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Kikuchi became close friends with writer and director Yoshiaki Kawajiri during his adaption of Wicked City and the two have since collaborated on Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and the OVA of Demon City Shinjuku.","products":[{"product_id":"vampire-hunter-d-omnibus-book-nine-paperback","title":"Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book Nine - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new omnibus collecting volumes twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-seven of the \u003ci\u003eVampire Hunter D \u003c\/i\u003ehorror novel series! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe hunt continues in the bizarre far future of 12,090 A.D, where the immortal vampire lords who were the only winners of mankind's nuclear war still oppress the human survivors who have pushed the blood-drinking fiends back to the lawless Frontier. 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