Trinity Blood

Trinity Blood
First volume cover, featuring Abel Nightroad
トリニティ・ブラッド (Toriniti Buraddo)
Genre	Action[1] Dark fantasy[2] Post-apocalyptic[3]
Light novel
Written by	Sunao Yoshida
Illustrated by	Thores Shibamoto
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
English publisher	NA: Tokyopop
Imprint	Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko
Demographic	Male
Original run	February 28, 2001 – December 28, 2004
Volumes	12
Manga
Written by	Kiyo Kyūjō
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
English publisher	NA: Viz Media (digital)
Magazine	Asuka (2003–2016) Comic Newtype (2016–2018)
Demographic	Shōjo
Original run	October 2003 – April 2018
Volumes	21
Anime television series
Directed by	Tomohiro Hirata
Produced by	Takeshi Yasuda Satoshi Nagai Tsuneo Takechi
Written by	Atsuhiro Tomioka Tomohiro Hirata
Music by	Takahito Eguchi
Studio	Gonzo
Licensed by	AUS: Madman Entertainment NA: Crunchyroll UK: MVM Films
Original network	Wowow
English network	CA: Razer US: Adult Swim, Funimation Channel ZA: Animax
Original run	April 28, 2005 – October 6, 2005
Episodes	24 (List of episodes)
Anime and manga portal

Trinity Blood (Japanese: トリニティ・ブラッド, Hepburn: Toriniti Buraddo) is a series of Japanese light novels written by Sunao Yoshida with illustrations by Thores Shibamoto and originally serialized in The Sneaker. Set 900 years after an apocalyptic war between humans and vampires, the series focuses on the ongoing cold war between the Vatican, the human government, and the "New Human Empire", the government of the vampiric Methuselah. Fighting on the Vatican's side is Abel Nightroad, a Crusnik—a vampire that feeds on vampires. The novels blend science fiction, fantasy, and political intrigue, with some in the Vatican and the Empire striving for peace, and the Rosen Kreuz Order doing anything in its power to stop it.

Trinity Blood has been adapted into both manga and anime series, with continuity differences between the three versions. After Yoshida's death in 2004, his friend Kentaro Yasui aided in completing the manga, with illustrations by Kiyo Kyūjō. The anime series, spanning 24 episodes, was produced by Gonzo and originally aired on Wowow network. Both adaptations have the same unresolved conclusion as the final novel.