Strike the Blood, Vol. 5 (light novel)

Strike the Blood, Vol. 5 (light novel)
Author: Gakuto Mikumo
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316345571

Aya Tokoyogi and six other hardened magical criminals have broken out from imprisonment. Their goal--to completely erase the 'Witch of the Void,' Netsuke Minamaya, from existence. How these events will unfold in the Demon District will depend on the actions of the strongest vampire to ever exist, Kojou Akatsuki.

Strike the Blood, Vol. 6 (light novel)

Strike the Blood, Vol. 6 (light novel)
Author: Gakuto Mikumo
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2017-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316345598

When all the students depart for a school field trip to the mainland, Kojou is delighted to hear that he'll finally get a chance to be free of observation for at least a little while, whereas Yukina has mixed feelings about the whole situation. But events move quickly when an alchemist by the name of Kou Amatsuka appears, with the goal of reviving the holy grail of alchemy--a liquid-metal life-form known as "Wiseman's Blood." As the crisis deepens, even Asagi becomes involved when this alchemist's relic grows more and more uncontrollable. What can the world's strongest vampire do?!

Strike the Blood, Vol. 17 (light novel)

Strike the Blood, Vol. 17 (light novel)
Author: Gakuto Mikumo
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1975332652

NO REST FOR A PRIMOGENITOR… It’s a new term at Saikai Academy, and fortunately for Kojou, hehasn’t been held back a year! Freed from his constant work defending Itogami Island, he is ready for some peace. However, an entirelynew demon beast appears, and when Rui and Yuno are dispatched to deal with it, they are gravely wounded. Kiriha forms an unlikelyalliance with Shizuri, who is dead set on avenging her friends. Meanwhile, the Japanese government has concerns about Yukina’s ability to continue observing the Fourth Primogenitor, so the Lion King Agency readies a replacement. As Yukina frets over this threat to her position, her stress only grows with the arrival of a mysterious girl who looks exactly like her!

Strike the Blood, Vol. 3 (light novel)

Strike the Blood, Vol. 3 (light novel)
Author: Gakuto Mikumo
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316345520

Kojou and Yukina join forces with Natsuki Minamiya to protect Itogami City from a new threat from the skies--but even Kojou's Beast Vassal can't take this new foe on, and who should rescue them from their predicament but Kojou's sister's friend, a silver-haired girl named Kanon Kanase! But when Kanon disappears, Kojou and Yukina may find that there are some problems not even the world's mightiest vampire can solve!

Strike the Blood, Vol. 1 (manga)

Strike the Blood, Vol. 1 (manga)
Author: Gakuto Mikumo
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 031634561X

Kojou Akatsuki lives on the artificial island of Itogami, and he has a secret: He's the "Fourth Primogenitor," the most powerful vampire in the world. He's carefully kept this dark knowledge from his family and friends, but one day, a beautiful girl named Yukina Himeragi appears before him and tells him that she knows who he really is--and that she's been sent to...kill him?!

Strike the Blood, Vol. 8 (light novel)

Strike the Blood, Vol. 8 (light novel)
Author: Gakuto Mikumo
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316442097

THE REVIVAL OF THE TRUE FOURTH PRIMOGENITOR IS NIGH! When Kojou Akatsuki was a junior high school student, he met a vampire named Avrora...and then he saw her again when travelling to the hospital to visit his sister. When Kojou learns this mysterious, quiet girl could be the key to saving Nagisa's life, he helps her escape the Magna Atraxia Research lab. With the arms dealer Zaharias planning to use Avrora in his Blazing Banquet, can Kojou stop the revival of the true Fourth Primogenitor and save Itogami Island?

The Ink Black Heart

The Ink Black Heart
Author: Robert Galbraith
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Total Pages: 913
Release: 2022-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316413232

The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case. When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity. Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits – and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . . A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force. *Some of the more complex layouts in the book are rendered as images in the ebook version so that you can enlarge on your preferred reading device*

Strike the Blood, Vol. 11 (light novel)

Strike the Blood, Vol. 11 (light novel)
Author: Gakuto Mikumo
Publisher: Yen On
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780316442145

WHEN ALLIES BECOME ENEMIES, WHO CAN YOU TRUST? New Year's Day is right around the corner on Itogami Island, and everyone is getting ready to celebrate! ...Well, almost everyone. Nagisa, off on a trip to the mainland to visit her grandmother, hasn't been returning any calls or texts. Equally troubling is Yukina's sudden and complete loss of contact with the Lion King Agency. When Kojou and Yukina's frantic attempts to find answers reveal evidence of a magical incident, Kojou decides to risk everything and travel to the mainland to find Nagisa himself. But in hismost desperate hour, an unexpected adversary stands in his way...

Strike the Blood, Vol. 2 (manga)

Strike the Blood, Vol. 2 (manga)
Author: Gakuto Mikumo
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2016-02-23
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0316345652

Yukina is trapped in a pitched battle against Astarte the homunculus, and she's losing--when who should come to her rescue but the very boy she's been assigned to observe, Kojo Akatsuki! Akatsuki tries to end the clash, but Astarte's familiar, the fearsome Rhododactylos, isn't going to let that happen. Is this a fight that only an awakened Fourth Primogenitor can finish?

Strike the Blood, Vol. 15 (light novel)

Strike the Blood, Vol. 15 (light novel)
Author: Gakuto Mikumo
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 197533261X

The war that changed everything It's a Valentine's Day that Kojou won't soon forget! Amid the buzz of crushes and chocolate, dark words arrive on the wings of Glenda, the Dragon of the Swamp. Velesh Aradahl is holding Yuiri and Shio captive! And using them as collateral, he challenges Kojou to a vampire duel...At the same time, the Holy Ground Treaty Organization has deemed all of Itogami Island-altar for The Cleansing and domain of Dimitrie Vattler-a global threat. The only way to get the organization to overturn their decision is for Kojou to defeat Vattler and claim dominion of Itogami Island for himself! But can he do it in twelve hours, before the HGTO has the entire island destroyed?!