While Dance in the Vampire Bund has some pretty polarized opinions on it, you don’t get polarizing opinions by not being interesting. You get them by having naked thousand-year-old lolis juxtaposed with a vampire story that exercises a modicum of actual creativity. Anyway, if you liked the Dance in the Vampire Bund anime, you’ll likely love the manga a lot more since the anime is kind of a hot mess.
Alternative Titles:
- Bailando con Vampiros
- ダンスインザヴァンパイアバンド
Year Anime Premiered: 2010
Animation Studio: Shaft
Number of Seasons: 1
Source Material Country of Origin: Japan
Source Material Available: Manga
Entry Last Updated: May 14th, 2024
Where To Start The Dance in the Vampire Bund Manga After The Anime?
The thing about the Dance in the Vampire Bund anime is that it kind of goes off the rails. Not in the usual way either. Instead of just diverging from canon after a certain point, it does strange things like completely change canon characters.
While I recommend reading this series from the beginning because a lot of things will make more sense, literally no one comes here to hear that all-too-common answer. As such, you can start the Dance in the Vampire Bund manga after anime, technically, at Chapter 31. Just… be aware that you will notice many glaring differences.
While I really recommend reading the manga from the beginning, unfortunately the Dance in the Vampire Bund manga itself is also kind of a hot mess with its various different sequels and “recommended reading” side stories. So, as a helpful bonus:
The Dance in The Vampire Bund Manga Read Order:
- Dance in the Vampire Bund to Chapter 33
- Dive in the Vampire Bund (Side Story, Fleshes out a lot of characters for later in the main story, it is strongly recommended you read it. You can even technically do so after where the anime leaves off.)
- Dance in the Vampire Bund (You can read the rest of it up to where it ends at Volume 14)
- Dance in The Vampire Bund – The Memories of Sledge Hammer (Bridges the gap between the original manga and the Scarlet Order sequel manga)
- Dance in the Vampire Bund 2 – Scarlet Order (Sequel manga to the events in the original Dance in the Vampire Bund)
- Dance of the Vampire Bund – Age of Scarlet Order (ASO) (The Scarlet Order manga got canceled before it finished, ASO is the sequel to the original Scarlet Order manga that is ongoing and may someday give you an ending)
Wildly complicated, right? No one said it was easy being a Dance in the Vampire Bund enjoyer.
Is The Dance in the Vampire Bund Manga Over?
The original Dance in the Vampire Bund is completed. It ended in 2012 with Chapter 82.
The sequel manga Dance in the Vampire Bund 2 Scarlet Order is completed. It ended 2015 with Chapter 17.
The sequel, sequel manga Dance in the Vampire Bund Age of Scarlet Order is ongoing. Since launching in 2018, it usually publishes three volumes per year.
Will There Be A Dance in the Vampire Bund Season 2?
Given the complicated state of the anime adaptation and the amount of time that has passed, it seems unlikely that there will be a Dance in The Vampire Bund Season 2. If anything, they may reboot it to tell the whole story in a less complicated way when Age of Scarlet Order gets ready to end.
