and Takano did an excellent job of creating a softer, gentler mood during the slice-of-life/romantic chapters. I was also intrigued by the characters' histories and by the bits and pieces of information about the vampire world that Kuroe seemed to have mostly shielded Misaki from.
Now for the bad. This omnibus volume was incredibly boring. As I said in my first review, it was not encouraging that it took Takano three volumes to accomplish so little. Part of me wishes Takano had cut out most of the cutesie slice-of-life/romantic stuff and spent more time focusing on the darker drama involving Kuroe's past, his sister's disappearance, and the events that led to Misaki becoming a vampire and being made Kuroe's responsibility. However, I suspect this would just have drawn attention to Takano's inability to draw truly exciting and dynamic action scenes.
An enormous amount of time was spent on scenes and stories intended to make Misaki and Kuroe look like a cute, bumbling young couple. Misaki was the adorable little princess who couldn't cook, agonized over Valentine's Day chocolates for Kuroe, worried about him if he wasn't there when she woke up, and lovingly stored the dress she wore on her and Kuroe's first “date.” Kuroe was laid-back, oblivious (he was supposedly unaware that both Sainome and Misaki liked him), and devoted enough to Misaki that he'd apparently put his goal of finding his sister again on a back burner for her, if not abandoned it entirely.
I was more tolerant of this during my first reading of this omnibus volume. Now, though, I look at this and all I can see is just how much time (maybe two thirds of the volume?) Takano spent establishing Misaki and Kuroe as very nearly a romantic couple, one that readers were supposed to root for and that even Sainome was sort of supporting. Kuroe was supposedly oblivious, and yet I don't see how he could have missed what was going on, especially after Misaki did things like try to use her vampiric powers to get him to give her a kiss. I don't know if it's that I'm a few years older, but this aspect of the series was so much more off-putting this time around.
In my first review, I said something to the effect that this series wasn't Dance in the Vampire Bund level of ick, and I still mostly agree with that. Misaki wasn't sexualized the way Mina was (Higure, on the other hand...). Blood Alone's brand of ick has more in common with, say, something like
I'll read the next couple volumes since they've come in on interlibrary loan, but rereading this has made me more confident about my decision to finally offload it. That, and I noticed that even Seven Seas abandoned this series, releasing only the first six volumes.
Extras:
- A 1-page glossary of vampire-related terminology used throughout the volume.
- A page of translator's notes.
- 4 pages of artwork that might have been cover art. Unfortunately, all of it is in black-and-white, so details are hard to make out.
- 8 pages of introductory information (characters, premise) for Vampire Cheerleaders.
- A 12-page preview of Gunslinger Girl.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
I reread this so that I could read the next volume in the series and have a fresher memory of what had already happened. I'm rereviewing it because 1) my reviewing style has changed since I first reviewed this back in 2011 and 2) I'm even less impressed with it now than I was back then.
Blood Alone is an odd mix of vampire, crime, and sweet slice-of-life manga. The main characters in the omnibus are Misaki and Kuroe. Misaki is a young vampire - I don't think her age was stated, but I've seen guesses that range anywhere from 10 to 12, which is kind of horrifying when you consider how much of this omnibus focuses on Misaki's crush on Kuroe. Kuroe is a young man (maybe in his mid-to-late 20s?) who used to hunt vampires after one kidnapped his sister and possibly turned her. Now, though, he spends most of his time taking care of Misaki, writing, and doing occasional work as a private investigator. He seems to do everything from finding missing pet cats to tracking down serial killers, and his eyes are magically immune to trickery.
Misaki and Kuroe are aided by Sainome, Higure, and several others. Sainome was the daughter of the doctor who took care of Kuroe's sister, and she has the ability to see the last few minutes of a deceased person's life when she touches them. She often encourages Misaki's crush on Kuroe, while also being attracted to him herself. Higure looks to be about the same age as Misaki, but he's actually a much older and more powerful vampire. He acts as a sort of vampire mentor for Misaki.
I'll start with the good. The artwork was nice, although a bit bland, and Takano did an excellent job of creating a softer, gentler mood during the slice-of-life/romantic chapters. I was also intrigued by the characters' histories and by the bits and pieces of information about the vampire world that Kuroe seemed to have mostly shielded Misaki from.
Now for the bad. This omnibus volume was incredibly boring. As I said in my first review, it was not encouraging that it took Takano three volumes to accomplish so little. Part of me wishes Takano had cut out most of the cutesie slice-of-life/romantic stuff and spent more time focusing on the darker drama involving Kuroe's past, his sister's disappearance, and the events that led to Misaki becoming a vampire and being made Kuroe's responsibility. However, I suspect this would just have drawn attention to Takano's inability to draw truly exciting and dynamic action scenes.
An enormous amount of time was spent on scenes and stories intended to make Misaki and Kuroe look like a cute, bumbling young couple. Misaki was the adorable little princess who couldn't cook, agonized over Valentine's Day chocolates for Kuroe, worried about him if he wasn't there when she woke up, and lovingly stored the dress she wore on her and Kuroe's first “date.” Kuroe was laid-back, oblivious (he was supposedly unaware that both Sainome and Misaki liked him), and devoted enough to Misaki that he'd apparently put his goal of finding his sister again on a back burner for her, if not abandoned it entirely.
I was more tolerant of this during my first reading of this omnibus volume. Now, though, I look at this and all I can see is just how much time (maybe two thirds of the volume?) Takano spent establishing Misaki and Kuroe as very nearly a romantic couple, one that readers were supposed to root for and that even Sainome was sort of supporting. Kuroe was supposedly oblivious, and yet I don't see how he could have missed what was going on, especially after Misaki did things like try to use her vampiric powers to get him to give her a kiss. I don't know if it's that I'm a few years older, but this aspect of the series was so much more off-putting this time around.
In my first review, I said something to the effect that this series wasn't Dance in the Vampire Bund level of ick, and I still mostly agree with that. Misaki wasn't sexualized the way Mina was (Higure, on the other hand...). Blood Alone's brand of ick has more in common with, say, something like
I'll read the next couple volumes since they've come in on interlibrary loan, but rereading this has made me more confident about my decision to finally offload it. That, and I noticed that even Seven Seas abandoned this series, releasing only the first six volumes.
Extras:
- A 1-page glossary of vampire-related terminology used throughout the volume.
- A page of translator's notes.
- 4 pages of artwork that might have been cover art. Unfortunately, all of it is in black-and-white, so details are hard to make out.
- 8 pages of introductory information (characters, premise) for Vampire Cheerleaders.
- A 12-page preview of Gunslinger Girl.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
April 11, 2015
I'm going to do my best on this review, but there is a lot of commotion going on around me and my attention is taxed. You have been warned.
I have mixed feelings about this manga. I liked the premise and enjoyed the backstory, but the pacing and focus kept the story based on the characters' lives, not the backstory. I liked the art and was impressed with Masayuki Takano's ability to capture emotive gestures, but found the faces a bit stony and unvaried. I liked the characters Kurose Kuroe & Minato Misaki and was very intrigued by their backstory, but could only enjoy them when they weren't depicted as lovers in first bloom.
The story is good. It is entertaining. However, the ambiguous nature of Kuroe and Misaki's relationship made me uneasy.
Masayuki is wonderfully skillful at depicting small conversations—those slices of life that build relationships—and making them pivotal to character development. This is a true strength of this story and why the characters feel so real. It is also why the story frustrated me at times. Imagine a tale with a dark, compelling story arch that interrupts the big reveal with still moments that have nothing to do with the story arch. This is Blood Alone at its worst. This was all the more frustrating because the characters that I wanted to understand most spent their time building their relationship without explaining why a preteen girl had romantic moments with an adult. Is this hebephilia? Is it pedophilia? Not exactly. Kuroe is watching over Misaki as a favor to her dead father. There's a story there to be explored. Kuroe is a former vampire hunter; Misaki is a vampire. There's a story there to be explored. Misaki has an alternate vampire personality that is supressed. There's a story to be explored! The problem is that the stories aren't explored.
Truthfully, Misaki is innocent, and having crushes on handsome adults isn't outside the behavior of someone her age. Also, Kuroe has his fair share of adult female friends. He doesn't do anything overtly romantic with Misaki, yet there are these scenes where one is left wondering. Is he brotherly? Is he fatherly? Is he a creepy perv? I believe the author is keeping that answer to herself because she loves playing with the naughtiness of the situation. Just look at the cover and incidental art between chapters, and you'll see she enjoys drawing these characters in loving situations.
Define loving? Scenes of intimacy that are innocent unless they aren't. For instance, there is a scene later in the volume where Misaki is in the pool with Kuroe. He holds her up in the air like any big brother might lift a little sister in a pool. Then you have several panels with no conversation but them looking into each other's eyes. Misaki blushes. They touch foreheads. He holds her in the water as they look up at the stars. Then he teaches her how to swim. Is it harmless? Is it pervy? I believe it is creepy because we don't know Kuroe's intentions. Could he just be happy to be with a girl who fills the void in his heart that the death of his own sister left? There is nothing in the scene that he does wrong. There is no impropriety. Yet it's incredibly creepy because she clearly has a crush on him. Maybe you reading this have already read the other volumes and know what is coming. Maybe Kuroe loves her like a sister and is trying to kindly handle her obvious affections towards him. Maybe there is nothing wrong at all. However, for those who haven't read the book I would be doing you a disservice if I didn't warn you about this enigma.
I would give this story a ★★★★☆ except it makes me so nervous. I may revise my rating once I finish the series.
I have mixed feelings about this manga. I liked the premise and enjoyed the backstory, but the pacing and focus kept the story based on the characters' lives, not the backstory. I liked the art and was impressed with Masayuki Takano's ability to capture emotive gestures, but found the faces a bit stony and unvaried. I liked the characters Kurose Kuroe & Minato Misaki and was very intrigued by their backstory, but could only enjoy them when they weren't depicted as lovers in first bloom.
The story is good. It is entertaining. However, the ambiguous nature of Kuroe and Misaki's relationship made me uneasy.
Masayuki is wonderfully skillful at depicting small conversations—those slices of life that build relationships—and making them pivotal to character development. This is a true strength of this story and why the characters feel so real. It is also why the story frustrated me at times. Imagine a tale with a dark, compelling story arch that interrupts the big reveal with still moments that have nothing to do with the story arch. This is Blood Alone at its worst. This was all the more frustrating because the characters that I wanted to understand most spent their time building their relationship without explaining why a preteen girl had romantic moments with an adult. Is this hebephilia? Is it pedophilia? Not exactly. Kuroe is watching over Misaki as a favor to her dead father. There's a story there to be explored. Kuroe is a former vampire hunter; Misaki is a vampire. There's a story there to be explored. Misaki has an alternate vampire personality that is supressed. There's a story to be explored! The problem is that the stories aren't explored.
Truthfully, Misaki is innocent, and having crushes on handsome adults isn't outside the behavior of someone her age. Also, Kuroe has his fair share of adult female friends. He doesn't do anything overtly romantic with Misaki, yet there are these scenes where one is left wondering. Is he brotherly? Is he fatherly? Is he a creepy perv? I believe the author is keeping that answer to herself because she loves playing with the naughtiness of the situation. Just look at the cover and incidental art between chapters, and you'll see she enjoys drawing these characters in loving situations.
Define loving? Scenes of intimacy that are innocent unless they aren't. For instance, there is a scene later in the volume where Misaki is in the pool with Kuroe. He holds her up in the air like any big brother might lift a little sister in a pool. Then you have several panels with no conversation but them looking into each other's eyes. Misaki blushes. They touch foreheads. He holds her in the water as they look up at the stars. Then he teaches her how to swim. Is it harmless? Is it pervy? I believe it is creepy because we don't know Kuroe's intentions. Could he just be happy to be with a girl who fills the void in his heart that the death of his own sister left? There is nothing in the scene that he does wrong. There is no impropriety. Yet it's incredibly creepy because she clearly has a crush on him. Maybe you reading this have already read the other volumes and know what is coming. Maybe Kuroe loves her like a sister and is trying to kindly handle her obvious affections towards him. Maybe there is nothing wrong at all. However, for those who haven't read the book I would be doing you a disservice if I didn't warn you about this enigma.
I would give this story a ★★★★☆ except it makes me so nervous. I may revise my rating once I finish the series.
December 9, 2023
Blood Alone tells the story of an investigative writer named Kuroe Kurose who lives with a vampire named Misaki Minato. The story is told in a series of episodes which reveal aspects of Kuroe and Misaki’s history and relationship. Misaki is an adolescent girl who had been turned into a vampire. Before becoming an investigative writer, Kuroe had been a skilled vampire hunter. Now Kuroe serves as Misaki’s guardian, however he’s not a “Renfield.” She hasn’t bent him to her will and he’s not a servant.
As the episodes progress, we learn that Kuroe lost his sister to a vampire attack. While trying to protect her, the vampire scratched his eyes, actually making Kuroe immune to vampire influence. The relationship between Kuroe and Misaki is complex. He sees her as a little sister. However, she’s an adolescent with fantasies and would like a more romantic relationship. Sayaka Sainome is a police forensics doctor who works with Kuroe. She’s also clearly attracted to Kuroe, but he’s just clueless enough not to see her attraction for what it is.
About a third of the episodes are solid action and suspense stories as Kuroe, often with Sainome’s help, has to get to the bottom of some vampire-related crime in Yokohama. The other episodes are more slice-of-life stories. As a result, even though this is a vampire manga, it probably does a better job capturing the life of a private investigator than a non-stop action series. The vampires of this world seem to have a complex social structure, but one humans only get to glimpse briefly. Aside from the occasional rogue, most vampires don’t seem terribly at odds with human society. Vampires also seem to develop their powers slowly.
The art in Blood Alone is appealing with nice clean lines and easy-to-follow action, which suits the slice-of-life elements very well, but also allows us to follow the mystery and suspense. Takano does body language very well, which lends a reality to the relationships. Often the way a character is posed or where they look tells as much or more than the dialogue.
As the episodes progress, we learn that Kuroe lost his sister to a vampire attack. While trying to protect her, the vampire scratched his eyes, actually making Kuroe immune to vampire influence. The relationship between Kuroe and Misaki is complex. He sees her as a little sister. However, she’s an adolescent with fantasies and would like a more romantic relationship. Sayaka Sainome is a police forensics doctor who works with Kuroe. She’s also clearly attracted to Kuroe, but he’s just clueless enough not to see her attraction for what it is.
About a third of the episodes are solid action and suspense stories as Kuroe, often with Sainome’s help, has to get to the bottom of some vampire-related crime in Yokohama. The other episodes are more slice-of-life stories. As a result, even though this is a vampire manga, it probably does a better job capturing the life of a private investigator than a non-stop action series. The vampires of this world seem to have a complex social structure, but one humans only get to glimpse briefly. Aside from the occasional rogue, most vampires don’t seem terribly at odds with human society. Vampires also seem to develop their powers slowly.
The art in Blood Alone is appealing with nice clean lines and easy-to-follow action, which suits the slice-of-life elements very well, but also allows us to follow the mystery and suspense. Takano does body language very well, which lends a reality to the relationships. Often the way a character is posed or where they look tells as much or more than the dialogue.
August 21, 2019
Yay an actually decent vampire story! I saw some other reviews that thought Misaki’s and Kuroe’s relationship is creepy, but honestly for me it came off innocent. Kuroe seems to think of her as a little sister and that’s helping him deal with losing his actual sister. I mean Kuroe has an adult girl friend he has romantic interest in, him taking care of cute li’l Misaki doesn’t have to be creepy, lol. Anyways. (Now Misaki herself definitely has an innocent crush on him, but he doesn’t reciprocate-THAT would be creepy-so it’s just funny.)
The actual plot is pretty episodic so far. I want to know more about Misaki’s backstory before she became a vampire, and addressing more about her suppressed dark side would be nice.
I shall give it 4 solid stars.:)
The actual plot is pretty episodic so far. I want to know more about Misaki’s backstory before she became a vampire, and addressing more about her suppressed dark side would be nice.
I shall give it 4 solid stars.:)
May 4, 2025
From a time when young vampire girls were a thing. This came out in the early 2000s just before Dance in the Vampire Bund. Now I have to admit I absolutely love this series so far and from what I can gather it was never fully printed in English unfortunately. I also love Vampire Bund as well but these two series are like complete opposites. Silly right? But I am like that. The art is good but simple, the story is episodic but has a depth of background that I really wanted to see explored. The relationships between the few main characters has a mystery that slowly unfolds over time. Now I really need to find the last few volumes that were released in English lol.
March 20, 2021
I have never heard of Blood Alone but while at a used bookstore I ran across this volume and decided that $4 was too good a deal to pass up. I was right too, Blood Alone isn’t a bad manga at all. I have enjoyed the spin on vampires and vampire lore as well as the characters. My only problem is that as a reader you are thrown into a world with little backstory on what’s going on. There is information as you go sure but it is hard to be dropped into a story as if you are in the middle when in reality you are at the beginning.
May 6, 2011
Originally this series was released in 6 seperate volumes, but it's now compacted into this Omnibus edition of the first three volumes. Kuroe is a private investigator/author/vampire killer who is now living with Misaki a child vampire. (This is mentioned on the back synopsis.) This manga seems like it begins in the middle of the story, and just goes on from there. The storyline does not flashback to how Kuroe and Misaki meet up or how their bond is formed. Therefore, I'm not sure if the translation is off or if this edition or some parts have been edited from the original. Basically most of the storyline revovles around Kuroe's murder investigations presented by Sainome his childhood friend and foresnics doctor. Misaki also has a mentor Higure but how they met or their relationship background is not mentioned. I'm wondering if more information on the characters will be revealed in the next three volumes. But I'm not sure since I haven't read the orginal. Overall the artwork in this Manga is pretty good and dialogue and storyline easy to follow. Although the relationship between Kuroe and Misaki borderlines between brother and sister/lovers which is a little creepy since Misaki is drawn like a little girl and Kuroe is a full grown man. (I kept getting flashbacks Brad Pitt and Kristen Dunst in "An Interview with a Vampire.")
October 16, 2012
The best way to describe this book would be cute. But don't let that fool you, it's rated T+ for a reason, some of the material could be disturbing for a young reader.
Overall it's a slower paced read. There's tension and issues but lots of day to day life too. I would have liked to have known how Misaki and Kuroe ended up together, where Misaki's parents are, and how old she and Kuroe are. I know this might be stupid, but that bothered me. They didn't really have romance going (more like hints of it) but even what was there I couldn't decide if I appreciated it or found it weird. I don't know how old Misaki's supposed to be but she's drawn almost like she is eleven or twelve where Kuroe has to be at least nineteen (but I'm thinking he's somewhere in his early to mid twenties). I don't know, maybe Misaki is just supposed to look young but for whatever reason it bothered me.
Overall it was okay but I don't know if I'll buy the next volume.
Overall it's a slower paced read. There's tension and issues but lots of day to day life too. I would have liked to have known how Misaki and Kuroe ended up together, where Misaki's parents are, and how old she and Kuroe are. I know this might be stupid, but that bothered me. They didn't really have romance going (more like hints of it) but even what was there I couldn't decide if I appreciated it or found it weird. I don't know how old Misaki's supposed to be but she's drawn almost like she is eleven or twelve where Kuroe has to be at least nineteen (but I'm thinking he's somewhere in his early to mid twenties). I don't know, maybe Misaki is just supposed to look young but for whatever reason it bothered me.
Overall it was okay but I don't know if I'll buy the next volume.
June 19, 2011
This is a very good vampire-themed manga. For a start, there's none of the over-sexualised image that's usually presented with vampires. The whole story has more of a quaint, daily-life kind of feel... which is excellent as it shows the characters' personality very well. Actions do show up where necessary, but they're rather sparse in frequency.
The drawing style is simplistic, which compliments the story well as it didn't take the attention away from the story or the charming characters.
In short, if you're looking for a good vampire manga with excellent characters and no sexualised vampires, do try this manga.
The drawing style is simplistic, which compliments the story well as it didn't take the attention away from the story or the charming characters.
In short, if you're looking for a good vampire manga with excellent characters and no sexualised vampires, do try this manga.
June 14, 2011
This is a newly-published omnibus version of vols. 1-3 of a vampire-themed manga series. It's rated for older teens, ages 16+, but it's pretty mild & has a good story line. There are some facts that we have yet to learn about the relationship between the young vampire girl & her older male protector though...
June 25, 2012
I think I've found a supernatural modern vampire romance story that does not suck, and it is Blood Alone. The vampire & human dynamics are pretty fascinating, the whole cast is vibrant and interesting, and the main pairing is pretty darn adorbs (although the double-edged age difference will certainly turn some readers off). Now to bully my library to get the next couple of volumes of this manga!
January 2, 2013
A sweet little vampire and her male protector having adventures. I liked.
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