Yami no Teio: Kyuuketsuki Dracula

On a seemingly normal night in Boston, a satanic ritual is taking place: a bride is to be offered up as a sacrifice. However, Dracula, the King of Vampires, swoops in and steals her, with the intent of depriving the woman of both her blood and her life. And yet, despite his earlier motives for abducting the bride, Dracula is astonished by her beauty and decides to keep the woman as his wife.

He and Domini, his spouse, lead a fruitful life together, bearing a healthy son by the name of Janus, with Dracula's crime against Satan fading from memory. On the other hand, Satan hasn't forgiven him for stealing his rightful bride and is plotting to ruin his happiness when the time is right. Another group, the Vampire Hunters, similarly wish to destroy Dracula as vengeance for the souls he has taken to feed himself.

Now carrying the burden of a family, Dracula must protect himself from Satan's plots as well as from the vengeful Vampire Hunters in a desperate fight for survival and forbidden love.

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Dracula Main

Utsumi, Kenji Japanese

Harker, Quincy Main

Hisamatsu, Yasuo Japanese

Janus Supporting

Sogabe, Kazuyuki Japanese

Prince of Darkness, Satan Supporting

Shibata, Hidekatsu Japanese

Tomo Supporting

Tanaka, Yasuo Japanese

Voice of God Supporting

Fujii, Toshiyuki Japanese

Malissa Supporting

Nakano, Seiko Japanese

Layla Supporting

Katsura, Reiko Japanese

Lupeski Supporting

Takiguchi, Junpei Japanese

Domini Supporting

Suzuki, Hiroko Japanese

Okazaki, Minoru Director

Yamano, Satoko Theme Song Performance

Yokoyama, Seiji Music

Nagaoka, Akinori Assistant Director

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Oct 21, 2017

BansheeNeet

Recommended

The joy I get from watching "Dracula:Sovereign of the Damned" is the same I feel watching "The Room" or the best parts of "Garzey's Wing". To me it is the best of all the famously "so-bad-it's-good" anime because it is consistently so (specifically the dub, the most ideal way to watch).

My problem with watching bad anime or movies is that a lot of times it's just actually bad rather than enjoyably so, and at some point it's just an hour wasted. But this 1980's interpretation of the Dracula story is so ridiculous and over-the-top throughout and becomes a delightful sight to witness.

In this movie, Dracula ... pretends to be Satan because he hates Satan, and steals a beautiful women who was meant to be a sacrifice for Satan and then falls in love with her. The story from there mostly involves Dracula constantly whining about being Dracula and performing more and more ridiculous acts in the hope of not being Dracula, only to start performing even more ridiculous acts in order to be Dracula again.

Meanwhile, a group of completely inept Dracula hunters follow Dracula around and eventually both God and Satan get involved and the shenanigans continue from there.

All the comedy comes from both the absurdity of the entire plot as well as the nonsensical dialogue and hilarious voice acting from the dub, which once again is the only right way to watch this. Something to watch with friends while making fun of it, and honestly way better than "Garzey's Wing" in terms of being a bad anime. Also, if you think I spoiled too much in this review, I promise you I did not reveal any of the best parts.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 22, 2024

therex55213

Mixed Feelings

This anime might be about vampires, but I'm starting to think you people are the ones out for blood.
I found this item on a list of "lowest rated" anime, and quite honestly after watching it? Looking at its contemporaries in the year before and the year after? Y'all are just mean. Sure, it's mid, and let's count the ways:

Story: 5/10. A series of coincidences, god and the devil conspire to subject Dracula to the worst day(s?) of his life. A little disjointed but at no point did it really lose me. Felt somewhat like an episodic miniseries compressed into a film, mind, but that was ... not uncommon for the time. Overarching plot is your usual tragic vampire in love with a human fare, no real surprises there but also not necessarily handled poorly.

Characters: 5/10. Flat and one-note for the most part, Dracula the perpetually kicked dog gets the most characterization and development despite not really being protagonist or antagonist in his own film. I've seen better, but I've seen worse.

Art: 6/10. Dated now, but of its era and by golly not the worst of its era. Mid for sure, but for the quality of art and animation coming out at the time ('79-'80) it is no worse than its kin. Jerky, but there are other much more beloved things from this era that looked as bad or worse.

Sound: 6/10: A little repetitive, but serviceable. They knew the halloween vibe they were going for in the soundtrack and while it was a miss in some places it was a hit in others. Sound effects were on the lower end, but the music was fine to good.

Enjoyment: 6/10. Got some legit laughs out of me as Dracula's (un)life just kept getting worse. Beyond that, the film set out to tell a modern Dracula dark fantasy story and I guess it accomplished that.

Mean score: 5.6/10, rounded to nearest whole as 6/10.
I see people in the reviews here comparing it to The Room or Garzey's Wing. Take a step back and look at the year of this thing's release, and the adjacent years. You really think Mobile Suit Gundam "lets have characters just say the themes of our show explicitly out loud while animation errors punctuate every scene" is better than this? It isn't, don't kid yourself. This is just a mid anime movie from 1980, probably produced in 1979, and every element of it speaks to that. I wouldn't recommend people bother with watching it, but I won't ridicule it for the craftsmanship normal of its era.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 8, 2020

Hanma_Orochi

Not Recommended

Hello everyone ! well, this time is the time to review a classical yet quite obscure anime (for the right reasons), but, before starting this no spoiler review i want to clear some stuff up, first of all, it is not as bad as people say sometimes, calling it absolute trash or the worst horror anime ever, and another thing is that this is not a adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel, but actually an adaptation of the Marvel comics story of a same name that is a adaptation of the novel, so this is kinda of the adaptation of a adaptation (yeah quite ... messy).
Now lets get into it, as i mentione this is an adaptation of an adaptation, trying to convert a book converted into a comic book into a anime is a task that well, can be called tough at the very least. In this anime you will see some points from the novel, others totally made up and some that i dont know if were originated from the comics because i didnt read it haha, and that is the problem, the anime tried to be original and to be faithful at the same time, which cause it to end up boring and rushed at the same time.
The movie tells the story of a satanic cult trying to realize and "black sabbath" or a "dark cult" in order to summon satan and present him a new bride, with Dracula being the messenger to Satan, taking the bride to him, but he ends up falling in love with her and betrays Satan and the whole cult. On the other hand we have descendents of Van Helsing and the Harker family who are there to hunt and kill the non-life king Nosferatu Dracula.
This sums up the plot and the initial story being told, but there are some plot twists and revelations that cause the movie to become boring sometimes or totally nonsense, but then when things have to be solved it gets very rushed in, which is the biggest problem from this anime.
That anime is indeed a classic of horror and a very underated one, if you are a horror anime fan, or a vampire fan or someone who really likes classical 70/80´s anime i would recommend you gave it a try, of course it is not a mandatory one as we have Golgo 13, Kick no Oni, Sagata Sanchirou and Ashita no Joe on that period, but if you already saw those and doesnt have anything better, give old Dracula a chance, also, it is a stand alone movie so if you dont like it so much, at least you wont need to see 20+ to find out what happened.
Technically speaking the art style is average most othe time, but has times of glory throught the movie and has that early 80's and late 70's style that i do enjoy, the only problem is with the sound, the soundtrack is good, but the voice action quality sometimes feel off, but as it is very old i can understand why converted versions have a worse quality sound wise. Well, in resume, give it a try guys, i believe even if you dislike it you will still have some good laughs with some crazy over the top stuff that happens there.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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