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His keen sense of smell can help him do that. While the first volume left me annoyed with the character, mainly how referred to the speaking of Japanese as some vague onomatopoeia instead of, you know, Japanese, this volume made do a complete 180.Īl wants to be loved, and he wants to be useful. While I was worried that this thread would be dropped, instead, it’s used to build Al out as a character. It was the added drama you could expect from a series, but it came out of nowhere.
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The appearance of a serial killer last volume took me by surprise. That said, as much as this volume is about the building of an emotional relationship, primarily with Al becoming a janitor at Akira’s funeral home, it’s also about building suspense. Leaving the audience to wait for their inevitable confession. That is to say, while Akira is unable to admit his feelings for Al, and Al only admits them in his thoughts, the two show immense concern when the other is hurt.
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While I still feel that the series is moving slowly overall in romantic, emotional development (mainly because in this one volume, Akira asserts his straightness multiple times), The Vampire and his Pleasant Companions Volume 2 offers up moments of pain that pay off in immediate emotion. Understanding how much of a burden he has become, both with his hunger and inability to work due to the language barrier he is slowly overcoming, Al uses his unique ability to help track down the man who stabbed him and solve an open serial murder in the process. After nursing him back to mostly health, Akira offers Al his blood, and in typical “your blood is delicious” fashion, Al overindulges. Found by Akira, Al has his first chance to taste human blood, the only thing that will get him back on his feet. If you haven’t been keeping up with the series, Al’s vampiric nature is the only thing that prevents him from becoming the latest death in a string of serial stabbings. Now in volume 2, the series’s focus is less about Akira coming to accept his now live-in vampire roommate and all about capturing a serial killer while feelings begin to blossom between Akira and Al. The volume is published and localized in English by Yen Press, translated by Taylor Engel, and features letters by Abigail Blackman.
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The Vampire and his Pleasant Companions Volume 2 is illustrated by Marimo Ragawa and features an original story by Narise Konohara. While that volume dealt with sorting out the misunderstandings between Al, Akira, and his detective brother, this one picks up where it left off – surprisingly, with Al bleeding in the park after becoming a target of a serial killer. But, when he was frozen in a meatpacking plant and sent off to Japan, he found himself arrested as a deviant only to wind up in Akira’s apartment. In volume 1, readers were introduced to Al, a vampire who resigned to live homeless, surviving only on slaughterhouse scraps in the United States. The Vampire and his Pleasant Companions is a series that has captured my heart even as it retraces problematic tropes of both the BL and vampire genre. Reading Time: 4 minutes Content Warning: The Vampire and His Pleasant Companions Volume 2 and this review talk about animal abuse