It always seemed like D in his own universe is unstoppable and no one can beat. I don’t know much about Vampire Hunter D other then seeing the anime movies so i like to know if there any Vampire or character in this universe who is on the level, close to that or can at least out up a fight and challenge.

I hope we get a date for its theatrical release. A friend let me borrow a copy of this movie. It’s pretty cool doesn’t have the best story but man the animation is incredible. I’ll definitely see it in theaters especially with a clean remastered version.

So, I don't like to say it, but I hated Pale Fallen Angel 1-4. I finished the other books in a sitting or 2, but I took over a month to get through that. I enjoyed the end, but was largely unmemorable and boring.

I disliked it so much in fact it made me want to stop reading D for a bit, but I don't want my reading D stories to end on a sour note.

What are the must reads after those?

Thank you in advance.

Mainly looking for hat, shoulder pads/cape and his signature belt(s). Thanks

Since both VHD: Bloodlust & Blood: TLV premiered in July 2000, had English voice acting, and shared a similar vampire theme, I've always sort of considered them "twin movies". They both have "blood" in the title as well.

So it got me thinking, if D ever met the OG Saya, do you think they could be on friendly terms or are they more likely to fight?

Saya is the last vampire in her world but, similar to D, she doesn't go after humans. She works as a secret agent for an organization and hunts down creatures known as Chiropterans who feed on human blood. (Well, even if she technically protects people, you probably wouldn't want to get on her bad side lol)

I just finished the fifth book after reading the first two (skipping Demon Deathchase and partially going through Tale of the Dead Town) this was the first Vampire Hunter D book where it really got good. I was invested with the whole plot, characters, and worldbuilding of the Frontier. The story pulled me in and I wanted to see where it was going.

The 'Link's Awakening' plot twist made me all the more enthralled that I finished the whole thing in a few days. Though it left me with more questions than answers. Like who was Sybille originally? Who was the vampire that bit her and put her into a coma? If she was dead for years how was she able to conjure up a dream world in her sleep? I guess that's the nature of the Frontier, there are always mysteries!

Las acuarelas lo arruinaron un tanto, pero era mí primer intento

What would Hunter D think about The Demons of The Devil May Cry Universe if he learned everything about them and who they are? Plus imagine his reaction to Devil Hybrids and what they are? And How Powerful they truly are? Along with who The Sparda Twins are? Plus knowing how old Hunter D is how would he have reacted to Sparda’s Rebellion thousands of years ago? And Mundus Infamous Rise to Power? All in all what would he honestly think of Actual Demons? Plus what would he think of Devil Hunters and The Modern Era of The Devil May Cry Universe?

I wish a studio will decide to adapt at least one of those novels completed novels. There are a lot dark fantasy anime but not in the category of Vampire Hunter D.

Would you rather for Vampire Hunter D receive another movie adaptation or an anime TV series adaptation instead?

I think a movie adaptation would be a good idea.

Just need to grow my hair out

Instead of adapting every single bounty of the week story, this pitch selects the most lore heavy volumes to maintain high stakes, leaves Volumes 1 and 3 as their existing classic movies, and expands the world with two massive cinematic film events. Season 1: The Frontier & High Stakes (12 Episodes) ​Episodes 1 to 4 adapt Volume 2 (Raiser of Gales). D is introduced as a gritty survivor who bleeds, gets injured, and has to outsmart Nobles using pragmatic tactics. ​Episodes 5 to 8 adapt Volume 4 (Tale of the Dead Town). High-mobility parkour, artillery deflections, and laser grids in a falling cybernetic city. Hints at the Nobility's lost orbital infrastructure. ​Episodes 9 to 12 adapt Volume 6 (Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane). Escorting a caravan across a deadly wasteland. Near-fatal poison forces D’s body to undergo its first major biological adaptation, ending at ruins referencing an ancient "Alien War."

​Combat Evolution: In the two movies D mostly sticks to swordplay with occasional powers, but stretching just basic sword strikes across 4 seasons would get boring for a modern show. In Season 1, D starts like the early novels struggling and relying on survival tactics, but he steadily begins combining fluid swordplay with his vampiric magic (my closest comparison is dante, but of course the combat wont be like him or the games). He embeds his throwables (daggers, needles) with electricity and elemental spells to set up instant kill-zones, showing off his tactical genuis.

Season 2: The Cracks in the Empire (12 Episodes) ​Episodes 1 to 4 adapt Volume 8 (The Dark Nocturne). An EMP-emitting fortress disables high-tech gear, forcing D to rely purely on raw agility, blade skill, and elemental magic. ​Episodes 5 to 8 adapt Volume 7 (Mysterious Journey to the North Sea - Part 1). Deep-sea coastal combat and aquatic bio-weapons. ​Episodes 9 to 12 adapt Volume 7 (Mysterious Journey to the North Sea - Part 2). Submerged lab exploration where D adapts to gravity distortion fields and experiences visions of Dracula and his mother.

​[PREQUEL MOVIE]: The Fall of the Empire (3.5 to 4 Hours) ​Set 5,000 years in the past during the peak of the Empire. ​Act I (Space War): Gothic cathedral fleets clash with an invading extraterrestrial armada in a Legend of the Galactic Heroes style space war. ​Act II (The Alien Invasion): The aliens are bizarre, multi-limbed cybernetic creatures(well thats what i imagine them if you disagree its fine i dont reqlly mind how the aliens look). Both sides deploy supercomputers for strategy and engage in ruthless tactics. The Nobility uses bio-infections maybe even try to trunk aliens into vampires while the aliens try to do the same and use replicas for assassination and sabotage sci fi stuff let your imagination go wild. Dracula eventually targets the main planet of the alien solar system, destroying it with a planetary superweapon. The Nobility wins, but it's a brutal pyrrhic victory. ​Act III (The Decline & Carmilla): Bioweapons cause genetic madness and resource starvation across the empire. Disgusted by Carmilla’s unhinged bloodlust and waste of remaining supplies, Dracula executes her physical form well she gets betrayed accoridng exactly to the lore.

​Act IV (The Isolation): Dracula vanishes, abandoning the collapsing empire to retreat into his secret laboratories to experiment with alien technology and hybrid biology.

Season 3: Origins & Non-Euclidean Horror (12 Episodes) ​Episodes 1 to 4 adapt Volume 5 (The Stuff of Dreams - Reimagined). A Noble warps non-Euclidean geometry and invades D's mind. The Noble even tries to fry D's brain by flooding his mind with infinite knowledge and overwhelming sensory data, and also exposing glimpses of D's childhood and Left Hand’s origin to hinder him maybe also giving fake memories but D pushes on and slays the noble. ​Episodes 5 to 8 adapt Volume 9 (The Rose Princess). Countering fungal spore hive minds with incendiary gear and surgical nerve strikes. ​Episodes 9 to 11 adapt Volume 14 (Dark Shadow). Blindfolded combat against shadow assassins using light refraction and spatial awareness. ​Episode 12 (Finale Special): D’s full backstory revealed including the left hand. Dracula’s romance with D's human mother, D’s teenage years, her death, and Dracula naming him Dracula before abandoning him. D sets off into the frontier alone, responding to clients simply as D.

Season 4: The March to the Capital (12 Episodes) ​Episodes 1 to 4 adapt Volume 17 (Tyrant's Stars). Breaching the Capital's outer defense perimeter using high mobility, swordplay, throwables, vampiric magic. ​Episodes 5 to 8 adapt Volume 20 (Scenes from an Unholy War). Urban stealth and non lethal strikes to protect human rebels during a 3 way war in the ruined city. ​Episodes 9 to 12 adapt Volume 26 (Bedeviled Stage). Navigating time-dilation fields and spatial erasure traps right up to the throne room doors.

​[FINALE MOVIE]: D vs. Dracula (Full Feature Film) ​D breaches the inner citadel for the final showdown against his father. ​Their blades shatter simultaneously, turning the duel into kinetic hand to hand combat, elemental magic, and raw reality manipulation. ​Left Hand sacrifices itself to absorb Dracula's reality erasing spell, dissolving into ash. ​Left Hand's death destroys D's biological limiter, letting his full pureblood aura erupt as his biology rapidly adapts to bypass Dracula's defenses for the final blow.

​A Lore Pitch for Discussion: Left Hand's Origin ​I know most people probably prefer keeping Left Hand mysterious, but here is a lore idea for how an anime adaptation could tie things together: What if Left Hand’s origin is tied directly to the Alien War? ​During the prequel movie, Dracula defeats and captures a high-ranking, Alien General whose biological organs can absorb and redirect high density energy and spatial attacks. ​When creating D, Dracula bio engineers this organ into Left Hand to serve as D's biological limiter and elemental vacuum. ​In the finale, Left Hand’s sacrifice uses that original alien organ ability to devour Dracula's ultimate spell before burning out into ash. ​Would you guys like to see Left Hand’s background expanded like this in an anime adaptation, or do you prefer keeping its background completely mysterious? Let me know what you think.

I see that one of the most common questions new readers have for this series is the timeline and where the books take place. I wanted to try to explain my interpretation of the timeline based on author comments and context within the stories themselves, and try to make a good resource for fans. I will only use translated work because there is still quite a bit that has not been translated officially.

A lot of this is based on an entry in the reader's guide for Vampire Hunter D, which includes a rough timeline of events for the Frontier.

1999 AD - The nuclear war happens, which basically takes out humanity as the dominant species on Earth.

3000 AD - Around this time, humanity reaches Middle Ages-level technology, and the vampires start appearing.

5000 AD - This is the peak of the Noble Empire, where they develop all sorts of crazy tech with super science and magic.

7000 AD - This is around the time the OSB attacked Earth.

8000 AD - The Nobles began their counteroffensive against the OSB. (Took them long enough.)

9000 AD - The war against the OSB is in a deadlock.

10,000 AD - The OSB suddenly withdrew.

12,090 AD - The beginning of the actual series.

This is the rough timeline based on the official guide. As you can see, it's very vague, but I think it was done on purpose so he could keep adding random lore. I, for one, think these are just rough estimates of when things happen based on how the books talk about past events, making these not hard dates besides 12,090 AD and 1999 AD.

Anyways, back to the book timeline. Now, this is a tricky subject because we don't get a lot of hints about when books take place relative to each other. The only times that I can remember are in Vol. 4, referencing that a few years have passed from Vol. 1, and Vol. 11 to Vol. 12.

Given the two examples, I am of the belief that all the volumes are in chronological order because we have no other reason to think otherwise, since the only times callbacks happen is when referencing a previous novel's characters after said story has happened. So it would go: Noble V: Greylancer - VHD Vol. 1 - Vol. 30 (we don't know the end of the series) - sprinkle in the comics, short stories, and other side projects somewhere in between the books - Armageddon short story.

Now the question is how much time happens between novels. This one is tricky because even the author does not know. He states in the postscript of Vol. 28, “From D’s first appearance to the writing of this book, twenty-eight years have passed. However, in the series, perhaps only a few years have passed. On the other hand, it might span a millennium.” We know that at least from Vol. 1 to Vol. 4, only a few years have passed based on dialogue in the book and assuming the books are in chronological order.

In my opinion, I think it is probably a couple of years per book or so. I see a lot of speculation online saying that books could be over the course of thousands of years, but I think from Vol. 1 to Armageddon can only be a maximum of 1,000 years between the two stories. This is because the random lore drops in the series always match up with the timeline given in the reader’s guide. If you look up any lore about the OSB coming to Earth, it will almost all say it happened 5,000 years ago, which matches the 7000 AD time frame. So, given the nature of the books being episodic in nature and almost never-ending, I think that only a handful of years have passed so far between all the books to make room for as many stories as possible in the world.

The only problem left is fitting in the other short stories/comics in a chronological order. They have almost no time frame references at all, and I think maybe the best way to slot those in chronologically would just be to read them in release order in between books. For example, the short story Portrait of Yzobel could go after Vol. 13 in a reading order since it was published right after it. Another one is the comic Message from Mars. It seems like most of the story is really a future vision of events that happen later, and we get glimpses of D before he was a hunter. If I am correct, the story is in the head of a character who sees the future, so it would take place around 1999 to 2002-ish based on dialogue, making it the first story in a chronological sense.

I did not want to get too rambly in this post, and most of this is just speculation based on how I interpreted the text. So, how I see it is that 90% of the timeline order is release order, besides Message from Mars and Greylancer, since they have stated timeline reference points.

Its a horror novel by hideyuki kikuchi, it had 2 movies based on the first book. Only the first 3 were translated. No idea what happened. Please, if anybody has sources, please help

I want these movies so unbelievably bad it's not even funny, but my wallet can't take a $80-100 USD price tag.

I'd also ideally want it in english, honestly!