![]() ![]() ![]() Most notably, the hat that D wears creates a black void in the upper part of his face with only his eyes showing, and it's incredibly painful to watch, especially when it doesn't move even when the lighting does. Characters' color palettes will change from scene to scene, far more than lighting should account for. The movie's extremely heavy on the gore, but the way that blood works in this is incredibly stylized and not even close to reality in the slightest. Action scenes are done mainly with pulsating lines in the background, not to mention flashing lights that could probably induce epileptic seizures in those susceptible to them. The character designs are extremely pointy and detailed, but they're based off of Amano designs, which explains a lot. ![]() I was watching this with my anime club tonight, and we just gave up on even trying to understand what happened about a half hour in and just started mocking it mercilessly.Īrt: For the 80s, this is halfway decent. I honestly can't tell you what the hell happened here. Moreover, the thing just drags, with scenes seemingly added simply for the point of drawing out the movie, which really shouldn't have happened. There are sudden jumps from scene to scene, subplots are bought in out of nowhere, and twists are thrown around like they're candy, with all of this having little to no explanation whatsoever. In execution, however, it is made of WTF. I mean, there's a general narrative here, and it's something resembling coherent when it's looked at overarchingly. She hires a vampire hunter known only as D, who she meets out in the middle of nowhere one day, offering him food and herself to take out the Count and save her from becoming his bride. Story: Doris Lang, the daughter of a werewolf hunter, is out hunting werewolves one night when she is bitten by Count Magnus Lee, who then decides to make her his bride, marking her with his bite marks. It was released in 1985 in Japan and licensed Stateside by, in order, CBS Theatrical Films, MGM, Streamline Pictures, and, the current holder of the license, Urban Vision Entertainment. well, there's nothing really to speak of here). Vampire Hunter D, an 80 minute movie, was produced by Ashi Productions (known for their work on the Sailor Moon S and SuperS movies) and directed by Toyoo Ashida (famous for his work on. as Vampire Hunter D: American Wasteland, and will be written by Jimmy Palimotti (known for writing the Sci-Fi series Painkiller Jane and work on Monolith). The comic, whose rights were acquired Devil's Due Publishing (the parent company of Digital Media Publishing) in July 2008, is known The manga was an adaptation in which Kikuchi hand-picked the artist, Saiko Takaki, began running in 2007, was licensed Stateside by Digital Media Publishing, and is currently ongoing. Vampire Hunter D was adapted into two separate media manga and comics. An influential, good-looking effort, but not a great standalone.Novels, Manga, Anime: Vampire Hunter D was originally a series of seventeen novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (famous for his work on character designs and the logos for the Final Fantasy series) starting in 1983. Its cup overfloweth with style, atmosphere and well-dressed, grimacing mystery men, but at heart it's just an excessively simple genre piece. Now that I've been exposed to more material, and the format has grown, it's tough to overlook the uber-hammy dialog, excessively simple character development and vague, conveniently under-explained plot points. As an early gateway drug to the not-for-kids scene, I loved it in my teens. With character designs by Final Fantasy house artist Yoshitaka Amano, it's well-conceived, if cheaply produced. Add an ample serving of unique weaponry, a ridiculously large blood moon, a sarcastic talking hand and darkness, darkness, darkness you've got Vampire Hunter D. We've got blood and violence, tits and ass, a tall, dark, mostly-silent hero, a hulking, unrepentant evil monster and a whole host of nameless underbosses to tear apart. Quintessential late-night anime from the medium's earliest days. ![]()
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