Strike the Blood
Yen Press · 2015–2018 · 10 issues
About the series
Kojou Akatsuki, a high school student on the artificial island of Itogami, awakens as the world's most powerful vampire, the Fourth Primogenitor. This Yen Press series, running from 2015 to 2018 across ten issues, adapts the light novels of Gakuto Mikumo and is brought to life by artist Manyako. It follows Kojou's unlikely partnership with the sword-wielding apprentice observatory witch Yukina Himeragi, who is tasked with monitoring—and if necessary, neutralizing—his immense power. Strike the Blood became a key entry in the wave of supernatural action manga that blended school-life dynamics with epic, world-shaking conflicts.