Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) was a more elaborately animated and superior sequel. The animation is also limited and the dubbing occasionally flat. Part of the problem here is that the vampire threat amounts to little – he is merely a stuffed figure in a cape uttering vague threats and never a character of menace. After the fabulous journey that takes up the middle of the film, the rest, especially the showdown with the chief vampire, is anticlimactic in comparison. ![]() Vampire hunter D crosses the post-apocalyptic wasteland on his horse ![]() Typically of Japanime, the film is amazingly gory with numerous severed limbs, bifurcated bugs and knives impaled in eyeballs. The middle of the film features a wonderfully hallucinatory journey across wasted landscapes into the chief vampire’s labyrinthine castle and through encounters with a menagerie of slugs, giants, mutants that can warp time and space (thus impaling the hero’s sword thrusts inside his own body) and three-headed hydra snake-women. He even looks the perfect modern comic-book antihero – roaming the post-holocaust landscape on a white steed, his face never seen, hidden behind a giant-sized fedora and bandana and saying less than a dozen words throughout. The title character would make perfect material for a modern Western graphic novel series – D is the same dark, nihilistic, monosyllabic avenger of the modern graphic novel typified by Batman, Spawn, Judge Dredd, The Crow and The Punisher. This film version came out just at the time when the revolution in graphic novels was taking comic-books away from the Comic Book Code and along grimmer and darker paths. These have also been adapted into videogames and a manga series. The film is based on a series of Japanese novels, which consists of 27 books since 1983. It suggests a conceptual blend of Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name (or the lead character in Stephen King’s Gunslinger series) and Marvel Comics’ Blade. A physical release of the series will be published on CDs in January of next year.Vampire Hunter D is an anime film that has developed a modest cult. Higher quality FLAC files are available for $14.39 USD. Listeners using the GraphicAudio Access App can access the drama for $11.39 USD, while those who want MP3 and M4B files can pre-order them for $13.39 USD. ![]() GraphicAudio's adaptations of Vampire Hunter D are available for pre-order now. Unlike the upcoming GraphicAudio version, the Japanese drama skipped the first book and instead began with Raiser of Gales before going on to Demon Deathchase and Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, the seventh novel in the series. The movie was followed up by another film in 2000 entitled Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. The series has also been adapted into manga, as well as a Japanese audio drama that ran from 1988 to 1990. The first anime film of Vampire Hunter D was produced in 1985, billed as a "dark future science-fiction romance." It was released in English in 1992 and became one of the earliest anime films to achieve a cult following outside of Japan. RELATED: Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Combines Horror With… Buddhist CSI?
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