Bloody Cross Review: A Half-Vampire Half-Angel Girl and a Full-Blooded Angel Pursue a Divine Inheritance by Any Means

Quick Take

• A supernatural action fantasy built on a partnership premise where neither party trusts the other, which gives the Tsukimiya/Hinata dynamic more tension than usual angel-partner series
• The angel/vampire mythology is used with internal consistency and the divine inheritance stakes provide clear escalation
• 12 volumes complete in English; solid completed supernatural fantasy action

Who Is This Manga For?

• Readers who want supernatural fantasy action with angel mythology as central concept
• Anyone interested in partnership dynamics where mutual need substitutes for trust
• Fans of GFantasy supernatural action series (Chrono Crusade, etc.)
• Readers looking for complete supernatural fantasy with clear resolution

Content Warnings & Age Rating

Age Rating: T (Teen) Content Warnings: Supernatural battle violence; angel and vampire mythology with bloodshed; betrayal as recurring theme; Tsukimiya's curse involves painful consequences

T rating — intense supernatural content within teen standards.

Yu's Rating

Category	Score
Story Depth	★★★☆☆
Art Style	★★★★☆
Character Development	★★★☆☆
Accessibility for Non-Japanese Readers	★★★★☆
Reread Value	★★★☆☆

Story Overview

Tsukimiya is cursed. Her mixed angel/vampire heritage means she will eventually transform into a demon unless she obtains the divine inheritance — God's Books, powerful artifacts that can alter destiny. To collect them, she needs help. The help she gets is Hinata, a full-blooded angel who wants the same inheritance for his own purposes.

They form a partnership neither would describe as willing. Tsukimiya intends to use Hinata as long as he is useful and discard him when he isn't. Hinata has the same plan for her. Both know this. They work together anyway because the alternative is failing alone.

The series follows their collection of God's Books through battles with other divine-heritage beings pursuing the same artifacts, while the question of whether either will actually betray the other — and what they will do if the other betrays first — runs under the action.

Characters

Tsukimiya — A protagonist whose pragmatism is genuine rather than performed; she is not secretly warm, she is exactly as calculated as she presents, which makes her character development more interesting when it happens.

Hinata — The full-blooded angel whose own motivations for the inheritance are revealed gradually; his relationship to Tsukimiya develops in ways neither of them would admit to.

The other divine-heritage hunters — Rivals whose own relationships to the angel/vampire mythology provide the series' variety.

Art Style

Komeyama's art has strong character designs with the visual appeal that angel-and-demon aesthetics require — Tsukimiya's mixed heritage is readable in her appearance, and the divine power sequences have visual impact. The battle compositions are clear and dynamic.

Cultural Context

Bloody Cross ran in Monthly GFantasy from 2009 to 2015, part of the magazine's consistent output of supernatural fantasy action. The angel mythology it uses draws on Western angelic tradition filtered through the Japanese supernatural manga tradition — heaven and divine power as contested resources rather than transcendent ideal, with practical battle stakes.

What I Love About It

The mutual distrust. Most partnership series establish trust and then test it. Bloody Cross starts with explicit mutual exploitation and builds from there — neither Tsukimiya nor Hinata pretends to like the arrangement, and the series is honest about what changes and what doesn't. The development feels earned because it started from a lower baseline.

What English-Speaking Fans Say

Western readers describe Bloody Cross as better than its premise suggests — specifically noted for the Tsukimiya/Hinata dynamic having more complexity than typical supernatural action partnerships, for the angel mythology being internally consistent, and for the series reaching a genuine conclusion. Recommended for supernatural action readers who want a complete series.

Memorable Scene ⚠️ Spoiler Warning

The sequences where one partner is about to betray the other — and doesn't — begin as simply tactical decisions and eventually become something that neither character can easily explain away.

Similar Manga

• Chrono Crusade — Religious supernatural action with partnership focus
• 07-Ghost — Angel mythology in fantasy action setting
• Black Bird — Supernatural romance with power dynamic
• Pandora Hearts — Supernatural fantasy with mutual-exploitation partnership

Reading Order / Where to Start

Volume 1 — Tsukimiya's curse and her forced partnership with Hinata establish both the premise and the dynamic immediately.

Official English Translation Status

Yen Press has published the complete English series. All 12 volumes available.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Mutual-distrust partnership is more interesting than typical trust dynamic
• Angel mythology used with internal consistency
• Complete in 12 volumes
• Clear resolution to central conflict

Cons

• Some volumes feel formulaic in collection-quest structure
• Character development slower than action content
• Secondary characters less developed than main pair

Format Comparison

Format	Notes
Individual Volumes	Yen Press; complete series available
Digital	Available

Where to Buy

Get Bloody Cross Vol. 1 on Amazon →

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