Suehiro Maruo - The Laughing Vampire

Laughing vampire is obviously an story about vampires. Vampires today are a favorite target for pop culture and they are now portrayed as some gothic rave/techno freaks and they act like idiotic beasts, gangstas etc. I usually don't see vampires like that, the vampires I like are ones who live somewhere far away from civilization in their huge mansions where they read books, play violins, laugh hysterically on their balconies at night and suck blood out of virgin females which are all great activities I'd like to try one day. Vampires in Suehiros universe are similar as I see them but he initially wants to portray them as a freak of nature and an outcast from society. The story begins in post-war Japanese where everything is destroyed and there are bodies everywhere which is something Suehiro apparently loves to show. A man there (who has a face like he's laughing all the time hence the name but its just my theory) searches through the rubble for loot etc. Because of his face the people there accused him for being a demon and thus he was hanged and buried. But the earth also rejected him and thus he became something which you could call a vampire. Years later he finds a boy and decides that he should be his pupil and the story pretty much starts from there. What I really like in this manga is that vampires don't really have fangs or any other body disfigurement (when you start reading you'll see that they feed in a most interesting and to me kinda funny way) they look just like all other humans do but of course they can move faster, see in the night etc and they need to drink blood to survive. Overally its a great story I really enjoyed it and I'm once again amazed by Suehiros drawing skills and his ability to portray madness in a such beautiful way.


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