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Dahlia
is not a part of the Miyu-Yui Vampire Series, and it has no connection
with Miyu or Yui at all. This manga is divided into three chapters. I would
like to warn you, however, that this story is very bloody
and quite explicit. (Again, I don't understand Japanese, so this was the
impression I got from the pictures.) This is not like any of other Kakinouchi's
work in terms of the exposure to violence.
Even so,
the Vampire, Dahlia, has some attributes we recognize in Miyu, one of which
is elegance. While Miyu gets her victims by manipulating their sorrow,
Dahlia seems to attract victims through her passionate
figure. Still, both Miyu and Dahlia are very reserved. Since Dahlia
does not have the ability to grant eternal life, she just drinks her victim's
blood. In some scenes, she cuts people's heads off and drink
the blood straight from it. Suprisingly, she sometimes cries after
she kills them; my interpretation to this reaction is that she is recalling
the memory of her guardian, who was also her lover.
If you
noticed in the picture, the color of her right eye is green when her vampire
nature is revealed. In the last story, she will meet a chinese girl, also
a vampire, who has a blue right eye and a handsome partner. The guardian
of Dahlia, Greene, was also a vampire, but he died not long after drinking
Dahlia's blood; through which she became a vampire. You can recollect that
each vampire has a "bodyguard" from the Miyu-Yui series. One
thing that I like from this manga is the use of english in some of the
dialogue. It is not that I am fond of the english language itself, but
of the elegant way of presenting it. For example, "suki" is usually
translated as "love", while, in this book, it is translated as
"adore". So, instead of saying "...but I love you",
the sentence would read "...but I adore you".
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| Personally,
I believe this manga is worth reading. It is unique, and eventhough it
is gorry in some parts, it shows a different style of Kakinouchi that we
rarely see. Also, from my understanding, this story has an open ending.
So if you are a person who likes a concrete ending, this manga might not
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