ヴぁんぷ! III [Vanpu!]

Vamp! #3

by Ryohgo Narita, Katsumi Enami (Illustrator)

【２ヶ月ぶりだね、日本の紳士淑女諸君！　今日は少々血生臭い話をするとしよう】　【復讐――そう、復讐の話だ。活劇から悲劇に至るまで、様々な物語に取り入れられる王道とも言うべき要素だよ】　【復讐は常に新たな復讐の芽を生む。様々な物語でよくそう言われるものだが……仮に、相手の親類縁者全て、さらにはそのまた縁者をも復讐の対象とし、全てを滅ぼし尽くす覚悟だとしたら？　おそらく復讐の連鎖は止まるだろうが、その者に安らぎが訪れる事は無いだろう】　【そんな覚悟をしてしまった者は、この世界と――己自身にこそ復讐をしたいのだろうからね】

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

414 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2005

About the author

Ryohgo Narita (成田 良悟, Narita Ryōgo) is a Japanese light novelist. He won the Gold Prize in the 9th Dengeki Novel Prize for Baccano!, which was made into a TV anime in 2007.[1] His series Durarara!! was also made into a TV anime, which began airing January 2010


There are two traits found in most of Narita's works:
* Narita writes extremely fast, one volume a month if he wishes - with tons of spelling errors and missing words as a tradeoff. The editors like to leave them sometimes just for fun, though.
* His work titles often have an exclamation mark at the end (i.e. Baccano!, Vamp!, Durarara!!, etc.).

Kanji names: 成田 良悟 & 成田良悟.

Reviews

[Cecille · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm still not as in-love with the characters of this series as I was with the Etsusa Bridge books, but the consecutive climaxes of this two-parter (II and III are two halves of the same story) had me completely engrossed.

Also, there's a love story involving an Absolutely Adorable alraune with glasses, and honestly I probably would've given the book 4 stars if her part in the story played more prominently.

[handsfeetlegs · Rating 5 out of 5]

the conclusion of Vamp 2+3!!! amazing, impeccable, extraordinary!! so much chaos, so many characters, so many crossroads, so much blood, so much love, so much hate, so many twists, so many turns, so so good!
the plant vampires' love story has my entire heart, I could cry.
10/10.

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

As of finishing this book and this arc, Vamp! has surpassed Durarara!! to become my second Narita series. I can't wait to read more.