Source: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This in no way alters my opinion or review.
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Publication Date: April 13, 2021
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781974720514, 1974720519
Format: Trade Paperback
Cost: $9.99 USD, $12.99 CAD
ARC Format: Ebook
Rating:
Goodreads Synopsis:
Antisocial, dorky boy seeks fun-loving, sexy vampire for blood-sucking and transforming into her minion.One night, sleepless Yamori slips out of his home to walk the streets of his town. Life after dark is a revelation! Especially when he meets flirtatious Nanakusa... She’s a lot more fun to share the night with than old drunks on park benches. When she invites him to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he's stoked! But then he awakens to kisses on his neck with a little too much bite to them...Now that Yamori knows Nanakusa is a vampire, the question remains—is it just the delicious taste of his blood that makes her meet him night after night for late-night adventures, conversation and...naps? Or something else? Then, when a cute girl from Yamori’s past shows up and competes for his attention, his budding relationship with the undead is truly put to the test!
Review:
A dorky kid, a vampire, insomnia...this book called to the depths of my soul in many ways. It is also Manga, so it had that going for it as well. I really enjoyed it but it was a bit off -putting at times.
What I liked: I really enjoyed the illustration, the art was so fun. I really liked the movement in it and eeriness of it. It is mostly set at night so there are a lot of this ways this might have been a miss, but it was far from it. I felt like it was nighttime without too much darkness and there was more than enough detail to really tell what was happening throughout.
The characters were also interesting. I feel for the dorky kid that can't sleep... (ahem I was that kid) so that resonated with me. Yamori doesn't really like people and is feeling detached and down (also relatable) and so he finds himself in a relationship with a vampire. The vampire, Nanakusa, is brash, outspoken, forward, and raunchy at times and that is where the off-putting bit comes in.
So what I didn't like was that Yamori is 14 and kind of being seduced by this vampire... completely understandable from a vampire POV, but a bit ick from a "how old are you!? He's a kid!" POV.
That aside, I really enjoyed this story line. Yamori wants to be a vampire and leave his human life behind, Nanakusa only wants to feed on him, and in order to become a vampire Yamori needs to fall in love with her. It has the makings of so many YA tropes that I adore... love triangles, the outsider, oblivious parents.
Very much looking forward to Volume 2.
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