Title: 吸血姫夕唯〜香音抄〜 (Vampire Yui ~Kanon~) Vol. 1
Artist/Author: 垣野内成美 (Narumi Kakinouchi)
Book Size/Pages: Small B-6, 210pp., w/furigana
First Printing: 6/30/03
Rating: 3/4

Maybe I should start with Vampire Miyu, then the original Vampire Yui series before reading this one. I guess it's convenient for me that Yui starts the series off having forgotten most of her past, but there are still many things I don't understand, probably due to the fact that I haven't read the earlier works.

First edition volume came with a figure of Yui I believe. I only have the book itself. There's a handwritten page by the author which completely illegible to me.

The book is split into two parts, the first half is a prologue and the second the main story. 瑞月夕唯 (Yui Mizuki) arrives at the door of a church covered in blood. She utters out the name "那嵬 (Nagi)" before collapsing. She's taken in by the priest of the church. She starts out with no memories of her past, but slowly has strange dreams about her mother, Miyu, and from that she discovers her name, Yui. Meanwhile, in the village, vampire attacks are happening and Yui shudders at the though as she has a hunch that she probably is one. The culprits are 見夜 (Miyo) and his apparent superior, 唐木 (Utsuki). The find Yui care of Nagi who finally makes contact with Yui and makes her remember. The two villians go after her but Nagi and the priest try to defend her. The priest admits that he knew Yui would reawaken and eventually gets killed by Miyo. Nagi and Yui then start their story.

The second part has Yui meeting the very complex 三条 (Sanjo) family. There's 真幸 (Masaki) who has taken an interest in Yui as her red eyes remind him of a girl he once knew. He starts hanging out with Yui despite Nagi's suspicions. There's 揚葉 (Ageha) the class leader and 旭 (Asahi) the eldest brother and a school teacher. There's also拿魅餌 (Namie), (Masaki's ex?) and doesn't seem to like his new girlfriend. We find out that the Sanjo family is a race of butterflies sworn to protect Yui but had escaped their duty. Namie sends out her butterflies to attack Yui but eventually gets kill for interfering.

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