Vampires Become Recent Trend

On August 4, I went to the Borders book store to buy Vampire Knight's new series, which had just come out that day.

I went straight to the Manga section that I mostly spend my time whenever I go to Borders. Of course, I was so excited as soon as I saw my Vampire Knight and picked it up. Then I saw what other new mangas were out. A book, that its cover has a guy who is holding a crying girl and drops of blood on her shoulders that interested me.. I felt like falling in love with that manga the first time I read it.. Oh, I so much in love with this awesome, sexy and supernatural manga. And can't stop this feeling~

Thank you so much Kanoko Sakurakoji for this wonderful manga, Black Bird!

"Black Bird is a heady mix for tween and teen girls, who may be sufficiently thrilled by the pressure-cooker sexual tension to overlook the fact that the heroine is little more than a cardboard stand-in for the reader and the plot is a hastily assembled framework upon which Sakurakoji can hang erotic tableaus. The art is standart shojo prettiness with blotches of gloomy screentone, a little on the cute side for a manga with such gothic undertones."

Fall 2009 Manga Reviews, Otaku USA magazine

"Since its debut in early August, Black Bird by Kanoko Sakurakoji has been getting lots of buzz from fans of supernatural shojo manga romances for a very good reason: it's got a lot of the sexy sizzle and otherworldly fantasy of today's hot literary / pop culture trend: vampires."

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Yes, it is true. Vampires are everywhere these days — from the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer, and all its of the new popularity of The Vampire Diaries to fashion and beauty trends and beyond.. Black Bird resembles the Twilight series; both in vampiric portrayal of demons and its retrograde and borderline abusive concept of romantic male behavior -- but I think Black Bird is more interesting than vampire stories. Sometimes I wonder why so many authors got the idea of vampire stuffs almost at the same time. That's kind of weird.

Black Bird © 2007 Kanoko Sakurakoji/Shogakukan, Inc.