In 2000, a video game adaptation of the Bloodlust movie was released for the Playstation, simply titled Vampire Hunter D. Both films were originally released on DVD by Urban Vision, and when those licenses eventually fell through, Sentai Filmworks re-released the first film on Blu-ray (with a new dub), while Discotek Media re-released Bloodlust (with the original dub, and only that dub). Its success spawned an animated sequel, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, which was first released to US theaters on the film festival and art-house circuit in 2000 a Japanese release followed in 2001. Advertised as the "first animated horror film for adults," the feature acquired a cult following in the US following broadcasts on Cartoon Network, SyFy Channel, and TBS. The character designs for the movies were done by Yoshitaka Amano, who also did the cover art for the light novels.īoth the books and the movies possess a considerable sense of style, but are also quite disturbing, and not recommended for the faint of heart.Īn anime OVA feature adaptation was released in Japan in 1985, and it was dubbed and released on VHS in North America by Streamline Pictures in 1992. In the second, titled Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (based on the third novel), he is called upon to find a girl who has run off with her vampiric lover, and finds himself clashing against a group of mortal hunters. It involves him being hired to protect a young woman who has become the chosen prey of an "Aristocrat" (what vampires call themselves in this world), the sinister Count Magnus Lee. The first, based directly on the first novel, was simply titled Vampire Hunter D. It began as an extremely long-running series of light novels (thirty-two as of January 2018, some of which are several volumes long) which spawned two anime movies. Like Zeiram and other series of the mid-eighties, Vampire Hunter D focuses more on atmosphere than plot or prose, and pulls it off beautifully. With the help of a morbid and otherwise obnoxious (but very useful) parasite that lives in his left hand, D wanders to wherever he is needed in a post-apocalyptic world in the year 12,090 AD where monsters roam and humans live in fear. Lovecraft and Stephen King, note At least according to the blurbs on the back of the books themselves Vampire Hunter D is the story of a half human, half vampire vampire hunter, usually just called D, who is scorned by the world that he roams. note No, not that one.Ī horror novel series by Japanese author Hideyuki Kikuchi, a horror novelist in the same "vein" as H. WHEN MUTANTS AND DEMONS SLITHER THROUGH A WORLD OF DARKNESS. THIS STORY TAKES PLACE IN THE DISTANT FUTURE.
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