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My Pathetic Vampire Life

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I absolutely loved this manga, my only complaint is that they introduced a new character at the end of volume 2 but then no volume 3 came out we weren’t able to see his character much. I found all of the gags hilarious and the main character extremely relatable, being kind of depressed and bored around others but still trying to fit in, and then being super excited and happy if anyone invites him anywhere. The art is also really good. Overall it’s a great read and I would highly recommend it if you like slice of life comedy’s, even if your not big into ... vampires because I’m not and I was still able to enjoy it.

This review contains no spoilers. Because there is literally nothing to spoil. *awkward laugh*

Story: The story began as interesting, where vampires are under control of the government and need to follow strict rules. For younger vampires, that will never grow old, it's school time. Over and over for all eternity. And we get to see one of these years of endless school. Unfortunately this turn real boring surprisingly fast.

Art: For a gag manga, the art is pretty nice. It fits the story and characters well, but it's nothing special.

Characters: And here is the problem. The Main Character is acceptable, he's the ... typical introverted mysterious boy that some people simply wanna talk to, he's just not very interesting. There are more vampire friends introduced through out the story. But non of them has any real enjoyable characteristics. The human friends always forgets the typical weakness of vampires, which is the basis of most gags.

Enjoyment: I did not enjoy the repeated jokes, the characters nor the soundtrack. *insert laugh here* There's similar jokes over and over, the focus on "typical school life" for the vampires instead of the world itself took away some of the few interesting topics I might've enjoyed.

So who might enjoy this? I'd say vampire lovers that are bloodthirsty for anything to do with vampires. Other than that, most people will probably not even remember this manga even if they were hit on the head with a volume of it.

+ Decent art
- Repeated jokes
- No deep world building

It's alright. Mediocre at best. Here's why.

The art is fine, and is extremely clean. It's just a bit bland in my eyes, especially considering some panels show a lot of action and movement for gags, but those are far and few between. Backgrounds are rendered and characters are distinct. Not much to comment on.

The same goes for story and characters. There just isn't much here. Our protagonist is quite bland and his only traits are introvert, quiet, and try hard. Other than that there isn't much to him. There's basically no story and it's obvious that the author was expecting more volumes because ... it doesn't have a conclusion per say because there's NOTHING TO CONCLUDE. I liked the basic ideas enough, but there just wasn't enough done with the ideas that were there, besides some reoccurring jokes.

It's a fine duoligy. There's cool vampire interactions, nice art, and decent characters with very few traits, I guess. If you find it on clearance give it a try.