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Background Information
Vampire Hunter D is a series of Japanese novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano since 1983. To date, 21 volumes have been published in the main series, with some volumes comprising as many as four books. The series has also spawned anime, audio drama, and manga adaptations, as well as a short story collection, art books, and a supplemental guide book. The series takes place in the future where a nuclear war occurred. The Nobility were vampires that planned for a possible nuclear war and sequestered all that was needed to rebuild civilization in their shelters. They use their science combined with magic to restore the world in their image. Nearly all magical creatures are engineered, with a very small number being demons who survived the holocaust. Despite their technology being great enough to create a blood substitute as food, they still prefer to feed on humans.
As such, they create a civilization where vampires and humans coexist, eventually developing the planet into parklands and cities.
The main character is D, who is a half-breed child of a vampire father and human mother, the ideal vampire hunter. He is renowned for his consummate skill and unearthly grace, but feared and despised for his mixed lineage: born of both races but belonging to neither. Often underestimated by his opponents, D possesses surprising power and resourcefulness, having most of the strengths of the Nobility and only mild levels of their common weaknesses.
Very little is known of D's parentage, or his past. Some Nobles whisper dark rumours about their vampire progenitor, the Sacred Ancestor known as Count Dracula, bedding a human woman called "Mina the Fair".
Standing in the Battledome
The series is rather powerful seeing as it has some powerful spells, and the top tier character have enough power to wipe out cities. A character called the Destroyer is a universal threat, and some characters can send people into a dimension known as the sealed dimensional space.
They also created another kind of Generator that can produce the same level of power and effect as the Big Bang which was stated to wipe out the whole universe.
Character Profiles
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