Devil's Line, Volume 2 is my latest guilty pleasure. At the end of Volume 1, Anzai, the half-vampire, is shot by a sniper. In Volume 2, he is saved by a mysterious devil with long, blond hair. His identity is the latest mystery in a series full of mysteries. Tsukasa, the human woman with whom Anzai has all the traditional vampire-mortal sexual tension, doesn't know where he is. She looks so haggard and upset that the casual reader might mistake her for the vampire. Anzai is on the run for most of this volume, ashamed at his blood-lust after being given 200 ml of human blood to drink by the mysterious vampire.
I jest; however, the Tsukasa character is very well realized. You always know who she is and why she feels the way she does. The written part of this series is not as good as the drawn part. I don't know if it's a mediocre translation or if I expect too much from a teenage vampire series. There are a few
"manga-isms" that take away from the coolness of this title, like comic exaggerations and cartoonish expressions. For now, it's one of the many manga series I read but don't really recommend to my friends. I bought and read the second volume, so I like it better than 40% or 50% of manga series.
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