| | Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust |
 | | Yoshiaki Kawajiri's name is probably not as familiar to anime's United States fanbase as Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Mamoru Oshii, Isao Takahata, or Shinichirô Watanabe, but amid those in the "know," his Ninja Scroll is among the best pure action/fantasy films of the last fifty years in any medium. |
 | | Mature and perverse though not sexually violent in the way that many have equated with the anime genre (and that Kawajiri himself was guilty of in Biohunter and Wicked City), Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a sober action film as viscerally surprising as it is surprisingly affecting. |
 | | D (short for "dunpeal," a creature born from a sexual union of human and vampire) exists in the distant future in a blasted wasteland most resembling that found in Watanabe's brilliant Cowboy Bebop series. |
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