A woman with twisted facial features scours the wasteland to rob corpses of valuables, but eventually she is found and murdered and buried. However, the earth rejects her body and she is reborn as a vampire. Centuries later, she comes across a young man she decides to make her apprentice. The two work together to keep a steady flow of victims, and eventually have to face off against other vampires.
The artwork of Maruo is undeniably stunning, and the manga is one of the finer showcase of his work. In particular, the way he catches the motion of character through layering facial features is an intriguing way to capture rapid movement. Many of the panel transitions capture kinetic transitions that are seldom conveyed with such bravado, as in the pages of “The Laughing Vampire”. Maruo has largely become a figure more established by visual aesthetics over storytelling here in the West,...
The artwork of Maruo is undeniably stunning, and the manga is one of the finer showcase of his work. In particular, the way he catches the motion of character through layering facial features is an intriguing way to capture rapid movement. Many of the panel transitions capture kinetic transitions that are seldom conveyed with such bravado, as in the pages of “The Laughing Vampire”. Maruo has largely become a figure more established by visual aesthetics over storytelling here in the West,...
- 4/11/2020
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
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