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The Record of a Fallen Vampire #5
The Record of a Fallen Vampire, Volume 5
Hai perso il tuo regno mille anni fa.
La tua sposa è imprigionata in un luogo segreto.
Una maledizione ti insegue ovunque tu vada.
I dhampir ti braccano senza sosta.
La razza umana brama il tuo potere per fronteggiare una pericolosa minaccia.
Il tuo nome è Strauss, re vampiro e sei destinato a camminare nelle tenebre...
La tua sposa è imprigionata in un luogo segreto.
Una maledizione ti insegue ovunque tu vada.
I dhampir ti braccano senza sosta.
La razza umana brama il tuo potere per fronteggiare una pericolosa minaccia.
Il tuo nome è Strauss, re vampiro e sei destinato a camminare nelle tenebre...
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First published September 22, 2005
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
August 12, 2009
I loved the art and it has an interesting storyline.
November 1, 2019
fantastic it provided so much of the vampire kings backstory
March 30, 2022
A little more interesting, lots of insight to the past
June 9, 2019
I enjoyed this volume a ton more since it focused primarily on Strauss's and the royal vampire family's past, but now that the lore is over with, I fear I won't take a fancy to the whole 'alien' concept once it picks back up.
March 26, 2014
Recently I learned of a phenomenon in art, especially comics and movies, called "same face." I started looking at my favorite manga just to see how bad it was in the manga industry.
Just about everyone suffers from same-face in Record of a Fallen Vampire, I found. What I found particularly interesting, however, is that it's not just the female characters (who are the usual victims), it was also the male. Even more amusing was that the "same face" seemed to spread across genders, with some male characters having the same face as female characters, and some with the same faces as characters who appeared in the earlier work, Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning. Doesn't really affect my opinion of the story. Just an observation.
Anyway, this volume was entirely flashback. We finally meet Stella, who is pretty much the poster-child for "kawaii" in the sense of "pathetic." She's insipid, not particularly bright, perpetually happy-go-lucky regardless of what's going on around her, and even stuffed in a refrigerator (not literally, of course). And especially looking at Stella, I wonder if Shirodaira-sensei knows how to draw women, particularly the pregnant kind. Though I had seen missing spines and pointy boob previously, the inconsistency of pregnant Stella really raised some eyebrows. She's got pointy boobs in one frame and is flat chested in another (for the record, most women usually have swollen boobs when they're that pregnant). Her baby-belly is half as large as her entire body. No, really. You can't see it because of the skirt she's wearing, but the baby bump starts in her pelvis and goes down to her knees. No, I'm not shitting you. Look at her when she's sitting down.
While it was good to finally get some back-story all in one package, I can't say I really cared one way or the other for the information given out.
Just about everyone suffers from same-face in Record of a Fallen Vampire, I found. What I found particularly interesting, however, is that it's not just the female characters (who are the usual victims), it was also the male. Even more amusing was that the "same face" seemed to spread across genders, with some male characters having the same face as female characters, and some with the same faces as characters who appeared in the earlier work, Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning. Doesn't really affect my opinion of the story. Just an observation.
Anyway, this volume was entirely flashback. We finally meet Stella, who is pretty much the poster-child for "kawaii" in the sense of "pathetic." She's insipid, not particularly bright, perpetually happy-go-lucky regardless of what's going on around her, and even stuffed in a refrigerator (not literally, of course). And especially looking at Stella, I wonder if Shirodaira-sensei knows how to draw women, particularly the pregnant kind. Though I had seen missing spines and pointy boob previously, the inconsistency of pregnant Stella really raised some eyebrows. She's got pointy boobs in one frame and is flat chested in another (for the record, most women usually have swollen boobs when they're that pregnant). Her baby-belly is half as large as her entire body. No, really. You can't see it because of the skirt she's wearing, but the baby bump starts in her pelvis and goes down to her knees. No, I'm not shitting you. Look at her when she's sitting down.
While it was good to finally get some back-story all in one package, I can't say I really cared one way or the other for the information given out.
May 2, 2010
This volume begins to fill in the back story. In what I suspect to be a Rashomon maneuver, we see the past through Bridget's version of events.
However it's already clear that many of the events do not add up. Things are being, at a minimum, omitted, if not outright falsified. Curious to see where we go from here.
However it's already clear that many of the events do not add up. Things are being, at a minimum, omitted, if not outright falsified. Curious to see where we go from here.
November 11, 2015
This series just keeps getting more intense.
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