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“Gil, seeking revenge on vampires, partners with Luna to kill Aran and become a Twelve Apostle.”
Blood Parade
BLOOD PARADE
6.5
17,903 rank · 6,790 readers · 24 favorites
Shounen
Vampire
Action
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Gil, seeking revenge on vampires, partners with Luna to kill Aran and become a Twelve Apostle.
The duty of the Twelve Apostles is to seek out and destroy the vampires of this world. Bearing a grudge against vampires and the pure blood who created them, Gil has successfully passed the first two parts of his exam to become one of the Twelve Apostles. For the third and final part of the exam, Gil is assigned a partner named Luna and together they must travel to a nearby town and kill a vampire named Aran. Will he pass his exam and become an apostle? And who exactly is this girl named Luna? (Source: Fallen Syndicate)
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Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
3.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
0%
recommend
Score distribution
median 3.5
mode 2
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.50
Running avg · Jun 2013 → Oct 2025
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 2 “Don't read this. I usually love "so bad it's good" manga but this one was just bad. I'm sorry. 12 chapters with a nothing ending. The MC is told he is the chosen one etc but doesn't win a single...”
- 5 “I read this in one sitting; I was suffering from the loss of having finish Vampire Knight and needed to read a vampire related manga with pretty art. I was immediately drawn to this particular...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 12 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 36m approx
- Published Aug 2011 – Jul 2012
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M17469 catalog