List of Vampire Hunter D light novels

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This is a listing of all books in the Vampire Hunter D series, written by Hideyuki Kikuchi, and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano.

The first Vampire Hunter D novel was written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and published in 1983. Since then, the series has become a huge success. All of the official publications in the series were originally published by Asahi Sonorama, however the Sonorama branch went out of business in September 2007. The release of D - Throng of Heretics in October 2007 marked the transition to the new publisher, Asahi Sonorama's parent company, Asahi Shimbun.

On May 11, 2005, the first official English translation was released under DH Press, translated by Kevin Leahy. As of November 2007, nine novels have been translated into and released in English, with five more (through the end of Twin-Shadowed Knight 2) scheduled to be released through 2009.[1]

Contents

Main Article: Vampire Hunter D Volume 1

  • Book Description

12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires-and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves.

Every village wants a Hunter-one of the warriors who have pledged their laser guns and their swords to the eradication of the Nobility. But some Hunters are better than others, and some bring their own kind of danger with them...


Main Article: Vampire Hunter D: Raiser of Gales

  • Book Description

The village of Tepes in the English translation sits in the eternal shadow of an abandoned castle, a onetime stronghold of the Nobility, the vampire lords who rule the devastated wasteland of the future. Ten years ago four children disappeared while playing near the castle, only to mysteriously reappear a month later. Now vampires have begun to hunt in the daylight. Are the two events connected? The villagers turn to the vampire hunter known only as D, but as he follows the children, now adults, the answers he finds may be more terrifying than anything he could ever imagine.


The vampire hunter known only as D has been hired by a wealthy, dying man to find his daughter, who was kidnapped by the powerful vampire Lord Mayerling. Though humans speak well of Mayerling, the price on his head is too high for D to ignore and he sets out to save her before she can be turned into an undead creature of the night. In the nightmare world of 12090 A.D., finding Mayerling before he reaches the spaceport in the Clayborn States and gets off the planet will be hard enough, but D has more than just Mayerling to worry about. The dying man is taking no chances, and has also enlisted the Marcus family, a renegade clan of four brothers and a sister who don't care who they kill as long as they get paid.


When a floating city becomes the target of a rash of vampire attacks, only one man can restore the oasis.

"The City," a tiny metropolis of a few hundred sheltered citizens floating serenely on a seemingly random course a few feet above the ground, has long been thought safe from the predation of marauding monsters. It seemed like a paradise.

A paradise shattered when an invasion of apparent vampires threatens the small haven. While the Vampire Hunter known only as "D" struggles to exterminate the scourge, a former denizen of the city, the attractive Lori Knight, and the brash John M. Brassalli Pluto VIII seize control of the city lurching it onto a new and deadly course. D's travails are just beginning.


In a world where even the smallest and most remote village is being terrorized by the monsters that stalk the night, there is a hamlet, prosperous and peaceful, where mortals and vampires have lived in harmony for years. It is there that seventeen-year-old Sybille Schmitz has slept, neither waking nor aging, for thirty years since first receiving the vampire's immortal kiss.

The mysterious Vampire Hunter D is lured to the tranquil oasis by recurrent dreams of the beautiful, undying girl bathed in an eerie blue light and dancing in a ghostly chateau. But there are a number of people who do not welcome the presence of the dhampir, fearing D will disturb the delicate balance upon which the fate of the town rests. They will stop at nothing to protect the balance, even if it means destroying the most feared Hunter the world has ever known.


Granny Viper is a "people finder," a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a forbidding wasteland. Her latest mission: the safe return of a young woman named Tae, kidnapped eight years ago by vampire Nobility and held in Castle Gradinia on the Frontier's far border. But rescuing Tae is only half the battle--Viper knows she and the girl can't cross the formidable expanse to the town of Barnabas alone. After making the fatal mistake of hiring the mercenary Bullow Brothers to help her, Granny turns to the legendary Vampire Hunter D for salvation. As they traverse the bleak desert between the Inner and Outer Frontier, the two women and D find themselves in a race for their lives. And they soon discover how cruel the desert is--and how very ruthless the Bullow Brothers are . . .


Main Article: Vampire Hunter D: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea (Parts One and Two)

  • Book Description (Part One)

A girl's dying wish sends D on an impossible quest in this riveting prose novel.

Even a reluctant hero can't refuse the last request of a beautiful woman. On her deathbed, the mortally wounded woman gives him a strange gem and asks him to deliver the priceless stone to her sister, far off in a North Sea fishing village. D's journey is made ever more perilous by a series of scoundrels and rogues hired by the girl's murderer. They'll stop at nothing to claim the jewel. Will they catch him?


In Sakuri, a young woman is about to be sacrificed to the vampiric Noblewoman who reigns over the village. But before the princess can drain the life from the woman, a young man tries to slay the vampire. He fails and manages to escape, but in doing so incurs the wrath of the entire town. The citizens of Sakuri have entered into a pact with the Undead princess and her monstrous bodyguards. With the ritual offering disrupted, the vampire's armored bodyguards vow to murder the villagers one by one until the would-be hero is captured.

When Vampire Hunter D learns of the villagers' bargain he knows he faces several almost impossible challenges - can he rid the town of the parasitic demons that plague it? What if Sakuri's inhabitants don't want to be rescued? And can he uncover the secret that even the vampire Noble is afraid to speak?



  • D - Pale Fallen Angel (Parts 1 + 2)


  • D - Pale Fallen Angel (Parts 3 + 4)




  • D - Dark Road 1


  • D - Dark Road 2


  • D - Dark Road 3



  • D - Star Squad of the Evil Overlord 1


  • D - Star Squad of the Evil Overlord 2


  • D - Star Squad of the Evil Overlord 3


  • D - Star Squad of the Evil Overlord 4







  • D - White Devil Mountain (1st Half)

A shuttle containing a Noble in a coffin crashes into White Devil Mountain while on route to the Capital. The Noble is none other than Gilzen, who is detested as a demon to the point that even allied Nobles chose to bind his coffin with heavy chains and seal it deep underground. Commissioned by a Noble to recover the coffin, D ventures into the snowstorm which constantly rages around the mountain. In tow are two men, a female doctor, a guard, a boy looking for his father, and a female bounty hunter who opposes D. Gathering together, they begin the dangerous hike up the mountain.


  • D - White Devil Mountain (2nd Half)

Within a castle piercing the mountainside, D finds the group of knights who protect the most unlucky Noble, Gilzen, like their king. However, another soldier is waiting for him -- an extraterrestrial who crash landed 10,000 years ago and was captured and turned into a vampire by Gilzen. Using the advanced technology that Gilzen stole from the extratrrestrial, he separates the castle and those within from the flow of time. His goal: to oppose the Sacred Ancestor's rise to power.


  • Book Description

An attractive female warrior named Iriya appears before D. Since childhood, her goal has been to slay her parents and siblings who had been transformed into vampires by the Nobility.


Main Article: Vampire Hunter D: Throng of Heretics

  • Book Description

A device which has observed ruins in the southern Frontier Sector for 300 years suddenly deactivates. Nobles who were cruely slaughtered by the hands of men, the survivors of the Zeno family, are revived. Fearing the fangs of vengeance, the mayor of the village where the murderer's descendants reside hires five vampire hunters. As the mayor returns from the Capital, five enemies target his daughter. During a thunderstorm, a noble attacks her on the mountain pass. Amid the flashes of lightening, the master's beautiful visage appears... The blood sucking Nobles, the hunters, and D -- the chaotic journey of three parties begins as the bloody wind blows.



  • D - Dark Nocturne (D-昏い夜想曲 D - Kurai Yasōkyoku?)
  • D - Notes on Imagined Autumn (D-想秋譜 D - Omoakifu?)
  • D - Legend of the War Demons (D-戦鬼伝 D - Ikusaoniten?)

In the title story, "Dark Nocturne", D is hired to unlock the secret of a siren's song that is drawing men in their twenties to their deaths in the hills outside Anise Village. In "Notes on Imagined Autumn" D finds himself caught between two lovers during a ritualistic sacrifice in the village of Shirley's Door, but if D can't stop the sacrifice will all in the village be doomed? And in "Legend of the War Demons" two living weapons, genetically engineered creatures who are the last remnants of a war waged hundreds of years in the past, find that battle is not so easily forgotten. It's up to D to stop their unending conflict before it consumes the present as it did the past.



  • D - Armageddon (D-ハルマゲドン D - Harumagedon?)

Published in The Chaser, Evil Universe, and Vampire Hunter "D" Reader.


  • Portrait of Ixobel (イゾベルの肖像画 Izoberu no Shōzōga?)

Published in Coffin - Vampire Hunter D, and Vampire Hunter "D" Reader.


  • D - A Village in Fog (D-霧の村 D - Kiri no Mura?)

Published in Yoshitaka Amano Picture Collection - Vampire Hunter "D", and Vampire Hunter "D" Reader.


  • D - Castle Dweller (D-城の住人 D - Shiro no Jūnin?)

Published in Vampire Hunter "D" Reader.


  • D - Night on the Highway (D-夜の街道にて D - Yoru no Kaidōnite?)

Published in Vampire Hunter "D" Reader.


  • A Message from Cecil (セシルからの伝言 Seshiru Kara no Tsutegoto?)

Published in Vampire Hunter D - Audio Drama CD Box.



For over twenty years, the character Vampire Hunter D has haunted the imaginations of people around the world, its image forever etched in the mind's eye through the dazzling artwork of Yoshitaka Amano. As the original novels appear in English for the first time, American readers are clamoring for a more extensive look at this singular creation. Coffin obliges. This gorgeous retrospective embraces the full scope of Amano's work with the character: in the novels, as inspiration for the animators of the two theatrical films, rare paintings, and illustrations created for release as limited edition prints.


Since Dark Horse and Digital Manga Publishing started releasing English-language editions of the Vampire Hunter D novels in 2005, hundreds of thousands of new fans have clamored for more of the enigmatic monster slayer. Following on the heels of the highly successful retrospective Coffin, Dark Horse Books is pleased to present a new collection of paintings, line-art illustrations, and photography by internationally renowned artist and Vampire Hunter D character designer Yoshitaka Amano. This collection also includes a short story, "A Village in Fog" by Vampire Hunter D creator Hideyuki Kikuchi, unavailable elsewhere.



Vampire Hunter D
Animated titles
Vampire Hunter D (1985 film) - Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Novels
Vampire Hunter D (Novels)
Manga
Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D
Video game
Vampire Hunter D (video game)
Soundtracks
Vampire Hunter D (soundtrack) - Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (soundtrack)
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