Chibi Vampire, Volume 1 Book

My volume comes complete with a reversed cover because Tokyopop was totally going to flip this series and then changed their minds. (By "flipping" I mean mirroring the contents so that it reads left to right like an American book)

Chibi Vampire (or "Karin" in Japanese) is the story of a girl who is an... odd duck. Not because she's a vampire. No, she'd be somewhat normal as far as her familiy's concerned if that was the issue. What makes her weird is that she isn't even a normal vampire. She likes the sun, eats normal human food, and once every month or so, she produces extra blood and has to go inject it into someone or suffer the consequences... EXPLOSIVE NOSEBLEED.

Karin is about as un-vampire as a girl can get, but if that wasn't bad enough, her new classmate sets off the nosebleeds just by being near her! Oh, and he thinks she might be a prostitute. What's a girl to do?

This is a quirky little rom com manga that you just kind of roll with and laugh. Despite Kenta Usui (the above mentioned classmate) thinking Karin might be a "prostitot" as the Tokyopo translation puts it, this particular volume doesn't contain much questionable material... except maybe a crime-scene's worth of blood after a nosebleed and a bit of sexual harassment (he gets his, don't worry). It says "16+" on the back of the book, but someone younger than that would probably be fine (remember, this was originally published in 2006 when a lot of people still thought all anime was Pokemon and for kids).

If you like vampires and want to read a more lighthearted, silly rendition, you'd probably like Chibi Vampire.