The art is amazing, though dates, nobody can deny this hand drawn gem. The way shadow is illustrated is so uniwue and japanese you will think your mind is playing tricks on you and hallucinating. The cross hatch work is something that is so hard to replicate.
D is a great character too. Watching him interact with this bleak, evil, daunting, and demonic world of the future is so good for some reason. I don't know, maybe it is just a nice shot of the 80s for me when I watch this but it is truly my favorite vampire flick ever. I have seen them all and it is like the ultimate adventure/hammer,george a romero, amano, artistic, syphony of true grit cult horror. Science fiction, post apocolypyic future, horror, adventure, western (in some of the direction surrounding D), and pure classic japenese master swordsman are just a few of the genres this movie reps with authority.
I would really challenge anyone to give me a negative point of this movie. The last scene run through the castle is one of the best climaxes in film period. Watch this!
