Sometimes the history of a manga is intriguing all in its own and could make for a story, which seems to be the case for Masayuki Takano’s Blood Alone. Originally started as a dojinshi before being serialized in Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh in 2004, it eventually moved to Evening where it’s been published since. It was licensed in North America by Infinity Studios years ago before they went under and then was picked up by Seven Seas Entertainment back in 2010. Seven Seas Entertainment released the sixth volume back in April of 2012. Now it looks like the work is ending early in Japan with the creator intending to finish it out as a dojinshi, essentially taking it back to its roots.
According to the ANN translation of Takano’s post:
My meeting just ended… Well then, I tweeted this at the time of the release of the tenth volume of Blood Alone, but I have a fairly sad announcement to make. I’m very sorry to have to make it.
The “serialization” of Blood Alone in Evening will end this spring. I apologize for my lack of power in this situation… ….However, since the story has only just entered the climax, I will continue to write the manga after its serialization has ended, and will finish it through selling dojinshi (self-published books) and digital books (the number of pages remaining in the manga will take up around four compiled volumes).
I would like to do my best release the remainder of Blood Alone in digital and physical forms with the ideas of “low price” and “simplicity to obtain.” I suppose I will sell the eleventh volume continuing the series as a dojinshi at the Comitia event in May.
Series concept: There are worse things than being a vampire. For recently turned vampiress Minato Misaki, there is nothing more painful than watching her human companion, the former vampire hunter turned investigative author, Kurose Kuroe, risk his life to protect her.
For Misaki, vampirism and the beastly powers that come with it are something that she wouldn’t wish upon her worst enemy, let alone her beloved Kuroe. But Kuroe’s supernatural investigations make him a regular target of vampires and all sorts of undead creatures of the night. The only way to save him from these deadly threats may be to do the one thing that Misaki fears the most: to turn Kuroe into a vampire for his own protection.
