Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)

• Year: 2000
• Released: 28 Sep 2001
• Country: Japan, Hong Kong, United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216651/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vampire_hunter_d_bloodlust
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Animation, Action, Drama
• Runtime: 103 min
• Writer: Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Ellen Moore
• Director: Jack Fletcher, Yoshiaki Kawajiri
• Cast: Andrew Philpot, John Rafter Lee, Pamela Adlon
• Keywords: vampire, gore, post-apocalyptic future, future, chase,

	7.6/10
	62/100
	72% – Critics
	86% – Audience

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust Storyline

In the far distant future, vampires rule the night. But because of the fearless bounty hunters, their numbers dwindle. One such is D, a half-breed born of a human mother and a vampire father. He is hired by a father-son team to retrieve Charlotte, a lovely young lady, who was abducted by the vampire Meier Link. However, they also hired the Marcus Brothers for competition. In a race against time and across the lands, D and the Brothers fight their way through demons and monsters to save the woman, and slowly begin to suspect that she wasn’t taken against her will…and that another threat looms in the distance…

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Vampire Love

The Dunpeal (half vampire half human), Vampire Hunter D (voiced by Andrew Philpot) has been hired to find and reclaim Charlotte (Wendee Lee) who’s been kidnapped by the vampire Meier Link (John Rafter Lee). The fee is $20M and he’s not the only one in on the hunt. He has to compete with a band of hunters called the Marcus Brothers and they are formidable in their own right.

Meier has ensured that he won’t be easily captured even by day. He’s hired his own protection–a few supernatural creatures from Barbaroy. He and Charlotte are on their way to Carmila’s castle where he will have better protection against hunters.

This hunt isn’t as cut and dried as others. Meier isn’t interested in Charlotte as food or even a vampire bride, he loves her and she loves him.

Strangely enough I liked the first and shorter movie much better.

This anime got based on a novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi and got made into a movie for the first time in 1985. That movie, the anime “Kyûketsuki hantâ D”, to me was a great one to watch due to its great dark atmosphere and intriguing characters. This longer and also more expensive movie however could never grab me with its story or even characters.

The story felt like a mess at times and was the foremost reason why the movie just couldn’t always hold my intension. It also was the reason why the movie really felt like it was dragging at times and was definitely being overlong. With a different and more dark style I’m sure that the movie would had come out as a better one still though.

I just wasn’t too impressed with the animation style this time, though I can certainly dig a good anime movie from time to time, so I’m familiar with its animation style and are often also quite fond of it. Its action but also its concept and character seemed far from original, which makes this a bit of a redundant movie, especially after the much better 1985 production.

Because the movie just never grabbed me, everything else in the movie just basically also fails to fully work out. It wasn’t a movie that entertained me or was one that I enjoyed watching, though it’s also far from the worst thing that you’ll ever see.

5/10

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One of the better anime’s

As soon as I read the plot for this film, I had a feeling I’d like it – but that feeling was quickly quashed when I found out that the film is animated. It’s not that I have anything against animated films; I just don’t tend to like them very much. Still, there’s a couple that I like and, considering plot, I figured it must be worth a go anyway, and it was. The problem with animation these days, especially when it’s coming from Asia is that it is extremely likely to receive high praise regardless of how good it actually is, and this makes it very difficult to decide whether or not certain films are worth seeing. While Vampire Hunter D definitely is worth seeing, I get the feeling that a lot of it’s high praise is coming from the fact that Asian cinema is in vogue right now. The plot is classic vampire fodder, which is why it instantly appealed to me, and it follows the story of a young rich girl who is apparently kidnapped by a vampire. The vampire population is dwindling, thanks to the bounty hunters, and our story picks up when the girl’s father hires a hunter – Vampire Hunter D – to find his daughter. He hires another crew as well, but they soon find out that the girl may have gone with the vampire of her own free will…

One of the reasons why anime continually gets high ratings is because, unlike other types of animation, the adult orientation allows for more developed characters; and some of the characters and exchanges in this movie are truly spectacular considering that it’s animated. Vampire Hunter D manages to enthral the viewer by way of action and emotion, both of which are extremely well done. The characters are much more complex than in most live action vampire films with the central half-human, half-vampire figure providing most of the intrigue. I didn’t like the design of the vampire hunter much, but like the lone figures across cinema; D’s presence is enough to ensure that all of his scenes are a highlight. The film’s adult orientation allows it to be more gratuitous in it’s action sequences than most animated films, and the vast majority of them are really well done. The real star of the show for me was the horror atmosphere, which serves the film really well. The animation helps Vampire Hunter D massively in that respect as the filmmaker’s only limit is their imagination, which means that the atmosphere is allowed to be laid on more thickly than a lot of horror movies have means to do. On the whole, this is a very good film, and while I would have preferred live action; Vampire Hunter D shows that animation is an adequate base for a horror movie.