Thursday, October 10, 2013

Black Bird Series Volume 3

Book Description: Story & Art by Kanoko Sakurakouji
  He loves her blood, but does he love her?!

There is a world of myth and magic that intersects ours, and only a special few can see it. Misao Harada is one such person, and she wants nothing to do with magical realms. She just wants to have a normal high school life and maybe get a boyfriend. 
But she is the bride of a demon prophecy, and her blood grants incredible powers, her flesh immortality. Now the demon realm is fighting over the right to her hand...or her life! Volume 3: Misao is starting to trust her heart where Kyo is involved, especially after he gives her one of his primary feathers. It isn't just her first present from him, it's a magic talisman that will keep her safe when he's not nearby! Misao is elated to be able to go to school without the fear of being eaten, just like a normal teenage girl. But as her feelings for Kyo deepen, she starts to realize that as his bride she will have to leave her human life behind—including her family!
  • Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
  • Publication date: 2/2/2010
  • Series: Black Bird Series, #3
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 200
  • Sales rank: 181,528
  • Product dimensions: 4.90 (w) x 7.48 (h) x 0.70 (d)
                                              (Vol.3 Chapter 13 Opener)
Personal View:

   I bought this copy from Barns and noble in store for $9.99 plus tax, it's priced the same online. Unless you would like it for a Nook I believe its $5.99. Lately thought I haven't heard many good things about putting a Manga copy on them. Sources (from listening to friends complain). It is ranged for "Older teen". This front cover artwork is just as stunning as the first. (The feeling was right all the cover art is absolutely stunning.) The main colors are green and black

  Their are four chapters as well as the glossary, and a bonus chapter again. I do find it though very romantic and caring that Kyo gives Misao a pendent for her protection. The only problem is that girl needs to keep that stupid thing on! How many feathers does she expect him to give her. He still needs to be able to fly... DUHHH! But yeah its too funny when she also has the fox demon come up to her at school and just flat out asks her to marry him. You know that Kyo's jealousy is so off the charts like overdrive.

  In chapter 11 she goes over to the fox demons house to gain more info about what would happen to her from the Senka Roku, if she were to marry Kyo, an do the official deed to becoming his wife. When Kuzunoha takes his opportunity to make her is prisoner an tries to make her his bride instead. Once again our totally drop dead gorgeous make you completely melt looking guy comes to her rescue with the eight. Now if only this girl didn't "Ez-Drop" on other people's conversation in the first place this situation would have never happened.

                                                      (Volume 3, Chapter 13)

Overall Rating: 5 Stars
Loving the artwork most!!

New's Update For Dance in the Vampire Bund Fan's


   There are new different series you can per-order of Vampire Bund, their like different storys that are going on while the other story would be. Side story's pretty much. Hope this info helps you out if you are so into this series as me.

Dive in the Vampire Bund Vol. 1
By Nozomu Tamak 
Release date: October 15th, 2013
Price: $10.58 "Barns and Noble"

The essential side story to New York Times bestselling Dance in the Vampire Bund manga

Seven Seas previously published Dive in the Vampire Bund Volume 1 under the title "Dance in the Vampire Bund Gaiden: Dive in the Vampire Bund." Now, Seven Seas is pleased to reissue this essential spin-off to the series in an oversized format in the same month as the release of the all-new Dive in the Vampire Bund Volume 2.

The Vampire Bund, a peaceful island nation of vampires off the coast of Tokyo, ruled by Princess Mina Tepes, has seen its share of conflict and turmoil. And yet there are times of relative tranquility when the Bund is a popular tourist destination during daylight hours.
When two teenage tourists, Garcia Fujisaki and his reckless best friend Masaki, ditch their group to find a vampire who will turn Masaki, it’s Garcia who accidentally pays the price. The only hope for a cure to his newfound vampirism is for the teens to team up with the stoic Akira Kaburagi, Princess Mina’s loyal lycanthrope bodyguard, in pursuit of the one person who holds the key to Garcia’s salvation.
                                                                                    
Dive in the Vampire Bund Vol. 2
By Nozomu Tamak 
Release date: October 15th, 2013
Price: $10.58 "Barns and Noble"

The all-new conclusion to Dance in the Vampire Bund’s essential side story Seven Seas is pleased to release Dive in the Vampire Bund Volume 2, which has never been published before in North America, in oversized format. This volume concludes the side story which begins in Dive in the Vampire Bund Volume 1. The Vampire Bund, a peaceful island nation of vampires off the coast of Tokyo, ruled by Princess Mina Tepes, has seen its share of conflict and turmoil. Yet there are times of relative tranquility when the Bund is a popular tourist destination. After two teenage tourists visit the Bund, their lives will never be the same, as they are unexpectedly turned into vampires.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781626920187
  • Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment LLC
  • Publication date: 10/15/2013
  • Series: Dance in the Vampire Bund, #2
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Sales rank: 147,794
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.70 (d)


Dance in the Vampire Bund: The Memories of Sledge Hammer Vol. 1
By Nozomu Tamak 
Release date: December 3rd, 2013
Price: $10.82 "Barns and Noble"

The all-new sequel to New York Times Bestseller Dance in the Vampire Bund starts here!
  Dance in the Vampire Bund: The Memories of Sledge Hammer is a two-volume interlude between Dance in the Vampire Bund’s first fourteen volume story arc and the upcoming second part of the series, which will launch in 2014. The Memories of Sledge Hammer delves into the past to look at the doomed love affair of one of the Vampire Bund’s most deadly operatives.
Three months have passed since Princess Mina, queen of all vampires, has recaptured the Bund. The damage inflicted to vampire/human relations runs deep, but a peaceful postwar restoration is now underway.

Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781626920194
  • Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment LLC
  • Publication date: 12/3/2013
  • Series: Dance in the Vampire Bund, #1
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 332,765
Dance in the Vampire Bund: The Memories of Sledge Hammer Vol. 2
By Nozomu Tamak 
Release date: March 18th, 2014
Price: $10.93 "Barns and Noble"

  Dance in the Vampire Bund: The Memories of Sledge Hammer is a three-volume interlude between Dance in the Vampire Bund’s first fourteen volume story arc and the upcoming second part of the series, which will launch in 2014. The Memories of Sledge Hammer delves into the past to look at the doomed love affair of one of the Vampire Bund’s most deadly operatives. Three months have passed since Princess Mina, queen of all vampires, has recaptured the Bund. The damage inflicted to vampire/human relations runs deep, but a peaceful postwar restoration is now underway. Yet appearances can be deceiving. Somebody is trying to kill government liaison Reiko Gotoh, but her lycanthrope bodyguard, Seiji Hama, is nowhere to be found. The mystery of Hama’s whereabouts can only be solved by examining the past, when the ill-fated couple first met. The past may be the key to saving Gotoh in the present—and to the future of the Vampire Bund itself!

Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781626920200
  • Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment LLC
  • Publication date: 3/18/2014
  • Series: Dance in the Vampire Bund, #2
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 725,548

Black Bird Series Volume 2

                                                    (Cover art Vol.2)

Book Description: Story & Art by Kanoko Sakurakouji
  He loves her blood, but does he love her?!

   There is a world of myth and magic that intersects ours, and only a special few can see it. Misao Harada is one such person, and she wants nothing to do with magic realms. She just wants to have a normal high school life and maybe get a boyfriend.
   But she is the bride of demon prophecy, and her blood grants incredible powers, her flesh immortality. Now the demon realm is fighting over the right to her hand…or her life!
   Kyo, the head of the Tengu demon clan, is Misao's only chance for survival. But even though she has sweet memories of him as a childhood friend, she has trouble reconciling them with the man he has become.
   Despite the strange attraction, can she trust her life, let alone her heart, to a man who only cares about the promise of her blood?
                                                 (Vol. 2 Opening Artwork)
  • Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
  • Publication date: 11/3/2009
  • Series: Black Bird Series, #2
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 200
  • Sales rank: 201,428
  • Product dimensions: 4.96 (w) x 7.58 (h) x 0.65 (d)
                                                   (Volume 2 Chapter 7)
Personal View:

   I got this copy from Barns and noble in store for $9.99 plus tax, it's priced the same online. Unless you would like it for a Nook I believe its $5.99. Lately thought I haven't heard many good things about putting a Manga copy on them. Sources (from listening to friends complain). It is ranged for "Older teen". This front cover artwork is just as stunning as the first. (Have a feeling their all going to be like this.) The main colors are blue and black I think the reason for the constant black is because of Kyo. Since when hes in his true form he pretty much just in mostly black. Have you noticed when hes in true form his hair gets longer too...!?

 Theirs only four chapters in this volume, besides the glossary, Sakurakouji added a bonus chapter. In our opening we meet Kyo's vassals whom are just as beautiful as Kyo. Oww.. And major story twister his older brother is one of the Eight Daitengu, which are like the clan leaders personal bodyguards.You know theirs going to be some drama their since Kyo took his birth right from him to be the clan leader. Funny part is he shows up last an late. 

                                                       (Vol. 2 chapter 8)
  In the first chapter I will say though "My oh my!! We find out that Kyo is and has been a stalker to Misao this whole time!!" He has volumes of different kinds of pictures of her. She finds out when she walks in on the eight looking at them. Yup now that's gotta make you laugh, but totally embarrassing. Kyo's an Misao's relationship starts to progress a little more, which I'm going to kinda expect since he's pretty much saving her every time she turns around. Besides healing her. Yes! Some of those healing sessions are kinda intense for a girl if you kinda like just met the guy. That is claiming hes going to marry you, an already considers you to be his bride, no matter what.
 
Meet the Author

Kanoko Sakurakoji's debut title, Raibu ga Hanetara (When the Live Jumps) was serialized in Deluxe Betsucomi in 2000 and won the 45th New Manga Artist Award of Shogakukan in the same year. Backstage Prince was originally serialized in Japan's Betsucomi anthology in 2004.

Overall Rating: 5 Stars
Artwork: HARD 10 Stars



Black Bird Series Volume 1


                                                     (Cover art Vol.1)

Book Description: Story & Art by Kanoko Sakurakouji
  He loves her blood, but does he love her?!

  There is a world of myth and magic that intersects ours, and only a special few can see it. Misao Harada is one such person, and she wants nothing to do with magical realms. She just wants to have a normal high school life and maybe get a boyfriend. All that changes one day when Misao is attacked by a demon. Her childhood friend Kyo suddenly returns to save her and tend to her cuts—with his tongue! It turns out Misao is the bride of prophecy, whose blood gives power to the demon clan who claims her. But most demons want to keep her power for themselves—by eating her! Now Misao is just trying to stay alive...and decide if she likes it when Kyo licks her wounds.

  • Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
  • Publication date: 8/4/2009
  • Series: Black Bird Series, #1
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 194
  • Sales rank: 177,551
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.54 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Publishers Weekly:
 High school is hard enough, even under the best of circumstances. Misao Harada would love a normal high school life, but she has been burdened with "the sight" since childhood-a gift that allows her to see a world of myth and magic that surrounds ours. Lonely and somewhat mournful, Misao finds her world turned upside down when she reconnects with her childhood friend and first love Kyo and finds out that he is the head of a demon clan. As luck would have it, Misao is the bride of prophecy whose blood gives power to the demon who claims her. While other demon clans target her intending to consume her power, Kyo gives her the choice to become his bride and enjoy his protection. The tension between the two characters as they stave off supernatural forces is intriguing, and readers will no doubt long for Misao to become Kyo's bride. Sakurakoji's art is very romantic and the characters are almost painfully beautiful; fans will have no difficulty falling for Kyo's good looks and charm. Winner of the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for shojo manga. (Aug.)
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 Personal View:

   I bought this copy from Barns and noble in store for $8.99 plus tax, it's priced the same online. Unless you would like it for a Nook I believe its $5.99. It is ranged for "Older teen 16+". The front cover artwork is absolutely stunning. The main colors are red and black. You see Misao being held by Kyo, in their lining of their bodies, especially their faces. Its complete exquisited. When you open the book, the artwork inside gets even better. Even the words are clearly placed in just enough space so that the picture doesn't look like its being diminished to make room for them.Their are also five chapters listed in this book besides a glossery.

  In the beginning seven pages you have Misao introducing herself to you, and explaining her abilities. Besides sharing her memorizes of the past. I think that was what got my interest but the hook line an sinker was on the seventh page!!! She's on her way home from school, crowded by demons. She sees the front gate open to a neighboring house that should be empty. Plus saying this part is completely sad!! She believes that shes seeing a woman picking flowers!! She gets a closer look and nope its a man, Whom is Kyo.

  He ever so politely calls her over and re-introduces himself, he shuusshhhsss away the demons by her. Plus gives her a big bouquet of freshly picked flowers. Besides saying "If you run into any trouble, call me." Now sorry but I'm a girl. YEH!!! completely a knight in shining armor complex he totally giving off!! Not so much as a hint that he is is actually a demon clan leader!! Till like another say five pages in. Plus his first "Damsel in distress act" of saving her. It beautifully drawn out! If only it were in color!!  I Love the little like footnotes the author tosses in on different pages. Those are always a must have.

  The storyline is wonderfully unique and its very different from what I have already read. Not many have thought of this yet from my knowledge, great humor, and not anything that can put you to sleep (known from experience). An with it being written for a less juvenile audience I think that's partially what makes it so amazingly wonderful.

Special Surprise!!! Since you were so kind to have read my posts this long! I found a link that will allow you to read the WHOLE first chapter. :)

http://www.mangapark.com/manga/black-bird/c1/all

                                                (Volume one Chapter 3)
Overall Rating: 5 Stars
Artwork: 10 Stars

Sadly there wasn't any poetry in this book so I went in search of more info on the series for you. I also listed the link below where I found this info. It goes more into depth their if you'd like to learn more about the meanings behind the Tengu, plus clan members Enjoy!

Black Bird: (ブラックバード Burakku Baado) is a Japanese supernatural shōjo manga written and illustrated by Kanoko Sakurakoji. It has been serialized by Shogakukan in their Betsucomi magazine since 2007. It depicts the life of a high school girl who can see supernatural beings. Black Bird received the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga.
In 2008, Viz Media announced they had licensed the series for an English release of the series in North America. The first chapter was previewed in their now-defunct Shōjo Beat magazine and the first volume of their version was released on August 4, 2009. According to ICv2, the series was the sixth best-selling manga series in the US for 2011. The series has been adapted into a drama CD as well as a light novel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bird_%28manga%29