Mysterious Journey to the North Sea

Mysterious Journey to the North Sea
English Title	Vampire Hunter D: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea Part One Part Two
Original title	Vampire Hunter 7: D — Mysterious Journey to the North Sea Part One Part Two
Japanese	吸血鬼ハンター７　Ｄ―北海魔行　〔上〕〔下〕 (Banpaia Hantā 7: D - Hokkai Makō)
Author	Hideyuki Kikuchi
Illustrator	Yoshitaka Amano
Translator	Kevin Leahy
English Publication Data
Part One
Publication date	April 25, 2007
Published by	DH Press, DMP Books
Pages	280
ISBN	ISBN 1-59582-012-4
Part Two
Publication date	August 22, 2007
Published by	DH Press, DMP Books
Pages	224
ISBN	ISBN 1-59582-108-2
Japanese Publication Data
First Half
Publication date	October, 1988
Published by	Asahi Sonorama
Pages	248
ISBN	ISBN 4-257-76225-X
Second Half
Publication date	February, 1989
Published by	Asahi Sonorama
ISBN	ISBN 4-257-76438-4
Publication Order
English	Volume 7 (Part One) Volume 8 (Part Two)
Japanese	Vampire Hunter 7
Preceded by Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane	Followed by The Rose Princess

Mysterious Journey to the North Sea is the story told in the seventh and eighth novels of the Vampire Hunter series.

Plot Summary

A girl's dying wish sends D on an impossible quest in this riveting prose novel.

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 journey is made ever more perilous by a series of scoundrels and rogues hired by the girl's murderer. They'll stop at nothing to claim the jewel. Will they catch him? Hideyuki Kikuchi's crackling narrative and Yoshitaka Amano's imaginative artwork make this a must-read entry in the series. Co-published with Digital Manga Publishing.

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 solitary traveler in black. Only one-Baron Meinster-refused to leave, only to be thrown to the waves by the mysterious assassin.

Summoned to contemporary Florence by Su-in, sister of a murdered village girl, the enigmatic Vampire Hunter D discovers a vampire curse ravaging the town's human inhabitants. The plague apparently originating, impossibly, from the unforgiving sea-could it be Meinster's Revenge?

(Summary taken from Dark Horse Comics)

Characters

• D
• Left Hand
• Sacred Ancestor
• Su-In (fisherwoman from the village of Florence)
• Backwards Toto (the greatest thief in the Northern Frontier)

Antagonist

• Glen (a warrior and seeker of knowledge)
• Gilligan (the person who runs everything  in Cronenberg)
• Peres (an underling in Gilligan's organization)
• Gilligan's Five (frontier enforcers working for Gilligan)
• Professor Krolock (one of the people after the black bead)
• Baron Meinster (administrator of the region in Florence)
• Pirates

Other Characters

• Wu-Lin (from the village of Florence and younger sister to Su-In)
• Ban'gyoh (founder of a new faith, church of the new coming)
• Dwight (a young fisherman in Florence and the head of the local Youth Corps)
• Youth Corps (group of youths who up hold the laws of the village)
• Grampa Han (Grandfather of Su-In and Wu-Lin)
• Clem
• Ricardo
• Hannah
• Kotoff
• Museum Curator

Beastiary

• Messiah Bird
• Chatterbug
• Flesh-eating worms
• Bronze Hounds
• Armor Shark
• Ryxan Shark
• Giant Killer Whale
• Tidal Whale
• Dragon Fish
• Kraken
• Back-leaping Frogs

Technology

• Giant Robotic Crab

Locations

• Northern Frontier Sector
• Central Frontier Sector
• Cronenberg (town)
• Gilligan's Factory
• Cyrus's Curio Shop
• Florence (village)
• Florence Elementary School
• Florence Museum
• Black Lagoon
• Kraus (port town)
• Lamarck (location)

Cover Gallery

English Cover #2

Japanese Reprint Cover #1

Japanese Reprint Cover #2

Trivia

Trivia pertaining to this Volume.