So, we see roughly three types of Vampires in Dragonball: Draculaman's comical take on the Werebat version, with a weakness to Garlic and Crosses (Draculaman), Kyonshi, with the weird psychic powers and a compulsion to solve any arithmetic problem they hear (Chaozu), and a variant on the Western style, who ignores most of the weird stuff and is just a super strong blood-sucking creature of darkness who can't stand the sun (Lucifer).
Did I miss any? Do you insist that Draculaman and Lucifer are the same type? Do you protest that the Daizenshuu classify Chaozu as a human-type Earthling, but not Draculaman or Lucifer? OK, fair enough.
(But really, did I miss any other possible Vampires?)
I kinda think extending the Vampire lore to overlap makes what little there is to know about Chaozu seem less meaningless, in a way. In the movie continuity, destroying Devil's Castle led to some geopolitical consequences between movies, the Mi Fan army tried to take over the region with Lucifer out of the way, some Vampires attacked the capital, or were refugees and culture clash resulted in violence, whatever; result is Chaozu being turned and rescued by T'en, and trained by Tsuru Sen'nin under the hopes that his Sen'ninly knowledge contains "how not to become a horror movie monster" or some such.
In the Manga continuity... similar deal, with Tsuru Sen'nin using his arts to keep Chaozu from going full Vampire.
Chaozu being a literal Vampire struggling to hold on to his humanity makes sense of why he never ages, why he has such a hard time getting stronger, why Kuririn beat him by shouting math problems, why he's so close to T'en (and possibly why T'en has a thing for life-threatening techniques, if T'en has been feeding Chaozu spare ki or something), why they stay away from civilization more than any other characters, and, Heck, say he was trying to Vampire-drain Nappa, realized he couldn't handle that much power, and that's when he decided to Kamikaze. I mean, did you notice Chaozu is never killed by a non-demon, or at night?
Of course, Kyonshi and Western-style Vampires don't have much in common, other than feeding on the living and being creepy pale-skinned creatures of terror, so I suppose trying to tie Chaozu to Lucifer is a bit much. Still, I like the "actions have consequences" element anyway.
So, did I miss anything important? Are there more details about DB's Vampires I missed? Has the fact that it's been several years since I last read about Kyonshi caused me to get something horribly wrong? Is there some evidence in the series that disproves the "Everything about Chaozu can be explained by his being an unwilling Vampire" theory? Is it way stupider than it sounds in my head? ... Maybe don't answer that last one.
