Vampire Hunter D

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English: Vampire Hunter D

Japanese: 吸血鬼〈バンパイア〉ハンターD

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Dec 21, 1985

Producers: Ajia-Do, Trans Arts, Movic, Studio Kyuuma, Studio Core, CBS

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks, Urban Vision

Studios: Production Reed

Source: Light novel

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Supernatural, Vampire

Duration: 1 hr. 20 min.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 7.10¹ (scored by 34,714 users)

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Ranked: #3191²

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Popularity: #1797

Members: 60,837

Favorites: 340

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10,000 years in the future, the world has become a very different place; monsters roam the land freely, and people, although equipped with high tech weapons and cybernetic horses, live a humble life more suited to centuries past. The story focuses on a small hamlet plagued by monster attacks and living under the shadow of rule by Count Magnus Lee, a powerful vampire lord who has ruled the land for thousands of years. When a young girl is bitten by the Count and chosen as his current plaything, she seeks out help of a quiet wandering stranger, D. It so happens that D is one of the world's best vampire hunters, and he takes it upon himself to cut through Magnus Lee's many minions, and put an end to the Count's rule.

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Adaptation:	Vampire Hunter D, Vampire Hunter D
Sequel:	Vampire Hunter D (2000)

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Characters & Voice Actors

Main

Shiozawa, Kaneto
Japanese

Lang, Doris

Main

Tomizawa, Michie
Japanese

Left Hand

Supporting

Nagai, Ichiro
Japanese

Rei-Ginsei

Supporting

Sogabe, Kazuyuki
Japanese

Lee, Magnus

Supporting

Katou, Seizou
Japanese

Lee, Ramika

Supporting

Kitou, Satoko
Japanese

Greco

Supporting

Yara, Yuusaku
Japanese

Lang, Dan

Supporting

Toda, Keiko
Japanese

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Ashida, Toyoo

Director

Matsuura, Noriyoshi

Sound Director

Wyner, Tom

Script

Hirano, Yasushi

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"Your Song" by TM NETWORK

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Oct 30, 2008

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

Venneh (All reviews)

51 people found this review helpful

Title: Vampire Hunter D

Novels, Manga, Anime: Vampire Hunter D was originally a series of seventeen novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (famous for his work on character designs and the logos for the Final Fantasy series) starting in 1983.

Vampire Hunter D was adapted into two separate media; manga and comics. The manga was an adaptation in which Kikuchi hand-picked the artist, Saiko Takaki, began running in 2007, was licensed Stateside by Digital Media Publishing, and is currently ongoing. The comic, whose rights were acquired Devil's Due Publishing (the parent company of Digital Media Publishing) in July 2008, is known read more

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Sep 19, 2014

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

literaturenerd (All reviews)

34 people found this review helpful

Overview:

Time to look at a 1985 classic that made a huge impact on the popularity of anime in the US. It is the height of the Cold War and Reagan is in the White house. This was before Akira and Ghost in the Shell and besides Speed Racer and Astro Boy, Americans had no idea what anime was. All of a sudden we Americans see a cartoon with ultra violence, tits, and crazy steampunk nonsense that is never explained. We take one look at this incoherent acid trip and go...FUCK THIS IS AWESOME! This was the birth of the teen and older anime community in the United States. This is Vampire FUCKING D!

Plot and characters: 5/10

The plot is that 10,000 years the future, vampires have taken over the world and human civilization is a mixed up mess of modern technology and 1800s Romanian peasantry. Why? Who the fuck cares!? This is Vampire Hunter D, we don't need no stinkin logic! A powerful vampire lord called Count Lee in reference to Christopher Lee is terrorizing the countryside. A half human half vampire of noble vampire birth has decided to side with the humans and take down the vampires. The plot and cheesy voice acting will immediately remind the viewer of the Castlevania games and especially Symphony of the Night. However, this was actually made before the original Castlevania on NES and actually helped inspire the Castlevania series! One bizarre but funny thing in this film is that D also has a hand with a mouth that eats things (now we know where Deidara gets it), but unlike Deidara's, this hand never shuts the fuck up. D at one point even has to threaten to cut it off if it won't stop talking! In the end, D rescues the damsel of course, kills Dracula/Lee and the castle crumbles exactly like in the end of every Castlevania game. Actually the design of the castle as seen from the outside in Symphony of the Night is based on the castle in this movie!

Art and sound: 5/10

The art was decent for the mid 1980s and there wasn't really a high standard for anime at the time. It looked better than any anime Americans had ever seen to that point, so keep that in mind when watching this from a modern perspective. Saying the animation sucks is like watching Fritz Lang's Metropolis or Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky and saying the special effects suck. It simply isn't helpful to compare to modern standards and you have to appreciate how great it looked relative to its own time.

Overall: 6/10

Don't expect amazing story telling or character depth, but this is a must see for people that want to learn more about anime history and for fans of Castlevania! It is nostalgic, cheesy, and a fun way to spend a boring, rainy afternoon.

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Sep 29, 2007

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

Phill-z (All reviews)

24 people found this review helpful

I own every Vampire Hunter D light novel. I've read all of them at least three times (it's really easy they're only about 200 pages) So when I saw this movie I spent a good portion of my time going ".......what?"

Story: The story is ok. I felt they spent too much time focusing on the story when it would have been much better for them to use the story to transition the action scenes. They make it a little less complicated than the book, but not to the point where it really detracted from it.

Art: The art is VERY read more

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Jan 14, 2015

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

animan095 (All reviews)

21 people found this review helpful

Exciting, thrilling, mysterious.
This rather old movie, is definitely a masterpiece for it's era. Taking into consideration it's age, you simply can't attempt to compare it to mordern animes, by those standards it falls rather short. But, if you judge it according to the standards of the time it was made, you find a fast-paced filled with action and horror that can easily outmatch many horror movies, be it animated or acted.

You also find in it many aspects of horror, that are fairly common in movies and series following the same genere.
Although to tell the truth, the story had such a fast pace that all read more

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