Holy shit, this is literally what the Castlevania series should have been.
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Holy shit, this is literally what the Castlevania series should have been.
Kino. I should rewatch this
>Kino. I should rewatch this
Same. I watched it once and remember it being pretty good.
Did you know that vampire Hunter D and Initial D are set in the same universe? You do now
What about D, the video game?
LAUUUURAAAA
And is related to Luffy
They are of the same universe of Dez nuts
holy kino
you are talking about bloodlust right?
'85 D is absolute kino,
Bloodlust is pretty good too.
I didnt like it at first, but the bits with vampire and his gf werr pure kino
The vampire D movies are legitimately cool as frick and they effortlessly mog israeliteflix
not even worth mentioning them in the same sentence
Only ever seen the movie, but that shit was so fricking stylish. Why do nips just mog westerners everyime when it comes to visuals.
lol they don't make shit like that anymore don't kid yourself. there's a reason why its still popular.
Yeah that pleb watched one of the greatest animated movies and assumes modern japs still make kino like that. studio ghibli can't even keep their doors open.
Utterly mediocre but with decent artwork?
Dedication to art. They cannot write for shit though.
i reemmber looking up EVERYTHING this guy directed when this came out
it's truely amazing.
the blond dike is the only bad part about the movie
>the blond dike is the only bad part about the movie
She's not very alluring in English, but she's ok in Japanese. She does have a reason why she's so uptight, but it isn't covered in the movie adaption
Incorrect, she deserved her happy ending, I don't need no book to tell me too.
I didn't mind the "blonde dike" so much, I think she was written to be abrasive and haughty and annoying; it made it more satisfying when she eventually came around.
This setting just kicks ass in general, it reminds me of Book of the New Sun
Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust and Elfen Lied are my favorite animes of all time
Why don't nips make visually appealing stuff like vampire Hunter D anymore?
>Why don't nips make visually appealing stuff like vampire Hunter D anymore?
Not profitable
My ass, anime is bigger than ever and worldwide.
lol you are so naive
meant for
Black person anime bumper stickers are everywhere on every car and do you need to be reminded of Net Piece?
and not one of them is vampire hunter d or any 'serious' anime of 'value'. it's all the latest meme or seasonal waifu or shounen shit. anime itself is bigger than ever but what you're asking for isn't.
>Not profitable
probably dont have the talent as well
>VHD thread
>casuals already mixing up Bloodlust and the 1985 OVA
>Elfen Lied are my favorite animes of all time
Holy shit watch more stuff you moron.
Because the Japanese have 0 taste. Go look at the dogshit they find good.
>Elfen Lied
That pedo fantasy series aimed at chronic jerking off teenagers about the underage naked girl with super powers? But she's too stupid to understand social situations so the guy taking care of her constantly grabs her boobs? And her boobs constantly fall out?
Really? That's your favourite?
not him, but that Elfen Lied intro is fricking god-tier. the anime itself is pretty meh
>Intro is awesome but the show itself is dirty anus
Many such cases
>elfen lied
>animes
jesus christ
Absolutely true. It's Op is still among the best.
Nothing this good will ever come out again so don't hold your breath or compare it to too many modern things, it's just not productive.
It's basically impossible for something this good to be made today. However, I am pretty hyped for Scavenger's Reign
Kawajiri is still alive and working
There's decades of Vampire Hunter D books that Madhouse could sit around and adapt for years, but they don't. There is no audience for this in Japan. Even back then when Bloodlust was made, they knew it. Bloodlust was made for a western audience at the movie theater. What sells is moe and isekai. It is cheap and the risks are minimal
To get another D book adapted on the level of Bloodlust, you'd need some rich oil prince in the middle east or something to want to fund it. Japan is not going to foot the bill for it and neither is the USA
Are the books any good?
The books are good and worth your money. I actually got the whole series in a bundle a while back.
They're extremely good. The worldbuilding is fantastic. If you've watched the first Vampire Hunter D, you'll remember all the strange creatures and flora and fauna. All of those things get described in the books. They are recurring too, as newer things are brought into the story every book. There's so many oddities with all the different locations, monsters, plants, cities, etc, you've got something to wonder about in each book
There's a lot of various characters too, many of which you'll become attached to, or feel sad for. It is a very somber series. Bloodlust was adapted from Demon Deathchase, which is quite a bit different than the movie in many ways. So many in fact, they are almost two different stories entirely
The first book establishes the world, so I'd recommend starting with that one. The first Vampire Hunter D movie is an adaption of it
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>you will never be a man drawn by Yoshitaka Amano
Criminally underrated. Same goes for Elric
I'm still trying to get in Elric, but didn't decide which book to start with first. Probably The Sleeping Sorceress
Read the comics, either the old P. Craig Russell or the new french ones, they're both great. After you know his backstory you can jump around the stories, I read Fortress of the Pearl (maybe the best one from what I hear) recently and didn't feel lost at all
I remember an anon said the comics were good, though I don't recall which ones he said were the most book accurate and recommended over the others
The Russell ones are very accurate, for a comic adaptation anyway. Some of the dialogue is verbatim but condensed. Great 70s psychedelic art too, matches the vibe of the era more.
The french ones by Julien Blondel cut out some of the multiverse stuff and even skip through some of the books (although the events in them still happened). The art is hellraiser-y with modern techniques, reminds me a little of Requiem Vampire Knight, but not that much. Still, it's a very good adaptation, and Moorwiener himself has said it's his favorite.
The shitty new comic cuts out the best parts of his origin completely removing the context from his decision with his cousin.
Honestly the first few pages of the original are some of the best writing I've ever seen, you really feel how utterly cruel and vain and treacherous and devoid of humanity the Melnibonians are, despite being so technologically advanced
Are you talking about the Craig Russell comics? I'm about to get all up in that shit
No I'm just talking about the book "Elric of Melnibone", but I heard the comics go hard as frick as well
I'll have to check that one out. Thanks
if they're anything like elric then I'm gonna pass
The only thing they have in common is le pale magic swordman
good elric is a weepy b***h gayboy
Yes BUT they can get quite repetitive.
Probably because Hideyuki Kikuchi uses the same type of formula in the books
>D goes to a new part of the Frontier
>New character has a problem
>D attempts to solve said problem with varying results of success or sometimes none at all
>Melancholy ending
It works pretty well and gives the author a lot of creative freedom to make new and fresh stories every time. Kentaro Miura had a formula similar to this with The Black Swordsman, The Lost Children and The Flowers of Oblivion chapters of Berserk. He abandoned the formula though and then things started to stagnate really bad with no direction. It became more difficult to introduce new characters, settings and stories
Agree,i read first three books.
Also berserk suck after lost children arc(imo).
It really did spiral into mediocrity after The Lost Children. If you liked The Black Swordsman and The Lost Children, you might like The Flowers of Oblivion. It is a Dreamcast game and has the same kind of pacing as those other two chapters
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Some of the wildest shit goes down in the books. They're great.
I'm on the second one and its pretty cool so far. Very easy reads but also enjoyable.
D seems less stoic and more friendly in the books. Lots of lines dedicated to reminding the reader that D is ridiculously beautiful.
i read the manga and thought it was pretty good
Someone needs to mindfrick Bezos or Musk into liking Vampire Hunter D
You really dont want Musk involved with anything you love. Dudes a massive frick up, look at twitter for gods sake
Bezos either, for that matter. I don't trust anyone in the west to have input into D without inserting some horrid garbage. The most I'd trust them to do is drop the coin on the table to pay for the adaption, then sit back and wait for the product to be delivered. No western writers, no western preferences, no western oversight whatsoever
>look at twitter for gods sake
Getting snatched away from lefty subhuman, propaganda-spewing hands, and good, objectively correct views(right-wing ones of course) being spread loudly and freely now? I fail to see the problem.
you trannies still mad about losing your safe space? lol
>Take the most obnoxious site and force people to pay for it
Kino
when’s the last time the news cycle was held hostage by sonething a moron said on twitter? seems improved honestly.
Shonen still sells incredibly well and is what most people think about when anime is discussed. Not too familiar with vampire hunter D but it would probably be considered seinen. A lot of seinen are considered kino. It just needs the right platform and studio. If madhouse or mappa adapted it and put it on netflix, they'll be printing money (assuming the source material is actually well written, which it apparently is)
The whole otaku thing has subsided, anime is mostly family entertainment like amerifat disney cartoons again
>you'd need some rich oil prince in the middle east or something to want to fund it.
Sorry, he's too busy funding Mushoku Tensei.
We will likely never get more VHD kino.
If I hit the powerball, I gotchoo.
for me its Doris Lang
For me, it's Police Girl, Seras Victoria from Hellsing.
>this is supposed to be a virgin
dropped it right then and there
My guilty pleasure
heh same
I love her
In the manga, Doris has huge swollen breasts constantly spilling out of her bodice, with a lot of focus on her ass too. She's also a brunette. Hideyuki Kikuchi handpicked the female artist to adapt his books into manga form and oversaw the designs. Hideyuki Kikuchi is very fond of full bodied, sexual looking girls in his books
Nice.
Knickers.
You spelled it wrong
Undergarments.
for me it's the sisters
she's also too comfortable with the idea of paying D "with her body" in the novel
You wouldn't?
Do you start with the 1985 movie or Bloodlust first? Does it matter?
Release order
Thanks
Naruto is way more interesting than this shit. Most Le hrckin aesthetic 90's animes are boring pseud garbage. Death Note and Naruto during the Sasuke retrieval arc are when anime as a whole peaked. Naruto is peak Shonen and Death Note is peak intellectual cat and mouse
*Vampire Heart by HIM starts playing*
Earth rocker bros... I just wanna go back... in time... I must find a way
Toon sisters, why do anime chads keep beating us?
have some kino vampire anime
Will this teach me everything about the darkstalkers franchise?
>Still no proper English translation of the Darkstalkers OVA even after all these years
Pain without end
No, but it is entertaining, if only just to watch it for Felicia
Felicia outta nowhere
i coomed so many times to mai first waifu
i wish the manga had been as popular as the anime :[
I wish Capcom would stop funding western Netflix trash and put some investment back into Darkstalkers again. That company is slowly reaching Konami levels of disgusting
>Megaman Legends
Atta' boy
My favorite scene.
The engagement D has with them is more involved in the book. Like all vampires, his bites cause the victim to go into a sort of dream-like trance, so they were essentially enslaved to his will afterwards
Its too white, and about hunting scumbag vamps. Can't have that.
>is the superior "D" series in your path
what do you do?
>Cinemaphile used to love western animation and curse anime
>now it's the opposite
What the frick happened
80s-90s Western cartoons were animated by japs
If you like Vampire Hunter D check out the audiobooks done by graphic audio. They're pretty good, every character has a different voice actor and they do sound effects and stuff. They're on audible as the "dramatized" versions of the vampire hunter d books
Graphic Audios is the breasts. Wish they were cheaper though.
The Deathlands series is fun.
not enough buttseck and homosexualry and Black folk.
Why was D so afraid of him?
He grew up in the Midwest and developed a fear of bobcats
Wait a second, is that the same demon bobcat thing that fought Voltron
welp, time to play Symphony of the Night again,
Name 5 reasons why they couldn't just follow Ds example for Netflixvania.
Girls are too pretty
Animation takes time.
Talentless and skilless.
D is a movie, shitflixvania is a series.
D adapts a book, shitflixvania adapts a vidya.
The US is the antichrist.
>The US is the antichrist
Pretty much. The in real life kosher Nobility has no interest in a proper adaption about vampires being adverse to holy warriors
Here's the Bloodlust movie with Japanese subtitles, for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. The Japanese script follows the Demon Deathchase book dialogue much closer than the English dub
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I thought the final sequence in bloodlust, i.e. all of carmillas castle, was a lot more interesting than the spaceport at the end of demon deathchase
The israelites are anti Christ. They fricking killed him you shit bags.
The Romans killed Christ, the US follows the Roman model.
thats like saying the judge put you in prison lel
>why don't them make them like that anymore
watch Demon Slayer
Why don't these well animated OVAS get made anymore?
Put yourself in the shoes of an animation studio. Do you make a high quality OVA/ONA that suits your tastes but is unlikely to be economically very successful or do you make a lower quality series you might not enjoy as much but it more likely to keep your company afloat? The majority of studios will obviously pick the latter and the ones who pick the former probably go bankrupt after their first release.
There's just not a lot of business sense in making more work for yourself than you need to. We enjoy it as art, but they do have to pay their bills after all.
because they have no purpose anymore
they used to be advertising for the manga
now everything just gets adapted
This is the only team I would have wanted to adapt Berserk properly.
Berserk was cursed with the worst adaptions since the first anime. I don't know why Young Animal didn't just save up and hire Madhouse instead of all the horrid garbage they had made by various other studios who shit the bed
If you haven't read the light novels you should. They're fricking amazing and there's a shit ton of them.
It is really impressive he's been writing D for so many years and still going
Two movies were also surprisingly accurate adaptations of the first and third novel. Not 1:1 of course, but way more than you'd expect them to be.
THE GORGEOUS YOUTH WITH AN ANGELIC COUNTENANCE
author really wants you to know D is HOT
He definitely is hot, though he can be pretty scary looking too in some cases. That's part of his charm that's he draws people to him, but also people are rightfully afraid of him
Setting is by far the most interesting part of Vampire Hunter D for me.
I wish the books had its own wiki, documenting all the various things in the world in autistic detail, like the Dead Man's Hands plants that grab you when you walk near them
where can i download epubs of all the books?
I'd like to know that too. I've got pdf's, but they aren't so easy to navigate
Is it anything like Ninja Scroll (movie)? So tragic what happened to anime since it became a fan-service sex-pest infested cesspit.
It isn't as hyper violent with nudity as Ninja Scroll was, but it has all of the theatrics
The 2000s movie is fricking amazing. So glad I was told about it. The director made a lot of other kino as well, Kawajiri. Watch Ninja Scroll by him.
I've seen a couple versions of the original and the changes in dialogue make a big difference.
One part I recall being more interesting/making more sense is the meeting where Magnus Lee's emissary brings the candle. Worth hunting out if you are a fan IMHO.
There was a version of the original that I can't find anymore. It had Count Lee disintegrating when the rock fell on him. For some reason, most versions don't have that in it and it is just a flashing red screen
Vampire Hunter D are Castlevania movies in everything but the name.