Title: 真月譚　月姫 (Lunar Legend Tsukihime) Vol. 1
Artist/Author: 佐々木少年 (Shonen Sasaki)
Original Creator: TYPE-MOON
Book Size/Pages: B-6, 226pp., w/o furigana
Original Serialization: Monthly Dengeki Daioh 10/03-4/04
First Printing: 6/15/04
Rating: 4/4

Tsukihime is another series that I'm trying to catch up on in Dengeki Daioh, but unfortunately, this book ends a few months short of when I started my subscription. The art is good, the story is good, and maybe I should have gotten the anime for this too. It looks like this series has a large following as there's a plethora of doujinshi manga. I tend to shy away from series that are really popular where I can't get the original story/media (i.e. getting the game for Kiminozo, the manga for Love Hina, etc...). I'll probably keep this as manga only.

No bonuses, just a colored first page.

Prologue. As a child after a bad car accident, 遠野志貴 (Shiki Toono) began seeing these dark lines on everything. The doctors though it was just shock, but Shiki realizes that he could break anything just by applying pressure at the locations designated by the lines. It started driving him crazy. After running out into the field, he met a woman who gave him glasses that would eliminate those lines from his vision.

1. After 8 years, Shiki moves out of his relative's house to his own house with his sister and their servants. He goes to school where they talk about the recent killings by vampires. On the way home, he sees a mysterious woman and something lures him into slicing her up along those dark lines that he still sees when he takes off his glasses. After the deed, he thinks it's only a dream, but on his way to school, he sees that woman again.

2. He runs off, but the woman follows him and subtle reminds him of what he did to her last night. At school during lunch, there's more news about the random killings around town. After school a female classmate, 弓塚 (Yumizuka), asks him if they can walk home together. Along the way, she reminds him of an incident two years ago when he was able to free her and some other students from a locked storage shed. After Yumizuka heads off to her home, Shiki sees the mysterious woman again.

3. The woman introduces herself as a vampire who in the business of killing vampires. Since Shiki chopped her up, she says her powers have weakened a bit and asks him to help her do her job. A dark panther appears and attacks the two and she fights it off. She introduces herself as Arcuid Brunstad (?). I'll just call her Arc.

4. The two of them go back to her apartment where she takes a rest. She asks Shiki to be on the lookout while she rests, but he goes out. When he comes back, she scolds him, but he explains that he just went to get some medical supplies as he noticed that she was bleeding. After bandaging her up, he accidentally drops his knife. She sees it and is curious as to if that's the weapon he used to kill her.

5. Some evil looking dude is searching for Arc. Shiki shows her his skill and she explains that he can see the lines of death. The evil guy comes to her apartment and kills everyone he sees. He lets loose the the panthers and they go after Shiki and Arc.

6. Shiki fights back utilizing the lines he sees. When they get out-numbered, Arc takes him and runs away. Meanwhile, there's a mysterious Sister who seems to also be interested in the two.

7. Shiki doesn't come home and his sister becomes a little worried. She has a short flashback. Meanwhile, Shiki is also bad dreams. He wakes up find he's in someone's house.

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