#DRCL Midnight Children

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Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Dec 2, 2020 to ?

Genres: Horror, Supernatural

Themes: Historical, Vampire

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Grand Jump

Authors: Sakamoto, Shinichi (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #4342²

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Popularity: #1882

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MangaGrand JumpSakamoto, Shinichi (Story & Art)

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As Mina struggles to find her place as Whitby School's first and only female student, a devilish horror is unleashed upon the academy and its unsuspecting students: Count Dracula. However, when this unspeakable evil lays claim to her beloved Lucy Westenra, Mina stands ready to join forces with her fellow students and fight against it with everything she has.

(Source: VIZ Media)

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#DRCL midnight children is based on Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The series has been published in English by VIZ Media under the VIZ Signature imprint since September 19, 2023.

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Murray, Wilhelmina

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Westenra, Luke

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Suwa, Joe

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Count Dracula

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van Helsing, Abraham

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Holmwood, Arthur

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Morris, Quincey

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Renfield

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Harker, Jonathan

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Dragon Matthew

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Jul 19, 2024

Kenshiro3

Recommended

Preliminary (14/? eps)

This manga is some gorgeous, intense, confusing, disturbing, mind bending MADNESS! The art and gothic horror atmosphere are absolutely incredible. The storytelling and characters, not so much. This manga is absolutely carried by its gorgeous, ethereal, and disturbing art. The storytelling itself is a bit confusing though... and the characters are cliched stereotypes. Still the incredible atmosphere & gorgeous art more than make up for these shortcomings.

DRCL recontextualizes the story of Dracula as taking place in an elite Victorian boarding school. All the characters of the novel meanwhile are recast as students and faculty of said Victorian Boarding School. Oddly enough even in doing so ... it manages to stay true to the overall spirit of the story... while subverting U acting as a criticism of its Victorian Value fueled xenophobic classist themes. Which leads me to the what is a major source of contention/controversy for many people.

The story mixes in a LGBTQ+ & social justice themes heavily into the story. It features a cast of explicitly varied races, genders, biological sex, sexual preferences, and classes banding together to combat a vile monster/disease that threatens them all equally. What's more, it is anything BUT subtle about it. If anything it is VERY in your face and transgressive about it with some blatantly provocative & disturbing imagery. We are talking a cast that features trans characters with split personalities... closeted gay characters... a black character who's the son of a nouveau riche freed slave family... a racist, sexist/misogynistic, elitist British noble... a Japanese Exchange student Prodigy... and a Low Class red headed girl (complete with all the Victorian social baggage that entails) who openly defies gender and class expectations... All coming together to save Luke/Lucy Westenra, the Man/Women they love.

As you can imagine all this is rather out of place in a story set in Victorian Era UK. Thing is its VERY apparent that this dissonance was intentional. The manga uses that dissonance to highlight critique overly conservative, regressive, & outright bigoted social attitudes still common today. That said, a lot of it is undercut by the rather shallow stereotypical, and (at times) outright psychotic writing of the characters.

The manga also features quite a bit of shocking, provocative, prophane/blasphemous, and sexual imagery. It is NOT for for the faint of heart... and rather disturbing & upsetting at the times. It does NOT hold back or pull its punches in any way in this regard. Some of it is blatantly designed to trigger the religious conservatives, homophobes, & transphobes. So you have been warned.

Overall I still recommend it. The manga is gorgeous. The atmosphere is incredible. The atmosphere, gorgeous visuals, & social commentary absolutely make this manga worth reading, in spite of its weak writing, flat characters, & (at times) incoherent plot. The art and atmosphere are THAT good. That said, if you are in any way put off or triggered by blasphemy &/or LGBTQ+ themes... keep the FAR away from it. It's practically designed to disgust and infuriate you. Overall I give it an 8 out of 10.

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Apr 22, 2022

Dexalium

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Preliminary (13/? eps)

Overall, shinichi sakamoto is a really confusing man who does not ever convey to the majority, after reading 13 chapters, just like how i finished reading innocent and innocent rouge, it left me perplexed and confused, what kind of message did he want to leave i asked myself?

On one hand there's boys kissing boys and on the other hand in each of his stories since kokou no hito there's the strong aspect of "God' and religion in each of his stories, and he doesn't seem to be mocking, disrespecting or shunning one or the other, unlike in vinland saga where the author deliberately puts dirt ...

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Dec 11, 2024

Yourdeadman123

Not Recommended

Preliminary (7/? eps)

4/10

very disappointing, the art style is incredible and I love the idea of basing it on Bram Stocker's Dracula, but unfortunately there seems to be a certain political LGBTQ/progressive influence in it. it just doesn't fit into this type of story and doesn't belong in manga in general I think, I tried it but it was sometimes too bmuch for me,nothing agaisnt a gay charecter but a hole cast feels just out of place and that + the lgbtq influnce is just to much for me. or whatever but a little more true to the original story would have been much better. a real ...

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