Tailored to the international market, "Vampire Hunter D" reps a change from the brutal, dystopian yarns that dominate Japanimation in Western ancillary markets. Anime specialist Urban Vision is ...

Based on a series of fantasy novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi, the anime feature "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust" is a baroque, bloody fantasy-adventure that stubbornly remains less than the sum of its parts.

Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s action-goth masterpiece ‘Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust’ was meant to be the film that proved action anime could work on the big screen in North America.