Contents.Plot Charlotte, a young woman, is abducted by Baron Meier Link, a nobleman who is known not to harm humans needlessly. Charlotte's father, Elbourne, hires D, a, to find her and rescue her, and alternatively, kill her humanely if she's been turned into a vampire.

He offers D $500,000 as a down payment, and offers him $10,000,000 if he carries out the job. D has Elbourne double the payment, and agrees to search for Charlotte.At the same time, Charlotte's older brother hires another group of vampire hunters, the notorious Marcus brothers, composed of the leader Borgoff, a hulking man named Nolt, a blade master named Kyle, a physically disabled named Grove and a woman named Leila who hunts vampires because of a personal grudge rather than for monetary gain. The two parties (D and the Marcus brothers) race inexorably after Meier Link. However, Meier Link hires the mutant Barbarois; a group of lethal mercenary body guards. They consist of Caroline, a; Benge, a shadow manipulator; and Machira, a.Throughout the course of the film, two of the Marcus brothers, Nolt and Kyle, end up being killed by the mutant Barbarois, while Leila and Borgoff continue their search for Charlotte.As the story progresses, Meier Link's abduction of Charlotte turns out to not be as it seemed, as it's revealed that Charlotte willingly ran away with Meier Link as his lover. Charlotte rightfully feared that no one would understand their relationship, with her a human and Link a vampire.Throughout their search, and after both characters save each other from seeming death at separate points, D has a conversation with Leila, where she reveals that she hunts vampires because a vampire killed her mother.

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D tells her that he hunts vampires as he has no other choice as a dhampir, and she can have a life that someone like him could never have; the life of a normal human. Leila, having not exactly taken the life of a normal human, instead being a monster hunter, fears that no one will mourn her death when that time comes. She make a pact with D, that if either one of them survives, the survivor will bring flowers to the other's grave.

D admits that he does not expect himself to survive the bounty hunt, after coming so close to death.In the final act of the film, Meier Link transports Charlotte in his carriage to the Castle of Chaythe, where Countess, Meier Link's matron, waits for them. Carmilla, a ghost of a vampire who died long ago, reigned supreme within the Castle of Chaythe when vampires were all-powerful and unchallenged. However, her bloodlust was so strong that D's father, an ancient, noble vampire king, killed her in disgust. Carmilla promises Meier Link and Charlotte travel to a far away city known as the City of The Night, where they can be free to love each other, which they will travel to in a large and ancient spaceship-like structure hidden beneath the Castle of Chaythe.

Carmilla explains that most ancient castles had similar ships hidden within them, and that back when vampires reigned supreme, these ships weren't an uncommon means for vampires to travel to far regions. Carmilla notes that the ship is old and hasn't flown in a long time, and that she doesn't know if the ship will fly safely, but that Meier Link and Charlotte are allowed to take that risk, if they so wish.D and the remaining Marcus brothers separately trail Meier Link to the Castle of Chaythe, and as they enter the castle in their search for Charlotte, Carmilla plays psychological tricks on them. Borgoff, for example, is shown Nolt and Kyle, the dead members of the Marcus brothers, returning to life. Borgoff is seemingly killed in his surprised and ecstatic state by Carmilla's ghost, and it turns out Nolt and Kyle never returned to life at all. Later, however, Borgoff appears, having been turned into a vampire. Grove surprise attacks him with his psychic form, before blowing up Borgoff with an embrace, but this exerts Grove's physical body to the point he dies as well.

This leaves Leila as the only surviving member of the Marcus brothers as she continues her search for Charlotte inside the castle.Carmilla manipulates D's mind, and shows him a vision of his, in which she apologizes to D for birthing him as a dhampir, and states that she couldn't help it as she was a human in love with D's vampire father, and attempts to explain that humans are capable of loving vampires. D strikes this vision of his mother down with his sword and returns to a normal state.In a, Carmilla turns on Meier Link and Charlotte, as Carmilla had actually plotted to kill Charlotte all along, with the reasoning being that Carmilla needed the blood of a virgin to leave her ghostly, ethereal form and return to life.

D destroys Carmilla's ghost just as Carmilla is performing the ritual and draining Charlotte of her blood. D, still with a job to do in bringing Charlotte safely back home, engages Meier Link in battle, as Meier Link doesn't want D to take his lover away from him.

D stabs Meier Link through the chest with his sword, but not through his heart, injuring Meier Link but allowing him to live. During their encounter, Charlotte has died due to the ritual that Carmilla had been performing previously, and D takes the ring off of her finger as proof of her death to bring back to Elbourne, as he ceases battle with Meier Link.D, along with Leila, make their leave of the Castle of Chaythe, and allow Meier Link to leave for the City of the Night in the Castle of Chaythe's ship with Charlotte's corpse on board. D and Leila agree to ride back into town together on D's horse, as Leila jokingly tells D that the reward is rightfully hers, but this time, she'll allow him to have it. Before riding off, they watch in the distance as the ship hidden underneath the castle takes off to the skies with Charlotte's corpse and Meier Link inside.In the final scene of the movie, D arrives at Leila's funeral, watching her loved ones mourn from a distance. Many decades have passed since all of the previous events, as a little girl revealed to be Leila's granddaughter approaches and greets D, and invites him to stay with her family for a while. D politely declines, saying that he simply came to 'repay a favor to an old friend, who feared no one would mourn her death.' D admits that he was glad she was wrong.

The girl thanks him, and D replies by smiling gently at her, and leaves.Cast CharacterEnglish Voice ActorJapanese Voice ActorDMeier LinkLeila(Young)Charlotte ElbourneD's Left HandCarmillaBeverly MaedaBorgoffNoltKyleGrovePolkSheriffBengeCarolineMachiraJohn ElbourneAlan ElbourneLeila's GranddaughterPriestOld Man of BarbaroisD's MotherN/AProduction. Created the design for the main character in Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.The idea for a new Vampire Hunter D film came after there was a fan demand to make a follow-up to (1985). Was also in favor of this as he had often complained about the 'cheapness' in the look of the original film. Plans for a new film started in 1997 by director and production company. Producer Mataichiro Yamamoto wanted to pick up the rights to Madhouse's. During the discussion about Wicked City, Yamamoto heard about the new Vampire Hunter D film and wanted to not only get involved with video distribution, but in production and possible theatrical release in America.The story of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is based on the third novel in Kikuchi's series. The main character's design is by artist.

Amano's art style was matched for the rest of the characters in the film by animation director. The animation for the film was created in the Madhouse Studios in Tokyo while the post-production work was done in. The English soundtrack for the film was recorded in 1999 before the Japanese dialogue was finished. The film's title of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust was a last-minute decision to distinguish it from the first film. Release Theatrical To promote the film, a two-and-a-half-minute-long trailer was finished in 1998 and was shown at American anime. A work-in-progress print was shown in 2000 at the in July in Montreal and at the New York Anime Film Festival in October 2000.The completed version of the film was only released theatrically in an English-language version.

On its Japanese theatrical release, it was subtitled in Japanese. It premiered in on September 23, 2001, in America where it played in six theaters. It grossed $25,521 in this run and $151,086 in total. Home video released the movie on DVD and VHS on February 12, 2002and then on February 3, 2015, announced their license to release the movie for Blu-ray on September 8, 2015 and DVD on September 22, 2015, however, due to licensing restrictions, all releases have the original English audio only.In Japan, the film was released on DVD on December 19, 2001, by with both English and Japanese audio. Reception The film received generally favorable reviews from American critics, it received a rating of 62 on the website. The gave a favorable review of the film, referring to it as a 'gorgeously animated surrealist adventure'. The referred to the film as 'Beautiful, witty and provocative' and that it should 'appeal to fans and non-fans alike'.

The praised the director stating that he 'has a gift for striking visuals' but also noted that 'his story manages to be simultaneously thin and chaotic.' .

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Contents.Plot introduction D wanders through a far-future Earth that combines elements of genres: western, science fiction, horror and, high fantasy, and science. The planet, once terrified by the elegant but cruel Nobles , ancient demons, mutants and their technological creations, is now slowly returning to a semblance of order and human control—thanks in part to the decadence that brought about the downfall of the vampire race, to the continued stubbornness of frontier dwellers and, to the rise of a caste of independent hunters-for-hire who eliminate supernatural threats.Some time in 1999, a occurred. The Nobility were vampires that planned for a possible nuclear war and sequestered all that was needed to rebuild civilization in their shelters. They use their science combined with magic to restore the world in their image.

Nearly all magical creatures are engineered, with a very small number being demons who survived the holocaust. Despite their technology being great enough to create a blood substitute as food, they still prefer to feed on humans. As such, they create a civilization where vampires and humans coexist, eventually developing the planet into parklands and cities. The society eventually stagnates when vampire technology perfects scientific prophecy, which determines they are at their zenith of existence and thus are doomed to fall, overthrown by humans. The human race was also transformed at this time, with fear for the vampires being woven into their genetics, and the inability to remember vampire weaknesses such as garlic and crucifixes.Unlike vampires from traditional lore, the Nobility have the ability to reproduce sexually, although their offspring will permanently cease aging after reaching physical maturity, having inherited their vampire parent's immortality.Main characters D D is a, the half-breed child of a vampire father and human mother, the ideal. He is renowned for his consummate skill and unearthly grace, but feared and despised for his mixed lineage: born of both races but belonging to neither. Often underestimated by his opponents, D possesses surprising power and resourcefulness, having most of the strengths of the Nobility and only mild levels of their common weaknesses.

It has been seen in both movies that his power is not only physical, but extends into the magical realm as well. His supernatural powers make him one of the strongest beings in the world, if not the second strongest (second only to his father). However, D prefers his physical abilities, only using his magic in times of great need.

Unlike most dhampirs, D is able to live as a 'normal' human; however, he is marked by his unearthly beauty and exceptionally powerful aura, and thus rarely accepted by human settlements. In terms of weaknesses, he is randomly susceptible to sun-sickness, a severe type of sunstroke, about once every five years (far less than most dhampirs). D also recovers from it at a rate far greater than other dhampirs. Usually it takes several days to recover from sunlight syndrome, longer if the dhampir is exceedingly powerful, but D recovered in a few hours (around 1–6 hours approximately) despite being one of the strongest dhampirs alive. Otherwise, D does not appear to suffer from other vampiric weaknesses usual to dhampirs, being able to physically restrain opponents with his aura and having godlike reflexes surpassing even those of Nobles.His symbiotic left hand states, in ' Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust: 'The three of you became impatient with the heartless Bastet and impaled her on 'The Sword'. Speculation on whether 'The Sword' is D's sword or not is debatable.

It is important to note here, however, that the movie differs sharply from the book it takes its story from, Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase, and future entries in the novel series do not differentiate between Dracula, The Vampire King, The Sacred Ancestor and D's father, proposing that they are one and the same.D rides a horse with mechanical legs and other enhancements, wields a crescent which looks similar to Yoshitaka Amano's sword design found in many of his works of art, but the sword has a hefty length, similar to that of a Japanese. D always wears a mystical blue; it prevents many of the automatic defenses (such as laser fields and small nuclear blasters) created by the Nobility in past millennia from working properly, and allows him to enter their sealed castles. In the novels and game, he also uses wooden needles which he can throw with super speed. He protects his milk-white face from the noonday sun with long black hair, flowing black clothing and cape, and the shadow of a wide-brimmed hat.

D is described as being a youth between 17-18 years, D's age is unknown (although in the novel Pale Fallen Angel parts I and II, it is made known that he is at least 5,000 years old). His beauty is mesmerizing, often unintentionally wooing women and sometimes flustering men.Very little is known of D's past and the identity of his parents is ambiguous, but his innate power suggests that his father is an extraordinarily powerful vampire. Regarding D's birth, some Nobles whisper dark rumors about their vampire progenitor, the Sacred Ancestor known as, bedding a human woman called 'Mina the Fair' (implied to be ). Dracula conducted bizarre crossbreeding experiments involving himself and countless human women or even other vampires, with the only successful product of the experiments being D. D, wanting nothing to do with his father save for killing him, refuses to go by his true name. Instead, he shortens it to the first letter. In Twin Shadowed Knight it is revealed that D has a twin who goes unnamed.

The twin states that he and D were born from the same woman in exactly the same conditions.Left Hand. The symbiote that resides in D's left handD is the host for a sentient, Left Hand, a wisecracking homunculus with a human face residing in his left palm, who can suck in massive amounts of matter through a wind void or vacuum tunnel. Left Hand enjoys needling the poker-faced D, but only appears as needed, rarely witnessed or heard by anyone other than D, yet aware of many of D's thoughts and actions. At all other times, D's left hand appears normal. Besides providing a contrast to D's reserved demeanor, Left Hand is incredibly useful, possessing many mysterious powers such as, inducing sleep, determining the medical condition of a victim, and the ability to size up the supernatural powers or prowess of an enemy, even beyond D's keen senses.In the first and second novels, Left Hand can also revive D when his physical condition is suffering, by consuming the four elements and converting the resulting energy into life force. This ability even saved D from the usually fatal stake through the heart he received from Rei-Ginsei in the first novel. Left Hand has its own mind and will, and acts as D's guide and sole permanent companion, providing a reservoir of knowledge pertaining to the lost Noble culture.

So far, Left Hand's origins are unknown, and it is unclear how they came to be joined. However, some of its nature is revealed in the third book, which features a similar creature; it is implied he was one of the Barbarois (human/monster hybrids) who served in the personal retinue of.Dracula Dracula's role in the novels is very mixed, appearing both as the bane and savior to isolated towns, and deified as a legendary god-king to the vampires, many of whom have never even met him in person. D quotes Dracula's precepts ( 'Transient guests are we'—implied to refer to the Nobility) in the first novel. Dracula appears both as a lawgiver honored for his intelligence, who showed some interest in preserving humans, and as a ruthless scientist (in the second novel), conducting hybrid breeding experiments with humans in order to perpetuate his own dwindling species. D appears to have encountered his alleged father on at least one occasion, as when at times D reaches a place where the imprint of Dracula's power remains, D remembers Dracula telling him that 'You are my only success.'

Like D, Dracula is portrayed as a mysterious and handsome young wanderer who deals with both life and death. However, in the English dub of the anime, D states that Dracula respected humanity and did not feed on innocent people.Publication history. Main article:Vampire Hunter D remains a cult classic among English-speaking audiences. Main article:A based on Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust was also made for the game console, titled. It is a game, but also similar to a standard adventure title. The player can see D from different pre-rendered angles throughout the game, and allow D to attack enemies with his sword.

D can also use magic, Left Hand's abilities, and items. The story of the game is similar to that of Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, although it takes place entirely within the castle as D fights all the enemies.

Only two of the Barbarois mutants appear as enemies. There are 3 endings, 1 of which is similar to the end of the anime.2000 animated film. Main article:The second film, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust garnered respect for its advanced animation techniques, detailed art style and character designs, voice acting originally recorded in English (English voice casting/direction by ), and its sophisticated orchestral composed, arranged and conducted by Marco D'Ambrosio.

Its art style closely mirrored that of the illustrator and original character designer of the first movie,.The storyline features a larger cast than the first film. The second Vampire Hunter D movie (known as Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust outside of Japan) is based on the third of Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D novels ( Demon Deathchase in English). Unlike the first film, which was released in 1985, this movie is rated NC-16 in Singapore, M in Australia, 15 in the UK, R13 in New Zealand and R for violence/gore in the USA (except for the Blu-ray release, which is unrated). 2007 manga adaptation.

Main article:On November 2007, the first volume of Saiko Takaki's manga adaptation of Hideyuki Kikuchi's series was published simultaneously in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. The project, overseen by and, aimed to adapt the entire catalogue of Vampire Hunter D novels into a manga form, however it had concluded after the eighth volume due in part to an injury affecting Takaki's ability to illustrate the series. 2016 comic book series On June 30, 2016, a campaign for a five-issue Vampire Hunter D comic book series titled Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars was announced.

Published by Stranger Comics with supervision from series creator Hideyuki Kikuchi and support from the creative teams at Unified Pictures and Digital Frontier, Message from Mars is an adaptation of the 2005 short story Message from Cecile and acts as a prequel to the then-in-development animated series. The series is written by and illustrated by Michael Broussard, with visual development.

The campaign's stretch goals also include an official Vampire Hunter D supplement written. The campaign reached its $25,000 funding goal on July 1, 2016 and its initial $50,000 stretch goal on July 7, 2016. The campaign concluded on August 9, 2016, with 1,736 backers pledging a total of $107,025, reaching four out of five stretch goals. Following the first issue the series was placed on temporary hiatus due to a serious medical emergency in Broussard's family, resuming production in early 2018 with new artists Ryan Benjamin and Richard Friend.

Upcoming animated series In June 2015, a new series tentatively titled Vampire Hunter D: Resurrection was announced, produced by Unified Pictures. The series would be produced by Kurt Rauer and Scott McLean, and directed by Yoichi Mori, with Bloodlust director acting as supervising director and series creator providing editorial supervision.

Crysis 3. The series was currently in pre-production, and is developed as an hour-long with the intent of being broadcast on a major American or provider, with Japanese distribution to follow. As of June 2016 the series is still in pre-production, with plans to begin shipping the project to distributors by the end of the year.

Given the abundance of source material, the current plan is to produce as many as seven seasons, without revisiting the source material that was adapted into the first two films. In February 2018 it was announced that the episode would be written by Brandon M. Easton, writer for the Message from Mars comic book series. The first draft of the pilot was completed in October 2018. Other media In July 2008, announced that it had acquired the rights to publish an English-language Vampire Hunter D mini-series titled, to be written by and pencilled by, however the project was cancelled in 2009.

Intended to infuse the standard Vampire Hunter D formula and mythos with more Western sensibilities, it would have told an original story about D departing the Frontier to embark on a journey to a new land still ruled by the vampiric Nobility.In 2010, it was reported in Japanese horror magazine Rue Morgue that Hideyuki Kikuchi was in talks with one of the producers for 's video game series to develop a live-action Vampire Hunter D adaptation. See also.References., September 26, 2008. ^. ^. Anime News Network.

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Anime News Network. Surat, Daryl (June 30, 2016). Anime News Network. Topel, Fred (August 4, 2016). Slash Film. ComicVine, October 6, 2009.

Palmiotti, Jimmy; Blaylock, Josh (2009). Vampire Hunter D: American Wasteland. Devil's Due Publishing. CS1 maint: ASIN uses ISBN. MTV News, February 20, 2010External links. – Japanese publisher of the Vampire Hunter D series books and audio dramas.