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Vampire Hunter D!

I'd started the books (or the first one, anyway) some time ago and been enamoured, but my time is swallowed up like quicksand since I have no self-control, no time management and a lot of homework.

I don't think the writing style is necessarily for everyone. I love it. I actually like the reticent hero quite a bit, think the movies don't measure up (as always) though they're pretty good on their own merit, and adore Doris.

Yes, that is totally the way to hire a bodyguard, Doris! Though she has to be rescued more than once, never once is her competence called into question. She's clearly a tough, fierce and intelligent young lady who is also a CERTIFIED BADASS but is simply up against opponents a little beyond her calibre. Oh Hideyuki Kikuchi, so kind to me.

I nearly passed out with joy when I learned there were twenty books, and eleven translated--though Doris probably won't be in more than one (this is not spoilery, just my assumption)--hopefully we'll get other heroines at least half as awesome as she is.

Just recently I was griping to myself about the poor and intrusive illustrations of Lilith's Saintcrow's Steelflower. Vampire Hunter D has illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano Can we say fangasm? Can we say it again for good measure?

In other news, I brought far too many textbooks to school today. My shoulders hurt.

Though being eighteen has had about as much impact on me as I suspected it would--that being not much--I must confess it's a nice feeling to scroll down, see in a community's info, 'must be legal' and think I AM!

I'm beginning to think I spend too much time on the internet if that's the only change I really think of or notice. Well, the bus fare went up. A whole frickin' dollar. **sulks**

I was poking around prompt tables and thinking taking one up for Doris/D, because as we all know my solution for heartache is fanfic, and I saw the 30_dates community and was so insanely tempted. I mean, seriously--you can't tell me I wouldn't be able to come up with the most insane dates ever. Two monster hunters in a post apocalyptic world? I WANNA.

( Vampire Hunter D: Doris/D table )