Blood: the Last Vampire: Kemonotachi no Yoru

First off I have to say I bought this book original back in 2005 but only recently was able to force myself to read this book. I was a big fan of the original movie so I picked up the book expecting a decent amount of action and maybe some back story on Saya that was hinted at in the film. While this book as some action and some back story in total it probably only takes up about 20 pages of this books 298 pages. the six chapters of this book all revolve around either a moment in time or the charters taking some sort of action and then are broken up into smaller sections focusing on the moments leading up to the action or them making a plan. The first chapter deals with setting up the main charter Rei and him stumbling upon Saya and witnessing her doing what she dose best. The second chapter just sets up secondary character Gotouda and the starts leading the story into a direction of an investigation into the connection between mysterious disappearance of high school activist and this mysterious girl Saya that transfers into their class a few days before they disappeared and transfers out the day after. Third chapter just sets up the supporting cast that in all honesty don't play a big roll in things other then to argue over politics and make this chapter more of a civics lesson then any thing and get arrested in the next chapter. the forth chapter Rei and Gotouda after having a run in with Saya get kidnapped by her support staff and this chapter is basically just a lesson in Biology and Anthropology, yes it gives some contexts to how and why the vampires exist and why Saya is hunting them but its so long winded and is presented in a way that makes it sound like even the organization that is hunting them doesn't exactly know what they are. fifth chapter Rei and Gotouda have a gun battle at night in the school get their buts kicked and alost killed and Saya saves them. and the Sixth chapter is just an epilogue in the vein of 80's movies where you get a quick blurb about what happened to the cast 30 years after the events of the book, and just like those movies we find out what happens to the supporting cast that were just there so it wasn't two guys talking to each other for nearly 300 pages. All in all it is an interesting book and Gotouda by the end of the book was a much more interesting charter then when you first meet him and reviles he knows alot more about what was going on and was just using Rei and his friends just to get closer to Saya and the vampires but and its a BIG BUT the story dragged and focused more on the political views and ideals of anti establishment teens then it did the mystery of who or what is Saya and what was that thing Rei saw Saya kill. it had potential and for a moment there at the end it was starting to live up to it but it was only starting to get interesting in the last 30 or so pages and with an English title of night of the beasts and the summary on the back the lack of danger and action through the book took any redeeming factor I could thing of and dragged it through the mud and then through it in the sewer. in the end this is just my two cents on this book feel to have your own opinion I just hope someone finds this basic analysis of the book helpful.