Top 15 Manga and Anime Vampire Hunters

The anime world has had a variety of genres from documentaries to fantasy and supernatural. The audience has always been fascinated with the world of fantasy and the supernatural and is always interested in watching such shows. One such supernatural being are vampire, these creatures are known as the lords of the night and the history of these creatures has always aroused the curiosity of the viewers. Are vampires evil or good? This is a question that no one has an exact answer to. But for those vampires who are evil and cause mayhem, there are always vampire hunters to bring them to rest.

Since the myth of vampires started people also started knowing about vampire hunters. Vampires are immortal and can only be killed when staked and this is not an easy feat. There are many vampire hunters in the myths and even manga and anime have their own list of vampire hunters. Let us view our top 15 manga and anime vampire hunters.

15 Best Vampire Anime

The vampire genre has maintained its popularity over the past few decades. If you’re a fan of vampires, here are fifteen anime series to consider adding to your list.

15. Midnight Secretary

1. Type: Manga
2. Created by: Tomu OhMi
3. Number of episodes/chapters: 34 chapters

The story starts with a woman named Kaya who works as a secretary in a company. She is rejected by the company at first because of the way looks and dresses but she proves herself to be worthy and is acknowledged by her boss, Kyuohei. One day accidentally Kaya sees her boss’s meals and comes to know the truth that her boss is actually a vampire.

As days go by kaya finds herself in love with him but refuses to accept it and claims that the work she has been doing is her job as a secretary. The same goes with Kyuohei, he falls in love with her but does not accept it and tries to convince himself that she is food. Eventually, both of them find their way to each other and start a relationship that is made of love.

14. Vampire Dormitory

1. Type: Manga
2. Created by: Ema Toyama
3. NUmber of episodes/chapters: 10 volumes

Mito is an orphan who lives on streets and doesn’t have anyone else to take care of her.She crossdresses as a boy to avoid dangerous situations. One day she comes across Ruka who isn’t aware of her true gender, who she later finds out that he is a vampire. Ruka is thirsty for Mito’s blood and offers her a deal. Mito is hesitant at first but eventually accepts the offer.

The offer states that Mito is allowed to stay at the boys dormitory while Ruka can feast on her blood whenever he pleases. Ruka always mistreats her, calling her “disgusting blood”. THey face many situations and they lead them to falling for each other. By the end of the series Mito reveals her secret but Ruka doesn’t mind it as he loves Mito for her personality.

13. Karin: Chibi Vampire

1. Type: Manga and anime
2. Created by: Yuna Kagesaki
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 24 episodes and 58 chapters

Karin is from a family of vampires but she is different from other vampires. She doesn’t have any vampire traits and can go out during the day in the sun and doesn’t feed on human blood rather she produces it. She has a new classmate named Kenta, when she is even near him her blood increases. She tries to avoid him most of the time. Eventually Kenta knows about Karin’s secret and tries to help her.

As days go by they fall in love but this is not the end of the story. A new character enters their life named Tachibana who disguises herself under friendship but is actually a spy from another vampire family. Karin finds that she is actually a rare vampire who can heal other vampires with her blood and that Tachibana’s family is after her.

12. Blood Lad

1. Type: Manga and anime
2. Created by: Yuuki Kodama
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 10 episodes and 17 volumes

Staz is a young vampire who rules the vampire territory in the demon world. He follows everything that a normal human does like playing video games, watching tv, and reading manga. One day he comes across a human girl who accidentally enters the demon world through a portal. Statz is visited by an uninvited guest who challenges him to a duel.

While Staz was busy in the fight, Fuyumi, the human girl gets eaten by a plant in the demon world and turns into a ghost. Staz promises her to bring her back to life and goes on a quest trying to find the solution along with her. He meets many people trying to find help for her.

11. Millennium Snow

1. Type: Manga
2. Created by: Bisco Hatori
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 4 volumes

The story starts with a girl who appears to be weak with a weak heart since birth. Chiyuki is a 14 year high school girl who is regularly admitted to the hospital. She was even told by the doctors that she has only a maximum of one year left. Toya is a hundreds of year old vampire who is in search of a bride that could share his blood and live with a millennium years with him.

Toya dislikes the thought of having a bride because he thinks that living for millennium years is rather a curse than a blessing and he didn’t want anyone to forcefully live with him. Chiyuki, knowing about Toya finds a chance for herself to live longer but Toya denies it. Later many incidents lead them to fall in love with each other and they marry at the end and live happily ever after.

10. Vampire Knight and Rosario + Vampire

1. Type: Anime and manga
2. Created by: Akihisa Ikeda
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 13 episodes and 14 volumes

Aono is a teenage boy who has bad grades and faces problems to get an admit in any of the high schools. As a last resort he tries for a boarding school called Yokai Academy who later finds that it is a school for monsters. He hides true self from others. Basically, this school teaches monsters on how to coexist with humans by disguising themselves as humans. Aono meets Akashiya, a vampire who knows about his secret.

Akashiya finds him interesting and befriends him, but rather she is more interested in his blood. Soon he makes friends with other monsters in school and they all join the newspapers club. The story is about these characters helping one another from bullying and trying to take a stand in their place by facing challenges.

9. Blood the Last Vampire, Blood+, Blood C

1. Type: Movie
2. Created by: Hiroyuki Kitakubo
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 1

Amino Makiho is a nurse working in a high school. One of the students called Saya is trying to kill the other two students Sharon and Linda. In that moment Makiho sees the true identity of Linda and Sharon that they are not humans and rather bat-like looking vampiric creatures. She later learns from Saya that those creatures are known as Chiropterans and they feed on human blood. She is actually a hunter who kills those creatures and comes under disguise to the school to hunt these creatures.

Leaving Makiho in a safe place she chases after the third chiropteran and eliminates it. The next day when Makiho was interviewed by the press she sees that all the story was covered up by Makiho and her colleagues and goes with the flow of hiding the truth.

8. Dance in the Vampire Bund

1. Type: Manga and anime
2. Created by: Nozomu Tamaki
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 12 episodes and 14 volumes

Mina Tepes is a vampire princess who wants to live in peace. Along with her other family members following her ancestors she lives in isolation apart from other human beings. She comes up with a plan with her bodyguard Akira who is a werewolf to build an island where vampires can live freely. She pays all the funds to the Japanese Government which allows her to build the island.

Humans get scared and start to boycott them. They try to eliminate Mina but Mina and her bodyguard fight all their enemies and finally set up the island. They name this island as ‘The Bund’ and in this island vampires and werewolves live together.

7. Shiki

1. Type: Manga and anime
2. Created by: Fuyumi Ono
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 22 episodes and 11 volumes

Natsuno Yuuki is forced to move to the country with his parents even though he liked to live in a city. Megumi Shimizu is another character who lives in the village and wants to go to the city. She has a crush on Megumi and tries to develop a romantic relationship with him. But Megumi dislikes her, he is cold towards her and does not show any interest in her. One day Megumi is found dead in the forest which leaves the whole village in shock.

Not long after there were missing cases all over the village. A doctor named Toshio ozaki who is the director of the only hospital in the village conducts an investigation and comes to a decision that this is the work of Shiki, commonly known as vampires. Megumi tries to bring peace to the village by battling those blood sucking monsters.

6. Vassalord

1. Type: Manga
2. Created by: Nanae Chrono
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 7 volumes

Vassalord is LGBT series between a vampire boss named Johnny and his employee who is half vampire and half cyborg named Charles. Johnny is a rich vampire who lives in a big mansion. Charles is a vampire hunter working for the Vatican and also works for Johnny. Charles refuses to drink human blood and survives on other food. These two are constantly in a fight and can never agree on the same thing.

Johnny always teases Charles by calling him Cherry and trying to seduce him.Johnny tries to overcome his past harshness by hiding behind this joyous nature of his. Charles helps him in this matter and they find each other attractive. Chrales tries to deny the fact that he was attracted to him in the start but eventually they fall in love with each other.

5. Lunar Legend Tsukihime

1. Type: Manga and anime
2. Created by: Sasaki Shonen
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 12 episode and 10 volumes

The story is a fictional game where the story line goes as follows. Shiki Tohno is a high school student who lives in a town called Misaki. When he was young he faced a life and death situation which changs his whole life. After waking up from a coma, he gains a new ability to see the lifeline of all things whether they are loving things or not. He doesn’t feel comfortable with his new profound ability and gets scared by seeing the death of others.

Due to this, he was even banned from his family by his father and was sent to another family. A sorceress named Aoko Aozaki helped him by giving him magical glasses that help him block the sight of those death lines. After his fathers death, he returns to take care of his sister and eliminates other supernatural beings like vampires.

4. Blood Alone

1. Type: Manga
2. Created by: Masayuki Takano
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 10 volumes

Kuroe Kurose is a modern day author and private detective who was a vampire hunter before. He comes across many undead creatures during his investigation and eliminates them. HE crosses paths with a young girl who is 10 years old and was recently turned into a vampire named Misaki Minato. Misaki’s child-like nature is still present.

She used to live in a mansion in England when she was still human but now she lives with Kuroe in Japan. She developed feelings for Kuroe and always tries to impress him. Kuroe takes care of Misaki and saves her from harm many times. Misaki also has an alter ego of a vampire which saves herself from life threatening situations.

3. Kiss of the Rose Princess

1. Type: Manga
2. Created by: Aya Shouoto
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 9 volumes

Anise Yamamoto always carried a rose choker gifter to her by her late father and it was her very prized possession. ON ebay loses it and gets into despair. In search of it she is granted the power to master the knights by a kiss on four cards each representing a knight, red, blue, black and white. It turns out these four knights are her classmates.

With the help of them she sealed the devil behind a powerful at her own risk as the knights gain their abilities from the energy of their master. She then later also takes their help for finding her choker which actually hides her true identity that is she is a rose princess. Not long before that the threat of the devil is unleashed again by she has far more greater enemies than before.

2. Hellsing: Ultimate

1. Type: Anime
2. Created by: Kouta Hirano
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 10 episodes

Abraham Van Helsing is the leader of a group called the Royal Order of Protestant Knights. His goal is to eliminate all the supernatural beings like vampires who cause harm to the society and the country. After his death, his daughter, Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, took over the organization and led her fathers’s mission.

She was very young when she witnessed her fathers death which turned into a killing machine from a sweet and shy girl. She is always protected by her family’s loyal butler Walter C. Dronez who excels in his combat skills and the tru vampire who was once defeated by her father, Alucard. These 3 form a team and exterminate all kinds of danger.

1. Vampire Hunter D & Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

1. Type: Manga
2. Created by: Hideyuki Kikuchi
3. Number of episodes / chapters: 53 volumes

The Marcus brothers are hired by Adam to chase after a vampire named Meier who they think has kidnapped his sister. Later they find the truth that Charlotte, his sister, has willingly left with the vampire out of love for him. Throughout the whole series the Marcus brothers chase after them trying to find the location about them. They face a lot of challenges and many stronger opponents in their quest while trying to gather information.

They are even trapped by other undead creatures but somehow manage to escape. All the creatures that stand in their way of the quest are eliminated. Along the sidelines of the quest they even try to help a few villagers who are at risk from these undead monsters.

Conclusion

The anime and manga has given us these spectacular characters in the supernatural world which makes the audience feel great. These anime or manga series give the viewers the feel of real terror and horror and an insight into the world of vampires and the undead. Many of these have shown us that they possess excellent combat skills and also many abilities and powers. Though few vampires are evil, there will always be a vampire who fights on the good side. So it is up to the readers and viewers to judge the characters of these vampires whether they are good or evil.

Many historical vampire tales have been recited in these series which gives the basic ideas of what exactly they are and how the vampire world works. THe strengths and weaknesses of vampires are mostly in every series and Vampire hunters are known to use these weaknesses to their strength while battling against a vampire and win. This vampire genre always remains in the hearts of fantasy lovers and would never miss such masterpieces that were created throughout the years.