Suwa (スワ, Suwa) is a character in the Mars Red series. He is a Corporal of the Imperial Japanese Army and a C-class vampire who has lived since before the Edo period. Infected sometime during the Azuchi-Momoyama period while age 14-16. Suwa has little memory of being human and chose his own name following his infection. He named himself Suwa because his only human memories are of playing by Suwa shrine as a child. Suwa lived through the wild era and has to suppress his instincts using a mask that hides the odor of blood. He has eleven stigmata on his body and is known as the vampire who hates vampires.
Mars Red
It's 1923, and vampires have existed for quite a while. But now, the number of vampires is increasing. and a mysterious, artificial blood source called Ascra has appeared. The Japanese government, in turn, creates “Code Zero,” a unit within the army tasked with taking down the vampiric forces. And what better way to track vampires than by using vampires? Created by Lieutenant General Nakajima, this unit has historically been in the business of information war, but has been re-assigned to solve the vampire crisis. It's up to Code Zero and the S-class vampire Deffrot to investigate this increase and put a stop to it before society crumbles.
