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Darren Shan  
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Description
From Yen Press:

Darren Shan was an average kid until destiny brought him to the Cirque du Freak. Now Darren’s been immersed into a shadowy world inhabited by vampires, werewolves, and strange creatures the likes of which he’s never imagined, and his life will be changed forever!

Type
Manga

Related Series
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Associated Names
ダレンシャン
ダレン・シャン
向达伦大冒险
达伦索拉奇怪胎
Cirque Du Freak
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Darren Shan - Le cirque de l'étrange

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Aku Tenshi

Latest Release(s)
v.2 c.5 by Aku Tenshi (1767d ago)
v.1 c.4 by Aku Tenshi (1767d ago)
v.1 c.3 by Aku Tenshi (1884d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
12 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
No

Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A

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Average: 8.6 / 10.0 (108 votes)
Bayesian Average: 8.21 / 10.0
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Action  Adventure  Drama  Fantasy  Horror  Psychological  Shounen  Supernatural  Tragedy 
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Author(s)
Darren Shan

Artist(s)
ARAI Takahiro

Year
2006

Original Publisher
Shogakukan

Serialized In (magazine)
Shounen Sunday (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
HarperCollins UK (7 Volumes - Ongoing)
Yen Press (12 Volumes - Complete)

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Weekly Pos #780 increased(+287)
Monthly Pos #1500 increased(+301)
3 Month Pos #1655 increased(+131)
6 Month Pos #1844 increased(+366)

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On 564 reading lists
On 306 wish lists
On 69 completed lists
On 39 unfinished lists
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 Cirque du Freak   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by IcyLou
April 7th, 2012, 7:30am
When I found out a year ago, that my all time favourite novel series had a manga, I was overjoyed. And I was not disappointed at all when I read it. Although, I have only read nine volumes, as I am saving my money for the moment. (I do not read this series online)

I was stuck even when I read the first novel, but I know that it's not really that good compared to the rest. They can't even compare.

It's hard to make a good depiction of an already written story, already so loved. To make the old fans satisfied is a hard quest, it really is. For me, Takahiro Arai did an amazing job. Of course, some scenes must be skipped, because of lack of time and pages. He did his work well, I never really missed anything.

Darren is exactly how I imagined, and the other characters is all beautiful. I'm especially happy that my favourite characters is done well. It warms a fangirl's heart. But yet, I am still waiting to read about the last of my favourites that has yet to show up.

The art is fantastic. The only thing that annoys me sometimes is their ears, but that is hardly noticed.

The scenes that in the novel has made me cry, made me cry in the manga as well. I know that I like a story when I can cry to it, it's an important factor in my opinion.

The reason of why I only gave this manga a nine, is because even if it's an amazing depiction, has great art and so on... It's still just a depiction. The novel, for me, will always be better.

Well no matter what, I can't wait to read the later volumes to see how the end is going to be in manga-mode!
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 Pretty good, consider buying it now.   
Rating: N/A
by HanaTenshiHimeko
October 22nd, 2011, 1:56pm
Read up to vol 5 and it was quite interesting. Never read the novel so I can't do any comparison between them two.

I have to say, this book gave me a surprised. I mean, I judged the book by its cover and then I read the first volume. And I was like, "Urgh, vampires...don't know if it's really that good...." So I continued reading and I just got sucked in. It's based off a novel, so there is probably some details that I don't know about.

Story is about Darren Shan, a spider-otaku (a person who is loves spiders) gets a flyer that invites him to a freak show. His friend gets the ticket and they both go and enjoy the show. However, during one act, we see the person who plays the flute to tame the spider and see that the friend have a dark motivate and at the end of the show, the readers find out that the friends confronts the spider-flute player and we find out that he's actually a vampire! The friends wants to be a vampire, yet was rejected because of his bad blood. Darren flees from the scene a few days later steals the spider from the vampire. He enjoyed playing with the spider (by the flute) and eventually shows it to his friend.

However, what became a fun thing to do became deadly when Darren loses his concentration and the spider bites his friend. In order to save his friend, he became a half vampire in exchange for the antidote.

Storyplot is good. If you are looking for a good vampire story to read, this is the one. At least you don't have any vampires glittering, lol. You'll get to see some good vampire fights, learn about their ways of living and their code of honor, etc.

Character development...hmmm...I'll say it's 8 out of 10. I'll change it once I read the entire series.

So, go and read it! Yen is one of the few companies that license good mangas and I'm glad they licensed it.
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 Cool   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by morphin007
February 5th, 2010, 1:49pm
This manga is really good, nice art and have a deep and interessant story.
The start isn't that good that good but since the vol.2 it's really entertaining =)
The vol.4 is really a big turn in the story and start to be really amazing =)

Btw i never read the novel so that's why i m so happy about this manga, i hate reading/looking a same story twice in different support, generally the second time isn't as good.
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 Yah!   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by dezin19
January 16th, 2010, 1:48am
Loved the books, so I was suprised to see a manga based on them. They even have a movie coming out!
Anyway, I like the manga. Although I would have prefered more mature art (after all the books are dark and are classified as kids "horror", even if I didn't find them scary at all lol) and so far as I can tell, the manga is a little different than the books, but the main story is the same. Hopefully it stays that way (I've only read the first volume).
But other than that, not too bad. I'm planning on reading it till the end.

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 Darren Shan   
Rating: N/A
by Dizz
January 27th, 2009, 4:43pm
I thought this was a wonderful manga. I never read the books, but I do now, It's a lot different from the other mangas out there. The main charactor seems more lifelike then the other main manga characters. Also he seems to have a different attitude probably because it was a book first.
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 nooooo   
Rating: N/A
by sweet despair
August 12th, 2008, 9:02am
bad drawings... >_> cant they find someone else 2 do it?

the books (there are 12) was awesome.. >_> cant say the same 4 the manga... >_> im gonna cry... >_> the movies coming out... >_> so hopefully that would be better
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 OMG   
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by kyo88
May 11th, 2008, 7:46pm
the books were the best hmmm a manga vers? lol i wonder how that will turn out~ lol please no i don't want to see a twilight manga vers of that book.
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 Whoa, what a shocker!   
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by bjorie
March 9th, 2008, 7:47pm
I saw this, and I didn't know if it was a joke.
I always find it so weird when I see manga adaptions of english books. XD Now all we need is a Twilight manga. I have to admit the books are a lot better, but just because I have a good imagination. For people who don't like novels, the manga is a good replacement!
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 Cirque du Freak   
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by Nelo_Neko
October 13th, 2007, 6:10am
I'm with .::rAcHiE::. on this one. Maybe they should have hired some other team to adapt it to manga form.
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 Novel vs. Manga   
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by .::rAcHiE::.
March 17th, 2007, 1:24pm
I read the actual series that it was based on. When I read the first chapter of the manga I wasn't able to continue because when I had read the novel my images were completely different from what the mangaka had drawn, so i was contantly comparing the two.
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