Canon (manga)
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is a Japan
ese shōjo
manga
by . The series was originally serialized between 1994 and 1996 in Akita Shoten
's manga magazine Mystery EX, and the chapters were compiled into four bound volumes
. The series has been licensed by CMX Manga and has released all four volumes in English
.
attacks a high school and kills thirty-nine students, leaving one "alive" — Canon Himuro — for some reason as a vampire. After the incident, she lives on having a grudge against this vampire, the only memories of him are his blond hair and blue eyes. To suppress her blood-drinking instincts, she wears a crucifix
given to her by an American some years ago.
One day, she met a Japanese half-vampire - his father a vampire, his mother a human — named Sakaki who later reveals himself to be the vampire responsible for the death's of Canon's friends as well as her return from the undead. Sakaki is a boy who had a grudge against a blond vampire named Rod. Sakaki is very powerful and has the power to change people's memory, which is what he has done to Canon. After some incidents happen, Canon and Sakaki fall in love.
Machua
Glenn
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese shōjo
Shojo
The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10-18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 , literally: "little female". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong...
manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
by . The series was originally serialized between 1994 and 1996 in Akita Shoten
Akita Shoten
is a Japanese publishing company established on August 10, 1948 in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Its main editorial target has always been teenagers , and it currently publishes mostly manga...
's manga magazine Mystery EX, and the chapters were compiled into four bound volumes
Tankobon
, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...
. The series has been licensed by CMX Manga and has released all four volumes in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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Plot
A vampireVampire
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...
attacks a high school and kills thirty-nine students, leaving one "alive" — Canon Himuro — for some reason as a vampire. After the incident, she lives on having a grudge against this vampire, the only memories of him are his blond hair and blue eyes. To suppress her blood-drinking instincts, she wears a crucifix
Crucifix
A crucifix is an independent image of Jesus on the cross with a representation of Jesus' body, referred to in English as the corpus , as distinct from a cross with no body....
given to her by an American some years ago.
One day, she met a Japanese half-vampire - his father a vampire, his mother a human — named Sakaki who later reveals himself to be the vampire responsible for the death's of Canon's friends as well as her return from the undead. Sakaki is a boy who had a grudge against a blond vampire named Rod. Sakaki is very powerful and has the power to change people's memory, which is what he has done to Canon. After some incidents happen, Canon and Sakaki fall in love.
Characters
- A girl who had an incurable disease that disappeared when she became a vampire. After learning that Rod is not the one who killed her friends, her next intention is to kill Sakaki. She falls in love with Sakaki.
- A boy who is a Japanese half vampire. He has a grudge against Rod because Rod killed his family. He wanted to use Canon as his servant, but he can't and in the end, he fell in love with her.
- A bird vampire who was left by its master and met Canon. Canon loves him so much and that Canon's grudge against Sakaki was mostly because Fui was nearly killed by him.
- A vampire who is a candidate to be the leader of the vampire tribe. He was actually protecting Canon instead of hurting her. He met Canon when he was killing Sakaki's family and Canon was still a little girl and still sick.
Machua
- A girl vampire who failed to kill Sakaki. Canon helped her and then they became friends.
Glenn
- A male vampire who is a friend of Rod. He came to kill Sakaki and became the biggest enemy of all.