At first, I forgot which social media platform I saw someone recommend this animated film, so I had time to finish it tonight. After watching it, I just wanted to say that it was really beautiful. It’s a work of art. Inside the picture gorgeous retro and very detailed, a look is spent a lot of thought carefully made animation film.
Half-vampire, half-human vampire hunter d and the Masco brothers are hired to retrieve Charlotte, who has been kidnapped by vampire nobles. As the series progresses, Meyer enlists three of the Barbarians to help him escape. Along the way d and Lela socialize and develop a sense of empathy for each other. The Musk Brothers were killed one after another while chasing Charlotte and the vampire Mere because of the plot. We can also see that Charlotte and Moyock really do love each other. Because their love was not accepted and they killed a lot of innocent people, they decide to head to Carmella’s castle for the capital of the night. D doesn’t want them to combine and produce vampire human hybrids like him, so he is more eager. Unexpectedly, Carmella pretended to help them, but really wanted Charlotte’s blood to revive her. He was killed by d and Meyer. Then Charlotte fainted and d broke the employment agreement to let go of Michael and Charlotte. After the battle, the castle is about to collapse, and Charlotte and Maiko take a spaceship to the Night Capital.
I have a few things to say. The brother in the hospital bed seemed to have feelings for Lela and no feelings for anyone else. The Masco brothers’ deaths were too hasty, even if they were justified. But there’s a sense that they’re not very strong. But I thought they were going to have a boring d and Lela love scene, but it didn’t happen.
Strong and handsome but occasionally tender and vulnerable, Vampire Slayer d and Lela have a kind of sympathetic partnership. And when Leila died, he did show up, even though the flowers didn’t come.
In contrast to the Western gothic style of Kawajiri’s Vampire Hunter D, Rudi’s film has more of the magic of medieval European vampire stories: a mix of steam-age industrial elements, modern technology and medieval witchcraft, and an overall dark and gloomy tone that adds to the frightening atmosphere of vampire films.
In the era of meticulous hand-painting in the 1980s, the quality of the picture was also excellent. Some of the erotic scenes in the film are typical of cult films from the CD-ROM-era, a time when there weren’t many such films that could tell a good story.
In addition, the film’s final act of parting carries with it a kind of praise for D’s lonely hero who brings hope to mankind; in addition to this praise, it also implies an implicit lament for D’s sad and difficult life to gain this hope. Character-wise, it seems a little more sentimental than Kawajiri’s version of D.
