Chibi Vampire: The Novel, Volume 1

Loved the manga series im excited to collect these and read them all hehe recommend this series for sure

chibi vampire is a very heartwarming story and i recommend it for ages 13+ thats just my opinion others may think otherwise but the story line apples to both young and old alike

Karin is your typical high school girl, or so you think. She is really part vampire! All of her family members are vampires too. Karin is a rather strange vampire. Instead of sucking blood, when she bites a human she is putting blood into them. Once every month, her body produces too much blood. She must get rid of it (aka biting someone) or she will have an awful noseblood. Nobody (other than her family) knows her secret. One day, a new student boy comes. Karin feels ill when she looks at him. She decides that the only way to stop this is to stay away from him at all times. Too bad, he works at the same place...

A good story must be compelling. A compelling story must have conflict, but only if it's the right kind! This is the Holy Grail of a great story, but it MUST be right kind. You can't just throw conflict onto a page; it has to be a blend, precisely engineered, or at least heavily debated and thought out. Chibi Vampire excels at providing conflict, the embarassing high-school-crush kind: awkward situations, red faces, totally backward assumptions - mostly situational. Conflict oozes from Chibi Vampire like one of Karin's explosive nosebleeds. Constantly - consistently - the situations these people end up tangled in make me shake my head in consternation. Multiple times throught my reading, I've had to put the book down and gather my thoughts. I usually just laugh silently to myself until the embarassment passes. When someone can grab you and influence your feelings that intimately... THAT is what I call effective writing. I do realize I don't speak for the rest of the world, but I've read enough manga to be able to eyeball what's good and what's not so much. Karin makes my list of "unforgettables." My only concern is, "Why are Karin's boobs so massive?"

Lately there have been a series of manga novels. That is to say, books that for the most part are regular text novels that were written in Japan (but translated into English for American fans,) that are based on anime and manga series. These books usually have a few manga pictures scattered throughout visualizing certain scenes. This particular book wasn't written by the series creator, Yuna Kagesaki, but by Tohru Kai, who read the manga. So I guess this could perhaps be considered fan fiction. (Yuna Kagesaki did draw the pictures in the book, however.) I'm going to assume anyone reading this review is already familiar with Chibi Vampire and won't bother explaining who characters are or their history before this story. Most it takes place between manga books one and two, although the opening prologue takes place three months before the first graphic novel. Karin is running through Shiihaba Park one evening. It's that time of the month for her. Frantically in search of someone, she finds a boy from a private school. Quickly as she can, she embraces and then bites him on the neck and expells her blood. The boy goes unconcious, then Anju shows up and erases his memory. As the two sisters are leaving, Anju gets a message from a bat that says the boy got up and said he could swear there was a girl with him, then left. Anju says some peoples memories are harder to erase than others, but that he doesn't remember being bitten. Things seem fine, until three months later... After the events of the first manga book, Karin returns to school after her two-week absence to find out that during the two weeks several girls from her school were kidnapped from Shiihaba Park. Someone would sneak up behind them, grab them, drug them with chloroform, and then they would wake up blindfolded in some house. Someone would pick them up and embrace them, then knock them out with chloroform again, and they would wake up on an empty street with 100,000 yen in thier purse. When Karin hears this, she wonders if it was one of the people she bit in the park. As it turns out, it is. The boy Karin bit three months before is Youichiro Juumonji, heir to a wealthy family. His life had been going sour up to the moment he met Karin, then after their encounter things started going well for him, then one month later his life started going bad again. Convinced being hugged by the girl was a good-luck charm and remembering her uniform but nothing else, he had his butler Sasaki kidnap several girls from the school and brought to his place so he could hug them, but was unable to find the right one. So Youichiro decides to transfer to the school until he can find her. Two days later, the girls at Karin's school are excited about the new transfer student, who is handsome and who transfered from Ginrei Academy, a rich private school. When Karin meets Youichiro, she's horrified to find that her blood reacts to him the same way it does when she's near Kenta. Things get worse when he remembe

I am a goth-manga-loving-vampire-freak! This series was unique on its look at vampires which I enjoyed for the origionality aspect of it. Karin is a adorable, klutzy, shy vampirette and she is also realistic in character. I thought the art in this manga was done well also, I can't wait to buy the secon book! :)