Mamiya Mugen is not your typical young heir to a wealthy family of Imperial Japan. He's effectively a child genius who lends his help to the Japanese police to solve bizarre and seemingly impenetrable cases. His family has its own connection to crime, though, and quite of a convoluted history. But when Mamiya teams up with his faithful and vaguely vampiresque butler Alucard and his beautiful client-turned-assistant Atsuko Fukune, he's able to deal with all of it like a true dream gentleman.
Although the work never received a true anime adaptation, an OVA that combined the plots of several chapters was produced by Gallop in 1987.
This work provides examples of:
- Adaptational Wimp: In the very first continuity, Mamiya had Psychic Powers. He lost them after the series was revamped for the second continuity, where he trusts his brain and training instead.
- Alucard: Possibly the trope codifier in anime and manga. Mamiya's butler is named Alucard, an unsubtle nod to his Transylvanian heritage and powers.
- Ambiguously Human: It's left unclear what Alucard is exactly. A vampire? A Dhampyr? Something else entirely?
- Damsel in Distress: Atsuko, along with five other captured girls, become this. Of them, only Atsuko is saved and brought back to the plane.
- Go-Go Enslavement: As seen in the page image above, Atsuko is forced to wear this along with five other girls whom were captured by the villains. As part of a ritual aiming to bring back Egyptian magic while at a pyramid, the girls are strapped in while wearing revealing Egyptian attire.
- Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending: Mamiya shows up at the pyramid and rescues Atsuko, and they leave the island in a plane. As for the five other captive girls, they are sent out of their pods and carried away by the villain and his goons to rowboats.
