Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

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Anime movie
title Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Original title 吸血鬼（バ ン パ イ ア）ハ ン タ ー D ブ ラ ッ ド ラ ス ト
transcription Banpaia Hantā Dī: Buraddorasuto
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2000
Studio Madhouse
length 105 minutes
Rod
Director Yoshiaki Kawajiri
script Yoshiaki Kawajiri
music Marco D'Ambrosio

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust ( jap. 吸血鬼（バ ン パ イ ア）ハ ン タ ー D ブ ラ ッ ド ラ ス ト , Banpaia Hantā Dī: Buraddorasuto ) is a Japanese anime film from 2000 based on the third novel in the Vampire Hunter D series by the author Hideyuki Kikuchi . Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri , the design of the characters was based on designs by Yoshitaka Amano .

action

The young and beautiful Charlotte is kidnapped by Baron Meier Link, a vampire who is considered to be less bloodthirsty . Her father hires the vampire hunter D , a half-vampire or dhampire ; he should bring her back or, if she is already a vampire, kill her. Charlotte's older brother hires other mercenaries to look for his sister, including Leila.

It soon turns out that Charlotte has fled voluntarily with Meier Link, her lover; she feared, rightly, that her family would never accept her association with a vampire.

D and Leila make a pact: whoever of the two lives longer should place flowers at the grave of the other; Leila fears that she will die alone and unmourned.

Meier Link and Charlotte have now reached Chaythe Castle, the realm of the vampire countess Carmilla, who only exists as a ghost; her body was killed by D's father for her brutality and excessive bloodlust. Carmilla offers Meier Link and Charlotte their ancient spaceship so that they can escape to the legendary city ​​of the night .

Carmilla, who has strong suggestive skills, confuses the incoming pursuers; D and Leila can quickly see through the wrong visions, but Carmilla also deceives Meier Link and Charlotte, whose blood - the blood of a virgin - she needs in order to return to life. After leading Meier Link on the wrong track, Carmilla Charlotte bleeds to death, but D can finally kill her before her body comes to life again. Meier Link, who now arrives, defends the corpse of his lover, whom D wants to bring to her father; there is a fight between the two. Leila ends the argument by pulling off Charlotte's ring and throwing it to D ; the ring is all it needs to prove the death of Charlotte.

While D and Leila are leaving Chaythe Castle, Meier Link starts with Charlotte's corpse for the stars; Leila watches the spaceship, hoping it can escape Earth's gravity; it is a symbol of hope for them.

The final scene in the film is a funeral. A young girl notices a dark figure under a nearby tree and asks her if he had known her late grandmother Leila. They would have told him much of him that he should D be. D declines an invitation from the girl; he just wanted to bring flowers to the grave. But he is happy that many people cry for Leila.

synchronization

The film was set to music at Scalamedia in Munich. Joachim Geisler wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) English speaker German speaker
D. Hideyuki Tanaka Andrew Philpot Oliver Stritzel
Leila Megumi Hayashibara Pamela Adlon Christine Stichler
Charlotte Elbourne Emi Shinohara Wendee Lee Julia Haacke
Meier Link Kōichi Yamadera John Rafter Lee Crock Krumbiegel
Left hand Ichirō Nagai Michael McShane Achim Geisler
Carmilla Beverly Maeda Julia Fletcher
Nolt Ryūzaburō Atomo John DiMaggio Christoph Jablonka
Borgoff Yūsaku Yara Matt McKenzie Holger Schwiers
Caroline Yoko Somi Mary Elizabeth McGlynn Martina Duncker
Benge Keiji Fujiwara Dwight Schultz Kai Taschner
Machira Rintarou Nishi John DiMaggio Ole Pfennig
Kyle Houchu Ohtsuka Alex Fernandez Tobias Lelle
Old man from Barbarois Chikao Ōtsuka Dwight Schultz Norbert Gastell

Reviews

The film was largely received positively and received an overall rating of 62 points from the Metacritic website . According to Filmstarts.de, the film “interweaves the genre of the Western with a classic Victorian vampire film setting and an end-of-time scenario, but surprisingly it does not appear abstruse or overloaded”. The film mirror ranks the work in the "top two-dimensional league". The Chicago Reader called the film a "gorgeously animated surrealist adventure". The New York Daily News described Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust as "beautiful, witty and provocative". The San Francisco Chronicle praised the impressive images, but found the story a bit thin and chaotic.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Critic Reviews for Vampire Hunter D at Metacritic . In: Metacritic . Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/37134-Vampire-Hunter-D/kritik.html
  4. ↑ http://www.filmspiegel.de/filme/filme.php?id=1796
  5. ↑ Alspector, Lisa: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust . In: Chicago Reader . Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  6. ^ Guthmann, Edward: FILM CLIPS . In: San Francisco Chronicle . October 5, 2001. Retrieved August 5, 2011.