The Case Study of Vanitas

Born beneath a blue moon and shunned by his own kind, the vampire Vanitas became a figure of fear and legend. Stories claim he forged a cursed grimoire—the “Book of Vanitas”—and that one day he would wield it to take vengeance on the vampires of the crimson moon.

In 19th-century Paris, Noé Archiviste arrives in search of that very book. His hunt takes an unexpected turn aboard an airship when an eccentric “doctor” calling himself Vanitas intervenes during a vampire attack—book in hand. Despite his title as a vampire specialist, Vanitas is human, having inherited both the name and the tome from his master, the Vanitas of myth. As the mysterious “Charlatan’s Parade” begins to surface, his unusual method of saving vampires—restoring their sanity by reclaiming their true names—becomes crucial.