Vampire Hunter D

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Summary: Vampires of the Future
Review: This is a really fun movie. Fans of horror from the old days will adore this film. However, seasonned anime fans may find it a bit dry as it doesn't have the deapth of so many films in it's genre. See it if you're the kind who goes to midnight movies.

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Summary: Vampire Hunter D
Review: I saw this movie awhile ago, and I must say even though I was sitting with a bunch of guys, because it's rated as a boy-anime here, I really liked it.And if I remember right I cried some.I thought it was kinda sad, but it was a really good animé.
I thought it ended to early, wish it could have been a lil longer because it was so good.
I don't think it was very violently, nor a movie for older people either, well 10+ I would say.
I myself is 16 saw it with 13/14.
Ohh and the music is very nice, melancolic and sad though.

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Summary: A true classic!
Review: I saw VHD when I was about 13. I found it great to watch and the story was interesting as well. It's a cult classic that any Anime collector should have. Although it's old, VHD is an Anime that everyone will enjoy from the character designs to the dark castle of Count Magnus Lee. Movies never die. People continue to watch them and that's why they are classics. You haven't experienced Anime until you've seen Vampire Hunter D.

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Summary: Credit should be given where it's due.
Review: This was one of the first anime movies which hit America. It can be called an 80's slasher pic. But it is so much more than that. After Akira took American anime audiences by storm, they wanted more. That's where Vampire Hunter D entered the picture, with the right amount of sexiness, violence and humour, this movie held it's own, and was really popular.

Watching it for the first time, 14 years after it's release, I was not dissapointed. My favourite character is the hero's talking hand. I want one of them for christmas..

Anyone who enjoys gorey slasher type flicks, and is a fan of Anime will enjoy this one. I recommend Blood to you, if you just like gorey stuff with an electirc atmosphere, but if you would like a good story line, this movie is for you.

A girl's life is in jeopardy, after being bitten by a vampire. A vampire who's taken a liking to her. The only solution involves the death of the vampire. Enter Mr.D, the vampire hunter. Dissapointingly enough, he doesn't talk a lot at the beginning of the movie, which is a shame, because he has a rather cool voice. However it does add to the mystery surrounding him.

The plot isn't really amazing, and it's all been done, but the sheer coolness of D and this movie earnes it a 4/5. Watch it, it's a part of anime history.

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Summary: Okay Anime.
Review: Although not the best anime in the world, it is one of those anime that you have to see. Why you ask? Well, because it is just one of those animes that well... It's one of the essentials. You can't say that you are a true anime fan unless you've seen films like Vampire Hunter D, Akira, Ninja Scroll, and Evangellion. They're just essential.

Like I said this is not the best anime in the world, the storyline is a bit awkward, and the animation is not that great (better than the early Captain Harlock, but no Eva).

I guess I am saying find one of your anime freak friends who can get you a copy. Once your anime collection reaches the size of mine, then you start acctually buying things like Vampire Hunter D.

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Summary: Current DVD Version Looks AWFUL
Review: I had originally seen this movie on the Sci-Fi Channel years ago and thought it was great. I was really excited when the DVD came out. However, as is too often the case with DVD's, the movie was NOT "remastered"; visually it's too dark & grainy to be enjoyable. At least "Akira" was "spiffed up proper" for its DVD release. There IS a trailer for the REMAKE that looks comparable to today's standard of quality anime; wait for that version!!

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Summary: vampire hunter d
Review: hey i saw this movie when i was about seven years old ever since i saw this movie its has been my favorite movie

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Summary: WATCH THE JAPANESE VERSION. IT'S BETTER THAN U.S. VERSION!!
Review: Vampire Hunter D is one of my all time favorites and I was accustomed to listening to the American translation of this film before I bought the dvd version with the Japanese translation. The original Japanese audio gives a few more interesting features to this story.
In the U.S. version Count Lee sites on his throne talking to himself in a misty room seeming to telepathically know that Lameeka and Ray Ginsay failed to kill D. But in the Japanese version the mist in the room turns out to be some sort of an entity that the Count speaks to and the mist actually told him about Lameeka's and Ray Ginsay's failure.
In the U.S. version Ray Ginsay seems to be a very selfish character wanting to kill the count for the sole purpose of having his power near the end of the film. But in the Japanese translation it is shown that his reasons for killing the Count isn't totally selfish but partly an act of revenge for the death of his colleages that lost their lives trying to kill D for the Count. He isn't as bad as the U.S. version makes him out to be.( Notice also he saved Doris' brother from falling to his death. It makes more sense.) Also , in the U.S. version , in the scene where Ray Ginsay accidentally killed Gimlet (the thin man with the blades on his feet) he doesn't seem to care that he killed Gimlet but instead is soley conscerned that D got away. In the Japanese version you get a sense that there seemed to have been more feeling toward his accidental killing of Gimlet. So when the Count kills Ray Ginsay you feel kind of saddened by his death because he is depicted as being a more nobler character than in the U.S. version.
Also , in the U.S.version , Doris tells the town officials that if D fails to kill the vampires she would leave town and never come back and her brother strongly stands beside her but then in the next scene we see her brother crying seemingly from fear of leaving town and being shunned by people. But in the Japanese version Doris doesn't say that she would leave but she says she would kill herself if D failed and her brother responded in shock to what she said. So when we see him crying he is crying from the sadness of possibly losing his sister forever.
Why they took these aspects of the story out of the U.S. translation I don't know but they actually seem to give some of the characters a deeper dynamic making the viewer enjoy this film even more than we already do. So get the special edition dvd of Vampire Hunter D with english and japanese translations and see for yourself. It brings a new light to this already classic anime.

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Summary: Good Heavens
Review: I received this DVD as an unexpected gift, and since I am a fan of anime and manga I was looking forward to watching the movie. I watched it with some friends, and I can tell you that it is the most pointless, rambling, and unenjoyable anime I have ever seen. I didn't mind the dated style of animation, nor the gratuitous blood and bouts of nudity, or even the American voice dub, but the story just keeps going on and on with no point whatsoever! Save your money for just about anything else.

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Summary: This is the one that made me a fan.
Review: I remember the times when my young tv world was saturated with the likes of Bugs Bunny , Tom and Jerry , and the Transformers. Up to this point in my life the most shocking thing I ever saw from a cartoon was seeing Jerry cut of Tom's tail.But then one night while watching the sci-fi channel with my nephew I saw the anime that would make me realize that there was a different cartoon world out there. The film:Vampire Hunter D.
For me to be accustomed to Woody Woodpecker and then to see work like Vampire Hunter D was a delightful shock to the system let me tell you. To see someone take a dagger to the eye and pull it out , to see someone get literally battered from pillar to post and get their head crushed , to see characters get killed in such graphic nature at that time was shocking. I never saw Donald Duck do stuff like this! Wow!!!
I loved the film for its dark gloomy quality and the main character epitomizes it.I love the tragic main character for his cool , dark , mysterious , gloomy demeanor. Noble and valiant. Somewhat silent yet deadly.A vicious professional not to be messed with. I give it 4 stars because its a bit dated(but so is The Godfather)but the special edition dvd offers a "making of" segment (revealing behind the scenes stuff) , english and japanese audio(great to hear this film in its original japanese audio) , and a trailer for the new feature film.
Vampire Hunter D is a sentimental favorite of mine that happened to have turned into a cult classic in the anime genre so I guess I'm not alone in my appreciation. Vampire Hunter D is the coolest character in anime history!