Vampire Hunter D is a copypright of Urban Vision Entertainment
One of the most popular titles in anime history, Vampire Hunter D is based on a manga of the same name created by Hideyuki Kikuchi and Yoshitaka Amano in 1983. It tells the tale of a vampire hunter called only 'D' who lives in a post-apocalyptic future inhabited by demons, werewolves, and most importantly: vampires. D is enlisted by a young girl named Doris Lang to help her kill a five thousand year old vampire called Count Magnus Lee after she is bitten by him. Shunned by her village, the only hope for Doris and her brother is to kill the vampire that bit her, so she finds D and he surprisingly agrees to help her. One of the more curious aspects of D, besides his over-the-top appearance, is the sarcastic talking mouth on his back, who seemingly always has something witty and dry to say. Vampire Hunter D spawned many other manga titles and videos, including the anime Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, released more than ten years later. Visually, the anime still has some of the features of the earliest Japanese animation to reach our shores (like Galaxy Express 999) with the huge, almost misshaped heads of some of the characters and the enormous blue eyes, but the maturity of the subject matter and its handling hearken towards the anime of the future and the ubiquitous samurai-inspired anti-hero. This anime is highly recommended to everyone.
