Black Rose Alice (GN 1-3)
There are a lot of vampires in shoujo manga. This is just a simple fact. Poke around your local Barnes & Noble or Books-a-Million and you’re bound to find titles like Vampire Knight , He’s My Only Vampire , Honey Blood , Millennium Snow , and so many more. They all tend to be populated by beautiful and tormented young men who are all simply waiting for some lovely young thing to come wandering into their undead life to bring them the love and redemption they all seem to be seeking in various degrees. It’s incredibly predictable, incredibly derivative, and it’s enough to make any seasoned manga reader cynical about vampires in manga in general. Every once in a while, though, we get a manga series that manages to take an old idea like vampire romance and do something new and interesting with the idea. Amongst those select few titles is Black Rose Alice , the latest series from Afterschool Night...