Hideyuki kikuchi6/24/2023 The second film, titled VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST, however, I absolutely loved. To the filmmakers' credit, though, they did do a good job capturing D's essential character, without which the film would have been a total failure.īottom line, I liked the move all right, but it wasn't what I wanted in a VHD film. (He's publicly stated that he doesn't care for anime in general and having a low-budget anime made from his own work has to be annoying, at least) I didn't like it nearly as much as the original novel or the manga adapted from it, and from things he's written himself about anime in general and his own work, I always got the impression Kikuchi didn't care for the film, either. Released direct to video in 1985 (only a year or so after the first novel was published), it isn't a bad movie, but it is very much a product of both an obviously-low budget and its time period, with its Rumiko Takahashi-influenced (as every 80s anime and manga seemed to be, but I digress) character designs and simplified story. Let's start with the first film, simply called VAMPIRE HUNTER D.
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