Shiroi Dress to Akai Tsuki ga Tokeau Yoru ni
English Title: The Night When the White Dress and the Red Moon Melt Together
Label: Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko
Release Date: 29 November 2024
Genre: Mystery, Yuri, Supernatural
Premise: The war between humans and supernatural creatures has ended with a truce and the two races have begun to live together. In order to maintain the fragile peace, a special unit was created. One day, an officer named Rin walks into the room of her coworkers to find Lavia, a vampire, covered in blood holding a headless body. Despite all appearances, Rin finds herself believing in Lavia's innocence. In order to protect her and solve the case, the two form a contract where in exchange for not sucking anyone else's blood, Lavia can suck Rin's all she wants. Rin also lies to her superior that the two of them are married in order to have an excuse for them living together.
!Spoiler warning! This review will contain spoilers. Please do not read it if you want to go into the volume blind.
This volume is trashy but fun. It honestly reminded me of Kannazuki no Miko. It's fairly normal in the beginning with a growing relationship between our two leads, and an unfurling mystery. However, you get to the climax and all of a sudden Cthulhu is mentioned (if this was foreshadowed at all, I blinked and missed it), and then Dagon is summoned and tries to SA the main characters. It came out of nowhere but it made the book more entertaining so I'll give it that. Then Lavia shows off her character development and is a badass. The volume ends with a "the moon is beautiful tonight" moment to cap things off beautifully.
The issue is that the volume is normal until that point. The main characters are stereotypical and there are so many instances of boob envy that annoyed me. I had high expectations for this one given that a yuri mystery seemed right down my alley but it just didn't meet them. It did end up being trashy fun but it's not something I'd recommend to many people. I did like Lavia though. I enjoyed learning more about her and seeing her grow.
This feels like a self-contained volume so I doubt it will get a sequel, and I'm not sure if I would read one if it came out. I probably would just out of curiosity but I'm definitely not anticipating one.
If you intend to read the Bookwalker release of this volume, I need to warn you about two things: some of the deduction parts are written as white text on a black background. I imagine this works fine in the print version, but Bookwalker just puts those parts as PNGs so you can't increase the text size to read it easier. It was so annoying and made it hard to read those sections. The other thing is that the page count is deceptive. I was under the impression I had a lot more of the book to read, but the last 100 pages or so are a preview to Dare ga Yuusha wo Koroshita ka.
