646f9e108c It is the distant future, Supernatural creatures are controlling the small civilizations left on Earth. A beautiful young woman, Doris, has been bitten by Count Magnus Lee for trespassing in his domain while hunting for demons threatening her home. Fearing that her life will be controlled by the Count, Doris hires and offers herself to a man known only&quot;D&quot;, a vampire hunter with a dark past, to hunt down and destroy the Count, end his thirst, and save Doris from a life of eternal damnation. A young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her, and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself. What can I say. I was thoroughly disappointed when I bought and watched this film. After watching Akira, a true masterpiece of animation, and having read very good reviews, I was expecting something more.<br/><br/>I understand that it was created back in &quot;the day&quot; of 1985, so the animation was skin and bones, but even so that doesn&#39;t prevent the story from being bad.. does it? From bad voice overs to a pointless hand/face (which is apparently a prominent figure in the Manga), this film has few good moments, and only a handful of decent fights.<br/><br/>I may be a biased critic, in that I&#39;m used to more modern animation such&quot;Death Note&quot;, &quot;Afro Samurai&quot; and &quot;Naruto&quot; (although I stopped watching Naruto years ago) but if the story was better I think my views would be different. It&#39;s very beginning middle and end, and no real twists throughout.<br/><br/>I think the best thing about this film is it&#39;s length: 80 minutes.<br/><br/>Buy Ninja Scrolls or Akira instead for more gore, more action and better story lines. This was one of the first Asian animation films I ever saw and really caugth my attention at the time andsuch remains one of my personal favourites despite a few faults.<br/><br/>Notepicthe likes of Akira, Vampire Hunter D is none the less a fine piece of animation with an interesting post-apocalyptic setting that takes it&#39;s cues from Dracula, Frankenstein etc rather than the cyberpunk of William Gibson et al. &#39;D&#39; is a very interesting character and an easy comparison is a character suchBlade. Dark brooding and with plenty of past history D wanders the country fighting for good against a tide of evil including vampires and werewolves.<br/><br/>There&#39;s plenty of action and blood although the plot loses its way at times it remains good fun throughout. As with most anime the English voice characterisations are not the best at times and probably original language with subtitles is the best bet.<br/><br/>Vampire killing fun 7/10
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