A stand-alone prequel to the leading Monogatari (Kodansha) series by the 33-year-old novelist whose first printings are now second only to Haruki Murakami’s, this story about a blond female vampire on a ‘tourist visit’ to the country is being adapted into an animated feature for Japanese theatrical release in late 2015/early 2016.High schooler Koyomi, encountering a dying vampire on his way home from purchasing age-restricted magazines, offers his blood and must face the three vampire hunters who have stolen his mistress’s limbs.