Blood: The Last Vampire
| Blood: The Last Vampire | ||||||||||
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| Original title | BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE | |||||||||
| genre | Action , horror | |||||||||
| Anime movie | ||||||||||
| Country of production |
 Japan
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| original language | Japanese | |||||||||
| Publishing year | 2000 | |||||||||
| Studio | Production IG | |||||||||
| length | 48 minutes | |||||||||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | |||||||||
| Director | Hiroyuki Kitakubo | |||||||||
| script | Mamoru Oshii | |||||||||
| production | Akira Sato, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Ryuzo Shirakawa | |||||||||
| music | Yoshihiro Ike | |||||||||
| Manga | ||||||||||
| title | Blood: The Last Vampire 2000 | |||||||||
| Original title | BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE 2000 | |||||||||
| country |
Japan
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| author | Benkyo Tamaoki | |||||||||
| publishing company | Kadokawa Shoten | |||||||||
| magazine | Monthly Ace Next | |||||||||
| First publication | April 2001 | |||||||||
| expenditure | 1 | |||||||||
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Blood: The Last Vampire is an anime film made by the Production IG studio in 2000. A remake with actors followed in 2009. The franchise also includes the anime series Blood + from 2005 to 2006 and Blood-C from 2011.
action
The action takes place at Yokota Air Base in Japan after the Second World War , a few days before the start of the Vietnam War . The vampire hunter Saya uses a katana chiroptera to kill vampire demons for the US government.
publication
The film was shown in Japanese cinemas from November 18, 2000 .
In 2006 and 2007, broadcasts in English from Animax-asia, Encore Action and Sci Fi Channel followed. The film has also been translated into French, Spanish, Italian and Polish, among others.
Panini released the film in German on DVD .
synchronization
The German dubbed version comes from G&G Tonstudios.
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Saya | Yōki Kudō | Corinna Riegner |
| Nurse | Saemi Nakamura |
Adaptations
Real film
A live-action remake of the anime film of the same name, directed by Chris Nahon , was released in 2009 under the title Blood: The Last Vampire . The film premiered on German television on September 11, 2010 on Animax .
Manga
Under the title Blood: The Last Vampire 2000 (BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE 2000) published the publishing house Kadokawa Shoten a manga by Benkyo Tamaoki in April 2001. The work with 200 pages was published in a tankōbon .
Viz Media published the manga in English, Panini Comics in French, Portuguese and German. A Spanish edition was published by Editorial Ivréa .
Novels
Fujimi Shobō published three novels on the film in 2000 and 2001.
The first Kemonotachi no Yoru: Blood: The Last Vampire ( 獣 た ち の 夜 BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE; ISBN 4-8291-7449-8 ) by Mamoru Oshii appeared in November 2000. Kadokawa Shoten published in July 2002 ( ISBN 978-4- 04-366601-0 ) a new paperback edition.
From Jun'ichi Fujisaku , who later directed Blood + led originate two volumes: Yami no Izanau - Blood: The Last Vampire ( 闇を誘う血- BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE; ISBN 4-8291-6109-4 ) in January 2001 and Shanhai Aibō - Blood: The Last Vampire ( 上海 哀 儚 - BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE; ISBN 4-8291-7474-9 ) in July 2001. The latter was published in December 2012 ( ISBN 978-4-04-380901-1 ) by Kadokawa Shoten reissued.
The first novel was also published in English in the USA and in 2005 as Blood, The Last Vampire: The Night of the Beasts ( ISBN 978-3-89921-686-8 ) by Panini in German in the translation by John Schmitt-Weigand.
Video games
In 2000 Production IG and Sony Computer Entertainment released two games for the Playstation 2 in Japan. A new release followed in 2006. Both games were combined into one for the Playstation Portable .
Awards
The film was awarded the Ōfuji Noburō Prize , an award for artistically valuable animated films, at the Mainichi Eiga Concours in 2000 .
Web links
- Blood: The Last Vampire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry in the Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ANIMAX September Highlights. In: Germany Animax. September 8, 2010, archived from the original on September 28, 2010 ; accessed on February 23, 2014 .