Actually, I didn't want to read it at first. I usually watch animes so it was my first time reading mangas and I've only read japanese ones since the animes I've watched are Japanese too. The story was of a vampire awakening after years put to sleep and so on so it didn't catch my attention. To be real I thought it was lame! I mean,I only started reading the first chapter and I saw scenes of a vampire "awakening" and then bad guys killing humans and I though "Oh this is gonna be boring...Vampires attacking humans,humans trying to save themselves..." It was just way to ordinary for me since I've read a lot of books with similar storyline and so I wanted something more exciting.

What kept me reading was the wonderful art along with the amusing characters portraying and also the title(I know it sound weird but "Noblesse" sounded really cool to me)! Yeah I'm weird...

But as I got deeper into the story it became more unpredictable, more interesting, more amusing...more.... I stayed all night reading and I didn't even notice when the morning came.

What's amazing about this manga is that you fall in love with the characters!They are not only "good" or "bad".Behind the bad characters there are sad stories,some were forced to become bad and the traitors (this is what I like the most) do not commit treachery just because they wanted power,but because they either got humiliated or they felt only used!Sometimes I would space out imagining how the next chapters are gonna be.

Also, I loved it more because the fights. They are filled with emotion, amazing portrait of characters ability and what I liked more was that the fights don't last really long. You know, I usually get bored seeing two opponents fight each other 100 times and then in the end the good beats the bad with only releasing a grater amount of power. But,in Noblesse the opponents usually change in the middle of a battle. There are interruptions, new characters etc. And the battle doesn't last,like,70 chapters! It is shorter and after every win or lose there are new companions and new enemies.

And,in every awkward/tense/very sad/frightening moment-there is a funny scene that lights up your mood and makes you keep reading more! As I told you,the personalities of the characters are amazing,they are not to funny-nor to serious.

The best part is that the manga does not keep only one style of joking! You know like "clumsiness'' or "overeacting" of the characters... The change the way they make a situation funny frequently. I highly recommend it. I've hated every action anime/manga but I'm completely in love with this one. I can't wait for chapter 287 to be translated (it just came out yesterday).