Manga Monday: Blood-C Demonic Moonlight Volume 1

05/16/2016 1:10pm
“So long, Saya, and thanks for all the flayed chiropterans!”
With Blood-C: Demonic Moonlight Volume 1 on sale this week and work on Blood-C: Demonic Moonlight Volume 2 wrapping up in the Dark Horse offices soon, I’m getting ready to say farewell to Saya and her monster-hunting crew. I’ve been rooting for Saya to throw off her shackles and defeat her many manipulators since 2007, when I began editing and localizing volumes in the extended “Blood universe” for Dark Horse Manga. 
Previous Blood+ and Blood-C volumes were filled with fascinating characters and gruesome creatures, and our current Demonic Moonlight excursions are no exceptions! In Blood-C: Demonic Moonlight Volume 1, we meet a US soldier and an anachronistic swordfighter in Yokohama, Japan —two supernatural investigators—who are hoping to stop a string of murders and frightening incursions into the physical word by the devious, always-hungry-for-humans Ancient Ones.
The two-part Demonic Moonlight series ends the run of spinoff series found in the Blood+ and Blood-C manga world. Readers will learn more about the organizations and individuals who are aware of the Ancient Ones, the Shrovetide, and Saya’s unique place in the centuries-old battle between humankind and the dark, demonic forces that want to eat us all alive. We see a Saya who is still being manipulated by humankind to face off against chiropterans, zombies, angry spirits, and other otherworldly creatures, but a Saya who has not been mind-wiped and placed in the village we see her in at the start of Blood-C Volume 1. In typical, exciting Blood-universe fashion, this new mini-series bounces back in time and serves as a mysterious prequel to Blood-C Volume 1, but one that should be read later in the manga series.
Saya has had a long, possibly-confusing life and career as a half-demonic vampire and monster slayer—so here’s a handy chart to lead you into Saya’s very first manga adventures in Blood+ and then through the CLAMP and Production I.G collaborations that expand Saya’s story in the Blood-C books. 
As always, dear reader, thank you for your support—and keep your blades sharp! Special thanks to Topher Alford for creating this handy chart!
Philip R. Simon, Senior Editor
“So long, Saya, and thanks for all the flayed chiropterans!”

With Blood-C: Demonic Moonlight Volume 1 on sale this week and work on Blood-C: Demonic Moonlight Volume 2 wrapping up in the Dark Horse offices soon, I’m getting ready to say farewell to Saya and her monster-hunting crew. I’ve been rooting for Saya to throw off her shackles and defeat her many manipulators since 2007, when I began editing and localizing volumes in the extended “Blood universe” for Dark Horse Manga. 

Previous Blood+ and Blood-C volumes were filled with fascinating characters and gruesome creatures, and our current Demonic Moonlight excursions are no exceptions! In Blood-C: Demonic Moonlight Volume 1, we meet a US soldier and an anachronistic swordfighter in Yokohama, Japan —two supernatural investigators—who are hoping to stop a string of murders and frightening incursions into the physical word by the devious, always-hungry-for-humans Ancient Ones.

The two-part Demonic Moonlight series ends the run of spinoff series found in the Blood+ and Blood-C manga world. Readers will learn more about the organizations and individuals who are aware of the Ancient Ones, the Shrovetide, and Saya’s unique place in the centuries-old battle between humankind and the dark, demonic forces that want to eat us all alive. We see a Saya who is still being manipulated by humankind to face off against chiropterans, zombies, angry spirits, and other otherworldly creatures, but a Saya who has not been mind-wiped and placed in the village we see her in at the start of Blood-C Volume 1. In typical, exciting Blood-universe fashion, this new mini-series bounces back in time and serves as a mysterious prequel to Blood-C Volume 1, but one that should be read later in the manga series.

Saya has had a long, possibly-confusing life and career as a half-demonic vampire and monster slayer—so here’s a handy chart to lead you into Saya’s very first manga adventures in Blood+ and then through the CLAMP and Production I.G collaborations that expand Saya’s story in the Blood-C books. 

As always, dear reader, thank you for your support—and keep your blades sharp! Special thanks to Topher Alford for creating this handy chart!

Philip R. Simon, Senior Editor

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