Hideyuki Kikuchi

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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2003
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Vampire Hunter D

1 - Vampire Hunter D, Volume 1 (May-2005)
2 - Raiser of Gales (Aug-2005)
3 - Demon Deathchase (Feb-2006)
4 - Tale of the Dead Town (Jun-2006)
5 - The Stuff of Dreams (Oct-2006)
6 - Pilgrimage of the Sacred (Dec-2009)
7 - Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part One (May-2007)
8 - Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part Two (Oct-2012)
9 - The Rose Princess (Nov-2007)
10 - Dark Nocturne (Mar-2008)
11 - Pale Fallen Angel - Parts One and Two (Nov-2008)
12 - Pale Fallen Angel Parts Three and Four (Apr-2009)
13 - Twin-Shadowed Knight Parts One and Two (Dec-2009)
14 - Dark Road, Parts 1 and 2 (Jun-2010)
15 - Dark Road, Part Three (Sep-2010)
16 - Tyrant's Stars, Parts One and Two (May-2011)
17 - Tyrant's Stars, Parts 3 and 4 (Nov-2011)
18 - Fortress of the Elder God (Sep-2012)
19 - Mercenary Road (Mar-2013)
20 - Scenes from an Unholy War (Dec-2013)
21 - Record of the Blood Battle (Jul-2014)
22 - White Devil Mountain (Jan-2015)
23 - Iriya the Berserker (Mar-2016)
24 - Throng of Heretics (Oct-2016)
25 - Undead Island (Mar-2017)
26 - Bedeviled Stagecoach (Sep-2017)
27 - Nightmare Village (Aug-2018)
28 - The Tiger in Winter (Sep-2019)
29 - Noble Front (Apr-2020)
30 - Gold Fiend (Jul-2024)

Wicked City

1 - Black Guard (Oct-2009)
2 - The Other Side (Jun-2010)
3 - The Scarlet Clan (Nov-2010)

Book List in Order: 60 titles

  • Demon City Hunter, Volume 1

    God's come down to earth and all hell is breaking loose! Enter a world where demons seen only in dreams are real, oceans swallow cities, and the powers of the mind are preferable to guns. It is here in the "Demon City" that Kyoya Izayoi, master of th...

  • Demon City Shinjuku, Volume 1

  • Demon Palace Babylon, Volume 1

  • Demon City Hunter, Volume 2

    A battle between the forces of good and evil - and a reluctant young hero caught in the middle! The Defense Agency and an evil organization known as the Dark Order are struggling for control of an uncanny force that's already created a horde of weird...

  • Demon City Shinjuku, Volume 2

  • Demon Palace Babylon, Volume 2

  • Taimashin, Volume 1

  • The Sword of Shibito, Volume 1

    The setting: in the middle of a bloody war. The place: a strange castle in the Adachi fields where they say the demons live. The Saezuki family performs a forbidden act when they attempt to take a living soul and bind it to the cold flesh of a sewn-t...

  • Vampire Hunter D, Volume 1

    Vampire Hunter D - 1

    It is the year 12,090 A.D. The world has ended, ravaged in a firestorm of man’s wars and madness. But from the wreckage a few humans manage to survive. A few humans ... and something else. Doris Lang knew what her fate was when the vampire lord ...



  • Raiser of Gales

    Vampire Hunter D - 2

    The adventures of Vampire Hunter D continue!Vampires: murderous creatures in the shape of humans, they stalk the night feeding on the blood of innocents. Seemingly immortal, they can be destroyed only by the use of a stake through the heart, severing...

  • Demon Deathchase

    Vampire Hunter D - 3

    When a desperate village elder learns that his daughter has been abducted by vampire Noble Mayerling, he turns to the mysterious Vampire Hunter D to save her. However, with not just his daughter’s life but her very soul in peril, her father also en...

  • Tale of the Dead Town

    Vampire Hunter D - 4

    When a floating city becomes the target of a rash of vampire attacks, only one man can restore the oasis."The City," a tiny metropolis of a few hundred sheltered citizens floating serenely on a seemingly random course a few feet above the ground, has...

  • The Stuff of Dreams

    Vampire Hunter D - 5

    In a world where even the smallest and most remote village is being terrorized by the monsters that stalk the night, there is a hamlet, prosperous and peaceful, where mortals and vampires have lived in harmony for years. It is there that seventeen-ye...

  • Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part One

    Vampire Hunter D - 7

    Even a reluctant hero can't refuse the last request of a beautiful woman. On her deathbed, the mortally wounded woman gives him a strange gem and asks him to deliver the priceless stone to her sister, far off in a North Sea fishing village. D's journ...

  • The Rose Princess

    Vampire Hunter D - 9

    In Sakuri, a young woman is about to be sacrificed to the vampiric Noblewoman who reigns over the village. But before the princess can drain the life from the woman, a young man tries to slay the vampire. He fails and manages to escape, but in doing ...

  • Yoshitaka Amano

    Since Dark Horse and Digital Manga Publishing started releasing English-language editions of the Vampire Hunter D novels in 2005, hundreds of thousands of new fans have clamored for more of the enigmatic monster-slayer. Following on the heels of the ...

  • Dark Wars

    FROM JAPAN’S MASTER OF HORROR, HIDEYUKI KIKUCHI, COMES A TERRIFYING, ACTION-PACKED VAMPIRE THRILLER.

    Japan, 1880. Seventeen-year-old Daigo possesses a wicked talent for the sword. Though many have come to challenge him, none has triumphed. B...

  • Dark Nocturne

    Vampire Hunter D - 10

    In the title story, "Dark Nocturne", D is hired to unlock the secret of a siren's song that is drawing men in their twenties to their deaths in the hills outside Anise Village. In "Notes on Imagined Autumn" D finds himself caught between two lovers d...

  • Wicked City Vol 1

    The classic anime Wicked City is based on a series of novels by master horror writer Hideyuki Kikuchi. Seven Seas is pleased to present these novels to the North American audience for the first time, featuring brand new cover art and interior illu...



  • Pale Fallen Angel - Parts One and Two

    Vampire Hunter D - 11

    "Pale Fallen Angels" parts one and two, the first two novels of Hideyuki Kikuchi's groundbreaking, epic four-part Vampire Hunter D tale, are presented here in one affordable omnibus collection! When Lord Vlad's son, Baron Byron Balarge, needs to make...

  • A Wind Named Amnesia

    The Apocalypse didn't end with a BANG, but with a whimper. Silently, the 'amnesia wind' swept away all of mankind's knowledge. Thousands of years of human civilization vanished overnight as people forgot how to use the tools of modern civilization; w...

  • Pale Fallen Angel Parts Three and Four

    Vampire Hunter D - 12

    Baron Byron Balazs nears the end of his arduous journey; his bodyguard - the enigmatic and deadly Vampire Hunter D - has delivered him to his faraway home in Krauhausen. Having survived the near-epic journey, and many attempts on his life - ordered b...

  • Black Guard

    Wicked City - 1



    Another world exists beyond the one that humans can see"a world populated by demons. For centuries, demons have crossed into our world, some looking for a new life, adventure, or just a job. But many are intent on causing chaos and destr...

  • Taimashin: The Red Spider Exorcist, Volume 1

    Traveling in-between the world of the living and the twilight world of the dead, Akamushi, the shaman is known as the Red Spider Exorcist. With the powers of a giant spider, he combats the demons of the netherworld. When career woman Megumi is sudden...

  • Pilgrimage of the Sacred

    Vampire Hunter D - 6

    Granny Viper is a "people finder," a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a forbidding wasteland. Her latest mission: the safe return of a young woman named Tae, kidnapped eight years ago by vampire Nobility and held in Castle Gradinia on the F...

  • Twin-Shadowed Knight Parts One and Two

    Vampire Hunter D - 13

    When Vampire Hunter D entered the town of Sedoc it was in search of answers to the meaning of a dying vampire's last words: "Find Muma." But when he meets Mia, the daughter of the local fortuneteller, he learns the mists emanating from a smoking crat...

  • Yashakiden: The Demon Princess, Volume 1

    • After a devastating earthquake that left most of Japan in ruins, the district ward of Shinjuku in Tokyo has opened up a doorway into another dimension ― becoming the halfway-house suspended between the mortal world and the supernatural. It...

  • Taimashin: The Red Spider Exorcist, Volume 2

    • Traveling in-between the world of the living and the twilight world of the dead, Akamushi, the shaman known as the Red Spider Exorcist, wields the powers of a giant spider to combat the demons of the netherworld. In a serendipitous moment, a...

  • The Other Side

    Wicked City - 2

    The classic anime Wicked City is based on a series of novels by master horror writer Hideyuki Kikuchi. Tor/Seven Seas is pleased to present these novels to the North American audience for the first time, featuring cover art by Christian McGrath (The ...



  • Dark Road, Parts 1 and 2

    Vampire Hunter D - 14

    D has crossed over the southern border, into the domain of the cruelest and most evil of the royalty, General Gaskell. On the way, he picks up a "victim" - one of the few survivors in the villages - and makes way with her and the Deliverers. Along th...

  • Vampire Hunter D Reader's Guide

    An international sensation for more than two decades, the now-legendary monster killer known only as "D" has conquered the worlds of movies, comics, and, since the publication of the first novel in English in 2004, is becoming just as popular in Amer...

  • Dark Road, Part Three

    Vampire Hunter D - 15

    Vampire Hunter D takes on his greatest challenge yet! The ruthless vampire Noble General Gaskell commands the loyalty of some of the most infamous and deadly vampires in history, and Gaskell has no patience for D's interference, heroic or not! With t...

  • Yashakiden: The Demon Princess, Volume 2

    • A vicious vampire gang four thousand years in the making has awakened from its slumber in order to seize control of Demon City Shinjuku. Princess, Kikiou, Ryuuki, and Shuuran are as persistent as they are merciless, especially when the targe...

  • The Scarlet Clan

    Wicked City - 3

    The child conceived by the mortal Taki and the demoness Makie, fellow Black Guard agents whose job it is to preserve the peace between human and demonkind, is about to be born. Many see the upcoming birth as a sign of hope that the child will bring t...

  • Yashakiden: The Demon Princess, Volume 3

    The immortal vampire gang led by Princess ―Kikiou, Ryuuki, and Shuuran ― is slowly but inexorably taking over Demon City Shinjuku. Its citizens and the administration alike are turning into vampires. Mephisto has apparently allied himself with th...

  • Tyrant's Stars, Parts One and Two

    Vampire Hunter D - 16

    In this chilling adventure, Vampire Hunter D has been dispatched to vanquish the ancient vampiric Noble Count Brohj, guardian of an ancient buried treasure. But when a mysterious object crashes into the earth, destroying half of the northern Frontier...

  • Yashakiden: The Demon Princess, Volume 4

    • As the immortal Demon Princess inexorably transforms Demon City Shinjuku into a vampire metropolis, Setsura infiltrates her manor house alone. There he encounters the puppet paramours and "picture soldiers" created by the warlock Kikiou. The...

  • Tyrant's Stars, Parts 3 and 4

    Vampire Hunter D - 17

    Vampire Hunter D continues his quest to overcome the interstellar evil brought to earth by the ultimate Noble, the terrifying renegade vampire Valcua! Wielding a sword that can cut through the fabric of space and time, Valcua has a score to settle wi...

  • Demon City Shinjuku

    • Kyoya Izayoi is no ordinary high school student ― he's one of the few trained in the martial art of Nenpo, and wields a sword known as "Ashura." Little does he know, the walls between this world and the world of the spirits are getting thi...



  • Yashakiden: The Demon Princess, Volume 5

    • “Passing Beauty” ― The immortal vampiress known as Princess has almost completely turned Demon City Shinjuku into a vampire metropolis. A plan by the national government to eradicate the threat with nuclear weapons is narrowly averted....

  • Maohden

    • Demon City Shinjuku, home to monsters and magicians alike. The warlock Gento Roran has broken his fifteen-year slumber and seeks dominion over the city. Now resurrected from his accursed sarcophagus, he is accompanied by the Hyota, the “sm...

  • Fortress of the Elder God

    Vampire Hunter D - 18

    D, the ageless, supernatural Vampire Hunter, takes charge protecting the survivors of an aircraft that has crash-landed in a deadly zone known as "the Playground." But before D can assist them, he must first battle a legion of undead warriors swarmin...

  • Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part Two

    Vampire Hunter D - 8

    The picturesque coastal town of Florence was known for millennia as a pleasure resort for the Nobility. As retribution for their decadence, the cruel and beautiful vampire inhabitants were "punished," driven out more than a thousand years ago by a so...

  • Mercenary Road

    Vampire Hunter D - 19

    When a ruthless quartet of robbers leaves a trail of bloody slaughter through a small frontier town, the mayor looks to hire a pair of bounty hunters to bring them to justice. But their path is strewn with peril and supernatural terror - an army of e...

  • Greylancer

    A new adventure from the world of Vampire Hunter D Greylancer, a Noble (vampire) from the world of the Vampire Hunter D series, pushes his own immortality to the limit in a millennia-long battle against the Outer Space Beings. It is the year ...

  • Ghosts and Lower-Class Samurai, and Other Stories

    Featuring short stories “Shadow Wife,” the tale of the vengeful swordsman prodigy Hisama Sakakibara, and “The Crawler,” the story of stubborn treasury official Genbei Chitsugi, this masterpiece collection of historical ghost stories ...

  • Tales of the Ghost Sword

    Featuring short stories ‘Shadow Wife’, the tale of the vengeful swordsman prodigy Hisama Sakakibara, and ‘The Crawler’, the story of stubborn treasury official Genbei Chitsugi, this is a masterpiece collection of historical gh...

  • Scenes from an Unholy War

    Vampire Hunter D - 20

    In a village on the edge of the Frontier, D is among the warriors and mercenaries hired to defend the village from the Black Death, a notorious bandit gang. But the bandits don't arrive, and the village mayor dismisses the mercenaries. As D leaves th...

  • Record of the Blood Battle

    Vampire Hunter D - 21

    D accompanies a convoy delivering a vampire Noble to face public trial for his crimes against humanity. However, the Noble's enemies have targeted the men and women of the convoy, and they are out for vengeance! Can D bring himself to kill humans in ...



  • White Devil Mountain

    Vampire Hunter D - 22

    Commissioned by a vampire ancient to recover the coffin containing the body of the demonic Gilzen, hated even by his own kind, D travels to a frightening mountain landscape perennially shrouded in snow. Within a castle piercing the mountainside, D di...

  • Iriya the Berserker

    Vampire Hunter D - 23

    She might just look like an ordinary-if beautiful-young woman, but Iriya is anything but ordinary! A ruthless warrior clad in red armor, Iriya is a Hunter determined to exterminate the vampires that were once her parents and siblings. Now, half-vampi...

  • Throng of Heretics

    Vampire Hunter D - 24

    After a Frontier village's monitoring station fails, deadly vampire Nobles return to life, swearing vengeance on the descendants of the family that defeated them three hundred years ago. The mayor of the village hires five vampire hunters, including ...

  • Undead Island

    Vampire Hunter D - 25

    On an isolated island, vampire Nobility run a mysterious laboratory, continuously pumping out a white mist which compels the inhabitants of a nearby fishing village to become the vampire's slaves! When the village tries to retaliate, their fighters n...

  • Bedeviled Stagecoach

    Vampire Hunter D - 26

    In the Wild-West wilderness of the Frontier, government official has been tasked with escorting captured servants of the vampire Nobility. Unfortunately their path to the Capital crosses into the territory of the Noble that is their master! As the co...

  • Nightmare Village

    Vampire Hunter D - 27

    A mixed band of travelers from an inn, spared by seeming chance from a bizarre landslide that rushed and receded like a wave, find shelter in an ancient village older even than the most forsaken settlements on the Frontier! Indeed, for fearful rumor ...

  • The Tiger in Winter

    Vampire Hunter D - 28

    D is a vampire hunter--and he's just been paid ten times his asking price to do exactly that, an assignment to destroy Duke Van Doren, administrator of the northern Frontier.Among the complications are that no less than three other groups, each with ...

  • Noble Front

    Vampire Hunter D - 29

    Out on the Frontier, the killers called the "Nameless" have no wanted posters--because everyone they go after winds up dead. Now D must measure his sword against these grotesque and deadly freaks!Hired by the mayor of Schwartzen to stop a corrupt pol...

  • Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D Volume 8 (manga)

    A mysterious bead and a young woman’s dying wish have brought D to the seashore village of Florence—a town that’s perpetually stuck in winter. Summer comes to this shore but one week a year and it brings something more than just the...

  • Vampire Hunter D: Volume 11 - Pale Fallen Angel Parts One and Two [Dramatized Adaptation]: Vampire Hunter D 11

  • Gold Fiend

    Vampire Hunter D - 30

    Marquis Verenis--he''s a powerful Noble...he''s in possession of antimatter technology...and he''s three hundred million dalas in debt to Old El, the lender of last resort out on the Frontier!

    The vampire lord even put up his castle as collate...

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Hideyuki Kikuchi has published 60 books.

The next book by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Gold Fiend, will be published in July 2024.

The first book by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Demon City Hunter, Volume 1, was published in November 2003.

Yes. Hideyuki Kikuchi has 2 series.
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