The other weekend, I put off reading other manga to give time for my cramming of reading Vampire Hunter D Volumes 1-5 since it’s free streaming was nearing its end. I was putting off reading it until the last 2 days. I was worried at first that I wont be able to finish reading it, since it falls around 350-400 pages per volume. But I managed somehow.

As I had mentioned in my previous post, VHD Manga Volume 6 is out. If you’re from a country where manga is scarce, like me, you can read VHD manga Volume 6 via emanga.com. But of course, you have to purchase points and “Rent” it to be able to read.

Technically, the VHD manga is the same as the novels, only with graphics.  Therefore, Volume 6 is technically the same as Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane. So in D’s adventure in volume 6, this time, he met a granny named Viper. She’s a well known “people finder.” Her job is to look for spirited children and return them to their families. And she’s currently on her mission to return a girl named Tae who was kidnapped by the nobles and held captive for years at a castle called Castle Gradinia. By the looks of it, the granny probably had a hard time taking the girl back since this particular castle is quite known to be filled with nobles. As you know, nobles in VHD are like all omnipotent beings. And then she came by D, just like fate. He and another duo of bounty hunters traveled to go across this dessert that’s known as some sort of “dessert of no return.” Of course I’m not telling you what happened in the dessert because you might shoot me dead. All I can say is that you’ll get to learn a lot of interesting things in this manga. Some of it were already hinted a bit by the previous ones, and some of it are faint hints of possible plot of future volumes. There will also be sneak peeks of D’s personality throughout this manga. Definitely worth reading.

As most of you probably already know, I’m a huge fan of Vampire Hunter D, enough to own its fanlisting. Earlier this morning, I was trilled to receive an email from  eManga about Vampire Hunter D’s 6th manga volume to be on sale at eManga tomorrow, December 28th, 2011.

I was also informed that in line with this launch, they’ll be streaming the previous Vampire Hunter D manga volumes for free. Yes, that’s right from volumes 1 to 5 and FREE. The free streaming of Vampire Hunter D 1-5 manga volumes started last December 24 and will end at January 8, 2012.

Maybe some of you have already heard of eManga, but for the sake of those who doesn’t, I’ll give you guys a few information about eManga before you head up here and start reading. eManga is an online manga streaming site run by Digital Manga, Inc. By streaming, it means you can only read them when you’re connected to the Internet. And yes, that also meant that the manga are digital copies of the manga. The difference between eManga and the other online streaming sites like Batoto.net or StopTazmo.com (if you notice, as an ex-scanlator, I do not support manga fox) is that eManga is a legit version, not from scanlated copies, but from the publishers themselves. Although, in eManga, you have to buy points and use these points to read the mangas. It’s like buying the manga in cheaper price, without the physical book.

Personally, I prefer the physical book themselves, but in cases like Vampire Hunter D, where acquiring the physical manga is really hard, I would go for online manga streaming sites like this. Although I do wish to be able to download the manga instead of just always streaming them online for a few reasons like: (1) I have this picky thing with the media quality that whenever I read them online, they get pixelated and this irritates me; (2) I wanted to be able to read them from my laptop or my mobile phone even without internet; (3) I would be able to transfer them in different handles like my brother’s tab, in case I wanted to read it there, without streaming it again. Although, these are just personal preference. I do, however, understand that they chose it to be streaming and using Adobe Flash player to prevent it from being stolen.

Our Anime DVD Collections all in one huge cabinet.

Note: This is only one drawer from the cabinet. =P

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