Серия романов «Охотник на вампиров D»: История и публикации

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This is a listing of all light novels in the Vampire Hunter D series, written by Hideyuki Kikuchi, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano, Ayami Kojima and Vincent Chong, and translated by Kevin Leahy and Takami Nieda.

Known simply as the Vampire Hunter (吸血鬼ハンター) series in Japan, the first novel, Vampire Hunter "D", was written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and published in 1983. To date, over 35 novels have been published in the main series, with some novels comprising as many as four volumes; including the supplemental volume, Dark Nocturne, over 50 individual volumes have been published. The series has also spawned anime, audio drama, and manga adaptations, art books, and a supplemental guide book. All of the official publications in the series were originally published by Asahi Sonorama under the Sonorama Bunko label. Additionally, from November 1992 through February 1993, special hardcover editions of the first seven volumes, plus Dark Nocturne, were published by Asashi Sonorama to commemorate the series' 10th anniversary, as the Vampire Hunter Favorite Printing Series (吸血鬼ハンター愛蔵版シリーズ); each included a new cover illustration and a color interior illustration by Yoshitaka Amano. Following the closing of the Sonorama branch in September 2007, the release of D Throng of Heretics in October 2007 under the Asahi Bunko Sonorama Selection label marked the transition to the new publisher, Asahi Shimbun Publishing, a division of Asahi Sonorama's parent company. From December 2007 through January 2008, Asahi Shimbun Publishing reprinted the complete Vampire Hunter catalogue under the Sonorama Selection label, including e book releases on the Kindle platform. In January 2011, Asahi Sonorama published the first spinoff light novel series set in the Vampire Hunter universe, a prequel series written by Kikuchi titled Another Vampire Hunter: The Noble Greylancer (吸血鬼ハンター／アナザー　貴族グレイランサー), illustrated by Ayami Kojima, artist and character designer for the Castlevania series of video games. Only two volumes were published, both in hardcover, with a planned third volume on hold since 2013. In May and June 2021 Asahi Shimbun published new paperback and Kindle editions of the two volumes, featuring new cover illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano. In November 2017, Kikuchi began to serialize new Vampire Hunter stories in Asahi Shimbun's monthly magazine Issatsu no Hon (一冊の本) with the story Vampire Hunter: D — Deadened City. These stories are later collected and printed as full entries in the main series, sometimes under new titles. The most recent story is Vampire Hunter: D Wicked Resurrection (吸血鬼ハンター　Ｄ－凶の復活祭), which began serialization in November 2023.

On May 11, 2005, the first official English translation was released by DH Press and Digital Manga Publishing, translated by Kevin Leahy. Translations of subsequent volumes have released at a relatively consistent annual or biannual pace, and supplementary material including a guidebook and two artbooks have also been published. The numbering scheme for the official English releases are inconsistent with the original Japanese, as each book is individually numbered regardless of whether multi part stories are divided between multiple volumes or compiled into a single volume, and because the supplementary short story anthology Dark Nocturne is included. In cases where multi part stories are compiled in a single volume, the second volume's cover is presented as a color frontispiece. In 2012 Dark Horse Books began to publish e book editions of the series on the Kindle platform, and after 2014 Dark Horse Books took over as the publishing imprint for future print editions. In 2013 Viz Media's Haikasoru imprint released an official English translation of the first book in the prequel series, retitled Noble V: Greylancer, translated by Takami Nieda with newly commissioned cover artwork by Vincent Chong. In 2021 Dark Horse Books began to publish omnibus editions with Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book One collecting the first three novels in the series. In late 2021 they also began to publish official dramatized audiobook adaptations of the novels produced by GraphicAudio, featuring a full voice cast, music, and sound effects.

D — Voyage Through Strange Waters (Ｄ―妖水航): A short story manuscript distributed exclusively to attendees of Kikuchi's houseboat tour in November 2011.

Siren of the Cape (岬のセイレーン): Published on February 12, 2021 in Masaya Yamaguchi's A Sweet and Painful Kiss: Vampire Compilation, an anthology celebrating the 99th birthday of the late Christopher Lee, along with an essay written by Kikuchi titled Vampire Hunter K's Vampire Movie Recommendations.

Vampire Hunter Tale: The Hunter in White (吸血鬼ハンター異聞　白い狩人) is a short manga written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and illustrated by Ai Kozaki that was published in 2004 by Kawade Shobō Shinsha in Kawade Dream Mook: Hideyuki Kikuchi Special Edition. It depicts a handsome vampire hunter saving a pair of sisters fleeing from a Noble and his hunting hounds. The unnamed hunter has dark skin and dreadlocks, is clad in elegant white attire including a cloak and cavalier hat, and wields a shashka — an inversion of D's general appearance.