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Vampire Hunter D Directors: Carl Macek, Toyoo Ashida Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Academy Ratio Format: Color, Animated, Dolby Audience Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes Studio: Urban Vision Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2000-10-17 Buy from Amazon |
 "Bat Wing Broth"As the movie opens, we find the young Doris running through the goth night, in between the sage. She raises her rifle and spurts hot rounds into the neck and head of a fierce night creature. The monster falls squirting streams of blood into the night air, as Doris' horse appears. With only half of its remaining head, the creature grabs the horse in the throat and begins tearing. Doris fires enraged shots, wildly destroying the remnants. Behind her, appearing from no where another night creature snatches the cross from around her neck, sending her tumbling to the ground. In the night beyond, lighting flashes illuminating a massive sillouette of the vampire Count Magnus Lee, of the house of Dracula. Doris has tresspassed, and he is there to claim the price... Vampire Hunter D is an anime in which you care for all of the character's, even at times, the villain's. D is a vampire hunter that crosses path's with a young girl that has been bitten by Count Magnus Lee. Unless Lee is killed, then she too will be brought into the vampire race. D is a dark movie. Extremely dark. So dark in fact that at times the only thing seperating the objects on the screen are the different SHADES of black. One thing you may notice or agree with, is the close similarity in music themes between this and A Nightmare on Elm Street. I haven't read if there was any inspiration from Elm, but its not likely. This movie has many villains. It has the main villain, the sub villain (Ramika), the helper villains (Rei Ginsei), and the nagging hotshot villain (Greco). And not to mention all of those nasty ghouls, goblins, giants, and the three snake women. One of my favorite moment's is a funny scene in which Doris' younger brother Dan tries to immitate the stone features of D. Trying to look cool. Really funny stuff. Then there is D's hand...I'll leave that one for you to discover. The only problem I had with the disc itself, was that the movie was in full screen. Some of you may prefer it, I just don't. Then again full screen may be its original aspect ratio, I'm not sure. And, some may consider this a problem: The vocals do not stay within the designated center channel. I actually found it kind of fun to have all of the voices bounce around my speakers. If that's not a problem to you, or if you don't have the surround set-up, then you'll enjoy it. D is a fun experience, and a good anime to get started on. When Anime catches on seriously in America, and I don't mean pokemon, digimon, etc... it would be neat if you already had some knowledge of anime before your friends catch on to it. Go ahead and get prepared. The day will come. ~s.a.o.s.~ "Vampire Hunter D gets an A+!"Long ago, this played on Cartoon Network. It was on very late night, and it was just before Toonami. For the most part, they didn't edit much of the movie. D, A half-man/haf-vampire hunts vampires wherever he goes. This time, he's up against Count Magus Lee, a very old vampire. This is one of the first anime movies i ever saw. "Magnifico Supremo"I know the title is stupid but this is one of thsoe animes that every one needs to have in their library. This is a classic that is among the likes of Akira, Metropolis, and Macross. the story revolves around a stranger who is a half human, half vampire. He arrives in this town in the post apocolyptic future on the trail of the vampire Magus. Magus is one of those vampires that is around 500 years old and is very powerful. he wants this local girl who is vampire hunter herself as his bride. She hires D to take out Magus. The story may sound like typical Anime and it is. But it is very well done. With awsome action, good dialouge, and a moving story this is something that you need to have in your library.  "Terrible"It was terrible, extremely boring although the sequel vampire henter d bloodlust was cool.  "Old animation with generic storyline"Story: generic good-vs-evil, feeling love but can't love, macho and cool warrier must move on after saving a girl he already had feeling to.......I don't mind this kind of old story, but the scenes are not really grapping or touching, and the drawing is retro, similar to animation style 20 years ago, colors are not well defined, layers not detailed, but in the end it's the common storyline not well directed that leaves one hoping for more actions, more emotion, and more ways this kind of story can be told and filmed |
