vicarious_life

Blood Lad is a manga currently run in the "Young Ace" magazine in Japan. I think it got published in America recently, but I don't usually pay attention to those things. Anyways, it is sort of a satirical romantic comedy about the vampire Staz Vlad, who despite being the "boss" of a gang of demons in the underworld, is obsessed with the human's "Japanese Culture" and considers himself "Otaku." Because of this, he orders his posse to kidnap a human Japanese girl so he can talk to her about anime and stuff, but everything goes to hell and back (literally) with tons of random plot twists and jokes on popular manga series and stereotypes. (My favorite one was Oni-Qlo brand instead of the Uni-Qlo brand.) It's really entertaining if you can catch all the bad jokes.