Having fallen in battle long ago, Count Vlad Dracula is reborn as a katana-wielding young vampiress in an alternate-history Europe. After the reincarnated Dracula rescues a girl named Clara from a mysterious stranger, Clara explains that she is the creation of a certain Victor Frankenstein. She also reveals that she is fleeing from an organization called Cerberus, which seeks to capture and study "monsters" such as herself in order to create an army of human-monster hybrids. Clara begs the vampiress to flee with her to an island of monsters where the two of them will be safe... but as they set out for Monster Island, the sinister forces of Cemore
While this first volume of Blood Blade has its faults, I think it comes across as a fair debut with some potential, even if things are a little awkward in places and the plot is rather by the numbers. There are definitely stronger titles in the genre, but I enjoyed it for what it is: a simple if quirky Japanese spin on western monster stories. Read Full Review
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