Enjoy the Adventures of Vampire Hunter D Like Never Before!Vampire Hunter D is a long-running (since 1983) series of novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi, featuring illustrations by renowned artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy). Dark Horse has proudly published these novels in English for many years, most recently celebrating the first Omnibus collection, which combines the first three books in one handy volume. Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Volume 1 details › Now, Vampire Hunter D travels into even newer territory: audio books! Graphic Audio, a premier audio brand of industry leader RBmedia, has just released the first of several full-cast, enhanced audio adaptations of the beloved novels. Listen to an audio sample from Volume 1 here...
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Searching for some top shelf ideas for holiday gift-giving? Look no further than the Dark Horse Holiday Gift Guide! We've got ideas for everyone on your list! Support your community by ordering from independent bookstores and comic shops! Stay home, stay safe, and send some holiday cheer to the ones you love! Searching for some top shelf ideas for holiday gift-giving? Look no further than the Dark Horse Holiday Gift Guide! Storied picks for inspiring gifts! We've got ideas for everyone on your list! Support your community by ordering from independent bookstores and comic shops! Send some holiday cheer to the ones you love!...
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Final Fantasy Fans: A Chance to Win the Ultimate Art & Lore Collection! UPDATE: Contest closed June 15. Thank you to everyone who entered! Winners were drawn and notified on Instagram by June 17. Congratulations to @sczombie, @leahj159, @54cake, @phasirb, and @dragonfly_alyssa. Stay tuned for more contests and giveaways in the future!On June 10, 2019, the third volume in the Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive became available in English for the first time. Dark Horse is proud to continue to work with game studio Square Enix to bring more Final Fantasy art, lore, and related works to North American readers. You can see more of our licensed Final Fantasy works here >>To celebrate the release of Volume 3, we're giving fans a...
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KontrolFreek Perfect 10 Giveaway | Featuring Dark Horse Books and ProductsUpdate: Contest closed January 28. Thank you to all participants! Our good friends at KontrolFreek are turning 10 this year, and to celebrate with their community, they're hosting a major giveaway: Perfect 10. Dark Horse is pleased to partner with KontrolFreek and some of the biggest names in gaming to give away the ultimate gaming setup - worth thousands of dollars. From now through January 28, all you have to do to enter to win is complete a few simple social actions here. Below is a full rundown of all the amazing prizes that the winner will receive. There is a lot here, so don’t miss out on the chance to claim it all for yourself!Dark Horse...
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We've got something for every character on your list! Check out this year's hottest titles and products that are sure to make this holiday season merry and bright! ...
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Regular and Limited Editions of "Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography - Beyond the Fantasy" Scheduled to Delight Fans in Fall 2018Dark Horse is thrilled to reveal details from the upcoming Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography—Beyond the Fantasy. Author Florent Gorges (The History of Nintendo, Vol. 1: 1889-1980), one of France's leading video game historians, sets out to explore the 50 years thus far in the career of legendary artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy). Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography—Beyond the Fantasy is a beautiful celebration of the life and imagery of Japan's master of fantasy and science fiction art! This handsome, landscape-style hardback contains nearly 400 illustrations and photos...
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A few words from the editor on the title of Vampire Hunter D vol. 24: Throng of Heretics, hitting bookstores now: THRONG [thrawng] noun: 1. a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd. 2. a great number of things crowded or considered together: a throng of memories. HERETIC [her-i-tik] noun: 1. a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church. 2. Roman Catholic Church. a baptized Roman Catholic who willfully and persistently rejects any article of faith. 3. anyone who does not conform to an established attitude, doctrine, or principle. It’s a complicated title for such a fun, breezy, yet chilling and thrilling...
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“I want to live in Los Angeles…” sang Frank Black, and this weekend, Dark Horse will! There’s so much going on at Anime Expo 2016 this year, but we’d love to see you all at the Dark Horse Manga panel, this Friday, July 1 at 5 PM in Live Programming 2 (403 AB). We’ll be discussing our future books, talking about new titles, giving away prizes, and taking your questions! If you can’t make the panel or want to follow up with us, you can find us during the show at the Exhibit Hall in booths 1029/1030, where we’ll be supporting Anime Expo guest of honor Yoshitaka Amano, whose work we’ve had the honor to publish over the years. At the booth, we’ll have not only the Amano...
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Volume 22 of Hideyuki Kikuchi and Yoshitaka Amano’s long-running series comprises a two-part story…originally published in Japan with a five-month gap between installments, which must have driven fans crazy. But you get them both in one volume, on sale this week! White Devil Mountain is the story of the profoundly evil and ancient Duke Gilzen, a vampire so monstrous that even other vampires oppose him. It makes for an unusual adventure for D, as he takes charge of a group of travelers tasked with locating and transporting the coffin containing Gilzen’s body. Familiar elements are there, of course; D finds himself joined on his quest by a wily assassin with a quick blade and a smart-aleck attitude, a kid...
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Dark Horse’s release of the individual artbooks from Yoshitaka Amano’s The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy continues this week with the third and final book in the set: The Sky: Book Three! Just like Book One and Book Two, these are the exact same hardback, oversized art books that are in The Sky Boxed Set (sold out) and Slipcased Edition (still available), but now each book is available separately, for those who don’t wish to buy the sets. The Sky: Book Three is only $24.99, yet it’s 156 pages of illustrations on heavy, high-quality paper, 10 5/8" x 11 5/8" (27 x 29.5 cm) in size and bound in hardcover with an elegant metallic ink overprint. Book Three contains Amano's sketches and paintings for Final Fantasy VII...
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Out This Week—Trigun Maximum Omnibus Book Five, The Sky: The Art Of Final Fantasy Book Two! Manga Mondays: At almost any anime con, you’re guaranteed to still see people cosplaying as Vash the Stampede, hero of Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun and Trigun Maximum series—whose legend will continue even though the final volume of his adventures is out this week! Trigun Maximum Omnibus Book Five is, of course, Vash’s showdown with his twin brother Knives over the fate of the planet—and if you only know how it played out in the Trigun anime, the confrontation is more developed in the manga. In addition to 530 pages of manga story, Trigun Maximum Omnibus Book Five contains over 60 bonus pieces of...
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One of Dark Horse’s most popular releases in recent years has been Yoshitaka Amano’s The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy. We began with the limited-edition Boxed Set (unfortunately now sold out) and continued with the currently-available Slipcased Edition. There is one thing about both of these versions of The Sky, however—although they sold well, one cost $139.99, the other $89.99. Starting this week, Dark Horse is offering a third alternative, where you can get The Sky art books individually at a lower price, beginning with The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy Book One for $29.99! These are the exact same, high-quality, hardback, oversized art books that were in the Boxed Set and Slipcased Edition; but if you...
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UNDER THE TRAVELER’S HAT: VAMPIRE HUNTER D So who is this vampire hunter known only by a single initial, and how in the world are there twenty volumes (and yet more to come) detailing his exploits? The best way to think about it is to consider D an iconic character, much like James Bond or Sherlock Holmes. He’s got certain consistent characteristics—the wide-brimmed traveler’s hat, the cyborg horse, the black cloak, the air of ethereal indifference, the fact his left hand is a separate, conscious entity with its own personality and a raging id—and of course, the fact that D is so staggeringly beautiful that everyone who sees him falls hopelessly in lust. Finally, D has a general modus operandi...
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Deva Zan was no ordinary project for me as an editor. If I were to start from a personal level, I’m of the generation whose first exposure to Japanese pop culture was the anime Speed Racer. You might not associate Yoshitaka Amano’s ethereal style as an illustrator with the manic demon on wheels, but at age fifteen Amano was already working at Tatsunoko, Speed Racer’s studio, during the production of the show. So even if I didn’t know his name back then, I’m amazed to think that Amano-sensei has been there from the very beginning of my life as a fan. In the 1980s, I first experienced Amano’s dual nature as an illustrator of action and vision through the original anime version of Vampire Hunter D, as...
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“Hea-a-a-a-vy!” as they used to say on the 1970s TV show Battle of the Planets, originally known as Gatchaman in Japan. But why do I say it? Well, first because it was (even if they didn’t know it) the earliest exposure many American fans had to the work of Yoshitaka Amano, at the time a designer at Tatsunoko, the anime studio that made Gatchaman. And second, because our new release from Yoshitaka Amano, The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy, is heavy, man! It weighs 12.6 pounds, to be exact. I know because I lugged it in my checked baggage to Anime Weekend Atlanta this last weekend, just to give fans at the Dark Horse panel a chance to have a sneak peek at it before it goes on sale October...
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Dark Horse has a longtime connection to the internationally respected artist of Final Fantasy and Vampire Hunter D, Yoshitaka Amano. Although Amano-sensei has brought many works to life with his depictions, he has never before both written and illustrated a novel—until now! Deva Zan is not an adaptation of a book previously published in Japan, but an original work being published for the first time through Dark Horse—a lavish, oversize (9" by 12") fantasy epic containing over 240 original paintings by Amano done especially for the story. In Deva Zan, Amano wishes to give his own personal interpretation of Asian legends for a Western readership. The story centers around the twelve divine generals who...
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It's often said around the Dark Horse offices that we've got the best fans in the business, and Day Four of Comic Con 2010 drove that point home. From the time the doors opened a steady stream of eager fans flooded into the Dark Horse booth to meet their favorite creators, buy armloads of books, and create a small, yet well mannered, riot. Check out the pics below for a full casualty report: Writer/Director mink and legendary artist Yoshitaka Amano signing for their new book Shinjuku. Avatar the Last Airbender creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Brian Konietzko had a line around the booth waiting to meet them. The creative team of Avatar the Last Airbender: The Art of the Animated Series with a few of their loyal fans....
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