Vampire Hunter D Volume 1

infobox Book |
name = Vampire Hunter D Volume 1
title_orig = nihongo|Vampire Hunter "D"|吸血鬼ハンター"D"|"Kyūketsuki Hantā "D"
translator = Kevin Leahy


image_caption = Cover of the English edition of "Vampire Hunter D Volume 1"
author = Hideyuki Kikuchi
illustrator = Yoshitaka Amano
cover_artist =
country = Japan
language = Japanese
series = Vampire Hunter D Vol. 1
genre = Science fiction, Fantasy, Light novel
publisher = flagicon|United States DH Press flagicon|Japan Asahi Sonorama
release_date = January 1983
english_release_date = May 11, 2005
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = flagicon|United States 300 flagicon|Japan 282
isbn = flagicon|United States ISBN 1-59582-012-4 flagicon|Japan ISBN 4-257-76225-X
preceded_by =
followed_by =

"Vampire Hunter D Volume 1" is a Japanese novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi. It was first published in Japan in 1983, and was translated into English in 2005.

Plot

It is the year 12,090 A.D. The world has ended, ravaged in a firestorm of man's wars and madness. But from the wreckage a few humans manage to survive. A few humans... and something else.

Doris Lang knew what her fate was when the vampire lord Count Magnus Lee bit her. An agonizing transformation into one of the undead, to be stalked by her fellow villagers or cursed to become the bride of the unholy creature and face an eternity of torment, driven by the thirst for human blood. There was only one chance, and as she watched him ride in from the distance she knew there was hope. Salvation... from a vampire hunter named D.

Magnus has his own problems, his beautiful daugther Larmica refuses to let a human into her family, and am all too willing to kill the bride before the wedding can take place. Enlisting the help of Garo, a werewolf retainer, she attempts to kill Doris, only to find D in her way.

Greco Rohman, son of the chief, also wants Doris for himself. The same goes for the skilled figher Rei-Ginsei and his Fiend Corps. Both men are eager to eliminate D, as his skills and Doris' favor makes them see him as a threat. Doris knows she isn't the only one in trouble, her younger brother is preceived as her weakness, and there are more then one person out there willing to use him as leverage against her.

Adaptations

The novel is adapted into a direct-to-video film of the same name in 1985 and a manga series, "Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D", in 2007.