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Summary: Vampire Hunter D
Review: Vampire Hunter D has a darkside to it.This anime was the first horror movie as in Japanese animation.It doesn't have much of a story but it goes along with a horror type story and does a good job at that.The movie is nearly always put into the night time through out almost the whole thing and the music is very good.It is a very good movie to watch at night time.The movie reminds me a little bit like PS2's Devil May Cry.Which is a good thing.The music really goes along with the type of movie it is.Other than that if you like a kind of horror with intense wierd music and extreme violence and other crazy stuff then this is the movie for you.
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Summary: If Blade were more like this...
Review: Dunpeals, Dhampirs, Dhampyrs, and daywalkers, all essentially different terms for the same thing. A little known Romani legend tells the tale of the son of Dracula who was half human, and half vampire, vampirojenovic/lampirojenovic, son of the vampire, or Dhampir. Vampire hunter D takes that basic premise renames the Dhampir Dunpeal and goes from there. The movie itself is intriging, and dark, but the art work and animation could have been better, as it is nothing compared to the recent Vampire Hunter D sequel. Over all this movie is interesting, but nothing about it is scary, and D is a bit too distant to get emotionally attached to, although his hand more than makes up for D's lack of dialogue. This movie is one of the best animes ever created, and should be added to every DVD anime fan's collection.
It is lacking in specila features though, aside from a rather uninformative making of featurett there is nothing substantial here. The Tranfer is slightly better than the VHS version, but again nothing substanial, the sound is a lot better though, but still not as good as it could have been, however this disk is worth the purchase for the movie alone.
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Summary: Vampire Hunter D
Review: an Awsome Anime. I still have to get Bloodlust. But if you like Fantasy, VAmpires, A little love, and the Strong Silent type that happen to have a pozesed, talking hand then this anime is for you... oh and don't diss the hand... it's actully really cool^^
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Summary: worse than i remembered
Review: i purchased this movie because i remembered watching it, way back in highschool, and loving it. i guess i remembered it being better--somehow reconstructing its animation and plot so that it seemed amazing.
watching it again, however, was a monotonous experience. the plot--while promising--is ultimately flimsy, dull, and predictable. furthermore, the animation is pathetic. the movement and action is wooden and hundreds of frames are sorely lacking.
i think most people like this movie because of the gore. hey, i like gore as much as the next person--but the lead up to the blood is boring: streaming backgrounds with still figures and other outdated, primitive animation techniques.
furthermore, like lots of anime, the movie possesses lots of pointless nudity and scantily clad women: it's insultingly sexist. it was only worth watching for nostalgiac reasons.
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Summary: Good.
Review: To be completely honest, I do not have this DVD. The 4 stars are for the storyline which, while rather straightforward, is still a very good romping vampire story. Lots of blood and gore, but then if you didn't want to see it, why would you pick a vampire tale?Also, I wrote to correct the review by Mr. Strohmann Christian from Durango, Colorado USA, written on February 19, 2002. His review is actually for Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, the movie that came out in 2001. And the reason that DVD does not have an original audio track in Japanese is that the original audio track was actually done in English. When it was shown in Japan, it was shown in English with Japanese subtitles. I highly recommend both VHD's! If you love vampires, this is for you.
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Summary: old school but really good
Review: a good anime to watch if u'r a fan of anime and if u like a bloody action anime u'll like this recomended to any anime fan
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Summary: Dark and gore ANIME
Review: This anime is the second of D's adventures. The animation is much better than in the first one. I would say that this story is mixture between "BLADE' and "Bram Stokers Dracula".
Now for the DVD itself. The sound is pretty good except that the music is pretty loud compared to the lyrics. The features are all pretty interesting. The only and biggest problem is:
THERE IS NO ORIGINAL AUDIO TRACK IN JAPANESE which is unforgivable. Even if the english dubbing is not bad it is still no match for the japanese version!
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Summary: D is gonna kick some Vampires
Review: Popular Cult Animated Horror fantasy about a Silent yet handsome
Vampire Hunter named " D" protects a young Girl named
" Doris" from a Dark Vampire lord named " Magnus Lee".
Entertaining, Gory and marvelous animated classic with good
action, plentiful Bloodshed and a young animated Drew
Barrymore-lookalike. I would also recommend The Remake.
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Summary: Wait for the sequel
Review: Vampire Hunter D has incredible character design, probably the best I've ever seen in a movie. Between Greco and Rei Gansei, and of course D's hand, there's a lot to like. The movie suffers from horrible timing though, and the scenes that are intended to be touching are all very over dramatic. Some of the artwork isn't so much BAD (though it is pretty bad) as it is poorly thought out. D's cloak changes shape every time you see it, and the length of his sword and where he stores it pretty much ensure that he could never actually draw it. Pretty much any time Rei Gansei draws his boomerang blade, you know something physically impossible is going to happen. It's as if the artists and writers had an idea of what they wanted to convey, but no idea as to how to go about it. And man oh man is it sappy. The sighing and fainting of Doris every two seconds makes you wonder how the heck she survided as long as she did in the wilderness. Every time Dan opens his mouth, get ready for a lesson in ethics, complete with lecture and discussion among the group. The final moments of the film are so sappy that you want to throw up. Overall, I'd have to say that the sequel, Bloodlust, would be a much wiser purchase. It has way better art, that actually makes sense most of the time, and with the makers of Ninja Scroll and Wicked City behind it, the drama has been handled better as well.
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Summary: Over-hyped but defiantly worth seeing.
Review: Although I usually prefer to watch dubs so I don't have to read movies, I found the Japanese version to be much more entertaining. The English Dub seems very distant and almost boring. Luckily it is "standard" for anime DVD's to have both dubs and subs. Unless you are a collector of VH-D stuff there isn't really any good reason to buy this. However, it is defiantly worth seeing. Especially since the sequel is so good. If I had rented this or seen it on tv I probably wouldn't have bought it.
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