About five years ago, the Young Adult fiction section at my local indie bookstore was a sea of vampires, werewolves and zombies. If a person wasn't into dark supernatural quasi-erotic fiction, they had little choice. It wasn't just Twilight either, because before that came Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire, which re-ignited the somewhat dormant genre. It's pretty clear that people who like vampire stories have specific erotic itches to scratch, since basically, a vampire is the strongest, broodiest outsider in the psychic schoolyard, the antithesis of Clean-cut Jock and Wholesome Sweetheart, and a character trope of which this particular mangaka, Takakura Tomoko, seems to be inordinately fond. It would be interesting to document all the romance buttons a vampire story needs to push to satisfy the readers who like those sorts of stories, things like smoldering looks, uber-sexual confidence, pushy lines. This manga with Dean the Vampire (dies) hits all the right buttons and scratches all the right itches, but for those who've read enough vampire fiction or watched their fill of vampire movies, it probably will seem like a rerun. Oh well, there are always readers for whom this sort of thing doesn't get tiresome, and there are always readers who are brand new to the genre. For everyone else, I would suggest Robin McKinley's Sunshine.
Yamiiro No Aijin