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Post by stonetoflesh on Aug 19, 2009 13:27:37 GMT -6
I recently finished reading the first volume of Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D series, first published in 1983 and later turned into two anime films. The writing is enthusiastic but otherwise unremarkable, but the science-fantasy setting -- a 13th-millennium post-apocalyptic earth dominated by super-scientist vampire lords and populated by all manner of fantastic creatures, mutants, robots, monster hunters, adventurers, and so forth -- just screams out to be used as a wahoo game setting for OD&D, Gamma World, Encounter Critical, etc. More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_Hunter_DHas anyone else read these? Is it worth my time to wade through the other nineteen or so volumes?
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Post by ssfsx17 on Sept 5, 2009 21:49:45 GMT -6
I've only seen the first anime movie. I do plan on reading at least the first three novels soon, depending on what I can find out about the quality of the translations.
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Post by Finarvyn on Sept 6, 2009 13:17:01 GMT -6
A friend of my teenaged son swears by them and thinks they are the best, but the few times I flipped through a copy they never quite leaped out at you. My guess is that if you liked the first one, try the second.
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