There are also some cracking jokes to enjoy too.Ī gender and age switched Die Hard on a bucket of industrial strength hallucinogens, packed full of genre gems from both east and the west we give Anno Dracula 1999 Daikaiju a 666/666.Īnno Dracula 1999 Daikaiju is out now from our good friends at Titan Books price £8.99 UK/$14.95 USA/$19.ANNO DRACULA 1999: DAIKAIJU / AUTHOR: KIM NEWMAN / PUBLISHER: TITAN BOOKS / RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW It was also good to become reacquainted with Newman’s Jason King inspired secret agent Richard Jeperson from T he Man from the Diogenes Club and to see Nezumi an alumni of the exclusive girl’s educational establishment featured in The Secrets of Drearcliffe Grange School and The Haunting of Drearcliffe Grange School, take on a role she could get her little pointed teeth into. That didn’t make the story any less enjoyable, it just meant that I had to work just bit harder to pull together as many of the cultural references used, as I could for my own personal enjoyment later. This was largely because of my own unfamiliarity with much of the Japanese source material that Newman’s magpie mind has used to populate the narrative. As per usual Newman has liberally peppered the novel with plenty of movie/comic/video game/TV and literary hidden gems for us to discover although I have to admit that I found Anno Dracula 1999 Daikaiju just a little more difficult to access than most of the previous entries in the Anno Dracula canon. But this is no ordinary building and as the millennial clock ticks up to the new century Nezumi has to outwit not just the Yokai Yakuza and the disciples of Radu Dracula, but the very fabric of the building itself.Īnno Dracula 1999 Daikaiju is kind of Die Hard set within Mechagodzilla only that’s a gross simplification. Captured by the terrorists Nezumi escapes summary execution and has until midnight to fight her way back up to the top of Daikaiju Plaza to rescue the hostages and foil the terrorist’s plot.
Everything is set for a successful night with top names from the worlds of politics, culture and technology, both living and undead in attendance until a terrorist group of Yakuza and Transylvanian mercenaries put the building into lockdown.įortunately the elite British secret service department the Diogenes Club have sent their to agent, the foppish Richard Jeperson along with his new sidekick the katana wielding schoolgirl vampire Nezumi. It’s self styled queen Christina Light is throwing a party to celebrate the dawning of the new millennium in Daikaiju Plaza, the mechanical dragon shaped building that serves as her business HQ.
One hundred years on from the events related in Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monsters, the Yokai Town Bund, given over to the vampire refugees from Prince Dracula’s England is about to revert to being part of Tokyo.
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