Blood Alone: Vol. 1

by Masayuki Takano

Synopsis
There is none! So I wrote my own:
Misaki and Kuroe have an odd relationship. She's a vampire, yet he's the one who takes care of her. They live a seemingly normal life together, but when mysterious serial murders take place, only they can help the police find out who really did it.

Review
This series may have potential. I can only guess at why these two live together, which is probably that Kuroe feels some sort of responsibility towards Misaki since her family is dead. They're cute right now, as their relationship is like a brother-sister type, but I wonder how far this series will go. I just wonder because Misaki looks about twelve, though if I know the Japanese, they'll say she's fifteen or sixteen. I don't have a problem with young relationships, especially if they're not real people, but it still is a bit disturbing to me to see someone fall in love with someone who looks twelve.

There's probably more going on here, as Misaki is not the only vampire in the world, and there are evil spirits around. They help the police take care of a serial murderer, who escaped death by jumping to different bodies. Also, Kuroe has the ability to "see the truth" since the vampire who injured him also had that power.

But it's not all exciting adventures. A lot of the book just deals with slice-of-life events, like making breakfast, and taking care of Kuroe when he's sick.

The way that Infinity Studios put this book out is really nice. It has a dust jacket, and even a page in color; the paper is obviously high quality. It's nice to see a company treat its products so respectfully. The only odd part about it is there is no synopsis anywhere, so how is the potential buyer supposed to know if it's interesting or not? Hopefully not by reading it in the store, ugh, like manga cows.

In any case, it's quite an interesting series.

Final thought: I'll pick up the next book.