Lament of the Lamb

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Lament of the Lamb
Cover from volume 1 of the English release of Lament of the Lamb
羊のうた (Hitsuji no Uta)
Manga
Written by	Kei Toume
Published by	Gentosha
English publisher	NA: Tokyopop
Magazine	Comic Birz
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	November 25, 1995 – September 30, 2002
Volumes	7
Original video animation
Directed by	Gisaburō Sugii
Written by	Gisaburō Sugii
Music by	Ken Miyazawa
Studio	Madhouse
Released	May 25, 2003 – February 25, 2004
Runtime	30 minutes per episode
Episodes	4

Lament of the Lamb (Japanese: 羊の歌、ひつじのうた, Hepburn: Hitsuji no Uta, lit. "Song of the Sheep"), alternatively titled The Lament of a Lamb or Sheep's Song, is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Kei Toume. It follows Kazuna, a boy with a mysterious illness which turns out to be vampirism. It was adapted into a live action film in 2002 directed by Junji Hanado, a three-part Drama CD in 2002–03, and an anime OVA series in 2003–04.

The manga was licensed in North America by Tokyopop,^[1] and in Russia by Comics Factory.^[2]