Vampire Game

I adore this manga. I must have read it at least ten times. Or is it closer to twenty? Never mind.

There is this evil vampire king who is bored. Duzzell. He starts a war with the human race. There is this human king who defeats him using an unusual spell. Phelios. The spell will kill your enemy at the price of your own life. Equal exchange.

The vampire king swears revenge and curses them both to reincarnation. Until death do us apart, or until we wake to life again. The vampire king is more than a little obsessed with the human king.

Unfortunately for him, the vampire king wakes up in a world where the family of the human king has expanded beyond count. As a wild cat's baby kitten. Finding the reincarnate of his old enemy is going to be near impossible. He needs the taste of blood to identify the true reincarnate.

Luckily, one of the descendants of the human king is very crazy. Ishtar. I hate my ancestor, I'll help you find his reincarnation and I'll let you kill him, just be my friend and stay by my side.

The hunt begins and the girl gets them into more trouble along the way. She's engaged to be married on basis of a bet. She's in love with her bodyguard but will never admit it first. Her tutor's suspicious of Duzzell, cute kitten looks not working.

Good thing that Duzzell can shape-shift into her body and pretend to be her, right? Wrong.

This is a hilarious read and it had me hurting with how hard I laughed. The vampire king is no match for the human princess and he gets in such shenanigans with her that he almost forgets about his ultimate goal. Read it.

This work is written by Judal. If you don't know that name, learn it now.

Fujimi orchestra

This might be in the wrong blog, ( do check out my other blog for T.V ) but unless you get the whole picture, you won't see the romance. The beginning is a bit violent. The novels are the original source.

Set of novels but no English translation available, teeth grind. Anime and manga exist but the live action movie is truly gorgeous. Fan summaries of novels, but we all know that's not the same as reading the actual book yourself. The details and nuances all lost.

Boys Love and Rape elements, warning. Extra warning for rape. I'm not a fan of rape or romances that start with rape, but the live action drama paints a beautiful tale of obsession, misunderstandings and frienemies who envy your lot while you suffer.

If you fast forward the rape scene and keep in mind this is fiction, I'm not downplaying reality of what rape victims suffer. Maybe this is a bad romance and maybe a love story too. Do all love stories have to have happy endings or beginnings or middles? To be happy all the time? Where is the conflict and drama?

The rapist fears losing his victim and forces a connection - the rape. The victim forgives him for the sake of the orchestra they lead together and over time, understands and grows to love him. Maybe they are two unstable people finding stability together, because both their lives seem hollow before they met. Illusion like and fleeting as well.

I don't know how to describe this adequately. Try it out for yourself and see what taste is left behind.
But be warned and be prepared.