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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 |
 "Favorite Horror"This is my favorite horror . The animation is excellent. It opens up with a lady hunting for demons when she is attacked by Count Magnus Lee. Since then she is looking for hunters to save her. When one day D (A fearless kickass badass vampire hunter) shows up riding his cyborg horse and offers to help her. Can't say anymore because I don't want to ruin it for the rest of you. This is a must see for all fans of horror .  "Go for Bloodlust, not this one"Actually, when I saw D for the first time I was quite disapointed... no cool animations, no artistic colors or graphics, etc. The movie looks like some kind of old anim?, when I started to watch it I though it was a 70's anim?. Anyway, the story is really good, and I recomend this one before watching bloodlust, ... But actually, if you're looking for cool anim? with graphics and animations like Ninja scroll, Akira, or ghost in the shell, then get Vampire Hunter D bloodlust, not this one.  "D.... I geuss."Vampire Hunter D got hundreds of rave reviews and I'm not quite sure why, it could be that when they reviewed it they got it mixed up with the sequel bloodlust (Which is an excellent movie I might add) and wrote a review for the original thinking they were writing a review for Bloodlust. That's the only logical explanation I can think of. VHD's story is unoriginal but takes place in an interesting world. So it had potential but didn't quite take advantage of it. The animation is unexscusable no matter how old it is. Once, in the middle of the movie, they showed the same 5 second sequence 3 times in a row. That's just terrible. When making it their manager probably said, "here`s ten bucks, go make a movie". The action scenes are pretty boring, all they have is a lot of fake looking blood and a picture of D running towards the screen with speedlines. If you're looking for good vampire action movie I suggest you check out Vampire hunter D Bloodlust, which is directed by the same person who did Ninja Scroll, It's much better and has absolutely unbelievable animation. If you're new to anime check out these great titles; Princess Mononoke, Akira, Ghost In The Shell, Metropolis, Grave of the fireflies and Ninja Scroll. "A Third culture"There's a quiet breed now days among humans and vampires- those known only as the Vampeals--1/2 Human and 1/2 vampire. In D's case, his mother was human and his father was vampire. He hates vampires and doesn't like the fact the he is 1/2, so he sets out to hunt the vampires and slay them before others have to suffer. Vampeals are NOT very common, and each on has a special "gift" from the vampire who sired them. See what D's is. Also note that he uses his special abilities to fight his "relatives" so to speak!! "good movie - terrible DVD"I can't believe they actually called this thing a special edition. Vampire Hunter D is a true classic, a great sci-fi and horror anime, for its time at least. But this DVD is severely lacking. No widescreen, no digital touchup, really poor navigation, ect. I was expecting better. |
