Vampire Hunter D Volume 9: The Rose Princess by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Pages 145
Year 1994
This is the ninth book that I've read featuring our favourite dhampir; D.
In this tale he goes to a frontier town (as usual) called Sakuri to help the villagers. Whom contract him? We don't know. And neither is important since this is the plot of the vast majorities of vampire hunter d novels. So if you've read one, you read almost all (so far). Although in this one you had interesting opponents (the knights and vampire) and you had to think how D was going to set things right. One of my complains is the battle scenes which I think is Kikuchi weakest writing... 8/10
So some spoilers...
Vampire Hunter D is contracted to kill a noble, there is a teen, usually 17 or so who has ample breasts and is enamoured with D. D does not care about her and only with Killing. There is some tribulations, usually barely an inconvenience and in the end all is solved.
There is some changes on all stories but that's it. Who is D? Why his left hand talks and where does it come from? These questions and not asked or solved and no info is given. Vampire Hunter D is a boy-Mary Sue. He doesn't have problems, he is way above everybody else and nobody can "touch" him, he is never wrong and can never be at fault. Who and he is almost never defeated and if he is; he will come back even more powerful.
This tale has some divergences from what I mentioned. In this he almost finds his match, his sword breaks and he has to speed up his solving capabilities. It was a good book, one of the bests for Vampire Hunter D that most of the times come a bit generic. Good lady protagonist. She is young as expected but she is owner of herself not a push over or damsel in distress (although she is)
The main plot the book synopsis hints is a bit misleading. There is an agreement yes, not written and a bit of stockholm sydrome (probably there's another word for it) It's like in a ww2 where people were killed in a village, the villagers decide well nazis weren't that bad.... at least we have no more crime and they built stuff, true people die and disappear but it's a price we are willing to make.
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This is the ninth book that I've read featuring our favourite dhampir; D.
In this tale he goes to a frontier town (as usual) called Sakuri to help the villagers. Whom contract him? We don't know. And neither is important since this is the plot of the vast majorities of vampire hunter d novels. So if you've read one, you read almost all (so far). Although in this one you had interesting opponents (the knights and vampire) and you had to think how D was going to set things right. One of my complains is the battle scenes which I think is Kikuchi weakest writing... 8/10
So some spoilers...
Vampire Hunter D is contracted to kill a noble, there is a teen, usually 17 or so who has ample breasts and is enamoured with D. D does not care about her and only with Killing. There is some tribulations, usually barely an inconvenience and in the end all is solved.
There is some changes on all stories but that's it. Who is D? Why his left hand talks and where does it come from? These questions and not asked or solved and no info is given. Vampire Hunter D is a boy-Mary Sue. He doesn't have problems, he is way above everybody else and nobody can "touch" him, he is never wrong and can never be at fault. Who and he is almost never defeated and if he is; he will come back even more powerful.
This tale has some divergences from what I mentioned. In this he almost finds his match, his sword breaks and he has to speed up his solving capabilities. It was a good book, one of the bests for Vampire Hunter D that most of the times come a bit generic. Good lady protagonist. She is young as expected but she is owner of herself not a push over or damsel in distress (although she is)
The main plot the book synopsis hints is a bit misleading. There is an agreement yes, not written and a bit of stockholm sydrome (probably there's another word for it) It's like in a ww2 where people were killed in a village, the villagers decide well nazis weren't that bad.... at least we have no more crime and they built stuff, true people die and disappear but it's a price we are willing to make.
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