Japanese Series Vampire Hunter D Getting an American Comic Adaptation
David Gelmini
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If you haven’t somehow gone bankrupt from backing all the awesome crowdfunding projects that have gone up recently, then be sure to drop some pennies towards Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars, an American comic series based on the successful Japanese horror/fantasy franchise.
Originally a series of novels from writer Hideyuki Kikuchi, Vampire Hunter D was adapted into an anime film in 1985, followed by another in 2000. The Kickstarter campaign’s for a comic version of the unpublished short story “Message from Cecile,” with writer Brandon Easton and illustrator Michael Broussard handling the adaptation.
Synopsis:
Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars is the comic book adaptation of Message from Cecile, an unpublished Hideyuki Kikuchi short story.
We’re creating a multi-issue comic book series for Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars. Backers will receive a Kickstarter Exclusive Collector’s Edition Variant of the 36-page first issue in advance of the general release. The issue will consist of 24 pages of story and 12 pages of extra art and bonus material. This is an adaptation of “Message from Cecile,” a Vampire Hunter D short story by series author Hideyuki Kikuchi. This story was only published for a fan event in Japan and will make its English debut in this comic book series published by Stranger Comics.
Message from Mars is told from the point of view of Cecile, one of the human colonists on Mars. We see the ascension of the Nobility in the aftermath of a nuclear war on Earth and a part of the beginning of D’s journey as a vampire hunter. We’re excited to see this story brought to life in the first ever Vampire Hunter D comic book series.
As it has been many years since the last Vampire Hunter D adaptation and with this being the first VHD comic book, we’re unsure of how many copies to print. As we don’t want to print too few and leave fans out in the cold, we decided that using Kickstarter would allow us to take pre-orders and give us the chance to make some really cool new VHD merchandise, including a life-sized model of the Left Hand.
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