History Manga / TheLaughingVampire

** Luna has a nightmare where she's attacked by a flock of crows, which ends with them pecking out her eyes.
** [[spoiler:The dark-skinned vampire]] gets a dagger thrown into one of his eyes.

** Mori kills [[spoiler:the dark-skinned vampire]] by decapitating him with an axe.

** A street vendor is beaten up a couple of times by two of Mori, Luna, and Satoo's classmates. They are two of the four that Mori kills the night that he turns Luna, and the street vendor celebrates when he sees the article about the deaths in the newspaper.
** Satoo strangles Luna, and then dumps her in a dumpster outside a hotel, thinking she's dead. He ends up being stabbed by Mori and left to drown in a pond in the local park.
* LonersAreFreaks: Satoo "is lacking team spirit" per a comment from a teacher on his marks, and is secretly a firebug who has {{necrophilia}}c sexual fantasies, even going to the extent of using the severed finger of one of Mori's victims as a toy. He also eventually tries to kill Luna and drinks her blood, although he's revolted by the taste.

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%%* {{Gorn}}

* LonersAreFreaks: Sotoo "is lacking team spirit" per a comment from a teacher on his marks, and is secretly a firebug who has {{necrophilia}}c sexual fantasies, even going to the extent of using the severed finger of one of Mori's victims as a toy. He also eventually tries to kill Luna and drinks her blood, although he's revolted by the taste.

* NoOntologicalInertia: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] When Rakuda is finally killed, Mori and Luna don't die, but Mori experiences a PensieveFlashback where he travels back to the days of the disaster and finds Rakuda's hanged body.

* {{Omake}}: The "bonus" chapter ''The Crying Vampire'': a much, much sadder affair than the main story.

* FreudianExcuse: Luna was molested when she was a child, and this has led to her feeling disgust with anything sex-related, relating those things to being preyed upon by vampires. She's very put off by her classmate's naughty activities with the seniors she visits, she can't stand the sight of her pregnant older sister, and she even [[DCupDistress laments her breasts getting bigger]] as she's showering. However, once she becomes a vampire, this largely disappears, as she seems to lose a lot of her inhibitions and makes out with Mori.
%%* GoGoEnslavement

* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Vampires get a euphoric feeling after drinking blood. After Mori feeds on his first victim, he "sees" a brilliant light and feels like flowers are blooming in his head. After his second, Rakuda notices that [[JizzedInMyPants he's had an orgasm]].
* InTheHood: Mori and Luna both start wearing head-concealing hoods to school. In Mori's case, it's due to his increasing inability to tolerate sunlight as his vampirism sinks deeper into him. In Luna's case, it's to conceal herself after she's assaulted by the street clown.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires in this story are either created by being "rejected" by the earth when they're buried, or by drinking the blood of another vampire. They can fly, have super strength, and are immortal, although drinking blood causes them [[AgeWithoutYouth to age physically]]. It is not said whether or not they will die without drinking blood, but [[HorrorHunger they become consumed by blood thirst the longer they go without]], and it appears that drinking blood makes them orgasm. They can be killed by sunlight, being staked or similarly stabbed through the heart, or beheaded.

*** Later on, she's raped by the clown she saw performing on the street. This causes her to snap a bit, visualizing herself as being prey in a spider's web and drawing fang marks on her neck, a visualization of the vampiric violation she's always associated with sex. She even gives herself a crude tattoo of a bat on her inner thigh.

* TongueTrauma: When they want to "turn" someone, vampires slit their own tongues and have the victim drink the blood. A vampire having sex with a normal human also appears to work, as the dark-skinned vampire raping Miko's mother apparently turns her.

%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sotoo Henmi.

* RapeAsDrama: Luna is subjected to a number of traumatic assaults:
** Seeing her classmate doing lewd things with a man at the senior center causes her to have a flashback to being molested as a child.
** Later on, she's raped by the clown she saw performing on the street. This causes her to snap a bit, visualizing herself as being prey in a spider's web and drawing fang marks on her neck, a visualization of the vampiric violation she's always associated with sex. She even gives herself a crude tattoo of a bat on her inner thigh.
** She's implied to be raped, or at least molested, by the dark-skinned vampire after he drugs her, although nothing is made clear on-page.

* TongueTrauma: When they want to "turn" someone, vampires slit their own tongues and have the victim drink the blood.

* EmergencyTransformation: Two people are "turned" to vampires at the verge of death. %%Mori turns Luna after she's strangled by Sotoo

* KarmicDeath: A street vendor is beaten up a couple of times by two of Mori, Luna, and Satoo's classmates. They are two of the four that Mori kills the night that he turns Luna, and the street vendor celebrates when he sees the article about the deaths in the newspaper.

* MonsterClown: In the first book, a street clown whose makeup makes him greatly resemble [[SerialKiller Ed Gacy]] abducts and rapes Luna. After she becomes a vampire, she and Mori hunt him down and leave him [[KarmicDeath tied to a tree with his face and throat slashed and his severed penis stuck in his mouth]].

* EmergencyTransformation: Two people are "turned" to vampires at the verge of death.
%%* EnfantTerrible: Sotoo again, while his classmates are [[KidsAreCruel little better]].

** Luna dreams about crows picking out her eyes.

* FreudianExcuse: Luna was molested when she was a child, and this has led to her feeling disgust with anything sex-related. She's very put off by her classmate's naughty activities with the seniors she visits, she can't stand the sight of her pregnant older sister, and she even [[DCupDistress laments her breasts getting bigger]] as she's showering. However, once she becomes a vampire, this largely disappears, as she seems to lose a lot of her inhibitions and makes out with Mori.

* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Watch how the vampires get high with blood.

%%* LonersAreFreaks: Sotoo Henmi.

* MonsterClown: In the first book, a street clown whose makeup makes him greatly resemble [[SerialKiller Ed Gacy]] abducts and rapes Luna. After she becomes a vampire, she and Mori hunt him down and kill him.

* PyroManiac: Sotoo is introduced setting fire to some bundled papers, which turns into a fairly major fire. Later on, he's

** Later on, she's raped by the clown she saw performing on the street.
** She's implied to be raped, or at least molested, by the dark-skinned vampre after he drugs her, although nothing is made clear on-page.

* DCupDistress: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in an early chapter where Luna, while showering, ruefully notes that her breasts are getting bigger.

* {{Gonk}}: Rakuda has a distinctly off-putting and almost-inhuman face with over-large eyes and a huge mouth. Imagine the film version of [[Literature/TheManWhoLaughs Gwynplaine]] in drag and you're close.

* PyroManiac: Sotoo is introduced setting fire to some bundled papers, which turns into a fairly major fire.

* EnjoKosai: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with.]] One of Luna's classmates works as a volunteer at what appears to be a senior citizen center and convinces Luna to accompany her, but Luna is distressed when she finds her classmate doing lewd things with one of the seniors for pay.

%%* PyroManiac: Sotoo again.

%%* EnjoKosai: Luna's classmates engage in this, under the disguise of community service, and they drag Luna along. %%What is "this"?

%%* RapeAsDrama

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires in this story are either created by being "rejected" by the earth when they're buried, or by drinking the blood of another vampire. They possess vampire powers like flight, super strength, and immortality. It is not said whether or not they will die without drinking blood, but they become consumed by [[HorrorHunger literal blood thirst the longer they go without]], and it appears that drinking blood makes them orgasm. They can be killed by sunlight, being staked or similarly stabbed through the heart, or beheaded. Also while they are immortal, drinking blood causes them [[AgeWithoutYouth to age physically]].

* DCupDistress: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in an early chapter where Luna, while showering, ruefully notes that her breasts are getting bigger.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires in this story can fly, have telepathic connections to each other, and have to use knives, razors, or similar to cut their victims so they can feed as they don't have fangs. They live forever (but actually [[AgeWithoutYouth age faster than mortals]]) and sunlight gradually becomes deadly to them.

* EyeScream: Luna dreams about crows picking out her eyes.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They live forever, but they don't have the luxury of eternal youth: indeed they [[AgeWithoutYouth age faster than mortals]]. They also have telepathic connections to each other. Oh, they have no fangs and have to carry a dagger if they want to feed.

* DisposableSexWorker: Interestingly averted: you'd think street walkers are natural prey to vampires, but the vampires in this story can identify people with [=STDs=] and avoid their blood.
* DisposingOfABody: More than one characters have inconvenient corpses to get rid of.

[[AfterTheEnd The Earthquake destroyed everything we know.]] A woman with a misshapen face rummages through piles of rubble and corpses, looking for valuables. She is caught by a lynch mob, who regard her as a bad omen and hang her with other criminals. Six feet under, she watches as the bodies of other victims bloat, rot and consumed by worms.

''The Laughing Vampire'' is a two-volume manga by Creator/SuehiroMaruo. Book One recounts how, years later, Rakuda finds a kindred spirit in a high-school student Konosuke Mori, and turns him into another vampire. Konosuke's transformation has repercussions on the lives of two of his classmates: Luna Miyawaki, a girl who, scared by a [[FreudianExcuse childhood incident]], has deep loathing with everything sexual and compares sex with being bitten by a vampire, and Sotoo Henmi, an ordinary-looking loner who is secretly an arsonist with necrophiliac fantasies, and keeps a journal titled ''The Laughing Vampire''.

%%* MonsterClown

* ThoseWackyNazis: A teenage biker gang dressed in full [=SS=] uniforms, complete with swastika.

* BeatStillMyHeart: A female vampire finds creative use to a victim's heart.

%%* [[MasqueradeBall The Masquerade]] [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy Also Known as an Orgy]]: Likely a homage to [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Poe's]] story "Literature/TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath". %%First off, MasqueradeBall and APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy need their own bullet points; you *never* put two tropes on the same line. Second, what is this party, what happens there, and why is it a homage to Poe?

%%* OffWithHisHead

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sotoo Henmi.

* EnfantTerrible: Sotoo again, while his classmates are [[KidsAreCruel little better]].
* EnjoKosai: Luna's classmates engage in this, under the disguise of community service, and they drag Luna along.

* GoGoEnslavement
* {{Gorn}}

* LonersAreFreaks: Sotoo Henmi.
* [[MasqueradeBall The Masquerade]] [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy Also Known as an Orgy]]: Likely a homage to [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Poe's]] story "Literature/TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath".
* MindScrew: Book Two quickly degenerates into this trope.
* MonsterClown
* OffWithHisHead

* PyroManiac: Sotoo again.
* RapeAsDrama

* [[MasqueradeBall The Masquerade]] [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy Also Known as an Orgy]]: Likely a homage to [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Poe's]] story ''The Masque of the Red Death''.

* [[MasqueradeBall The Masquerade]] [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy Also Known as an Orgy]]: Likely a homage to [[EdgarAllanPoe Poe's]] story ''The Masque of the Red Death''.

[[caption-width-right:300:Eat your heart out, [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella]]!]]

[[AfterTheEnd The Earthquake destroyed everything we know]]. A woman with a misshapen face rummages through piles of rubble and corpses, looking for valuables. She is caught by a lynch mob, who regard her as a bad omen and hang her with other criminals. Six feet under, she watches as the bodies of other victims bloat, rot and consumed by worms.

''The Laughing Vampire'' is a two-volume manga by SuehiroMaruo. Book One recounts how, years later, Rakuda finds a kindred spirit in a high-school student Konosuke Mori, and turns him into another vampire. Konosuke's transformation has repercussions on the lives of two of his classmates: Luna Miyawaki, a girl who, scared by a [[FreudianExcuse childhood incident]], has deep loathing with everything sexual and compares sex with being bitten by a vampire, and Sotoo Henmi, an ordinary-looking loner who is secretly an arsonist with necrophiliac fantasies, and keeps a journal titled ''The Laughing Vampire''.

* BeatStillMyHeart -- a female vampire finds creative use to a victim's heart.
* BewareTheNiceOnes -- Sotoo Henmi.
* DisposableSexWorker -- interestingly averted: you'd think street walkers are natural prey to vampires, but the vampires in this story can identify people with [=STDs=] and avoid their blood.
* DisposingOfABody -- more than one characters have inconvenient corpses to get rid of.
* EmergencyTransformation -- two people are "turned" to vampires at the verge of death.
* EnfantTerrible -- Sotoo again, while his classmates are [[KidsAreCruel little better]].
* EnjoKosai -- Luna's classmates engage in this, under the disguise of community service, and they drag Luna along.
* EyeScream -- Luna dreams about crows picking out her eyes.
* {{Fingore}} -- Rakuda bites off the finger of a victim to get her ring. Sotoo chances upon the finger and keeps it for his own use.
* GoGoEnslavement.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel.
* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin -- Watch how the vampires get high with blood.
* LonersAreFreaks -- Sotoo Henmi.
* [[MasqueradeBall The Masquerade]] [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy Also Known as an Orgy]] -- likely a homage to [[EdgarAllanPoe Poe's]] story ''The Masque of the Red Death''.
* MindScrew -- Book Two quickly degenerates into this trope.
* MonsterClown.
* MoralEventHorizon -- [[spoiler: Luna taking her older sister's newborn baby to be '''sacrificed''' so she can be accepted by Rakuda,]] justifying that [[spoiler: her sister can [[WhatTheHellHero "make a new one"]].]]
* OffWithHisHead.
* {{Omake}} -- the "bonus" chapter ''The Crying Vampire'': a much, much sadder affair than the main story.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent -- they live forever, but they don't have the luxury of eternal youth: indeed they [[AgeWithoutYouth age faster than mortals]]. They also have telepathic connections to each other. Oh, they have no fangs and have to carry a dagger if they want to feed.
* PyroManiac -- Sotoo again.

* ThoseWackyNazis -- a teenage biker gang dressed in full [=SS=] uniforms, complete with swastika.
* TongueTrauma -- When they want to "turn" someone, vampires slit their own tongues and have the victim drink the blood.

* [[{{ptitlemd299wh0}} I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin]] -- Watch how the vampires get high with blood.