Also, the simplified Chinese ONE PIECE #61 manga (ISBN: 978-981-4341-22-6), which caught up with its Japanese counterpart in under seven weeks. If only Japan's recovery were to take place within a similar time window; we can only pray for Japan and/or help Japan in these distressing times.
Vampire Knight © Hino Matsuri/Hakusensha [Serialized in LaLa]
One Piece © Oda Eiichiro/Shueisha [Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump]
Published in Singapore by Chuang Yi
With Chuang Yi's simultaneous release today of Hino Matsuri's Vampire Knight 13 (ISBN: 978-981-4323-00-4) and 吸血鬼骑士 #13 (ISBN: 978-981-4323-93-2), need to excerpt only one summary up here.
After the suspicious deaths of the true blood Ori and a hunter, Yuki sets out with Aido on a mission to offer death seekers her services. On the way, she is attacked by the head of the Toma clan and is saved by none other than Zero. Kaname brings her back home to recuperate, and reveals a shocking secret to her! At his bidding, Yuki drinks his blood, and his memories of the past flow into her. What revelations will she behold about events in the time of the ancestors?
Need SGD 3.40 more, however, if you opt to GET! the English version over the Chinese, which retails for SGD 5.50 per volume.
Chuang Yi English manga (2011.03.22)
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Simplified Chinese manga (2011.03.22)
- 吸血鬼骑士 (Vampire Knight) 13 of 13+ by Hino Matsuri
- ONE PIECE #61 of 62+ by Oda Eiichiro
Source: Chuang Yi per 22 March 2011
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Vampire Knight 「ヴァンパイア騎士」 by Hino Matsuri
Hakusensha LaLa, shoujo
Volume 13 first published in Japan 2010.12
Volume 13 chapters:
59th Night:
60th Night:
61st Night:
62nd Night:
63rd Night:
Bonus Story:
*NOT Chuang Yi's chapter titles
Other languages/serializations
Alternative English Vampire Knight (VIZ Media: 11 volumes per 2010.12 • volume 12 street date: 2011.06.07), Indonesian (Elex Media: volume 5 per 2010.10; formerly serialized in HanaLaLa), simplified Chinese (Chuang Yi: 吸血鬼骑士 #12 released 2010.11), traditional Chinese (Ever Glory Taiwan 吸血鬼騎士 13 shipped 2011.02.02), Italian and Portuguese (Panini Comics), French (Marvel Panini France tome 12 released 2010.11; tome 12 ships 2011.05.11) and German (Carlsen Comics Vampire Knight Band 11 releases 2011.06.24; serialized in Daisuki)
Adaptations
Studio DEEN's 13+13-episode anime adaptation, starring seiyuu Horie Yui (Cross Yuki), Miyano Mamoru (Kiriyu Zero) and Kishio Daisuke (Kuran Kaname), aired on Japan's TV Tokyo from April through July 2008 (first season) and October through December 2008 (second season as Vampire Knight Guilty). The anime spanned manga chapters 1 through 46.
Two drama CDs preceded the TV series. The first was Track 2 of the LaLa Kirameki Drama CD, produced for LaLa's 29th anniversary and given away as a freebie with the magazine's September 2005 issue. The second Vampire Knight Midnight CD-Pack (LaLa Oubosa Zenin Service CD Vampire Knight (Midnight CD Pack)) was exclusively released for mail order in 2006. The drama CDs feature the same cast as the anime's, with the exception of characters Headmaster Cross Kaien (Koyasu Takehito in the drama; VK anime sound director Gôda Hozumi in the anime), Hio Shizuka (Sonoda Keiko in the drama; Orikasa Fumiko in the anime) and Sayori Wakaba (Ueda Kana in the drama; Mizuno Risa in the anime).
Related
Two Hino Matsuri-illustrated light novels were written by Fujisaki Ayuna. The Vampire Knight: Ice Blue no Tsumi and Vampire Knight: Noir no Wana side stories released in Japan 2008.04.05 and 2008.10.03 respectively. Chuang Yi published the first novel in English as Vampire Knight: Ice Blue Sin last July. Marvel Panini France's Vampire Knight: Coeur de glace also shipped the same month. Carlsen published the German version as Vampire Knight: Eisblaues Verbrechen in November 2009, following that up with the second Noir's Trap novel (retitled Vampire Knight: Tiefschwarzer Hinterhalt) in May 2010.
The official fanbook, Vampire Knight Fanbook: Cross, containing character and story information and details from Hino-sensei's storyboard, was published in November 2008 in Japan. (German Vampire Knight: X Official Fanbook released by Carlsen; VIZ Media launched the Vampire Knight Official Fanbook in October 2010.)
The Vampire Knight artbook 「樋野まつりイラストレーションズ－ヴァンパイア騎士（ナイト）－」 streeted concurrently with volume 12 in Japan (2010.07.05).