“Decadent vampire tale exposing society's corruption, intertwining bloodlust, lost innocence, and dark secrets in surreal, Fellini-inspired horror.”
Warau Kyuuketsuki
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Synopsis
Decadent vampire tale exposing society's corruption, intertwining bloodlust, lost innocence, and dark secrets in surreal, Fellini-inspired horror.
Volume 1 : The Laughing Vampire. While a young boy, just resurrected as a vampire, commits acts of awful ferocity, the city around him shows all its perversion. The adults abuse their power, the boys degenerate and use all the available means to achieve their goal to give vent to their low instincts. Whoever can't understand and make opposition is doomed to change or becoming crazy. So which is the real horror? The vampire who kills in order to feed himself or the crawling disease hidden in society, which slowy corrupts without being noticed? Volume 2 : Paradise. Following the events narrated in the first volume, Luna and Konosuke are now living together with the old woman vampire as fellows, as lovers, in a diabolic innocence, killing for quieting their thirst for blood, joining death and love under the dream of eternal youth. Meanwhile, a young boy named Makoto is looking for his lost sister Miko, who disappeared years ago in mysterious circumstances. But what really happened to that girl who liked eating grubs and dreamed of becoming one of them? And is there really a terrible secret that someone is hiding? The paths of all the characters will dramatically collide, bringing unexpected consequences after the things are gradually revealed. A story suspended between weirdness and decadence, showing a clear nostalgia for German cinematography and Federico Fellini, where blood is used to trace a great and only apparently amoral story. (Source: MangaUpdates)
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What 6 readers settled on.
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σ 1.67 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↓ 0.17
Running avg · Jan 2015 → Dec 2022
- 7 “boy oh, BOY is the art so so viscerally good. my favorite part of this manga is just how nice the art is to look at. so high-effort. the story veers into slightly-too-much territory for me. I read...”
- 10 “Let me get this stuff out of my chest; you know what! Suehiro's works is breathtaking, period! I always wanted to make a review for Warau Kyuuketsuki but I'm not sure on how I would start and I...”
- 8 “I would say that Laughing Vampire is not horror story, but an adventure story with very dark ambience. On the sliding scale of Dracula versus Twilight, Laughing Vampire is all the way in the...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 19 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 32m approx
- Published Jan 1998 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0895 catalog