List of Vampire Hunter D light novels

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This is a listing of all books in the Vampire Hunter D series by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

The first Vampire Hunter D novel was written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and published in 1983. Since then, the series has become a huge success. For years, fans of the movies had awaited English publications of the novels.

Finally, on May 11, 2005, the first official English translation was released under DH Press, translated by Kevin Leahy. As of December 2006, six novels have been translated into and released in English.

Contents

[edit] Vampire Hunter "D"

Japanese Version

English Version

  • Title: Vampire Hunter D Volume 1
  • Translator: Kevin Leahy
  • Publication Date: May 11, 2005
  • ISBN 1-59582-012-4

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...

[edit] Raiser of Gales "D"

Japanese Version

English Version

  • Title: Vampire Hunter D Volume 2: Raiser of Gales
  • Translator: Kevin Leahy
  • Publication Date: Aug 17, 2005
  • ISBN 1-59582-014-0

The village of Tsepesh (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.

[edit] D - Demon Deathchase

Japanese Version

English Version

  • Title: Vampire Hunter D Volume 3: Demon Deathchase
  • Translator: Kevin Leahy
  • Publication Date: Jan 18, 2006
  • ISBN 1-59582-031-0

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 Meierlink. Though humans speak well of Meierlink, 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 Meierlink before he reaches the spaceport in the Clayborn States and gets off the planet will be hard enough, but D has more than just Meierlink 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.

[edit] D - Tale of the Dead Town

Japanese Version

English Version

  • Title: Vampire Hunter D Volume 4: Tale of the Dead Town
  • Translator: Kevin Leahy
  • Publication Date: May 30, 2006
  • ISBN 1-59582-093-0

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 Raleigh 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.

[edit] The Stuff of Dreams "D"

English Version

  • Title: Vampire Hunter D Volume 5: The Stuff of Dreams
  • Translator: Kevin Leahy
  • Publication Date: October 13th, 2006
  • ISBN 1-59582-094-9

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 Sheavil Schmidt 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.

[edit] D - Pilgrimage of the Sacred Demon

English Version

  • Title: Vampire Hunter D Volume 6: Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane
  • Translator: Kevin Leahy
  • Publication Date: December 13, 2006
  • ISBN 1-59582-106-6

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 . . .

[edit] D - Demon Journey to the North Sea

[edit] D - Demon Journey to the North Sea (1st Half)

English Version

  • Title: Vampire Hunter D Volume 7: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part One
  • Translator: Kevin Leahy
  • Publication Date: April 25, 2007
  • ISBN 1-59582-107-4

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?

[edit] D - Demon Journey to the North Sea (2nd Half)

English Version

  • Title: Vampire Hunter D: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Pt. 2
  • Translator: Kevin Leahy
  • Publication Date: August 08, 2007 (Tentative)
  • ISBN 1-59582-108-2

The picturesque coastal town of Florence was known for millennia as a pleasure resort for the Nobility. As retribution for their decadence, the cruel and beautiful vampire inhabitants were "punished," driven out more than a thousand years ago by a solitary traveler in black. Only one-Baron Meinster-refused to leave, only to be thrown to the waves by the mysterious assassin.

Summoned to contemporary Florence by Su-in, sister of a murdered village girl, the enigmatic Vampire Hunter D discovers a vampire curse ravaging the town's human inhabitants. The plague apparently originating, impossibly, from the unforgiving sea-could it be Meinster's Revenge?

[edit] D - Rose Princess

[edit] D - Pale Fallen Angels

[edit] D - Pale Fallen Angels 1

[edit] D - Pale Fallen Angels 2

[edit] D - Pale Fallen Angels 3

[edit] D - Pale Fallen Angels 4

[edit] D - Twin-Shadowed Knight

[edit] D - Twin-Shadowed Knight 1

[edit] D - Twin-Shadowed Knight 2

[edit] D - Dark Road

[edit] D - Dark Road 1

[edit] D - Dark Road 2

[edit] D - Dark Road 3

[edit] D - Star Squad of the Evil Overlord

[edit] D - Star Squad of the Evil Overlord 1

[edit] D - Star Squad of the Evil Overlord 2

[edit] D - Star Squad of the Evil Overlord 3

[edit] D - Star Squad of the Evil Overlord 4

[edit] D - Fortress of the Elder God

[edit] D - Highway of the Enchanted Troops

[edit] D - Account of the Demon Battle

[edit] D - Duel Notes

[edit] D - White Devil Mountain

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] D - Iriya the Berserker

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.

[edit] D - Dark Nocturne

A collection of three short stories.

[edit] D - Dark Nocturne

  • Title: D-昏い夜想曲 (D - Kurai Yasōkyoku ?)

[edit] D - Notes on Imagined Autumn

  • Title: D-想秋譜 (D - Omoakifu ?)

[edit] D - Legend of the War Demons

  • Title: D-戦鬼伝 (D - Ikusaoniten ?)

[edit] Other Short Stories

[edit] D - Armageddon

  • Title: D-ハルマゲドン (D - Harumagedon ?)
  • Writer: Hideyuki Kikuchi
  • Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
  • Published In: The Chaser, Maten, Vampire Hunter "D" Reader

[edit] Portrait of Ixobel

  • Title: イゾベルの肖像画 (Izoberu no Shōzōga ?)
  • Writer: Hideyuki Kikuchi
  • Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
  • Published In: Coffin - Vampire Hunter D, Vampire Hunter "D" Reader

[edit] D - Village in the Fog

  • Title: D-霧の村 (D - Kiri no Mura ?)
  • Writer: Hideyuki Kikuchi
  • Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
  • Published In: Yoshitaka Amano Picture Collection - Vampire Hunter "D", Vampire Hunter "D" Reader

[edit] D - Castle Dweller

[edit] D - Night on the Highway

  • Title: D-夜の街道にて (D - Yoru no Kaidōnite ?)
  • Writer: Hideyuki Kikuchi
  • Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
  • Published In: Vampire Hunter "D" Reader

[edit] A Message from Cecil

  • Title: セシルからの伝言 (Seshiru Kara no Tsutegoto ?)
  • Writer: Hideyuki Kikuchi
  • Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
  • Published In: Audio Drama CD Box

[edit] D - Throng of Heretics

  • Title: D-魔道衆 (D - Madōshū?)
  • Writer: Hideyuki Kikuchi
  • Published In: MysteryWorld (for iMode Phones)

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.

Note: D - Throng of Heretics is a serialization being released in mobile format for a small monthly fee, and is updated twice a week. It is available to NTT DoCoMo, au EZweb, and Vodafone Live! subscribers.

[edit] Art and Guide Books

[edit] Evil Universe

[edit] Coffin - Vampire Hunter D

Japanese Version

  • Title: かんおけ―吸血鬼ハンターD (Kan'oke - Kyūketsuki Hantā D ?)
  • Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
  • Publication Date: November, 1997
  • ISBN 4-257-03500-5

English Version

  • Title: Coffin: The Art of Vampire Hunter D
  • Publication Date: October 04, 2006
  • ISBN 1-59582-061-2

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.

[edit] Yoshitaka Amano Picture Collection - Vampire Hunter "D"

  • Title: 天野喜孝画集 吸血鬼ハンター"D" (Yoshitaka Amano Gashū - Kyūketsuki Hantā "D"?)
  • Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
  • Publication Date: September 20, 2000
  • ISBN 4-257-03606-0

The follow up to the gorgeous, fan favorite artbook, "Coffin", collecting not only all of the perfect versions of the D illustrations after it, but unpublished works as well. Also includes a new original story by Hideyuki Kikuichi, D - Village in the Fog. This is one volume that all fans must have!

[edit] Vampire Hunter "D" Reader

  • Title: 吸血鬼ハンター"D"読本 (Kyūketsuki Hantā "D" Dokuhon ?)
  • Publication Date: June, 2001
  • ISBN 4-257-03546-3

[edit] External links

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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