Postscript

Here’s the next new VHD novel after “Nightmare Village.” This time, I’ve dealt with the power the Nobility control. The fact of the matter is, up until now I’ve consciously avoided touching on the Nobles’ life cycle. The reason for this is that, once I open that particular can of worms, there’s no end to the new questions it’ll bring.

D looks young, but how old is he? What determines how old a Noble appears to be? Won’t artificial blood suffice? With their science being so advanced, why are they still fixated on horse-drawn carriages? And on and on it goes.

Some of these things I’ve prepared answers for, and some I haven’t. Which isn’t to say that I couldn’t answer all of these questions. But if I did, I’m afraid it would greatly change the atmosphere of the VHD story. So I’ve elected to avoid it.

Director Yoshiaki Kawajiri made an exceptional anime film in “Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust,” but it has one flaw. At the very end, it deals with the matter of D’s age that I’ve kept secret for so long. From D’s first appearance to the writing of this book, twenty-eight years have passed. However, in the series, perhaps only a few years have passed. On the other hand, it might span a millennium.

This time out, I handled the Nobility in a way that didn’t delve too deeply into their way of life. You can look forward to reading more about their everyday life in the second Greylancer novel planned for November, 2011. And I intentionally leave some mysteries unsolved. For example, why did D put a needle through his own heart? Someday that will be explained.

At any rate, I’ll keep penning D’s tale by the light of the moon but like the breeze in the deepest, darkest night.

July 6, 2011

While watching The Insatiable (2006)

Hideyuki Kikuchi