Many Otaku often cite Hell Sing and Vampire Knight as the best vampire manga of all time, but there are many more when we are talking about the best.
So today we are going to rank the best manga titles about vampires, from mature vampire manga like Hellsing to lighthearted funny vampire manga like Rosario + Vampire, we have it all.
There are a lot of vampire romance manga as well, with the story plot of an extremely sexy hot male vampire who bites an innocent mortal girl.
Updated June 3, 2024, by Shagun Singh: This updated list of the best vampire manga series is now more streamlined and provides even more information on the finest titles to read.
Here Are Some of The Best Vampire Manga of All Time
33. The Kiss of the Vampire
In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the just-married couple Gerald Harcourt and Marianne Harcourt ran out of gas while driving in Germany in a honeymoon trip.
They have to stop for the night at a bed and breakfast and they are invited to dinner at the castle of the prominent Dr. Ravna, where they are introduced to his family.
They are invited to go to a party in the castle in the weekend and they accept the invitation.
Gerard and Marianne go to the party and Marianne vanishes. Gerard asks for help to the local Professor Zimmer and learns that Dr. Ravna is the leader of a vampire cult that had abducted his wife.
32. Super Lovers
While spending the summer with his mother, Haru meets Ren, a boy newly adopted by his mother.
Getting along with Ren isn’t easy, as Haru’s goal is to”civilize” him by the time summer ends.
Their relationship slowly improves as Haru spends more time with Ren and in return, Ren steadily warms up to him.
Can they become a “family” at the end of summer?!
31. Omae Ga Sekai Wo Kowashitai Nara
Kanna Koizumi is infatuated with a handsome customer who regularly orders the same meal combo from the restaurant she works at, but has never mustered the courage to ask him his name.
The customer, Ren Toujo, has also noticed Kanna because she reminds him of Akira Sainishi, a woman he knew long ago.
Kanna and Ren pass by each other day after day, until one fateful night when Kanna and her parents drive past him and are subsequently hit by a truck.
Ren is first to arrive at the bloody scene. Judging that her injuries are too severe to wait for an ambulance, he has to make the onerous decision—let Kanna die, or turn her into a vampire like him.
30. Pure Blood
Leon is a pure-blooded vampire that has chosen to peacefully coexist with humans.
As a sign of his pure-blooded status, Leon shares a bond with a “deterrent,” Noah.
Noah’s power suppresses the base instinct to drink human blood.
Despite granting Leon this freedom, Noah still worries about his own unstable power and perceived weakness.
Together, they investigate strange incidents and perform occult jobs.
After all, even vampires have bills to pay.
29. Higanjima
When Akira Miyamoto learns that his older brother, Atsushi, is missing, his family begins to fall apart.
The family business fails, and his father becomes an alcoholic.
His two parents constantly compare Akira to Atsushi. Worse, Akira has a crush on a girl named Yuki, who already has a boyfriend, his friend Ken.
One day, Akira finds a girl unconscious in front of his house. The girl, Rei Aoyama, shows Akira Atsushi’s ID card, claiming that Atsushi is alive.
Rei explains that Atsushi is trapped on Higanjima Island, said to be inhabited by vampires.
Akira invites his friends to help his brother, under the guise of a vacation to celebrate their graduation.
28. Arifureta Shokugyou De Sekai Saikyou
After a magical circle suddenly appears at school, Hajime Nagumo and his classmates find themselves transported inside a church where they are welcomed as honored guests.
Thrust into the RPG-like world of Tortus, each student shows great promise in both strength and never-before-seen classes—everyone besides Hajime.
Given the class “Synergist,” which boasts borderline average stats on top of being weak in combat, Hajime is soon considered to be useless by the rest of his class.
Working towards strengthening themselves, the students descend into a dungeon, but a mishap causes the entire class to be plunged into danger.
Cornered by a large demon, they are trapped on a bridge looming over an abyss, the only way out being in front of them.
In an effort to save his class, Hajime declares himself as bait, hoping his sacrifice will grant him a chance to escape for the others.
Though he intends to escape as well, a stray fireball flies in his direction, sending him flying off the bridge and down into the depths of the dungeon.
Miraculously surviving, Hajime now begins his quest of survival in an attempt to reach the surface.
27. Vanitas no Carte
There once lived a vampire known as Vanitas, hated by his kind for being born under a blue full moon, as most arise on the night of a crimson one.
Afraid and alone, he created the “Book of Vanitas,” a cursed grimoire that would one day take his vengeance on all vampires; this is how the story goes, at least.
Vanitas no Carte follows Noé, a young man traveling aboard an airship in 19th century Paris with one goal in mind: to find the Book of Vanitas.
A sudden vampire attack leads him to meet the enigmatic Vanitas, a doctor who specializes in vampires and, much to Noé’s surprise, a completely ordinary human.
The mysterious doctor has inherited both the name and the infamous text from the Vanitas of legend, using the grimoire to heal his patients.
But behind his kind demeanor lies something a bit more sinister…
26. Vampire Crisis
“For my love, the price to pay is your blood.”
In order to punish her loathsome ex-boyfriend, Hisoka attempts to use black magic on him.
However, she makes a mistake in casting a spell, and accidentally calls a vampire named Rein instead!!
He said that he will grant one wish for Hisoka but in return she must present him with her blood.
At first, Hisoka is afraid but even though Rein is a vampire, he slowly changes into a gentle person, and because of that, her attraction towards him grows?!
25. Blood Alone
Witness the touching relationship between young vampiress Misaki and her human companion, the former vampire hunter turned investigative author, Kurose Kuroe, whom she’d die to protect.
For recently turned vampire Minato 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 not only vampires but of 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.
24. Vassalord
Charley, a cyborg vampire who does the Vatican’s dirty work, is the thrall of the local vampire playboy Johnny Rayflo.
As the two fight crime—and each other—hilarity, violence and sacrilege ensue!
But can Charley resist his own desperate cravings for blood?
Find out as the devilish duo go up aginst a childlike vampire princess, a mysterious branch of the Unitarian Church…and one another.
23. Mondlicht
The Mondlicht (German for Moonlight) are vampires who are unable to go out in daylight and are only able to live by feeding on the blood of humans.
However, they’re also mostly just frightened children on their own, trying to survive without killing anyone or being hunted out of existence.
Doing this was hard enough, before an artificial human created by Dr. Frankenstein named F08 started to find them and tried to destroy them all.
However, in F08’s first fight, the girl she calls her big sister turns on her after killing the boy leading the Mondlicht.
Whose side is she on? Why does she have wings just like the vampires she’s supposed to be hunting? Can the Mondlicht ever live in peace?
22. Vampire Juujikai
There is a legend that tells of how the world was almost destroyed thousands of years ago by the vampire queen after she unleashed her latent powers.
Despite their efforts, the humans were unable to defeat her, and thus resorted to sealing her away until the time came that they would be powerful enough to destroy the seal and kill her.
However, the humans are not the only ones after the seal.
Having cast aside his kingdom and betraying his own race and the dhampirs (half-vampires), the vampire king is persistantly searching, even to this day, for where his queen has been sealed away so he may break the seal and free her before the humans do.
Fearing that once the king and queen are reunited, they shall continue to destroy the world together, the humans and dhampirs hunt the king, using any method possible.
21. RustBlaster
In the Vampire Mercenary Specialized School, “1000 Years Academy,” the most unvampire-like vampire at the academy.
Aru, and the human transfer student, Kei, meet by chance.
But what they didn’t know was that it was a fate the world depended on.
20. Yorugata Aijin Senmonten Blood Hound DX
Rion is on a mission to find her missing friend Shihoko.
Her only two clues are a card given to her by Shihoko and a confession that her best friend was in love with a vampire.
Thus she heads down to a club filled with pretty male escorts whom she insists are vampires…
19. Devils Line
Vampires walk among society, existing as part of its underbelly.
They do not require blood to survive, but extreme emotions can immensely increase their bloodlust, turning them into uncontrollable monsters.
Tsukasa Taira, a 22-year-old university student, learns of the existence of vampires when her longtime friend reveals himself to be one of them after a tense confrontation with Yuuki Anzai—a human and vampire hybrid.
Her friend is arrested, and Tsukasa soon finds herself drawn to Anzai, who reluctantly reciprocates her feelings.
However, this unconventional romance may prove too difficult to maintain, as Anzai struggles to contain the part of him that wishes to devour Tsukasa.
18. Vampire Princess Miyu
Stranded in the space between human and demon, Miyu was born a vampire and charged with the responsibility of returning evil demons called Shinma to the dark.
Being eternally 15, she yearns to return to the dark herself but not until she has banished the Shinma from Earth.
And since her awakening, she has remained cut off by the facts of who and what she is.
17. Kekkai Sensen
Kekkai Sensen centers around the crime-fighting organization “Libra” and their battles in Hellsalem’s Lot, formerly known as New York City.
Hellsalem’s Lot was created in a single night when a portal to the “Beyond” opened, and now it is a paranormal melting pot of monsters, magic, and the everyday mundane city life.
It’s up to Libra to prevent the horrors of this city from spreading to the outside world.
When mild-mannered Leonard Watch arrives in the city, he’s inducted into Libra and things spiral out of control from there.
16. Bloody Kiss
For some strange reason, schoolgirl Wakaba has no memories of her first love.
Whenever she stares at the ornate key, it brings to mind the sound of a sobbing boy along with the scents of roses and blood.
These clues seem insufficient to identify the boy from her past, but fatefully, she soon finds herself in a reminiscent situation.
One day, Wakaba comes across a beautiful boy crying in the school’s rose garden, and while attempting to leave, she hurts herself on a thorn.
Realizing she is injured, the other youth takes her hand and licks the blood away.
This unconventional first-aid treatment is startling, but her embarrassment is quickly forgotten when she notices a very familiar pendant around his neck.
Later, Wakaba learns that the person is Yukito Haibara, a new transfer student, and she becomes convinced that he is her long-lost first love.
However, she remains troubled by the cause of her memory loss, the distance Yukito maintains between them, and the rumors of vampires lurking around the chemistry classroom.
15. Midnight Secretary
Kaya thought she had found the perfect job when she became the private secretary of Kyouhei Touma – the director of a tableware company of the same name.
Kyouhei is a capable director, but his arrogance and sluttish behavior are almost legendary.
Kaya is doing her best to prove that she is capable in her work, but one night, by accident, she discovers his secret… of him being a vampire!
14. Karin Chibi Vampire
Karin is a cute little girl who also happens to be a vampire…with a twist.
Once a month, she experiences intense bleeding from her nose—we’re talking gushers!
In other words, she’s a vamp with blood to spare, so rather than stealing blood from humans she actually gives her blood to them.
If done right, this can be an extremely positive experience that benefits the “victim” as much as the vampire.
The problem is that Karin never seems to do things right!
13. My Boyfriend is a Vampire
“When his sharp fangs touched the nape of my neck, I felt shocking senses arouse inside of me.”
The destined meeting between Yoo Da-in, a guy often mistaken as a girl because of his beauty and Seo Kang-hoo, a handsome hunk that even guys would fall for.
Yoo Da-in is b.i.t.t.e.n. by Seo Kang-hoo, causing his heart to stop.
“I definitely died… but how did I become a girl?!”
12. Black Rose (Kurobara) Alice
Dimitri Lewandowski is a celebrated tenor in early 1900s Vienna.
When he is killed in an accident, his corpse is colonized by the seeds of a vampire master.
At first, Dimitri denies that anything has changed, but as the people around him start dying, he is forced to accept the ghastly truth.
Flash forward to 2008. In Tokyo, Azusa Kikukawa’s troubled love life comes to an end with a fatal accident.
Dimitri appears in her dying dreams with a diabolic proposal—he will save her lover if she agrees to become the breeding ground for the next generation of vampire seeds…
11. Dance in the Vampire Bund
After millennia in hiding, Mina Tepes, the Princess of the ancient covenant and ruler of all vampires, wants change.
Using the vast wealth of the Tepes line, she has paid off the entire gross national debt of Japan and in so doing, gained the authority to create a “special district” off the coast of Japan that is to become the future haven to vampires the world over!
Now, on the eve of the landmark press conference announcing the existence of vampires to the world, terrorists and rival factions are plotting to assassinate Mina Tepes before she has a chance to make her world-changing announcement.
10. Blood+
Saya Otonashi is a seemingly ordinary girl living a mundane life with her adoptive family in Okinawa City.
In fact, her only peculiarities are suffering from anemia and being unable to remember any of her life beyond the previous year.
However, Saya’s forgotten past quickly comes back to haunt her—one night, she is attacked at school by a creature that feeds on human blood.
Just when all hope seems lost, a mysterious man named Haji appears and fends off the creature temporarily.
But when her rescuer forces her to drink his blood, Saya suddenly enters a trance and slays the monster with ease, using her own blood as a catalyst.
Saya then learns of an organization named Red Shield, founded for the sole purpose of defeating the hellish beasts.
Now Saya and Haji must work together with Red Shield to fight these fearsome monsters and unlock the secrets to the girl’s past.
9. Sennen no Yuki
Chiyuki Matsuoka’s given name literally means “thousand snow,” and it embodies her parents’ wish for her to witness the first snowfall of the year perennially.
This wish is exceedingly optimistic due to Chiyuki’s heart condition, which increases the risk of seizures and decreases her life expectancy.
The doctor who presided over her birth said she would be lucky to live 15 years.
Chiyuki is 17 years old when she meets the unlikely vampire Touya Kanou. He claims to hate blood, and he refuses to find a human partner with whom to share the rest of his life.
Touya is 18 now, but if he took blood continually from a partner, then they both might live to be a thousand years old.
Chiyuki immediately volunteers to be Touya’s partner, but he shoves her away in disgust, inadvertently learning of her poor health when she starts to spasm.
Touya treats Chiyuki more kindly after that, but still refuses to drink her blood. She begins to suspect that there is a different reason why he keeps turning her down, but will she live long enough to discover the truth?
8. Servamp
Mahiru meets one day a black cat in the street and gives him the name Kuro. But Kuro is a servant vampire—and also an extremely lazy one!
For he is also known as “Sleepy Ash,” the Servamp of inertia, and thus the exact opposite of the ordinary, dutiful Mahiru.
To make matters worse, Mahiru unintentionally forms a contract with the bloodsucker and gets embroiled in an ancient conflict between vampires and humans.
7. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
The story revolves around D, the infamous “dunpeal” (born of a vampire father and a human mother) outcast and renowned vampire hunter.
His prowess at hunting the creatures of the night allowing his acceptance among humans, he is called upon to locate Charlotte Elbourne, the lovely daughter of an affluent family who has been mysteriously kidnapped.
When the sun sets, the hunt goes on! Charlotte’s father offers a rich bounty, be she dead or alive, a task D willingly accepts, even with notorious Markus brothers and their gang of bounty hunters seeking the prize as well.
Amidst the chase and unknown to all lurks, a sinister evil that has been secretly manipulating their every move and has set a chilling trap that none will expect and few will survive.
With the tables turned and the secrets revealed, the hunters could quickly become the hunted!
6. Bloody Cross
Half angels: Individuals cursed because of their impure lineage.
Tsukimiya is a Vampire Half Angel, and with her companion-of-convenience Hinata, with whom she shares a strained relationship at best, and an antagonistic one at worst, are on a search for the “God’s Book of Prophecy.”
The book harbors immense power, and is supposedly the only thing capable of removing the half-blood curse that Tsukimiya and Hinata share.
The problem is that nobody knows if the book’s power is enough to save two people, and neither is willing to share with the other.
5. Rosario + Vampire
Aono Tsukune is so hard up on luck, that he can’t even get admitted to high school.
His parents finally find him a school with no tests required for admittance, out in the middle of nowhere.
He finds out the school is a youkai (monster) academy, Just as he is about to resign himself and get back on the bus home, he bumps into a beautiful girl.
It turns out this beautiful girl, Akashiya Moka, is also a vampire who bites him right off the bat.
They become friends and Tsukune is ready for a happy school life with her, until he finds out that if a human is found on the school grounds, he or she should be killed.
Now Tsukune must conceal his identity from the rest of the monsters at school, while at the same time being a ready snack for Moka when ever the urge takes her.
What effect will this have on Tsukune and will Moka be able to keep him out of harm’s way?
4. Blood Lad
Staz Charlie Blood is a merciless and powerful district leader of the Demon World.
However, Staz is also a lax vampire who refuses to drink human blood and bears a strange obsession with human culture, taking a keen interest in Japan.
So, when a cute human girl named Fuyumi Yanagi wanders into the midst of the Demon World, Staz develops an interest in her and uses this rare opportunity to consult her on human society.
However, their conversation is cut short when a rival demon challenges his rule.
Momentarily leaving Fuyumi, Staz swiftly defeats his opponent, but finds that Fuyumi was eaten by a carnivorous plant in his absence!
Fortunately, Fuyumi is not completely gone, as she now simply exists as a ghost in the Demon World.
However, Fuyumi has lost the human appeal that mesmerized Staz in the first place.
As a result of this, he becomes determined to find a spell to resurrect her body.
This means traveling to the human world—a dream come true for Staz—where he, Fuyumi, and their associates’ misadventurous quest is just about to begin.
3. Owari no Seraph
Having lost his parents, eight-year-old Yuuichirou Amane is taken in by the Hyakuya Orphanage, where he struggles to bond with his new “family.”
However, this soon becomes the least of his worries, when a major pandemic suddenly strikes, killing all above the age of 13.
Four years later, Yuuichirou and his family have adjusted to life under vampire control, although Yuuichirou still aspires to kill all vampires and end their reign of terror.
This often puts him at odds with fellow orphan Mikaela Hyakuya, who emphasizes using wit and ingenuity to survive.
Having garnered favor among high-ranking vampires, Mikaela gains inside knowledge and uses this to plan a daring escape.
But during the attempt, the group of orphans is intercepted by vampire officer Ferid Bathory, who proceeds to massacre them.
Yuuichirou is the only member of the group to escape to the surface, where he is discovered by the Moon Demon Company, a military unit dedicated to hunting down vampires.
Given an invitation to join, Yuuichirou swiftly accepts, finally being presented an opportunity to achieve his ambitions and avenge his family.
2. Hellsing
For centuries, many secret organizations have taken part in exterminating various types of dangerous monsters.
One of them is the England-based Hellsing, run by its cunning leader, Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing.
Her greatest hunter, and trump card, is Alucard, an unbeatable vampire genetically modified by her father.
Despite him being one of “them,” he swore to be her protector and servant.
A new crisis begins and with the help of Seras Victoria, his recently turned vampire partner, Alucard has to uncover the truth behind the mysterious vampire attacks.
Not every human is bound to be his ally in this battle, and he will not hesitate to kill anyone who stands in his way.
1. Vampire Knight
Cross Academy is an elite boarding school with two separate, isolated classes: the Day Class and the Night Class.
On the surface, Yuuki Cross and Zero Kiryuu are prefects of the academy, and attempt to keep order between the students as classes rotate in the evenings.
As the Night Class is full of utterly gorgeous elites, this can sometimes prove to be a bit difficult. It is completely necessary, however, as those “elites” are actually vampires.
Yuuki and Zero act as guardians, protecting the secrets of the Night Class and the safety of their ignorant morning counterparts.
As the adopted daughter of the academy’s chairman, Yuuki takes her job with a serious and energetic attitude.
It also allows her to interact with her secret crush and savior, the president of the Night students’ dorm, Kaname Kuran.
Zero, on the other hand, has a deep-rooted hatred against vampires, and at times, does not hesitate to kill.
Can vampires and humans co-exist, even in the strict setup of the Cross Academy? Only time will tell.
