May Contain SpoilersI felt a little more connected to the story with this volume. After the long gap of time between reading the series, I, naturally, forgot what was going on, and who was doing what, [...]
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Akira fights against the assassins that the three clans sent after him. Impressions: This was a pretty big episode. I was just shocked when I saw the fight scenes. The best fight scenes always give this feeling of horrible desperation and I definitely felt that with this episode. Akira was getting his ass kicked by the weird [...]
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In episode 11 of Dance in the Vampire Bund, “Underworld” (アンダーワールド), the hunt for Akira has spilled over to public areas where the “general public” mills about, except this is a rather special group of the “general public”: This is the Bund, so they are all vampires. Becoming a vampire definitely seems to addle [...]
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Summary: Pursued by the Clans’ assassins, Akira runs through the streets of the Bund. Sir Alfonse, in Death Race 2000 (the one with Carradine) mode, shows up and offers Akira a ride. The two take advantage of the drive time for a little expose-ition, and Akira learns the truth behind the Three Clans and their engagement [...]
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Come the end of the previous episode of Dance in the Vampire Bund, Akira found himself in a decidedly tight spot on account of vampire queen Mina Tepes, with the clans who are effectively pulling the strings behind her continued existence deciding to each send their own assassin after Akira as part of a wager to win Mina's body while simultaneously subjecting her to a degrading purity check of
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There was more talk and less action in this episode than I expected, but I found that to be alright, because the talk brought back that very important issue that had been ignored for the last many episodes: Akira’s continued amnesia. And it ties it together with Telomere; what Akira still [...]
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