Not entirely.
[TL;DR VAMPIRE BULLSHIT]
True Vampire = top of the food chain. It has, at most, one weakness (stake through the heart), and some don't even have that. They're immortal, and look like extremely attractive humans. They tend to be sophisticated, well spoken, and possess an array of supernatural powers (transform into a bat or a cloud of bats, control the weather, transform into a cloud of mist, superhuman strength, superhuman agility, regenerative properties of varying potencies, powerful magic, flight, ect, ect).
If a human is bitten by a True Vampire, they will turn into a True Vampire themselves unless some intervention is made. The process takes time, but the actual amount varies from story to story. In some, it's as long as a week. In others, only a few minutes, or even a few seconds. It's important to note that if the one bitten dies between the initial bite and their transformation, they will not come back or rise again. Thus, a True Vampire who does not wish to spread their curse can simply drain a victim of enough blood to kill them.
Alucard is a True Vampire. Ceres Victoria is a True Vampire. Count Dracula is a True Vampire.
Nosferatu = bottom of the food chain. A Nosferatu has many weaknesses, and very few strengths. It can be killed by most normal methods used to kill living things, and has mortal weaknesses to a number of different things and substances (sunlight, garlic, holy symbols, running water, prayer, blood of a virgin, fire, silver, cold iron, ect, ect). A Nosferatu is only slightly stronger than a normal human, and is about as fast. Nosferatu are impossible to mistake, as they possess grotesque features that mark them as decidedly nonhuman. Often possessing rat-like or bat-like facial features, rotting or leathery flesh, gangly limbs, and impossibly long clawed fingers, any Nosferatu who wishes to remain unnoticed is forced to cover their entire body with cloth, armor, or other obscuring feature.
Nosferatu do, however, possess one ability that makes them very dangerous. A Nosferatu is a hive for disease and pestilence, and taints their surroundings whether they want to or not. Plagues and viruses follow Nosferatu wherever they go, and they seem to have the ability to corrupt and rot whatever they come into contact with at will.
If a human is bitten by a Nosferatu, they will die. Nosferatu do not spread their taint to others like a True Vampire does. New Nosferatu are created when a Nosferatu spends a length of time near corpses. After a degree of time has elapsed, the corpses will spontaneously rise as new Nosferatu, thanks to the taint of the first.
There are very few examples of Nosferatu in literature and media, if only because they are extremely weak and usually donÆt satisfy the audiences desires. Technically, some particularly noxious types of zombie could be classified as Nosferatu. Also, the majority of ôweakö vampires (who tend to serve as cannon fodder for the main characters) could be classified as Nosferatu (except most of them look like humans, not undead monsters).
However, there arenÆt very many pure examples of either, mostly because authors tend to blend True Vampires and Nosferatu together, creating hybrids that share characteristics with both, but arenÆt wholly either.
Examples of hybrids include Blade vampires (excluding Blade himself, who is more like a watered-down True Vampire than a True Vampire-Nosferatu hybrid), Buffy <s>emopiers</s> vampires, and pretty much any vampire written by or inspired by those written by Anne Rice, who both Geryon and myself will forever despise as being the source of the modern Emopires<sup>TM</sup>.
Short Version: True Vampires are badasses like Alucard and Dracula, and look like attractive humans. Some versions of them arenÆt undead, but alive. Nosferatu are cannon fodder, and look like monsters. They are almost always undead. The term ævampireÆ usually refers to a hybrid of these two extremes, because hybrids are the majority in media.
Again, Evangeline is a True Vampire. She exhibits none of the tendencies of Nosferatu, and all the ones of a True Vampire. On top of that, Akamatsu has outright stated that she is based off of characters like Dracula and Alucard, which even further cements the fact that she is a True Vampire.
[TL;DR VAMPIRE BULLSHIT]
[EDIT]
Almost forgot. Shinsou is just a generic Japanese term for vampire, and usually refers to western-style vampires like Dracula. It isnÆt a specific kind of vampire, just a generic term for them.
Also, ôHigh Daylight Walkerö is one of EvangelineÆs titles/aliases, not what she actually is. Her full list of titles and aliases are:
Evangelina Athanasia Ecaterina (her full name)
MacDovell
Dark Evangel
Maga Nosferatu ("The Undead Mage/Wizard")
The Queen of The Night
Eva
The Doll Master
The Apostle of Destruction (IÆd like to know more about this one, personally)
The Tidings of Evil
Puppet Master
Dreaded Vampire
Kitty (lol)
The High Daylight Walker Evangeline
The Girl Queen of Darkness
The Visitation of Woe (IÆd also like to know about this one)
The Disciple of Dark Tones (and this one)
