The Wolf Story is Bad; The Vampire Story is Good Four-fifths of this book is "Kindan no Koi wo Shiyou", a romance story about a woman who meets a "wolfman". In this story, a wolfman is a guy who is a wolf most of the time, but can turn into a handsome man when the moon is bright. They begin a romantic relationship immediately, and that's pretty much it. I did not like this. The characters are extremely bland, and the tone is bizarre for a romance manga—even though it is ostensibly supposed to be a sexy story about a "forbidden love" between a woman anda wolfman (the English title is "Let's Make Forbidden Love"), the tone is almost always farcically comical: "Omg, we were kissing, and he turned back into a wolf! Darn it!" That happens in every chapter, I think. Then there are sitcommy situations that arise from having a wolf boyfriend. Aside from that, what happens is, our heroine walks outside, is approached by evil thugs, and then the wolfman appears to beat them up and save her. The artwork on the cover of this manga is cool, but the art in the novel itself was a problem for me. It's almost always so minimal that it's nothing but the character who is currently speaking appearing over a white background, which made it kind of hard for me to tell what was actually happening sometimes.

After that is a single-chapter story, "Vanpaia ni Onegai" / "A Request to the Vampire", which is about a suicidal malnourished woman who meets a vampire, asks him to end her life, and he refuses, because he doesn't want to drink the blood of somebody who's so unhealthy. This is actually such a fun idea, and I think it's executed fairly well. But somehow this is chapter 1 of 1 for this story, and it turns out that there are TWO full-book sequels to the wolfman story!! Life isn't fair!