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Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust Directors: Tai Kit Mak, Yoshiaki Kawajiri Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Running Time: 106 minutes Studio: Urban Vision Enterta Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2002-02-12 Buy from Amazon |
 "Great sequel"This is a sequel of the anime horror classic Vampire Hunter D, the first thing you'll see is the superb graphics that this DVD present along with great audio to show some very nice vampire action. A must have for anyone who loves the classic one.  "Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust"This was a great sequal to the orignal VHD. Its different art style and action pacted sceens lead you into the world of D and thase poor souls that live along side the vampire and mutants of a world gone through hell. All in all this film series rates up there with LotR with me as one of my number one picks of all time. "A well done Gothic Anime, way better than the first."Anime movies are sweet. Most American cartoons can't even hold a candle to most of the japanimation films I've seen. The actions better, the plots are better. Face it, they're just better! Vampire Hunter D was an old school classic for me back in the day. As a matter of fact it was one of the first anime films I've ever seen. Back then is was all about "Akira", "8th Man After", "Vampire Hunter D" and "Wicked City" just to name a few. At the time the original was one of my favorite movies. But after seeing it like a million times, Vampire Hunter D just lost its luster to me. After a long while I heard rumor that there was going to be a sequal made. All rumors were put to rest when they finally released Vampire Hunter D 2. And I can honestly say that its SO much better than the fist. The animation is better, the plot is darker with a gothic twist, over all a very well done film. Fans of the "Gothic" culture will love this film for sure, fans of anime will love it no matter what. Take my word for it, Vampire Hunter D : Bloodlust is well worth the time. BUY IT! "Charles Solomon Shouldn't Review Anime"Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a follow-up to the mid-80's "Vampire Hunter D." In Bloodlust we see, D, the half-human half-vampire doing what he does best--hunting vampires of course! I will stop a moment to recommend that you watch Bloodlust on a mid-range quality DVD player or better. The artwork, while breathtaking tends to be too dark on older DVD players and "everyday" DVD players to really appreciate. Pick up an entry-level Onkyo or Denon or something of similar quality at the very least and no, Pioneer doesn't count. Okay, back to the review. Bloodlust is another Vampire Hunter D that manages to accomplish the Sci-Fi Horror Genre with ease. I personally felt the story is better this time, and the direction is also better. Though, it is bloody, and violent, it does the setting well and fits with the story. The plot, is pretty much exactly as summed up in Solomon's review, so I won't bore you with it here. However there are a couple of points where Solomon's general dis-interest in anime shows. The "Confusing Illusions" he speaks of aren't at all confusing and yield some nice plot twists at the end. In addition Solomon misses the point the artwork and the style of this particular anime when he says "The very limited drawn animation clashes visually with the more fluid computer-generated imagery--D's cape billows dramatically, but his expression rarely changes." D is stoic as they come. His expression isn't supposed to change. That's part of the charm. I highly recommend this anime, which is without a doubt a much better "adaptation" (as Solomon wrongly puts it--it is a continuation) of the originial Vampire Hunter D. "Fantastic Anime"I loved this anime, it was spectacular - cheers to those who made it. The story is great and does not follow the regular vampire-cliche that I had expected. The soundtrack, characters and visuals were all incredible also. D is a half human/half vamp vampire hunter with a somewhat ambiguous past who agrees to track down another vampire who kidnapped a girl in exchange for 20million dollars.....phew! In a slight twist though, the same people who have paid D to track the girl have also hired another small group of hunters for the same task. As the story unfolds, we see how both D and the other group of hunters track down the enemy - but what are this enemies intentions? There was never a dull moment in this flick and it left me wanting to watch it a second time. I can't say much more besides I'm glad people are still making anime which have a good collection of everything rather then excelling in one area. Buy this movie if you are a fan of action oriented anime movies (eg ninja, akira, ghost..etc). Thoroughly enjoyable. If I do have any gripes, I would say there needed to be a few more intense fight scenes. I have only watched the english dubbed version (not sure if there is any other).. and another thing that annoyed me somewhat was the voice actor for the female hunter - I wish they had chosen someone else! If not for her annoying voice, I would give it a 5. |
