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x_ekibyougami_x



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:33 pm Reply with quote
I am just curious as to how many fans of the anime/ books Vampire Hunter D and/or fans of the anime/ manga Hellsing have read the book Dracula by Bram Stoker. Being a rather obsessive fan of not only anime but the occult (especially vampires), I have read Dracula several times. I also know quite about about Vlad Tepes (or Vlad Dracul; the impaler or the dragon) the person and other works which are related to vampires.
It often surprises me how many references to other works and to Dracula itself is in these anime and what have you. I especially loved that the name Carmilla was chosen for a character in the second Vampire Hunter D movie (Carmilla was the title of a vampire novel written in the 1800's by J. Sheridan LeFanu).
So I am not only curios as to who has read the novel but also what other references people have found. I love allusions.

(I apologize if I jumped around slightly while writting this.)
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Kruszer



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 2:34 am Reply with quote
Nope I never really liked any vampire stuff until I watched series like Hellsing, Tsukihime Lunar Legend, and Vampire Hunter D. That reminds me though, I do own the novel somewhere. My sister got it for me for my birthday a couple years ago, but it got shelved because I was in the middle of really good series of Star Wars novels at the moment. I should dig it out.
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Deltakiral



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 4:53 am Reply with quote
if your really into Dracula and into the whole occult of Vlad I would recommend Historian by Elizabeth Kostova which is an interesting story to say. Using both letters to tell stories that occur in the past while a story of the present continues.
This book is a little long for my taste (642) but with such high quality writing its worth it.

Also I have read Dracula several times much like Frankstein which was written using the same style of story telling, but Dracula is a much better novel since Bram's command of vocab exceed Shelly by strides, but then again she was like 16 or so when she wrote Frankstein.

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x_ekibyougami_x



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:56 pm Reply with quote
I never knew that she was so young when she wrote Frankenstein. I LOVE that novel. I should dig that out after I am finished re-reading Dracula. And I shall definately check out Tsukihime Lunar Legend. I have never heard of it before.
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Arakis



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:52 am Reply with quote
It hasn't been released in English just yet, but towards the end of Hellsing manga volume 7, there is a narration that as far as I can tell was a direct Japanese adaptation of a passage from Bram Stoker's novel. It's a neat little parallel to events that are happening in the manga at that point. It was fun researching it, and it shows that Hirano does his homework when he writes.
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x_ekibyougami_x



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:40 pm Reply with quote
That is awsome! I cannot wait until it comes out in english... It is supposed to be out in the US in September so it probably won't come here until October...
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Abarenbo Shogun



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:48 am Reply with quote
Deltakiral wrote:
if your really into Dracula and into the whole occult of Vlad I would recommend Historian by Elizabeth Kostova which is an interesting story to say. Using both letters to tell stories that occur in the past while a story of the present continues.
This book is a little long for my taste (642) but with such high quality writing its worth it.


I found it completely boring. Someone touted it as "The Next Da Vinci Code." More like "History 133, 3 Hours of non-stop lecture."

There are alot of Vampire related books out there that can help you with comparing notes between History and Anime. However, I STRONGLY do not suggest that you get The Science of Vampires because Katherine Ramsland really did a sloppy job of researching and goes off on stupid triades and questionable facts.
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x_ekibyougami_x



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:15 am Reply with quote
I actually have a book larger than a medical book which has history on not only vampires in popular culture but in myths around the world. And it has the more predictable title... The Book of Vampires, lol. My book shelf stuns everyone that sees it. Ancient Goosebumps and true horror books from elementary school, lots of manga, every Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings (including the Silmarilion and a book of maps) and Chronicles of Narnia and Series of Unfortunate Events (I am missing a few) and Vampire Chronicles/ Lives of the Mayfair Witches books... Meh... Then miscellaneos horror on another shelf combined with my non-fiction and then a shelf or so and a box of all of my vampire stuff... Even the manga I read is full of vampires. lol. Vampire WORLD!
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