“Vampire king seeks sealed queen to unleash apocalypse; humans and dhampirs race to stop him.”
The Record of a Fallen Vampire
ヴァンパイア十字界
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Synopsis
Vampire king seeks sealed queen to unleash apocalypse; humans and dhampirs race to stop him.
There is a legend that tells of how the world was almost destroyed thousands of years ago by the vampire queen after she unleashed her latent powers. Despite their efforts, the humans were unable to defeat her, and thus resorted to sealing her away until the time came that they would be powerful enough to destroy the seal and kill her. However, the humans are not the only ones after the seal. Having cast aside his kingdom and betraying his own race and the dhampirs (half-vampires), the vampire king is persistantly searching, even to this day, for where his queen has been sealed away so he may break the seal and free her before the humans do. Fearing that once the king and queen are reunited, they shall continue to destroy the world together, the humans and dhampirs hunt the king, using any method possible. (Source: Anime Source)
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Community consensus
Derived from 21 sampled reviews
What 21 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.77 · some divergence
6.3 pts
Recommenders 9.3 · others 3.0
↑ 0.76
Running avg · Jan 2009 → Oct 2025
- 10 “This story was very enjoyable but the characters designs got better throughout the charaters were really well developed and the story so sad was very enjoyable it was my favorite tragedy manga.”
- 9 “Well I've already finish reading this manga a few months ago and at first it was really exciting to read, I was really waiting everyday for an update, the story was good and interesting up to the...”
- 9 “I completely LOVE reading this. The main character, Strauss, is so unpredictable, and you can never really tell what's going on in that HUGE brain of his. The plot is awesome. At first, I thoguht...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 44 × 9 ch × vol
- Total read 5h 52m approx
- Published Aug 2003 – Feb 2007
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0907 catalog