I thought this was an interesting manga until I got to the last 5 volumes...



I was quite upset
I wouldn't recommend this manga simply because it's a very big let down.

This is one fun fantasy manga! A real funny princess with an attitude, a reincarnated vampire with revenge on his mind and a crazy royal family looking to either marry or kill the royal heroine (sometimes both!). Good art, like others have said, not the best but its consistent and absorbing. I enjoyed the storyline too, it was comic, with enough action and drama to pull it along nicely. All in all, a great manga - I'm surprised its not more popular.

Like many of the other posters, I thoroughly loved this manga... until act 21. I was happily reading along the first 95% of it thinking, wow I LOVE these characters! And the story-line is unique and refreshing! The main character is crass, wily and adorable.. and Duzie has great character growth. I had high hopes for how the romance portion of this would pan out, as well. How can anyone say anything bad about this, I thought to myself, I will most certainly give it a 10.

WRONG! I am knocking this down to an 8 for how absolutely terrible the ending was. Not only was it completely disappointing, people are NOT kidding when they say it seems totally slapped together at the last minute. In a matter of like 5 panels I was like... what?? wait... WHAT Not even like, oh boohoo what a tragic ending I am so heart broken. More of a feeling like wow, didn't even try did ya?No build up, no thorough emotions. Not to mention even if it was properly built up and played out, it was extraordinarily disappointing. The romance panned in a very unsatisfying, terribly cliche, boring way.

So what I am getting at is that the first 20 acts of the manga were a 10 for me. And act 21 was like -5. For me, the value of the ending is much more heavily weighted than the rest. Read the first 20 acts and fantasize about the last one. You will probably enjoy it more that way.

it was a pretty good manga. the characters were so lovable. I JUST LOVE DUZIE!!! i also love yuugin. overall it was good but it still had some faults. it could have been shorter, the romance kind of sucked (cus there wasn't much in it), but the thing that bothered me the most was that the mangaka could of made ishtar fight. she had a strong personality and i just loved her throughout the entire thing but i would of loved her more if she knew how to fight. but once again the overall manga was good

wahhh!!~ i just finished this cool manga!! i think i love it!! uwahh...as ive said its got everything...magic, fantasy, castle war, sword fighting, guys with long hair, BL <which im not a huge fan of...>, hot sorcerers, killer punchlines and even vampires <again im not a fan>...but seriosly...even though it was named Vampire Game...the vampire plot is not the center of the story which makes it pretty much unique...well when i say unique...well i havent seen Duzell being all emotic and trying to hold back at drinking Ishtar's blood or some other bishies or a random guys...

at first i dont want ot read this because at first i thought that this was one of those mangas in which the princess is a very weak and whiny person and then she gets kidnapped and rescued and the raped by the person who saved her..<well what do you expect?? people put a damn MATURE tag up there>...anyways...Ishtar is the exact opposite...i mean the girl is wielding a sword while wearing a gown and she can compete with Vord in a drinking contest...and she isnt some golden hearted bitch!! which i totally love about her! she isnt mary sue!! i love the imperfections...

which brings me to the guys...i dont really like Darres that much...i think that for the heroines mai love interest hes a tad bit boring...but that makes him Ishtar's type so i guess thats why it worked out...hmmm...but i would prefer Duzell over him anyday! <even though he is kindda gay? i think>...but i really love him hes just so cute especially when he said:

"holding Ishtar's hand in the moonlight, is one of those moments tha you wish could last forever and for a vampire, forever is a very long time...'"

yeah...i love the cheesy and witty line that gets thrown in at times...

sighs...i dont really want this to end because i really want to see more of their kingdoms but alas! it has to end...i am not to satisfied with the ending...its sad....and i dont see much after the ending and i think that it was pretty much rushed...i dont even see Ishtar weeping and i mean the characters death didnt even made me sad...so thats why i cant give it a 10 even though i liiiiiiike very, very much...

i could go on and on about this and that and the things that i still want to see but...i think i should stop now...

... Last updated on April 24th, 2012, 9:03am

Maybe I overrated this but I find this manga very interesting. In this manga you'll find many type of characters from Beautiful Bad Mouth Princess, Cute and Cuddly Vampire to beautiful/handsome and sophisticated man (mean lots of them). The story has a good plot and also a good art. Something worth reading.

... Last updated on October 15th, 2007, 1:37am

The premise was decent. I liked the first couple of volumes, but then the story just really tapers off. You wait for actual romantic development, but the main couple never develop further. In fact, most characters remain pretty shallow, and the untapped romantic tension just gnaws at you until the end of the series. And then you wait for the story to develop further ... and you're left thinking .... WTF? at the end.

Nice try as for shojo genge to do some decent story & characters. But is it shojo after all, with every wall, hiding readers from realistic behaviour and development of introduced characters. By the way, characters introduction was made quite nicely. But after it, they begin to act more and more weird: vampire "lost theeth", princes acts as jester half the time, lots of pretty boys, words over swords, "bulldogs games under mats" (more like "bullcats" ), lamely implemented BL tips, rushed ending. All that actually was required for manga to stay inside shojo genre (I can explain why, but it will take too much space),
but it also made story shallow and predictable (at least, for me).

I second nightcrawler103's comments. One of my main drive for the series is definitely Princess Ishtar. She has a strong, somewhat spontaneous, yet sarcastic personality. Think of an elegant (physically) princess with a dirty mouth, yet cares for those around her in Ishtar's own ways. Kyawl!Duzzie is love as well, and it's great to see how he slowly softens and look after Ishtar. A touch of shounen-ai here and there, but it doesn't disturb the plot. One of my favorite manga series.

I forsook real life duties to finish this manga in two days, so obviously it is, at the very least, entertaining.

I like most of the characters, and some of them actually have character development. I will say there were way too many characters and plots, and had I not read it all at once I would have had no idea who was who and what was what. I still had to stop when a character's name was mentioned and think about who that character was. There's two characters who look almost exactly alike and it was really hard to differentiate from those two (the half-water dude and the half-vampire guy).

I too think the ending was really rushed. It was literally wrapped up in one chapter. The romance was questionable, as was the death of a character, and the reuniting of a family. None of it really made much of an impact because it happened so fast, almost as a, "Ok there it is, it happened let's move on."



At the same time I did not want the manga to be dragged out for much longer. It is almost 90 chapters at 15 volumes. Even good shoujo really should never last very long.

In the end I liked it, but I finished without feeling much of an impact from it.