Pale Fallen Angel

Pale Fallen Angel
English Title	Vampire Hunter D: Pale Fallen Angels
Original title	Vampire Hunter 9: D — Pale Fallen Angel 1/2/3/4
Japanese	吸血鬼ハンター９　Ｄ―蒼白き堕天使　1/2/3/4 (Banpaia Hantā 9: D — Aojiroki Datenshi 1/2/3/4)
Author	Hideyuki Kikuchi
Illustrator	Yoshitaka Amano
Translator	Kevin Leahy
English Publication Data
Parts One and Two
Publication date	October 15, 2008
Published by	DH Press, DMP Books
Pages	295
ISBN	ISBN 1-59582-130-9
Parts Three and Four
Publication date	March 18, 2009
Published by	DH Press, DMP Books
Pages	288
ISBN	ISBN 1-59582-131-7
Japanese Publication Data
Part One
Publication date	July, 1994
Published by	Asahi Sonorama
ISBN	ISBN 4-257-76682-4
Part Two
Publication date	April, 1995
Published by	Asahi Sonorama
ISBN	ISBN 4-257-76710-3
Part Three
Publication date	November, 1995
Published by	Asahi Sonorama
ISBN	ISBN 4-257-76744-8
Part Four
Publication date	March, 1996
Published by	Asahi Sonorama
ISBN	ISBN 4-257-76774-X
Publication Order
English	Volume 11 (Parts One and Two) Volume 12 (Parts Three and Four)
Japanese	Vampire Hunter 9
Preceded by The Rose Princess	Followed by Twin-Shadowed Knight

Pale Fallen Angel released in Japan as Pale Fallen Angel "D" (蒼白き堕天使"D") is the ninth book in the Vampire Hunter series.

Characters

• D
• Left Hand
• Sacred Ancestor
• Byron Balazs (greater noble and son of the Noble Lord Vlad Balazs)
• Miska Drake (overbearing pure blood granddaughter of the former high ranking Lord of the Western Frontier)
• May (acrobat sibling)
• Hugh (acrobat sibling)

Antagonists

• Lord Vlad Balazs (a pure blood Greater Noble, who rules over the Western Frontier)
• Lady Cordelia Balazs (Vlad's wife)
• Dr. Jean de Carriole (Vlad's right-hand man and sorcerer)
• Vlad's Best Three (Vlad's best fighters)
• Duke Siun Greed (noble, one of Vlad's guard)
• The Seven Assassins (hired vampire hunters)
• Dark Water Forces (Vlad's special combat unit)
• Mountain folk (Vlad's primitive apelike enforcers living near his mountain stronghold)
• Destroyer (ancient noble weapon)
• Mountain Bandits (bandits)

Other Characters

• Fisher Lagoon (owner of Fisher's Lagoon)
• Black Masks (Fisher Lagoon's hired mercenaries)
• Telena (Fisher Lagoon's favorite girlfriend)
• Giselle (prostitute at Fisher's Lagoon)
• Paige (new girl at Fisher's Lagoon)
• Madam (the woman who interfaces with the customers at Fishers Lagoon's)
• Dr. Mireille Lubedeck (director of the Lubeck clinic)
• Balcon (black market dealer)
• Balcon's Bodyguard (one of the top 5 warriors from the west-capitol)
• Taki (Johann's assistent)
• Guide (demon)
• Sherrif Gildari (sherrif in Lidell)
• Blacksmith
• Traveling Blacksmith
• Traveling Songstress and her child
• Ferryman
• Joanna (a girl headed for the village of Krauhausen)
• Frazetta (Baron Byron Balazs's servant)
• Yona (Baron Byron Balazs's servant)
• Adam Karnstein (noble)
• Mircalla Karnstein (noble)
• Original Duke Greed (the husband of the current Duke Greed)
• Gullit the Corrupter (noble, writer)
• Brockdens (noble family fromt the Southern frontier sectors)
• Revolutionary Army

Bestiary

• OSB
• Kenlark
• Golem (de Carriole's Lab)
• Little People (assassins who live in the red grass of the Plain of Slaughter)
• Synthetic life forms (froglike assassins)
• Shape-shifting Humanoids
• Ghost Knights
• Prismatic Butterfly
• Baglike Creatures
• Serpentine Beasts (long necked dragons living in the swamp)
• Armored Beasts
• Flame Beast
• Thunder Beast
• Electric Jellyfish
• Electric cloud
• Gaseous creature
• Flying Creatures
• Flying Beasts
• Two-headed monster birds
• Plains Rats
• Drifting insect
• Altered insect
• Giant Black Caterpillars
• Long-necked dragon
• Earthwyrm
• Burrowing pythons
• Three-headed boars
• Red Cloud
• Recon Birds
• Giant Cats
• Fang shrimp
• White Rabbit
• Messenger Pigeons

Technology

• Big Bang Accelerator
• Special Class-A Computer
• Three-dimensional Camera
• Robot Dog
• Robotic Beasts
• Mechanical Soldiers
• Mountain Caterpillar
• Steam-driven Truck
• Steam-powered Coach
• Stagecoach
• Ferry
• Water Harp
• Water Wheel

Locations

• Western Frontier Sector
• Mount Blade (mountain)

• Mount Ziriilla (mountain)
• Plain of Slaughter (region)
• Field of bones (region)
• Shabara Canyon (region)
• Winslow (region)
• Shangri-la (mythical safehaven for the nobility)
• Krauhausen (village)
• Lidell (village)
• Diemli (village)
• Schamuni (village)
• Travelers Center (part of an airfield, located north of Diemli)
• Rivers Inn
• Lubeck Clinic
• Carriage way station
• Warehouse on Thornton Street
• Madison Bridge
• Swamp
• Mountain bandits hideout
• Jean de Carriole's Mansion
• Ruins beneath mountain stronghold
• Mountain Stronghold (the fortress Lord Vlad has on the slopes of Mount Blade, three miles from his main castle)
• Lord Vlad's Castle (the home of Lord Vlad, it is located in the center of the village of Krauhausen)

Summary

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!

Krauhasen: A mysterious land under the control of Lord Vlad Balarge, a member of the vampire Nobility. When Lord Vlad's son, Baron Byron Balarge, needs to make a long and treacherous journey to faraway Krauhasen, he commissions the help of the infamous Vampire Hunter D, promising a princely sum and a solemn vow-no feasting on any humans for the duration of their journey!

Still, D finds his work cut out for him as the duo encounters an ongoing parade of thugs, rogues, and runaways, all with riot and revenge in mind. The pair are joined by the teenage tumbling act, May and Hugh, and the haughty Noblewoman Miska, recently spared death by the stake. But when D discovers the Baron's plans to murder Lord Vlad, he quickly finds his own life in danger.

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 by his father, the dread Vampire Noble Lord Vlad -- the baron thinks he is ready for his final battle, whatever the cost. But Lord Vlad is not so easily vanquished, as he unleashes yet another host of nefarious killers on his son, not least of whom is a mad doctor who was enlisted to perform sinister experiments on the young baron's mother years before!

• The epic conclusion of the longest Vampire Hunter D story ever. This book was originally published in four individual novels in Japan. To make this more affordable for fans, we're releasing this mega-novel as two omnibus volumes!

(Summary taken from Dark Horse Comics)

Cover Gallery

English Cover #2

Japanese Reprint Cover #1

Japanese Reprint Cover #2

Japanese Reprint Cover #3

Japanese Reprint Cover #4

Trivia

The first two parts of this book were published as an omnibus with the plural title Pale Fallen Angels, however, this was corrected in Parts Three and Four.