This eventually led to her decision to set the manga in France. She had been invited as a guest to Japan Expo, which influenced Noé's fondness for the city. Paris was the first place she ever visited outside of Japan, which highly impressed her. Additionally, it had an effect on her fondness for stories with a dynamic between a young man and a girl, which influenced her handling of the protagonists. When she watched it, she was captivated by the tragic and fleeting existence of vampires, as well as the blood-sucking scenes, so those ideas were planted firmly in the author's mind.
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One of her influences to draw a vampire story was the 1994 movie Interview with the Vampire, which was based on the novel by Anne Rice. The usage of a steampunk setting was done because the author has been a fan of it for a long time and to contrast with her previous work. She started to draw more, believing they would be more appealing the more she practiced. The head editor told her to cut down on them since she was not skilled at them. There were multiple things she thought about doing after Pandora Hearts, like increasing the number of romance and battle elements. Everything else about The Case Study of Vanitas came from that one idea, and the general forms of Vanitas and Noé were then concluded. While sightseeing in Mont Saint-Michel, she mused about drawing the story of a single vampire who had watched over an island for about a hundred years. Vanitas was the first character she created during a trip to France.
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The duo that leads the series was inspired by Holmes and Watson.įor her next work after the manga Pandora Hearts, Jun Mochizuki wanted to draw vampires in a high school setting. The anime adaptation enjoyed a similar reception for its visuals and fantasy elements. The manga has been praised for the handling of its two main characters and the use of action sequences combined with effective comedy. An anime television series adaptation produced by Bones aired from July 2021 to April 2022.īy June 2021, The Case Study of Vanitas had over 5.5 million copies in circulation. She aimed to surpass her previous work, Pandora Hearts, by drawing more appealing fight scenes and focusing more on the themes involving hidden identities. Mochizuki was heavily inspired to write Vanitas following her first visit to France as well as by vampire films. The story focuses on the young Vanitas and the vampire Noé Archiviste in Vanitas's quest to heal cursed vampires through his grimoire called The Book of Vanitas.
The Case Study of Vanitas is set in a fictional 19th-century Paris and contains vampire and steampunk thematics. In North America, the manga is published in English by Yen Press.
It has been serialized in Square Enix's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Gangan Joker since December 2015. The Case Study of Vanitas ( Japanese: ヴァニタスの 手記 （ カルテ ）, Hepburn: Vanitasu no Karute) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Jun Mochizuki.
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