Soft Metal Vampire

A manga about a girl who becomes targeted by the government and a squad of element manipulating dhampir squad that protects her.

I’m a fan of Hiroki Endo and while it’s nice to see him get back to his sci-fi roots, this series suffers from being pretty generic. The concept of these dhampirs manipulating different elements like Carbon or Nitrogen is something a child would come up with. Even the dhampirs’ mouths open up like a parasitic maw like the vampires from the movie Blade 2.

I will say Endo’s utilizing what he learned from All Rounder Meguru in all the action scene. Unfortunately everything from his monster to armor designs are just super rote and uninteresting.

It’s currently serialized in Afternoon Magazine.

I don’t think I’ll be keeping up with this one myself.

~dakazu