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* BadBoss: Captain Death Larsen of the ''Macedonia''. Popejoy used to be known as Hawkeye, but Death Larsen smashed one of his eyes in with his weighted rope. Larsen also killed some of his sleeping vampire passengers as a show of power to those who were awak.
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* BadBoss: Captain Death Larsen of the ''Macedonia''. Popejoy used to be known as Hawkeye, but Death Larsen smashed one of his eyes in with his weighted rope. Larsen also killed some of his sleeping vampire passengers as a show of power to those who were awak.awake. He's eventually rewarded for this behavior by a much deserved mutiny at the end of the novel, with him being tossed into the bay and Popejoy taking over as Captain.
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* KickTheDog: Instead of fighting Captain Kostaki and Mr. Bat, Dorakuraya cuts down the terrified catgirl Topazia Suzuki. Kotaki and Mr. Bat in turn cut him down.
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* KickTheDog: Instead of fighting Captain Kostaki and Mr. Bat, Dorakuraya cuts down the terrified catgirl Topazia Suzuki. Kotaki Kostaki and Mr. Bat [[KickTheSonOfABitch in turn cut him down.down]].
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* {{Youkai}}: It's a fantasy world Japan, so naturally they appear in this story.
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* {{Youkai}}: It's a fantasy world Japan, so naturally they appear in this story. They turn out to be vampires, just ones that push the shapeshifting a lot further than most.
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* DemonicPossession: Among the creeps that was the [=EarthGuard=] unit sent to the Bund, was a [[Manga/DeathNote teenaged serial murderer, Killer]] who had a demon constantly floating in his proximity and controlling the boy
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* DemonicPossession: Among the creeps that was the [=EarthGuard=] unit sent to the Bund, was a [[Manga/DeathNote teenaged serial murderer, Killer]] who had a demon constantly floating in his proximity and controlling the boyboy.
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* GentlemanThief: There's an infamous vampire thief that can turn into a shadow and do short-ranged teleportation. He tries to be a gentleman thief but he's a bit too much of a dick - being rather cowardly and not above robbing corpses. Jeperson isn't fond of the GentlemanThief idea, noting many of them were also hardened killers.
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* GentlemanThief: There's an infamous vampire thief that can turn into a shadow and do short-ranged teleportation. He tries to be a gentleman thief but he's a bit too much of a dick - being rather cowardly and not above robbing corpses. He gives his name as Anthony Peak -- which also happens to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupinus_antoninus a species of lupin]]. Jeperson isn't fond of the GentlemanThief idea, noting many of them were also hardened killers.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Both as a human warlord and a vampire, Dracula's MO is impaling his victims on metal spikes to demoralize his enemies, having killed thousands of people that way in both of his forms.
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* DemonicPossession: Among the creeps that was the [=EarthGuard=] unit sent to the Bund, was a [[Manga/DeathNote teenaged serial murderer, Killer]] who had a demon constantly floating in his proximity and controlling the boy
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* ExoticEntree: For the banquet at the party, Golden grade blood was being served on tap. Golden is banned in most countries according to Jeperson. He notes that families lease out their male children for a fortune to vampires. The young boys are then castrated and kept in a container to keep them artificially small while their blood ages. When the Golden is finished his career, he's vampirised so he can regrow his missing bits. In a bit of LaserGuidedKarma, some of the Golden escape during the battle and go around biting the vampires.
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* ExoticEntree: For the banquet at the party, Golden grade blood from special "pigs" was being served on tap. Golden is banned in most countries according to Jeperson. He notes that families lease out their male children for a fortune to vampires. The young boys are then castrated castrated, fattened and kept in a container to keep them artificially small while their blood ages. ages - the effect being a fat toddler in their late teens or early twenties. When the Golden is finished his career, he's often vampirised so he can regrow his missing bits. In a bit of LaserGuidedKarma, some of the Golden escape during the battle and go around biting the vampires.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Jeperson did a psychic reading on [=EarthGorce=]'s [[Manga/Golgo13 Colonel Golgotha]] a military wetworks specialist who keeps wearing aviator glasses. Jeperson is chilled to find barely a trickle of emotion from the man.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Penelope in the United States. Geneviève does make an appearance at the end of the novel as does fellow "Macedonians" Kostaki and Hamish Bond.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Penelope in the United States. Geneviève does make an appearance at the end of the novel as does fellow "Macedonians" (vampire exiles that came from the cruel ship Macedon) Kostaki and Hamish Bond.
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** Richard Jeperson learns that his tattoo "Geist 97" referred to a secret project in psionics and he has two sisters who are wreaking havok in Europe.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Before she actually appears in the epilogue, Sonja Blaue gets namedropped as an ultra-cool, leather-clad, sunglass-wearing vampire bounty hunter by Harold, who dreams of teaming with her.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: {{Foreshadowing}}: Before she actually appears in the epilogue, Sonja Blaue gets namedropped as an ultra-cool, leather-clad, sunglass-wearing vampire bounty hunter by Harold, who dreams of teaming with her.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Before she actually appears in the epilogue, Sonja Blaue gets namedropped as an ultra-cool, leather-clad, sunglass-wearing vampire bounty hunter by Harold, who dreams of teaming with her.
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* SequelHook: Nezumi and Harold Takahama save the day, and Jeperson phones up Geneviève to wish her "Happy 2000". Meanwhile in the US, major enemies of Dracula: Angel Investigation (Geneviève, Kate and Penelope), Kostaki, Hammish Bond and the daughter of the [[Literature/FuManchu Lord of Unusual Deaths]] are trying to puzzle out a mystery manor/deathtrap that involves a sinister person known as the Mad Doll.
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* SequelHook: Nezumi and Harold Takahama save the day, and Jeperson phones up Geneviève to wish her "Happy 2000". Meanwhile in the US, major enemies of Dracula: Angel Investigation (Geneviève, Kate and Penelope), Kostaki, Hammish Bond and the daughter of the [[Literature/FuManchu Lord of Unusual Deaths]] plus newcomer [[Literature/SonjaBlue Sonja Blaue]] are trying to puzzle out a mystery manor/deathtrap that involves a sinister person known as the Mad Doll.
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* KryptoniteFactor: Vampires are extremely vulnerable to silver, particularly as their wounds do not heal as quickly from it, though elder vampires gain a resistance to it. In Literature/DraculaChaChaCha Penelope, a vampire from the 19th century, mentioned she put her tongue against the silver-plated scalpel of Jack the Ripper and she got shocked into unconsciousness as a result.
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* KryptoniteFactor: Vampires are extremely vulnerable to silver, particularly as their wounds do not heal as quickly from it, it (vampire flesh actually pulls away from contact with silver), though elder vampires gain a resistance to it. In Literature/DraculaChaChaCha Penelope, a vampire from the 19th century, mentioned she put her tongue against the silver-plated scalpel of Jack the Ripper and she got shocked into unconsciousness as a result.
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* TheUnmasquedWorld: After Dracula takes over England and all the vampires come out of hiding. It is oddly zigzagged, vampires are known to be real and that can't be reversed. During the Terror, was a time of credulity where anything was believed no matter how ridiculous. After that important figures have taken to masquing powerful secret societies, true supernatural beings and whatnot from the public (Kate Reed cites this time of credulity as one reason why she won't write on the entity Mother of Tears).
* VampiresAreRich: Zigzagged. There are very rich vampires as Genevieve notes, with some shacking up with rich mortals and then inheriting their wealth after they die. But then, after discovering that Princess Asa is almost broke, Penelope notes that Elder vampires aren't used to dealing with money, having servants and lackeys to handle the numbers while they just spent. Genevieve herself is sometimes fairly wealthy as she has some successful investments over the years (though she still has to budget) while other times she needs a job and is at best middle-class, while Kate has to stay at the crappiest hotels because of her inconsistent income. Then there's John Alucard, who's a media mogul and drug kingpin with godlike wealth.
* VampiresAreRich: Zigzagged. There are very rich vampires as Genevieve notes, with some shacking up with rich mortals and then inheriting their wealth after they die. But then, after discovering that Princess Asa is almost broke, Penelope notes that Elder vampires aren't used to dealing with money, having servants and lackeys to handle the numbers while they just spent. Genevieve herself is sometimes fairly wealthy as she has some successful investments over the years (though she still has to budget) while other times she needs a job and is at best middle-class, while Kate has to stay at the crappiest hotels because of her inconsistent income. Then there's John Alucard, who's a media mogul and drug kingpin with godlike wealth.
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* TheUnmasquedWorld: After Dracula takes over England and all the vampires come out of hiding. It is oddly zigzagged, vampires are known to be real and that can't be reversed. During So during the Terror, was a time of credulity where anything was believed no matter how ridiculous. After that important figures have taken to masquing powerful secret societies, true supernatural beings and whatnot from the public (Kate Reed cites this time of credulity as one reason why she won't write on the entity Mother of Tears).
Tears). The world is going through another period of unmasquing as the 20th century is ending, with Johnny Alucard becoming a media giant and some events being too big to cover up as well as the advent of the internet.
* VampiresAreRich: Zigzagged. There are very rich vampires as Genevieve notes, with some shacking up with rich mortals and then inheriting their wealth after they die. But then, after discovering that Princess Asa is almost broke, Penelope notes that Elder vampires aren't used to dealing with money, having servants and lackeys to handle the numbers while they just spent. Genevieve herself is sometimes fairlywealthy well off as she has some successful investments over the years (though she still has to budget) while other times she needs a job and is at best middle-class, while Kate has to stay at the crappiest hotels because of her inconsistent income. Then there's John Alucard, who's a media mogul and drug kingpin with godlike wealth.
* VampiresAreRich: Zigzagged. There are very rich vampires as Genevieve notes, with some shacking up with rich mortals and then inheriting their wealth after they die. But then, after discovering that Princess Asa is almost broke, Penelope notes that Elder vampires aren't used to dealing with money, having servants and lackeys to handle the numbers while they just spent. Genevieve herself is sometimes fairly
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* {{Cyborg}}: Jun Zero has his bionic hand Lefty and [=EarthGuard=] enforcer, Caterpillar has been rebuilt into an armoured human tank with a flamethrower arm and a mace hand.
* CoolTank: On patrol of the Bund are high-tech tanks that are operated by a single man, D.K. the [=EarthGuard=] driver recalls being caught before by police using SpiderTank. And [[TanksButNoTanks while not a tank]], [=EarthGuard=] has the Armourdillo, a CoolAPC that's extremely large and has scalelike armour. Armourdillo also has a pointed prow and a cowcatcher. Armourdillo's windows are really tough and withstood the impact of a falling man, but these aren't quite strong enough to hold back frenzied yokai.
* CoolTank: On patrol of the Bund are high-tech tanks that are operated by a single man, D.K. the [=EarthGuard=] driver recalls being caught before by police using SpiderTank. And [[TanksButNoTanks while not a tank]], [=EarthGuard=] has the Armourdillo, a CoolAPC that's extremely large and has scalelike armour. Armourdillo also has a pointed prow and a cowcatcher. Armourdillo's windows are really tough and withstood the impact of a falling man, but these aren't quite strong enough to hold back frenzied yokai.
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* {{Cyborg}}: Jun Zero has his bionic hand Lefty and [=EarthGuard=] enforcer, Caterpillar has been rebuilt into an armoured human tank with a flamethrower arm and a mace hand.
* CoolTank: On patrol of the Bund are high-tech tanks that are operated byhand. As a single man, reward for success in his mission,[=EarthGuard=] driver, D.K. would be getting cybernetically grafted to Drive Kaiju supercar.
* CoolTank: On patrol of the Bund are high-tech one-man tanks, D.K. the [=EarthGuard=] driver recalls being caught before by police usingSpiderTank.SpiderTank vehicles. And [[TanksButNoTanks while not a tank]], [=EarthGuard=] has the Armourdillo, a CoolAPC that's extremely large and has scalelike armour. Armourdillo also has a pointed prow and a cowcatcher. Armourdillo's windows are really tough and withstood the impact of a falling man, but these aren't quite strong enough to hold back frenzied yokai.
* CoolTank: On patrol of the Bund are high-tech tanks that are operated by
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: Nezumi and Harold Takahama are the main characters and [=POVs=], though Richard Jeperson and Detective Azuma gets almost as much prominence.
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* MadeOfIron: Any vampire that has subdermal plating. Invented in the '80s Japan as an avante-garde art project, subdermal plating has made silver a lot less fearsome to vampires. With their regeneration, vampires can handle having strong contoured steel plates (sometimes with spikes and other nasty surprises) embedded under the skin and this greatly improves a vampire's staying power in a fight especially against silver weapons.
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* MadeOfIron: Any vampire that has subdermal plating. Invented in the '80s Japan as an avante-garde art project, subdermal plating has made silver a lot less fearsome to vampires. With their regeneration, vampires can handle having strong contoured steel plates (sometimes with spikes and other nasty surprises) embedded under the skin and this greatly improves a vampire's staying power in a fight especially against silver weapons. This mod is common for vampires with the Yakuza.
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* TheOlderImmortal: Molinar notes the irony of his service to Christina, he's a elder and she's still a newborn. But he's not the oldest vampire currently active. That goes to Nezumi who's over 1000 years old (her sire Yuki-Onna is mostly sleeping in this novel). After living so long, internally she tut-tuts many of the other vampires and yokai for their bad behaviour - wishing they'd act their age or realize that there's more to life than drinking blood, partying and getting rich. She even tut-tuts Jespers for his penchant for casual sex.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Not in this anime-influenced CyberPunk/superspy story. With all the mad scientists and secret organizations doing research, technology has improved well beyond what's available in real-life 1999 and some of it is actually available for public consumption such as low-grade bionics and advanced portable entertainment.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Not in this anime-influenced CyberPunk/superspy story. With all the mad scientists and secret organizations doing research, technology has improved well beyond what's available in real-life 1999 and some of it is actually available for public consumption such as low-grade bionics and advanced portable entertainment.
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* TheOlderImmortal: Molinar notes the irony of his service to Christina, he's a centuries old elder and she's still a newborn. But he's not the oldest vampire currently active. That goes to Nezumi who's over 1000 years old (her sire Yuki-Onna is mostly sleeping in this novel). After living so long, internally she tut-tuts many of the other vampires and yokai for their bad behaviour - wishing they'd act their age and be a "good egg" or realize that there's more to life than drinking blood, partying and getting rich. She even tut-tuts Jespers for his penchant for casual sex.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Not in this anime-influenced CyberPunk/superspy story. With all the mad scientists and secret organizations doingresearch, research plus [[WidgetSeries "Japanese weirdness"]], technology has improved well beyond what's available in real-life 1999 and some of it is actually available for public consumption such as low-grade bionics and advanced portable entertainment.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Not in this anime-influenced CyberPunk/superspy story. With all the mad scientists and secret organizations doing
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* NoodleIncident: Geneviève recalls that Christina isn't at full health, when she first fought Lord Majin. She remembered Kate Reed telling her of a humiliating incident involving Christina getting merged with a wall of the Tower of London during a protest against Dracula. More details emerge in the sequel story ''1999 Daikaiju''
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* NoodleIncident: Geneviève recalls that Christina isn't at full health, when she first fought Lord Majin. She remembered Kate Reed telling her of a humiliating incident involving Christina getting merged with a wall of the Tower of London during a protest terrorist campaign against Dracula. More details emerge in the sequel story ''1999 Daikaiju''
** The bioagent that Aum Draht was using is a dangerous fungus that will cause the victim to agonizingly sprout mushrooms where they were splashed and will have their body parts converted into puffballs that spread throughout the body. This fungus works even on vampires.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Drusilla Zark foresaw Jun Zero's diabolical plan and she added something that Jun never factored for - getting Nezumi invited as a special guest..
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* WhatHaveIDone: Richard Jeperson gets this reaction when he allows Lefty to plug into Christina's console and finds out Lefty is Jun Zero. Yeah he's trying to prevent her ascencion, which would allow her to take over the internet and drain people through almost any electronic medium. But at least she's more or less good if a WellIntentionedExtremist. Jun Zero intends to make the planet into a hellhole that was a combination of Film/ThePurge and other dystopian movies, simply ForTheEvulz
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* UndyingLoyalty: Christina Light had her "hooks" in Molinar ever since she accidentally whammied him in the Tower of London incident. Even after she's removed her power over him and is believed to be reduced to little more than a hologram in Daikaiju Plaza, he still goes back because his "Fairy Princess" needs him. Too bad [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle Christina's actually somewhere else...]].
* WhatHaveIDone: Richard Jeperson gets this reaction when he allows Lefty to plug into Christina's console and finds out Lefty is Jun Zero. Yeah he's trying to prevent her ascencion, which would allow her to take over the internet and drain people through almost any electronic medium. But at least she's more or less good if aWellIntentionedExtremist. WellIntentionedExtremist and there are lines she won't cross. Jun Zero intends to make the planet into a hellhole that was a combination of Film/ThePurge and other dystopian movies, simply ForTheEvulzForTheEvulz.
* WhatHaveIDone: Richard Jeperson gets this reaction when he allows Lefty to plug into Christina's console and finds out Lefty is Jun Zero. Yeah he's trying to prevent her ascencion, which would allow her to take over the internet and drain people through almost any electronic medium. But at least she's more or less good if a
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* LifeDrinker: How Christina feeds, she does this to an expy of Manga/CryingFreeman and as further show of power, she [[AnimatedTattoo animates the tattoos]] on his withered husk.
* NicheNetwork: The Christina Light channel is broadcast around the world, it's nothing but a glowing light. But it generates a mild MindManipulation effect that makes the viewer feel good and it allows Christina to feed as she can't drain blood.
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Not in this story. With all the mad scientists and secret organizations doing research, technology has improved well beyond what's available in real-life 1999 and some of it is actually available for public consumption such as low-grade bionics and advanced portable entertainment.
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Not in this anime-influenced CyberPunk/superspy story. With all the mad scientists and secret organizations doing research, technology has improved well beyond what's available in real-life 1999 and some of it is actually available for public consumption such as low-grade bionics and advanced portable entertainment.
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* LockedIntoStrangeness: After being fed on by a [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homonculus "clone" of dead vampiress Carmilla]] in Vampire Romance, Nezumi's hair is stuck at white
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* MadeOfIron: Any vampire that has subdermal plating. Invented in the '80s, subdermal plating has made silver a lot less fearsome to vampires. With their regeneration, vampires can handle having strong contoured steel plates embedded under the skin and this greatly improves a vampire's staying power in a fight especially against silver weapons.
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* MadeOfIron: Any vampire that has subdermal plating. Invented in the '80s, '80s Japan as an avante-garde art project, subdermal plating has made silver a lot less fearsome to vampires. With their regeneration, vampires can handle having strong contoured steel plates (sometimes with spikes and other nasty surprises) embedded under the skin and this greatly improves a vampire's staying power in a fight especially against silver weapons.
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* SequelHook: Nezumi and Harold Takahama save the day, and Jeperson phones up Geneviève to wish her "Happy 2000". Meanwhile in the US, major enemies of Dracula: Angel Investigation (Geneviève, Kate and Penelope), Kostaki, Hammish Bond and the daughter of the Lord of Unusual Deaths are trying to puzzle out a mystery manor/deathtrap that involves a sinister person known as the Mad Doll.
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* SequelHook: Nezumi and Harold Takahama save the day, and Jeperson phones up Geneviève to wish her "Happy 2000". Meanwhile in the US, major enemies of Dracula: Angel Investigation (Geneviève, Kate and Penelope), Kostaki, Hammish Bond and the daughter of the [[Literature/FuManchu Lord of Unusual Deaths Deaths]] are trying to puzzle out a mystery manor/deathtrap that involves a sinister person known as the Mad Doll.
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* WoundThatWillNotHeal: After being fed on by a {{Homonculus}} in Vampire Romance, Nezumi's hair is stuck at white
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* HiredGuns: Jeperson notes that Nezumi isn't actually one of his "Lovelies", she's just a schoolgirl that the Diogenes Club occasionally contracts when they want extra muscle. Besides the BoxedCrooks, General Gokemidoro's [=EarthGuard=] team is also composed of mercenaries.
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* HiredGuns: Jeperson notes that Nezumi isn't actually one of his "Lovelies", she's just a schoolgirl that the Diogenes Club occasionally contracts when they want extra muscle. Besides the BoxedCrooks, BoxedCrook recruits, General Gokemidoro's [=EarthGuard=] team is also composed of mercenaries.mercenaries plus a few regulars.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Dr. Akiba and his Australian teammate were the only good members of the General Gokemidoro [=EarthGuard=] team. That's why the others tried to assasinate them as part of the plan.
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* CyberPunk: An Anno Dracula version. Christina Light has gone from well-meaning anarchist to creating the MegaCorp "Light Industries", which while not malevolent, hasn't done anything to improve the lives of humans or vampires. Vapid pop culture like idol group Cham-Cham, rules the airwaves and numbs the populace. Tech cult Aum Draht who worship the "Wire" and attempted a bioterrorism incident. In the Bund, there are power armoured police with bladed yo-yos who chop off limbs and are hired on the basis of looks rather than competence. And of course a dangerous cyborg hacker...
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* CyberPunk: An Anno Dracula version. Christina Light has gone from well-meaning anarchist to creating the MegaCorp "Light Industries", which while not malevolent, hasn't done anything to improve the lives of humans or vampires. Vapid pop culture like idol group Cham-Cham, rules the airwaves and numbs the populace. Tech cult Aum Draht who worship the "Wire" (an alias of the evil Jun Zero) and attempted a bioterrorism incident. In the Bund, there are power armoured police with bladed yo-yos who chop off limbs and are hired on the basis of looks rather than competence. And of course a dangerous cyborg hacker...
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* BodyHorror: Dr. Akiba of the [=EarthGuard=] is slashed by D.K., the renegade [=EarthGuard=] driver, and pushed into a pack of ravenous yokai. They rip apart his face and tear up his chest, before he's able to save himself by injecting himself with vampire blood. The yokai then consider him one of them and let him go. His face is still mangled but the wounds on his chest start [[EyesDoNotBelongThere sprouting vestigial eyes]] and [[TooManyMouths fanged mouths]]. Those mouths are able to spit fangs out, as D.K. finds out. Eventually his facial wounds seal up and render him into TheFaceless.
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* BodyHorror: Dr. Akiba of the [=EarthGuard=] is slashed by D.K., the renegade [=EarthGuard=] driver, and pushed into a pack of ravenous yokai. They rip apart his face and tear up his chest, before he's able to save himself by injecting himself with vampire blood. blood but all those yokai bites corrupted the process. The yokai then consider him this newborn vampire/yokai one of them and let him go. His face is still mangled but the wounds on his chest start [[EyesDoNotBelongThere sprouting vestigial eyes]] and [[TooManyMouths mute fanged mouths]]. Those mouths are able to spit fangs out, as D.K. finds out. Eventually his facial wounds seal up and render him into TheFaceless.
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* {{Cyborg}}: Jun Zero has his bionic hand Lefty and one [=EarthGuard=] enforcer, Caterpillar has been rebuilt into an armoured human tank with a flamethrower arm and a mace hand.
* CoolTank: On patrol of the Bund are high-tech tanks that are operated by a single man, D.K. the [=EarthGuard=] driver recalls being caught before by police using SpiderTank. And [[TanksButNoTanks while not a tank]], [=EarthGuard=] has the Armourdillo, a CoolAPC that's extremely large and has a cowcatcher. Armourdillo has really tough windows, but these aren't quite strong enough to hold back frenzied yokai.
* CoolTank: On patrol of the Bund are high-tech tanks that are operated by a single man, D.K. the [=EarthGuard=] driver recalls being caught before by police using SpiderTank. And [[TanksButNoTanks while not a tank]], [=EarthGuard=] has the Armourdillo, a CoolAPC that's extremely large and has a cowcatcher. Armourdillo has really tough windows, but these aren't quite strong enough to hold back frenzied yokai.
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* {{Cyborg}}: Jun Zero has his bionic hand Lefty and one [=EarthGuard=] enforcer, Caterpillar has been rebuilt into an armoured human tank with a flamethrower arm and a mace hand.
* CoolTank: On patrol of the Bund are high-tech tanks that are operated by a single man, D.K. the [=EarthGuard=] driver recalls being caught before by police using SpiderTank. And [[TanksButNoTanks while not a tank]], [=EarthGuard=] has the Armourdillo, a CoolAPC that's extremely large and has scalelike armour. Armourdillo also has a pointed prow and a cowcatcher.Armourdillo has Armourdillo's windows are really tough windows, and withstood the impact of a falling man, but these aren't quite strong enough to hold back frenzied yokai.yokai.
* ComputerVirus: Inverted, Harold destroys Jun Zero not by uploading a computer virus into the system that Jun's in. Instead Harold finds the codes that's protecting the system from the "Millennium bug" and erases those. This crashes the system permanently and annihilates Jun Zero.
* CoolTank: On patrol of the Bund are high-tech tanks that are operated by a single man, D.K. the [=EarthGuard=] driver recalls being caught before by police using SpiderTank. And [[TanksButNoTanks while not a tank]], [=EarthGuard=] has the Armourdillo, a CoolAPC that's extremely large and has scalelike armour. Armourdillo also has a pointed prow and a cowcatcher.
* ComputerVirus: Inverted, Harold destroys Jun Zero not by uploading a computer virus into the system that Jun's in. Instead Harold finds the codes that's protecting the system from the "Millennium bug" and erases those. This crashes the system permanently and annihilates Jun Zero.
* ExoticEntree: For the banquet at the party, Golden grade blood was being served on tap. Golden is banned in most countries according to Jeperson. He notes that families lease out their male children for a fortune to vampires. The young boys are then castrated and kept in a container to keep them artificially small while their blood ages. When the Golden is finished his career, he's vampirised so he can regrow his missing bits. In a bit of LaserGuidedKarma, some of the Golden escape during the battle and go around biting the vampires.
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* FairCop: The 3 Sakis, wig-wearing vampires in blue armour and carrying [[KillerYoYo bladed yo-yos]], who were hired to help police the Bund
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* FairCop: The 3 Sakis, wig-wearing vampires in blue power armour and carrying [[KillerYoYo bladed yo-yos]], who were hired to help police the BundBund.
* GentlemanThief: There's an infamous vampire thief that can turn into a shadow and do short-ranged teleportation. He tries to be a gentleman thief but he's a bit too much of a dick - being rather cowardly and not above robbing corpses. Jeperson isn't fond of the GentlemanThief idea, noting many of them were also hardened killers.
* GentlemanThief: There's an infamous vampire thief that can turn into a shadow and do short-ranged teleportation. He tries to be a gentleman thief but he's a bit too much of a dick - being rather cowardly and not above robbing corpses. Jeperson isn't fond of the GentlemanThief idea, noting many of them were also hardened killers.
* GunshipRescue: Super-rich vampire Syrie Van Epp is the head of charity group Wings Over The World - a cover for a high tech strike force/rescue team. When the Daikaiju mech is moving about the Bund, Syrie calls her team to send advanced gunship Black Manta to save the day. The Black Manta is so heavily armored that the Daikaiju's anti-aircraft guns just bounce off it, but it can't withstand the EyeBeams and the Manta's missiles aren't hurting the mech, so they fly into Daikaiju's open mouth and disembark. The ascencion has already been stopped, but the Wings team is able to help round up bad guys and call in a FlyingSaucer and [=EvangeLION=] mechs to provide medical attention.
* HiredGuns: Jeperson notes that Nezumi isn't actually one of his "Lovelies", she's just a schoolgirl that the Diogenes Club occasionally contracts when they want extra muscle. Besides the BoxedCrooks, General Gokemidoro's [=EarthGuard=] team is also composed of mercenaries.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Jun Zero had almost all of his own personality sucked out of his body to create NiceGuy Harold Takahama, while having his original persona uploaded in a bionic hand. Harold would be the one to kill Jun Zero.
* HumongousMecha: Daikaiju Plaza is a Godzilla-shaped tower with one golden eye and one crimson. People think it's Christina vanity project. What it turns out to be is giant mech with anti-aircraft turrets and powerful EyeBeams.
* IHatePastMe: Learning what a monster Jun Zero is, Harold happily obliterates his old self.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Incorruptible and with a morality guided by "all girl school" fiction, Nezumi is the one individual that everyone expected to pass Christina's test of purity. She doesn't even like blood, almost throwing up when some splashed in her mouth.
* LamarckWasRight: Averted. Nezumi was sired by Yuki-Onna and may even be one of the biological children of the godlike Snow Witch and a woodcutter. Yuki-Onna can snowstorm an entire country for decades, Nezumi is fast even for an elder vampire but that's it.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Jun Zero had almost all of his own personality sucked out of his body to create NiceGuy Harold Takahama, while having his original persona uploaded in a bionic hand. Harold would be the one to kill Jun Zero.
* HumongousMecha: Daikaiju Plaza is a Godzilla-shaped tower with one golden eye and one crimson. People think it's Christina vanity project. What it turns out to be is giant mech with anti-aircraft turrets and powerful EyeBeams.
* IHatePastMe: Learning what a monster Jun Zero is, Harold happily obliterates his old self.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Incorruptible and with a morality guided by "all girl school" fiction, Nezumi is the one individual that everyone expected to pass Christina's test of purity. She doesn't even like blood, almost throwing up when some splashed in her mouth.
* LamarckWasRight: Averted. Nezumi was sired by Yuki-Onna and may even be one of the biological children of the godlike Snow Witch and a woodcutter. Yuki-Onna can snowstorm an entire country for decades, Nezumi is fast even for an elder vampire but that's it.
* MoralityPet: Nezumi is this to Harold. It's her example that pushes him to rebel against Lefty. At the end of story, it's implied Christina will be his new MoralityPet.
* TheOlderImmortal: Molinar notes the irony of his service to Christina, he's a elder and she's still a newborn. But he's not the oldest vampire currently active. That goes to Nezumi who's over 1000 years old (her sire Yuki-Onna is mostly sleeping in this novel). After living so long, internally she tut-tuts many of the other vampires and yokai for their bad behaviour - wishing they'd act their age or realize that there's more to life than drinking blood, partying and getting rich. She even tut-tuts Jespers for his penchant for casual sex.
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* TooPowerfulToLive: Richard Jeperson and a number of other parties feel this about Christina, once they release her ascension means her joining with the internet and becoming a god there.
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* WhatHaveIDone: Richard Jeperson gets this reaction when he allows Lefty to plug into Christina's console and finds out Lefty is Jun Zero. Yeah he's trying to prevent her ascencion, which would allow her to take over the internet and drain people through almost any electronic medium. But at least she's more or less good if a WellIntentionedExtremist. Jun Zero intends to make the planet into a hellhole that was a combination of Film/ThePurge and other dystopian movies, simply ForTheEvulz
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: After being fed on by a {{Homonculus}} in Vampire Romance, Nezumi's hair is stuck at white
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: After being fed on by a {{Homonculus}} in Vampire Romance, Nezumi's hair is stuck at white
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* SequelHook: Nezumi and Harold Takahama save the day, and Jeperson phones up Geneviève to wish her "Happy 2000". Meanwhile in the US, major of enemies of Dracula: Angel Investigation (Geneviève, Kate and Penelope), Kostaki, Hammish Bond and the daughter of the Lord of Unusual Deaths are trying to puzzle out a mystery manor/deathtrap that involves a sinister person known as the Mad Doll.
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* SequelHook: Nezumi and Harold Takahama save the day, and Jeperson phones up Geneviève to wish her "Happy 2000". Meanwhile in the US, major of enemies of Dracula: Angel Investigation (Geneviève, Kate and Penelope), Kostaki, Hammish Bond and the daughter of the Lord of Unusual Deaths are trying to puzzle out a mystery manor/deathtrap that involves a sinister person known as the Mad Doll.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Penelope in the United States. Geneviève, Kate and Penelope do make an appearance at the end of the novel as does Kostaki.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Penelope in the United States. Geneviève, Kate and Penelope do Geneviève does make an appearance at the end of the novel as does Kostaki.fellow "Macedonians" Kostaki and Hamish Bond.
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* SequelHook: Nezumi and Harold Takahama save the day, and Jeperson phones up Geneviève to wish her "Happy 2000". Meanwhile in the US, major of enemies of Dracula: Angel Investigation (Geneviève, Kate and Penelope), Kostaki, Hammish Bond and the daughter of the Lord of Unusual Deaths are trying to puzzle out a mystery manor/deathtrap that involves a sinister person known as the Mad Doll.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: Nezumi and Richard Jeperson are the main characters and [=POVs=], though Detective Azuma gets almost as much prominence.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: Nezumi and Richard Jeperson Harold Takahama are the main characters and [=POVs=], though Richard Jeperson and Detective Azuma gets almost as much prominence.
* MemoryGambit: In order to survive Christina's test of purity, Jun Zero had a chiropteran drain all but the best parts of his memory and personality to manufacture the Harold Takahama persona. It was the bionic hand, Lefty that contained the [[BrainUploading uploaded full persona of Jun Zero]].
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina and her or Kate Reed often feature in important vampire events, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Penelope in the United States. Both Kate and Geneviève do get mentioned in the novel.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina and her or Kate Reed often feature in important vampire events, Christina, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Penelope in the United States. Both States. Geneviève, Kate and Geneviève Penelope do get mentioned in make an appearance at the novel.end of the novel as does Kostaki.
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* SealedGoodInACan: Christina survives the hijacking of her apotheosis by uploading herself into the now-empty Lefty while her comatose quasi-physical body remains in her chamber.
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* FairCop: The 3 Sakis, wig-wearing vampires in blue armour and carrying bladed yo-yos, who were hired to help police the Bund
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* FairCop: The 3 Sakis, wig-wearing vampires in blue armour and carrying [[KillerYoYo bladed yo-yos, yo-yos]], who were hired to help police the Bund
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* RenegadeSplinterFaction: Barring a few members, the [=EarthGuard=] team that wasn't sent to the Bund is one allied to the militant General Gokemidoro, who's connected to the fanatical Black Ocean organization.
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* RenegadeSplinterFaction: Barring a few members, the [=EarthGuard=] team that wasn't was sent to the Bund is one allied to the militant General Gokemidoro, who's connected to the fanatical Black Ocean organization.
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* {{Youkai}}: As a direct sequel to ''One Thousand Monsters'', these beings appear again.
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* {{Youkai}}: As a direct sequel to ''One Thousand Monsters'', these beings appear again.again - some of whom were the ones that took part in the clash between Yokai Town and the Black Ocean.
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* BodyHorror: Dr. Akai of the [=EarthGuard=] is slashed by D.K., the renegade [=EarthGuard=] driver, and pushed into a pack of ravenous yokai. They rip apart his face and tear up his chest, before he's able to save himself by injecting himself with vampire blood. The yokai then consider him one of them and let him go. His face is still mangled but the wounds on his chest start [[EyesDoNotBelongThere sprouting eyes]] and [[TooManyMouths fanged mouths]]. Those mouths are able to spit fangs out, as D.K. finds out.
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* BodyHorror: Dr. Akai Akiba of the [=EarthGuard=] is slashed by D.K., the renegade [=EarthGuard=] driver, and pushed into a pack of ravenous yokai. They rip apart his face and tear up his chest, before he's able to save himself by injecting himself with vampire blood. The yokai then consider him one of them and let him go. His face is still mangled but the wounds on his chest start [[EyesDoNotBelongThere sprouting vestigial eyes]] and [[TooManyMouths fanged mouths]]. Those mouths are able to spit fangs out, as D.K. finds out. Eventually his facial wounds seal up and render him into TheFaceless.
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* {{Cyborg}}: Jun Zero has his bionic hand Lefty and one [=EarthGuard=] enforcer has been rebuilt into a treaded human tank with a flamethrower arm and a mace hand.
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* {{Cyborg}}: Jun Zero has his bionic hand Lefty and one [=EarthGuard=] enforcer enforcer, Caterpillar has been rebuilt into a treaded an armoured human tank with a flamethrower arm and a mace hand.
* FairCop: The 3 Sakis, wig-wearing vampires in blue armour and carrying bladed yo-yos, who were hired to help police the Bund
* GreenEyedMonster: Radu is extremely envious of brother Vlad. Vlad is the Impaler, TheDreaded amongst humans and vampires for centuries. Radu is largely forgotten and his title "The Handsome" was actually a backhanded compliment as it meant soft (Radu mentions that behind his back, people would also refer to him as "The Pouffe").
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* MadScientist: Dr. Pretorius has been working for Christina, while the Key Man of [=Earthforce=] turns out to be an infamous scientist who's a protected war criminal for experiments done against humans and vampires in [=WW2=].
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* MadScientist: Dr. Pretorius has been working for Christina, while the Key Man of [=Earthforce=] turns out to be Dr. Komodo, an infamous scientist who's a protected war criminal for experiments done against humans and vampires in [=WW2=].
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* NamedWeapons: Nezumi brought her favourite weapon to the party, the mastercrafted katana that had been silver-plated in England. Turns out she's named it "Long Kiss Goodnight". The [=EarthGuard=] vampire, Cottonmouth, names her guns and knives.
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* NamedWeapons: Nezumi brought her favourite weapon to the party, the mastercrafted katana that had been silver-plated in England. Turns out she's named it "Long Kiss Goodnight". "Good Night Kiss". The [=EarthGuard=] vampire, Cottonmouth, names her guns guns, Simon Smith and knives.Amazing Dancing Bear, and her knives "Captain" and "Tennile".
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* RenegadeSplinterFaction: Barring a few members, the [=EarthGuard=] team that wasn't sent to the Bund is one allied to the militant General Gokemidoro, who's connected to the fanatical Black Ocean organization.
* TooPowerfulToLive: Richard Jeperson and a number of other parties feel this about Christina, once they release her ascension means her joining with the internet and becoming a god there.
* UnseenNoMore: Radu Dracul was once mentioned in the first Anno Dracula book. "The Handsome" finally appears.
* TooPowerfulToLive: Richard Jeperson and a number of other parties feel this about Christina, once they release her ascension means her joining with the internet and becoming a god there.
* UnseenNoMore: Radu Dracul was once mentioned in the first Anno Dracula book. "The Handsome" finally appears.
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* CyberPunk: An Anno Dracula version. Christina Light has gone from well-meaning anarchist to creating the MegaCorp "Light Industries", which while not malevolent, hasn't done anything to improve the lives of humans or vampires. Vapid pop culture like idol group Cham-Cham, rules the airwaves and numbs the populace. Tech cult Aum Draht who worship the "Wire" and attempted a bioterrorism incident. In the Bund there are power armoured police with bladed yo-yos in the Bund who chop off limbs and are hired on the basis of looks rather than competence. And of course a dangerous cyborg hacker...
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* CyberPunk: An Anno Dracula version. Christina Light has gone from well-meaning anarchist to creating the MegaCorp "Light Industries", which while not malevolent, hasn't done anything to improve the lives of humans or vampires. Vapid pop culture like idol group Cham-Cham, rules the airwaves and numbs the populace. Tech cult Aum Draht who worship the "Wire" and attempted a bioterrorism incident. In the Bund Bund, there are power armoured police with bladed yo-yos in the Bund who chop off limbs and are hired on the basis of looks rather than competence. And of course a dangerous cyborg hacker...
* BodyHorror: Dr. Akai of the [=EarthGuard=] is slashed by D.K., the renegade [=EarthGuard=] driver, and pushed into a pack of ravenous yokai. They rip apart his face and tear up his chest, before he's able to save himself by injecting himself with vampire blood. The yokai then consider him one of them and let him go. His face is still mangled but the wounds on his chest start [[EyesDoNotBelongThere sprouting eyes]] and [[TooManyMouths fanged mouths]]. Those mouths are able to spit fangs out, as D.K. finds out.
* BookDumb: Turns out Nezumi has the memory of a goldfish when it comes to learning most school subjects, which is why she's still spending decades trying to graduate middle school. However if a subject involves combat, survival training and related, she'll master it and the lessons will stick.
* {{Cyborg}}: Jun Zero has his bionic hand Lefty and one [=EarthGuard=] enforcer has been rebuilt into a treaded human tank with a flamethrower arm and a mace hand.
* CoolTank: On patrol of the Bund are high-tech tanks that are operated by a single man, D.K. the [=EarthGuard=] driver recalls being caught before by police using SpiderTank. And [[TanksButNoTanks while not a tank]], [=EarthGuard=] has the Armourdillo, a CoolAPC that's extremely large and has a cowcatcher. Armourdillo has really tough windows, but these aren't quite strong enough to hold back frenzied yokai.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Nezumi and Richard Jeperson are the main characters and [=POVs=], though Detective Azuma gets almost as much prominence.
* BookDumb: Turns out Nezumi has the memory of a goldfish when it comes to learning most school subjects, which is why she's still spending decades trying to graduate middle school. However if a subject involves combat, survival training and related, she'll master it and the lessons will stick.
* {{Cyborg}}: Jun Zero has his bionic hand Lefty and one [=EarthGuard=] enforcer has been rebuilt into a treaded human tank with a flamethrower arm and a mace hand.
* CoolTank: On patrol of the Bund are high-tech tanks that are operated by a single man, D.K. the [=EarthGuard=] driver recalls being caught before by police using SpiderTank. And [[TanksButNoTanks while not a tank]], [=EarthGuard=] has the Armourdillo, a CoolAPC that's extremely large and has a cowcatcher. Armourdillo has really tough windows, but these aren't quite strong enough to hold back frenzied yokai.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Nezumi and Richard Jeperson are the main characters and [=POVs=], though Detective Azuma gets almost as much prominence.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: [=EarthGuard=] is an Asian and Australian joint agency for protecting the planet against any threats, from bioterrorism to a possible alien or supernatural invasion.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: Originally a Japan Self Defense Force special unit, [=EarthGuard=] is an Asian and Australian Anzac joint agency for protecting the planet against any threats, from bioterrorism to a possible alien or supernatural invasion.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina and her or Kate Reed often feature in important vampire events, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Penelope in the United States.
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* MadScientist: Dr. Pretorius has been working for Christina, while the Key Man of [=Earthforce=] turns out to be an infamous scientist who's a protected war criminal for experiments done against humans and vampires in [=WW2=].
* MadeOfIron: Any vampire that has subdermal plating. Invented in the '80s, subdermal plating has made silver a lot less fearsome to vampires. With their regeneration, vampires can handle having strong contoured steel plates embedded under the skin and this greatly improves a vampire's staying power in a fight especially against silver weapons.
* NamedWeapons: Nezumi brought her favourite weapon to the party, the mastercrafted katana that had been silver-plated in England. Turns out she's named it "Long Kiss Goodnight". The [=EarthGuard=] vampire, Cottonmouth, names her guns and knives.
* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina and her or Kate Reed often feature in important vampire events, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Penelope in the United States. Both Kate and Geneviève do get mentioned in the novel.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Not in this story. With all the mad scientists and secret organizations doing research, technology has improved well beyond what's available in real-life 1999 and some of it is actually available for public consumption such as low-grade bionics and advanced portable entertainment.
* MadeOfIron: Any vampire that has subdermal plating. Invented in the '80s, subdermal plating has made silver a lot less fearsome to vampires. With their regeneration, vampires can handle having strong contoured steel plates embedded under the skin and this greatly improves a vampire's staying power in a fight especially against silver weapons.
* NamedWeapons: Nezumi brought her favourite weapon to the party, the mastercrafted katana that had been silver-plated in England. Turns out she's named it "Long Kiss Goodnight". The [=EarthGuard=] vampire, Cottonmouth, names her guns and knives.
* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina and her or Kate Reed often feature in important vampire events, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Penelope in the United States. Both Kate and Geneviève do get mentioned in the novel.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Not in this story. With all the mad scientists and secret organizations doing research, technology has improved well beyond what's available in real-life 1999 and some of it is actually available for public consumption such as low-grade bionics and advanced portable entertainment.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina and her or Kate Reed often feature in important vampire events, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Pamela Penelope in the United States.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: [=EarthGuard=] is an Asian and Australian joint agency for protecting the planet against any threats, from bioterrorism to a possible alien or supernatural invasion.
* HardboiledDetective: Detective Azuma was every criminal's worst nightmare and that was before he became a vampire with an extra set of [[WolverineClaws fangs on his knuckles]]. His penchant for some PoliceBrutality is overlooked by his superiors because of his outstanding record in finishing a case.
* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina and her or Kate Reed often feature in important vampire events, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Pamela in the United States.
* HardboiledDetective: Detective Azuma was every criminal's worst nightmare and that was before he became a vampire with an extra set of [[WolverineClaws fangs on his knuckles]]. His penchant for some PoliceBrutality is overlooked by his superiors because of his outstanding record in finishing a case.
* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Geneviève has history with the Bund and Christina and her or Kate Reed often feature in important vampire events, but Geneviève doesn't like the Christina much and opted to spend 1999's handover with Kate and Pamela in the United States.
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* TheBusCameBack: Captain Kostaki returns as a POV character after a 25 year absence since he was imprisoned at the end of the original ''Anno Dracula''.
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* TheBusCameBack: Captain Kostaki returns as a POV character after a 25 year absence since he was imprisoned at the end of the original ''Anno Dracula''. From the same story - Mr. Yam, the Chinese Vampire assassin who completely fucked up Geneviève, also returns.
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* TheCassandra: [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads Drusilla]] [[Series/TheManFromUNCLE Zark]]. Most of the cast ignores her precognitive warnings because she comes off as a [[MadOracle Mad Oracle]]. Through the novel it becomes apparent she is accurately predicting later events in the story and what the characters will do, their fates, often in vague ways. At certain points she even hints at the events of the upcoming sequel ''Anno Dracula 1999''. Kostaki begins to take her predictions a bit more seriously, and she has moments of lucidity in her predictions, going in and out of them.
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* TheCassandra: [[Characters/BuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads Drusilla]] [[Series/TheManFromUNCLE Zark]]. Most of the cast ignores her precognitive warnings because she comes off as a [[MadOracle Mad Oracle]]. Through the novel it becomes apparent she is accurately predicting later events in the story and what the characters will do, their fates, often in vague ways. At certain points she even hints at the events of the upcoming sequel ''Anno Dracula 1999''.1999 DaiKaiju''. Kostaki begins to take her predictions a bit more seriously, and she has moments of lucidity in her predictions, going in and out of them.
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* CoolSword: Captain Kostaki's silvered Carracks Black Sword from his Knights Templar days.
* CurbstompCushion: In the series, mobs of humans versus vampires results in staked vampires. Not in this case...the Black Ocean had no chance of winning. The Black Ocean were professional soldiers going up against a mishmash force of yokai. To keep themselves brave against the yokai, the soldiers were dosed with drugs that made them berserk but was slowly poisoning them. It also wasn't like London where mobs of thugs would be finding prostitutes that were days-old vampires, many of the Yokai were tough old survivors and their numbers also included criminal thugs, the occasional warriors and some powerful entities (this was before Christina Light and Yuki-Onna joined the fight). They also had help from awakened London refugees which included mercenaries, secret agents, the best Chinese vampire assassin and failed super-soldiers. The Black Ocean equipment advantage was minimal, as many of the yokai were armed or had great natural weapons and they looted dead soldiers for guns. The Black Ocean were rushed as Lord Majin had to act much sooner then planned and they were outnumbered to start, with no reinforcements as the troops at the back were forced to shut the gates to prevent the rampaging yokai from breaking out. The Black Ocean did manage to kill a fair number of locals, with Clare Millinger, Lord Majin with his mech and some of the freakier Black Ocean fighters accounting for the majority of the kills.
* CurbstompCushion: In the series, mobs of humans versus vampires results in staked vampires. Not in this case...the Black Ocean had no chance of winning. The Black Ocean were professional soldiers going up against a mishmash force of yokai. To keep themselves brave against the yokai, the soldiers were dosed with drugs that made them berserk but was slowly poisoning them. It also wasn't like London where mobs of thugs would be finding prostitutes that were days-old vampires, many of the Yokai were tough old survivors and their numbers also included criminal thugs, the occasional warriors and some powerful entities (this was before Christina Light and Yuki-Onna joined the fight). They also had help from awakened London refugees which included mercenaries, secret agents, the best Chinese vampire assassin and failed super-soldiers. The Black Ocean equipment advantage was minimal, as many of the yokai were armed or had great natural weapons and they looted dead soldiers for guns. The Black Ocean were rushed as Lord Majin had to act much sooner then planned and they were outnumbered to start, with no reinforcements as the troops at the back were forced to shut the gates to prevent the rampaging yokai from breaking out. The Black Ocean did manage to kill a fair number of locals, with Clare Millinger, Lord Majin with his mech and some of the freakier Black Ocean fighters accounting for the majority of the kills.
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* CoolSword: Captain Kostaki's silvered Carracks Black Sword from his Knights Templar days.
days. Dorakuraya wants to enlist Kostaki as it's one of the few weapons capable of killing Yuki-Onna.
* CurbstompCushion: In the series, mobs of humans versus vampires results in staked vampires. Not in this case...the Black Ocean had no chance of winning.The Black Ocean were professional soldiers going up against a mishmash force of yokai. To keep themselves brave Their weapon and training advantages was actually miniscule against the yokai, the soldiers were dosed with drugs that made them berserk but was slowly poisoning them. It also wasn't like London where mobs of thugs would be finding prostitutes that were days-old vampires, many of the Yokai were tough old survivors and their Vampires numbers also included criminal thugs, the occasional warriors (many of whom were armed or picked up guns from fallen Black Ocean), ferocity and some powerful entities (this was powers (that's before the Yuki-Onna and Christina Light and Yuki-Onna fusion joined the fight). They also had help from awakened London refugees which included mercenaries, secret agents, the best Chinese vampire assassin and failed super-soldiers. The Black Ocean equipment advantage was minimal, as many of the yokai were armed or had great natural weapons and they looted dead soldiers for guns. The Black Ocean were rushed as Lord Majin had to act much sooner then planned and they were outnumbered to start, with no reinforcements as the troops at the back were forced to shut the gates to prevent the rampaging yokai from breaking out. fight). The Black Ocean did manage to kill a fair number of locals, with Clare Millinger, Lord Majin with his mech and some of the freakier Black Ocean fighters accounting for the majority of the kills.
* CurbstompCushion: In the series, mobs of humans versus vampires results in staked vampires. Not in this case...the Black Ocean had no chance of winning.
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* TheJuggernaut: The vampire murderess Clare Mallinger is eaten from within by a Black Ocean-aligned jorogumo. The result is a GiantSpider with [[AbsurdlySharpBlade scythe blade arms that can cut through a kappa's shell with ease]], [[NighInvulnerable carapace so strong that silver and steel blades just bounce off it (as do explosive rockets)]] and when her eyes are shot out with silver bullets they regenerate seconds later. Additionally she can breathe out deadly swarms of vampire butterflies and grows bigger as she eats more enemies. Clare's as invincible as it sounds, she's stopped only when she meets the even mightier juggernaut in the Christina Light/Yuki-Onna fusion.
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* TheJuggernaut: The vampire murderess Clare Mallinger is eaten from within by a Black Ocean-aligned jorogumo. The result is a GiantSpider with [[AbsurdlySharpBlade scythe blade arms that can cut through a kappa's shell with ease]], [[NighInvulnerable carapace so strong that silver and steel blades just bounce off it (as do explosive rockets)]] and when her eyes are shot out with silver bullets they regenerate seconds later. Additionally she can [[BreathWeapon breathe out out]] deadly swarms of [[TheSwarm vampire butterflies butterflies]] and grows bigger as she eats more enemies. Clare's as invincible as it sounds, she's stopped only when she meets the even mightier juggernaut in the Christina Light/Yuki-Onna fusion.
* NoodleIncident: Geneviève recalls that Christina isn't at full health, when she first fought Lord Majin. She remembered Kate Reed telling her of a humiliating incident involving Christina getting merged with a wall of the Tower of London during a protest against Dracula. More details emerge in the sequel story ''1999 Daikaiju''
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: All those weird and wily Yokai...they're just a different lineage of vampire.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: All those weird and wily Yokai...they're just a different lineage of vampire.
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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: There's a celebration for Christina Light's upcoming transition, though in her case, it's more going on to an even higher state than the one she ascended to in ''One Thousand Monsters''.
* CyberPunk: An Anno Dracula version. Christina Light has gone from well-meaning anarchist to creating the MegaCorp "Light Industries", which while not malevolent, hasn't done anything to improve the lives of humans or vampires. Vapid pop culture like idol group Cham-Cham, rules the airwaves and numbs the populace. Tech cult Aum Draht who worship the "Wire" and attempted a bioterrorism incident. In the Bund there are power armoured police with bladed yo-yos in the Bund who chop off limbs and are hired on the basis of looks rather than competence. And of course a dangerous cyborg hacker...
* ADayInTheLimelight: Japanese elder vampire Nezumi had featured a few times as a minor character. Here she's the main protagonist.
* {{Expy}}: The Bund a.k.a Cassamassima Bay is clearly an expy of Hong Kong, right down to the hand-off back to the original country after a 100 year lease. The Aum Draht cult is based on Aum Shinrikyo but with a cyberpunk flair.
* RememberTheNewGuy: The story debuts Molinar, Light Industries head of security. He was a Vampire Elder born during Cortez's destruction of the Aztecs and former member of the Carpathian Guard. He's also one of the refugees that accompanied Geneviève and Christina during the exile and was Christina's bodyguard with him being spellbound to Christina during the time she was merged with the Tower of London after Kate Reed pushed her in.
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* CyberPunk: An Anno Dracula version. Christina Light has gone from well-meaning anarchist to creating the MegaCorp "Light Industries", which while not malevolent, hasn't done anything to improve the lives of humans or vampires. Vapid pop culture like idol group Cham-Cham, rules the airwaves and numbs the populace. Tech cult Aum Draht who worship the "Wire" and attempted a bioterrorism incident. In the Bund there are power armoured police with bladed yo-yos in the Bund who chop off limbs and are hired on the basis of looks rather than competence. And of course a dangerous cyborg hacker...
* ADayInTheLimelight: Japanese elder vampire Nezumi had featured a few times as a minor character. Here she's the main protagonist.
* {{Expy}}: The Bund a.k.a Cassamassima Bay is clearly an expy of Hong Kong, right down to the hand-off back to the original country after a 100 year lease. The Aum Draht cult is based on Aum Shinrikyo but with a cyberpunk flair.
* RememberTheNewGuy: The story debuts Molinar, Light Industries head of security. He was a Vampire Elder born during Cortez's destruction of the Aztecs and former member of the Carpathian Guard. He's also one of the refugees that accompanied Geneviève and Christina during the exile and was Christina's bodyguard with him being spellbound to Christina during the time she was merged with the Tower of London after Kate Reed pushed her in.
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* ''Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju''. A hundred years after ''One Thousand Monsters'', the millenial celebrations in the former Yōkai Town herald the ascension of Christina Light. Richard Jepperson of the Diogenes Club has to find out what that means, and if it's something he needs to stop. But there are more forces at work than anyone realises.
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* ''Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju''. A hundred years after ''One Thousand Monsters'', the millenial celebrations in the former Yōkai Town herald the ascension of Christina Light. Richard Jepperson of the Diogenes Club has to find out what that means, and if it's something he needs to stop.
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Several characters have this as a goal, with ''Daikaiju'' focusing on [[spoiler: Christine Light and Jun Zero's attempts to become online deities]].
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* FantasyKitchenSink: As well as many different strains of vampire, the series features or refers to zombies (a vampiric strain), Mr Hyde, werewolves, aliens, magicians...
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* MonsterDelay: Dracula rarely and only briefly appears in the series, ensuring that his presence remains impactful. In ''Anno Dracula'' he only appears at the climax, after his presence has been felt on every page.
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* StrongerWithAge: As a general rule, the older a vampire is, the stronger (and more in control of its powers) it becomes.
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* AdaptationalWeakness: Vampires in this series do not need to be staked in the heart. The stabbing or removal of any major organ may be sufficient, although using a weapon not made of silver risks the vampire healing from the injury before they die.
* FantasticDrug: Small amounts of vampire blood can give humans temporary vampire traits (such as enhanced senses, vampiric speed and fangs) without turning them, and is portrayed as highly addictive. Alucard gets the idea to drain himself after feeding copiously to harvest large amounts of vampire blood, then drying and crushing the blood to make a snortable powder called "D".
** Ironically, the popularity of D can lead to an inversion of the usual vampire-human relationship, where humans hunt down and trap vampires to harvest their blood.
** Ironically, the popularity of D can lead to an inversion of the usual vampire-human relationship, where humans hunt down and trap vampires to harvest their blood.
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* KryptoniteFactor: Vampires are extremely vulnerable to silver, though elder vampires gain a resistance to it. In Literature/DraculaChaChaCha Penelope, a vampire from the 19th century, mentioned she put her tongue against the silver-plated scalpel of Jack the Ripper and she got shocked into unconsciousness as a result.
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* KryptoniteFactor: Vampires are extremely vulnerable to silver, particularly as their wounds do not heal as quickly from it, though elder vampires gain a resistance to it. In Literature/DraculaChaChaCha Penelope, a vampire from the 19th century, mentioned she put her tongue against the silver-plated scalpel of Jack the Ripper and she got shocked into unconsciousness as a result.result.
** Interestingly, most traditional weaknesses of vampires (crucifixes, running water, garlic etc.) are simply psychological, and so are usually only useful against newborns who are still afraid of them.
** Interestingly, most traditional weaknesses of vampires (crucifixes, running water, garlic etc.) are simply psychological, and so are usually only useful against newborns who are still afraid of them.
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** Taken up to eleven in ''One Thousand Monsters'', where the Western vampires encounter many bizarre Japanese strains of vampirism, some of which are not even recognisable as once human.
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* FantasticGhetto: Yokai Town is Japan's dumping ground for every vampire in the country, as well as any foreign vampires that land on its shores.
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* WeirdHistoricalWar: ''The Bloody Red Baron'' is set in the Great War, but with vampires. Interestingly the characters doubt that the war could have occurred if vampires didn't exist.
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* FantasticLegalWeirdness: It's mentioned in the second book that the British government have effectively changed Britain's consitution: vampires in the royal line of succession are considered as dead, and so are passed over. This aims to prevent another immortal tyrant like Dracula, or Dracula again installing a vampire puppet on the throne.
