Vampire Doll: Guilt-Na-Zan is a josei, supernatural, comedy manga written and illustrated by Erika Kari, consisting of 6 volumes. It tells the story of Guilt-na-Zan, a Vampire Lord who was sealed within a black cross for over a hundred years. When he is brought by his exorcist's descendent, Kyoji, he is forced to inhabit a feminine wax doll and work as his maid.
Vampire Doll: Guilt-Na-Zan and HELLSING both feature blood-sucking vampires that are vulnerable in the sunlight. While Bram Stoker's Dracula wasn't the first book to feature vampires, it was key to popularizing them throughout the world. Whether ineffectual like Guilt-na-Zan or vicious like Alucard, both owe a debt to the Impaler himself.
Vampire Doll: Guilt-Na-Zan and HELLSING both borrow from thousands of years of vampiric lore, mythology, and culture. In this ebook, Nick Groom unearths that bloody history, from its origins in death and disease, to its immortal place in popular culture today. Truly, it is a story to die for.
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Vampire Doll: Guilt-Na-Zan dresses some of its characters in elegant Gothic "Lolita" outfits. To the unaware, this may sound like a disturbing homage to the classic novel by Vladmir Nobokov. However, this Japanese subculture has little, if anything, to do with that book. In this ebook, Yuniya Kawamura goes over Gothic Lolita and other notable fashion trends in Japan.
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Vampire Doll: Guilt-Na-Zan and HELLSING both feature vampires in leading roles. However, the concept of a vampire in Japanese media is a lot broader than you might expect. In this video, YouTube anime and pop-culture reviewer Mother's Basement explores a few kinds of vampire anime content that exist, from the "fighty" to the "freaky", and everything in between.
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Vampire Doll: Guilt-Na-Zan's story contains a wide variety of "tropes" (or "common story elements"), from Elegant Gothic Lolita to Meido. TvTropes is a wiki dedicated to cataloging these tropes, providing notable examples from all kinds of media. It allows readers to browse these tropes by franchise and even find notable subversions where appropriate.
Vampire Doll: Guilt-Na-Zan has been exciting its audience since 2003. When researching the series for the first time, Wikipedia can make for a good, quick overview, while offering links and citations to other sources. When using it for academia purposes, however, be careful to examine the sources to make sure that any information is relevant and accurate.
Vampire Doll: Guilt-Na-Zan is a pretty obscure manga compared to some of the others in this LibGuide. In this newspaper article from the Honolulu Star, Wilma J. and Jason S. Yadao give their early impressions of the series and four other manga series that were published by Tokyopop around the same time.
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