Anime Abandon - Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2018
- The best vampire movie anime has ever seen. Not much competition for the title, but still!
ALSO! I goofed near the end and spoke the wrong character's name. Apologies.
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Small note, Sage: the ending does not involve Charlotte's family mourning her passing and leaving flowers on her grave, but Leila's. D came to complete his promise that he'd leave flowers on her grave if she died before him.
I thought that was Leila’s family mourning her passing as an old woman, playing with earlier where she believed no one would mourn her when she dies and making D promise he would visit her grave.
Same, I was pretty sure that was the case myself.
I'm pretty sure he means Leila but accidently said Charlotte instead.
It was, he made a boo-boo
I blame his right hand for speaking out of turn
Maybe Sage didn't catch that, the film made it subtle enough that I also needed a second listening to make sure.
Imagine if the Castlevania series was handled and animated like Bloodlust.
Wish I lived in that alternate reality.
@@cartooncritique6625 same
Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust is a vampire love story done right.
Demon Deathchase...well it was dark.
Understatement of the year.
It was good though. Volume six is my favourite thus far.
When you got the voice of Jason Winn as the villain you know you got something good
GraphicAudio: A Movie in Your Mind put out a dramatized audiobook of it (as of 2/26/2022) and you're not wrong, but also it's pretty much not even remotely close to Bloodlust in terms of book vs. movie, aside from a few scenes.
@@ElectricOutcast I have the GraphicAudio interpretation of the book as well, and yea you are right! I liked both
For the record, I will state that this is the most gorgeous anime ever created. Ufotable may have the budget of a Swiss bank account, but you can’t beat that hand-painted Ninja Scroll/Labyrinth/Magic the Gathering/Alien aesthetic.
IDK. The Redline anime movie is pretty damn gorgeous as well. If u haven't seen it yet, please do yourself a favor and watch it. You will Not be disappointed.
You have not seen Five Star Stories.
Magnetic Rose, anyone?
@@CosmicG777 SEVEN YEARS! HAND PAINTED!
Redline looks great, but it works better in motion. The use of heavy blacks and highly saturated colors can be a bit of an eyesore when staring at the same still for too long. Something traditionally done like Bloodlust looks amazing in motion and in still images.
Not enough props go to the animators at Madhouse for doing THIS level of detail and smooth, fluid animation!
Point of clarification, the female barberois can only merge with metal and wood. Metal and wood are classical elements in Japanese folklore and they are linked together by their position on the elemental wheel.
Just a fun fact you miss if you don't actually know anything about classical Japanese culture.
i didnt, but thats pretty kool to know :3
Technically, they were originally Chinese, rather than Japanese, but considering the sheer amount of cultural influence China had (and has) on the rest of East Asia, some ideas of the elements spilled over from China to Japan.
The traditional Japanese elements are: Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and Void.
The traditional Chinese elements are: Fire, Water, Earth, Wood, and Metal.
Fun fact: Caroline, the female Barbarois, is in fact a Dhampir in the original Novel, being a bastard child of a Vampire and a Barbaroi mutant. Not only can she merge with objects to alter her nature and theirs, but she can also use her vampiric powers to bite and control inanimate beings. Which she does in the Novel with a giant mechanical arm that had once belonged to a colossal robot the size of a small mountain, in order to try and kill D with it.
Also, Carmilla is a creation of the Anime. Carmilla does not exist in the Novel with the books ending being much more bitter-sweet than the Anime's. In that not only is the shuttle that would take Mayerling (not Mayer Link) and Charlotte to the City of the Night no longer functional, but Mayerling gets killed by Mashira (the wolf-dude), who is in fact a Carbuncle, the same kind of parasite as Left Hand, who moved bodies after his initial host was killed and had taken over the body of Borgoff Marcus, after Borgoff had been killed by Mayerling.
D, with Left Hand's assistance, would kill the parasite Mashira for good, but while they were doing that, Charlotte (who was alive since there was no Carmilla), killed herself on Mayerling's talon so that she could be with him in death, rather than live the rest of her life alone without him.
thanks!
they are classical elements
Dang... I never thought he Vampire D looked so HANDSOME in the remake toooooo..but..um..
Ehhh IMA LET IT SLIDE 💜💜
Fun fact: The chorus that plays during Carmilla's Castle montage basically says Queen repeatedly.
Carmilla carmilla Carmillaaaaaaaaaa
Regina. ;)
It certainly takes real talent to make repeating the same word over and over sound so epic.
An positive review, an apology to the original, another shot at Night Warriors, and a Dune reference? My gawd, it's one of the most perfect episodes that could possibly be! Especially for one of my favorite anime movies of all time.
And hey, my birthday is next week, too, on the 31st. You have a good one, Sage!
Vampires?
In october?
HELL YEAH
Naota Nandaba
Is tradition.
You reviewed Vampire Hunter *six years* ago?
Why do I feel so old?
The Bard because it was six years ago
The Bard cause you are old, hell! You’re older than you think lol
Okay anybody else wonder why anime made 21 years ago looks better than modern anime? Also why it feels more like anime? Mean Blood lust is an anime based off western vampires and post apocalypse themes, hell it even has guns and space ships. Yes it still has that feeling being anime, something distinctly and immutably different than anything in the west. This is something i find troublingly missing in most modern anime, outside of something like Konosuba, Full Metal Panic IV, That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime to name the few notable difference most anime just doesn't feel like anime anymore.
Well, I think it relates to the segment where he was talking about computer automated animation. Hand drawn animation has that look which can't be replicated by computers. And of the animators are cutting corners, what other parts are being trimmed to save time and money. The best example I can think of is the Golgo 13 series from 2008. Barely animated, written with a gun nut mentality by people who obviously never fired a gun, and long drawn-out scenes of still frames with "scintillating" dialogue. Not to imagine so much CGI that really looks out place both in clashing of art styles and in smoothness of animation.
Hand drawn vs computer generated.
No, I understand the point your both trying to make. It’s not so much animation style as the craft of the narrative, the kinds of humor and so on. I wish I could describe it better.
Many reasons, way too many to count on one hand, let alone two
Lol what does this have to do with the group name 'west's damn y u hate the west sis?
The first thing you learn when being taught to paint or draw in colors is that whatever you're drawing is NOT the color your brain tells you it is. Computers can't do that and people using them to make art don't seem to know that either.....
I don't understand it fully, but I am interested.
Thats why modern anime looks so cheap
Oh, we're slowly getting to the understanding that a program and/or programmER can't make artistic decisions but holy hells have we got a long way to go and is it ever a painful trip. There's a HUGE myth that digital work needs no actual artistic knowledge or as little as possible (call it George Lucas syndrome). The tide is turning though, so keep throwing money at good art.
@@TheRid16 basically, shadows and dark areas are often in a contrasting color to the main color/lights color. If the whole scene is red, shadows are green to give an example. Putting shadow on something is not just mixing the main color with more black to make it darker. That is something most starting artists do and takes quite a bit of experience to grow out of and to really bring your art to the next lvl.
Learned this by accident some years ago in an attempt to draw Darth Vader, my black colour pens ran out of ink so rather than get a new one I decided to use the Greys and blues. It didn't come out black at all that is until I took a picture of it on my phone and there it was.
I wonder if we can see an oldtaku new tricks on Hellsing ultimate.
Get this bitch a cannon
Would love to see that.
Bitches love cannons!
TFS abridged references aside, would love to see that since Ultimate is sort of what Bloodlust is to the original Vampire Hunder D anime.
Bloodlust is without a doubt my favourite anime film of all time and Yoshiaki Kawajiri is one of my all time favourite directors. I still find it hard to believe that he actually directed the original Tetsuwan Birdy OVA since the art style of that show is totally different from his usual work.
+AnimetalViking I did a tribute for him on my account check out when you get time. Kawaijri is my favorite more so than Miyazaki his themes of nihilism and mortality is something I resonate with
Yes. I remember your video. You had audio from a speech about art or something like that over a compilation of clips from his various works. It was a great video by the way.
+Animetal Viking WOW I had zero idea anyone saw it , it's really a compilation of his directing techniques also thx it means allot
You're welcome. Yeah, I came across it when I was busy looking for interviews and info on the guy because I currently have my own project in the works concerning Bloodlust. Though, like with my Witch Hunter Robin project and many others it keeps getting delayed because of other things. My mind just never stays focused on one project so as a result I wind up working on whatever one gets me hyped in the moment lol XD
Hopefully I will be able to complete the video in the near future. I've been dying to talk about this movie for ages and every time I introduce people to anime, Bloodlust is something I always include to show people just what animation (specifically hand drawn traditional animation) is truly capable of.
+AnimetalViking I swear to God your my dimensional brother!!! I feel the exact same way! I've been studying Kawajiri for a while as I'm an aspiring writer/artist!! I'm definitely going to check out your content on your channel, I'm also looking forward to your project on bloodlust!! Also yeah Kawairi is an an odd one if you check out his very first movie Lensman it's drastically different from his tranditional stuff as well but what that and the birdy OVA have in common is that they are quite literally is earlier works but they do have small bouts of gothic themes to them difference is his work after are baptized in gothic themes
Sooo Bennett's 2 years younger than me...I feel old.
I actually remember watching this in my school's anime club several times back in the day.
I liked it, but I wasn't as big a fan of it as others were. Mostly because, at the time, it simply fell into a lot of the shonen anime tropes.
Main character gets involved in retrieving a plot coupon. Quirky Miniboss Squad tries to stop him and would-be allies from getting the plot coupon. Final Boss turns out to have a final form or a boss of his own. Main character gets the plot coupon, but being a shonen MOVIE, we don't learn anything new about the main character, just get "more of the same."
The difference, and why I actually DO remember it, was that the presentation was indeed really, really good. And characters DID actually talk about things and not just go from one plot point to the next.
I hate to say it but like a lot of revolutionary anime from the time, a lot of it gets diminished by the deluge of copycats that followed. Not from any malice on the part of the copycats, who are often made by people who DO want to do their own thing, but more by being hamstrung by the original author or studio as to what they can and can't do with the characters.
Probably why properties like Vampire Hunter D, Lupin III, and sometimes One Piece (MHA might get onto this list. I've heard the recent film is actually pretty good) get at least passable films, since their premise allows for standalone stories to slide in easily.
Bennett is 15 years younger than me
Happy Birthday Sage! I hope you have a great one and may your wishes come true!
I watch Bloodlust back in highschool and I really love it, (Without knowing it was the sequel and found some AMVs with it) the animation and the colors were just so gloomy and goth fit it and the story was something new to me.
When Charlotte tries to shield her Meier from the sun while he was still metling and kept getting attacked just breaks my heart. That was the time Twilight came out and I know this joke is been done to dead but better love story and when Charlotte was bitten Meier still fills in the request they both wanted. I believe their love story next Buffy and Angel as the best Vampire romance ever.
D was an interesting character to me, he knew what he is and didn't mope about it, even if he did find some happiness it won't last long because of his bloodline, same with Alucard from Hellsing thou the two are complete opposite but its nice to see Vampires that don't mope about thier eternal lives.
I'm honestly glad that your Halloween month ended on a more positive note then allot of your other month based reviews. It's nice to here a movie that I feel doesn't get talked about allot get the praise it deserves.
I also notice the contrast problem in digital painting is due to lack of shading and detail, which is skipped in tv shows for time. Though when I do pixel art, I try to apply the shading, even with black.
I agree that we are in a drought of modern atmospheric anime. I think that it isn’t just due to technology. Although story telling has improved in many ways it seems like certain story telling styles have almost completely vanished and are seldom imitated.
Close with Ergo Proxy and Darker Than Black.
I think it’s a mix of technology, talent, resources (money and time), and zeitgeist. Like the creator of FLCL said, a show like that was only really possible because of the era it was created in. The same is true for much of the other great shows of yesterday. And it’s sad, to me at least, because I find myself growing more and more distant from the anime of today. It just doesn’t inspire the same air of mystery and wonder that anime used to.
@@TheAccountification suggest u see haikyu s1 esp ep13 & up which is more action oriented. done by PIG. so it looks great. sadly s4 PIG's budget has been cut.
I've been waiting for you to do this review for so long!!
Another neat review. I really dug your explanation of the differences in black, and digital vs traditional. I hadn't heard that explanation before, it was quite fascinating. :)
I watched Bloodlust on a whim after seeing the scene where Meier walked into the sunlight to rescue Charlotte. It really was a beautiful film and also just a lot of fun. Vampire romance done right. I liked how equal their relationship was despite the power disparity, because Meier made it equal.
Charlotte's death in the end upset me mostly because it was a somewhat expected ending to a tragic mortal/vampire love affair and I wanted to see them make it despite the odds. What do you think the likelihood is of Meier reaching the city of the night only to find someone waiting like 'oh dear, another one. Humans are just so fragile aren't they?' and fixing her up? XD You've gotta imagine a lot of vampires who make the journey often outlast their human partners.
Can confirm you don't need to know anything about the series though. I jumped right in and wasn't lost at all.
Thanks for covering it Sage, I appreciate it more now.
Also you mean Leila's family leaves flowers on her grave. Not Charlotte.
This was one of the first animes my brother and I ever watched, thanks Sage for reviewing a childhood favorite like this
I'm so early that I caught the original uploading a couple hours ago.
Chrono Trigger is Hulk-daddy allegory. Who'da thunk.
me too. Did you notice what went wrong with the original video ;)
Happy early birthday, you crazy bastard! This is one of my most favorite anime movies of all time and I am happy you finally covered it. Cheers!!!
😊❤️ I watched vampire hunter D bloodlust five times before this review on your review live and I can’t get enough of the movie.
Happy Early Birthday, Sage. And thanks for covering Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. It takes me back to a magical time of Anime discovery.
I was at the Fantasia Film Fest where this 'premiered' (nearly finished cut) and it was a powerful experience, and your review brings me right back to that night almost 20 ago. Great review, keep it up!
Saw it opening night in New Rochelle, NY, and kinda got joked at for apparently being the only white boy in the theater.
Dude, happy early birthday! Can't wait for the next video, everyone in my house loves the show, so we may all watch together. I have vague memories of Vampire Hunter D from a younger time, but this might just get me to give it another go.
Thanks so much for this, Bennett! Been a fan of yours for years, and been waiting for ages to see your take on this one! (A bit disappointing I couldn't hear you gush about some of your favorite scenes because you were trying to keep it still (semi) spoilers-limited... I'd love to know which ones were your personal standouts the same way you gave your favorite eps for Pet Shop of Horrors.) :D
Happy Birthday Bennett.
I haven't seen this movie in several years, it might be time to watch it again. That said, for some reason my DVD copy had some sound issues. The dialogue is overly quiet and the action scenes are ridiculously loud, it might've been something to do with the hardware though, I was watching it on my PS2..............my first DVD player. Ah, those were the days!
Thank you for this mate! Great Review as always. also a early Happy Birthday! many happy returns! \m/
It's not often something from my childhood ends up on Anime Abandon, and I'm glad this one did. I think Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust had a much larger influence on my taste in anime than I realized. It was nearly half my life ago when my Dad put it on my brand new PSP for me to watch. Even back then, when /every/ anime I watched was good, it was obvious this one was a little different from the DBZ and Inuyasha I was used to.
It's also so god damned gorgeous. I think grandeur is an incredibly good word to describe it. Visually it's my favorite anime.
For some reason, the thing that's always stuck in my mind from this anime is the scenes where D buries himself in the ground to avoid the sun. It's hardly a big deal but I always thought that it was a really cool little touch.
Dayum Sage, you hammered the stake home with that explanation of the difference bbetween digital and hand-painted colors. ALSO PARANOIA AGENT YES!
Happy Birthday Bennet. It's your b-day but you are giving me a gift... A Sage look & review of "Paranoia Agent!" Thx dude, been watching you since 5 yrs. Love your reviews even tho we didn't see eye to eye on my fav anime series "Gantz." LOL!
I love that intro. Thank you for continuing to grow as an individual and able to admit modest missteps in your earlier reviews. I loved D when I saw it but it doesn't hold up very well so I own Bloodlust but not D. Lol
I fell in love with this when I was younger. Glad you appreciate it as much as I do. Keep rockin.
The Black thing is something you learn to control in digital in art school, or at least I did. Part of it is stylistic, part is not that it can't be done, but that animation is salaried work that has no over time and ridiculous hours is pushing artists to either seek perfection and not get it done and get black listed, or push out something not as fully worked as it could be. personally I'll always be a fan of colored lines for this reason, when you take black digital lines to a dark neutral brown or a midnight blue or purple, you avoid making characters pop as harshly off a background. The cost of that is you have to go in and correct things that should have solid blacks, or closer too. In the end it's a matter of time crunch limiting more than the tech.
It's interesting that Sage delved into The Black thing. I'm an traditional art student and one of the first things we learned was never to use black paint if we wanted to paint from life. If you want shadows you could use purple and darken it, and you can get a nice black by using burn sienna with Ultramarine, or burn umber with a crimson. Black paint in a tube is often too harsh to integrate nicely with other vibrant colors.
In the pre-xerox days, some films like Pinocchio, did have coloured lines.
I learned my art basics by bootlegging Nintendo spritework, and that was one of the first things I learned.
@@zerakielvmark Yah, my first art lessons were never use a color that wasn't mixed with another color first. Its challenging enough in paint but when a peogram is micro-managing every 0 &1, I'm sure it's impossible. Can a computer tell the difference between that almost kinda maybe sorta blue-ish grey and the almost kinda maybe silver blue-ish grey? I've given people stroes trying to explain that while having artwork scanned and touched up. The general opinion is it can't be done, at least not ecomonically.
Um, I thought at the end, the funeral was for Leila since she gave D a spiel about no one coming to her funeral. He said he would, didn't he? The little girl looks just like her too.
Happy B day
And thanks for the review of a great movie
I've seen this movie before (back around when it came out as my anime club watched for our Halloween event) and this review has reminded me that I totally need to watch it again.
Thanks for the review.
You're reviewing two of my favorite anime in a row? I'm so excited to see you cover Paranoia Agent.
Remember when Anime Abandon had random Chrono Trigger clips at 14:52? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
This comment is gonna age like milk.
Happy Birthday Bennett. And Happy Halloween too.
Great review.
So, yeah, admittedly one of my favorite moments was when an old man in a town stood up against that sheriff for D's sake... because D was that same man that saved him and a bunch of other kids from something that plagued the town decades ago.
And... yeah, vampire lore 101. If a character is named Carmilla... She's gonna be "evil even by vamp standards".
Also, the time skip and funeral at the end. When I first watched it years and years ago, never realized it was a time skip so I was confused. My bad.
... *deep breath* Paranoia Agent... The only Satoshi Kon anime I've ever watched, and not for lack of looking. Also, flawed as it is, one of my personal favorites.
If you must be caustic about it, fair enough. XD
Woah.....I was listening to anime world order talk about vampire hunter d bloodlust and couple days later Bennett released a review....awesome
Lol I'm currently watching paranoia agent, certainly looking forward to your vid, I hope you have a good birthday Bennett :)
This was the first movie I ever bought on DVD, even buying a special order that offered a framed animation cell that came with the copy. Never regretted it. Such a DAMN good movie.
Welcome back!!
My girlfriend made me watch both of these a few weeks ago. The first one I thought was 1980's anime schlock, it wasn't bad schlock, but it was still schlock. This one I thought was a masterpiece and it was done right. While the backdrop still could use a little work we got to understand D's story and the parasyite a little bit better, also the parasytes line are good, his final line about D being a good person who just dresses badly is hilarious.
And Benett is right the late 90's through early oughts were a magical time in anime, before it all went digital. We had digital effects but still had a lot of cel animation and it has a special look and grittiness to it. You can't have another anime look like trigon today.
Well happy birthday Sage.
I guess both you and I are Libras.
No wonder I love this channel.
LoL!
Welcome to the club of October babies.
oh and where is ice before reviewing that anime you showed us at the end of the episode here that you're going to be reviewing for November.
Do not try doing a drinking game to anything that is insane in that anime.
You would be needing new kidneys by the first five minutes of watching.
Definitely keep away anything Sharp.
Or blunt objects.
Because you will be hitting your head just trying to understand it.
or at least wondering how some of it connects to each other on some parts.
plus you're talking to a slightly older otaku.
I only got *coughing sounds* years on you.
What you'd still expect a lady to actually say her true age.
Ha.. ha..
But anyway happy birthday Sage and hopefully many more.
And here's a suggestion for you why not review an anime that was created the year you were born.
Trust me I tried looking up and oh boy the madness that came from that search.
And that was on me.
Imagine what you'd find for you.
Enjoy your birthday and Halloween.
Bloodlust is probably one of my all time favorite vampire movies in general. I had of course seen the original before it. Also wishing you a happy birthday for next week ^_^ My birthday is actually tomorrow.
Love this movie so much and the manga version of it is beautifully done as well. I was actually shocked seeing the original because I saw bloodlust first. The difference in art style and character design was jarring for me but both I find enjoyable. P.S. Happy early birthday!!!!
Huh.
Sage was younger then myself currently when he reviewed the original... how quickly time flies.
Thanks for the great review Sage
Well its about time you did this. I've been wondering when you'd get round to this. Also now I need to go listen to Sonata Arctica for a while. XD
Awesome review Bennett!
Yesssss!!!! I’ve waited for this review for 3 years lol
Before I nit-pick, great review! I'm so glad this movie is getting more recognition recently. However, there were (possibly,) THREE characters from the first movie, as it is implied that the mechanic D sees mid way through the movie is actually the kid from the first movie, as the scenario he describes was a lot like the events in the first movie. Granted, it's not 100% confirmed, but I still thought it was an interesting call back/cameo :)
7:25 Would true black be a black hole? Or invisible? since if it reflects no light, we wouldn't be able to see it.
HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY SAGE!!!
Happy Early Birthday Bennett!
Happy early birthday Sage!
Well happy birthday Bennett.
Hope ya have a good one brotha
Nice work Bennet.
Think we'll pop this one in for some halloween enjoyment.
stay safe brother and have yourself a very hapyp birthday.
Wow sage your my age that's crazy. I binge watch you all the time I wish they had someone like you on g4 back in the day I love every video you make man keep it up
Happy birthday in advance man. Hope you have fun ☺️🎂
Sage, I dunno if it’s because of your weight loss or what but you just seem happier these days. Like, it feels like you’ve got more joy in your voice.
Whatever it is I’m happy for you, man. You deserve it.
Please do a review one of the Getter Robo OVAs.
How did you not show the beautifully painted lake scene with the broken columns?(lol, he threw it in at the end!) The art in this movie is literally what got me into anime. RIP Hildebrant Bros, I love anime painting now.
Happy birthday, Bennett!!!
I hope you eventually do Highlander
Oh hell yeah. I loved the Highlander anime. I hope so too.
He will it’s written in the stars
There's a giant with a chainsaw sword and that fight is JUST THE SETUP
*I enjoyed BOTH movies ...*
They are both masterpieces of anime.
I’m a little struck (in a good way) about how well articulated the traditional vs. digital argument you made was. I always try to talk to other people who like animation about why digital inherently does not have as organic or natural a feel as traditional media; some agree, some disagree. I always bring up things like the film grain lend color a greater depth and density, and how real lighting and film can aid the sense of authenticity, but I think that point about how the computers simply can’t discriminate between what colors do and do not appear in nature just because they’re not being done in real life is awesome. And I completely agree with you, Bennett
Here we are again. Now finally see what we waited for 6 years~
Enjoy your birthday mate and looking forward to hellsing ultimate next year and your next review
I finally got around to watching this on your recommendation and I wish I had done that sooner.
HAppy birthday Bennett!
Since your review of the first movie, there has been a Blu-Ray release with a new dub. And the new dub has a way better script, as well as talented veteran actors to play the roles.
Loved the movie, love this review. Enjoy your birthday next week, Sage! :-)
Love this movie.
Im an oldtaku and this was the last anime i saw in theaters.
It was total worth the 3 hour drive!
Happy birthday, Sage!!!
When Kawajiri is behind the wheel, I am very rarely bored by the outcome. Best grindhouse/action anime director!
I have heard that "Highlander: the search for Vengeance" is really dull though. What do you think of it, if you have seen this one? I would like to get your insight, as fan of the highlander franchise and as a standalone action film...
Yeah. I had forgot how dramatically impactful the ending at the gravesite was.
This is one of my all-time favorites. The first DVD I ever bought was the original Vampire Hunter D because I enjoyed it so much when it came on sci-fi channel but once I had seen Bloodlust, I never went back to the first one.
I remember the first time i saw this back around 2002 at a local anime club and then being compelled to go but the vhs right after, it was so damn good.
For years, since you trashed the first movie, I feared this review, Sage. For *years*. And you actually like the sequel. Can't believe it has been that long.
Keep on truckin'.
Happy birthday to you Ben
Awesome review. Can you review anime movies karas?
Happy B-day Bennete we're all growing old :D
*The bridge scene,* it chokes me up every time. Damn this was a good film.
Great review. Bloodlust is one of my favorites.
Is that Paranoia Agent coming up next?
Sweet!
My username has a bit of a backstory. Y'all remember Twilight hitting the world in the balls around 2009 or so? Well, I was in high school when that happened, in freaking Port Angeles Washington no less! When I say Sparkleboy fever was everywhere, I mean that I personally had tourists asking me if I knew Edward or Jacob several times a month, and yes they were serious. Hell, still happens once in a blue moon. The split over team sparkles or team furry was so savage that there were physical bloody fights if you picked "wrong". So, since I was a teen girl, I got asked several times a day, every day, for months what my team was, so I said screw them and picked something else. Team Vampire Hunter D all day long baby, and he's STILL the (half) man!
Awesome video but I cannot believe you forgot to mention that the voice actor of Bender from Futurama is the Sheriff and the leader of the barberois is voiced by Spongebob's voice actor, lol. I apologize for forgetting their names.
11:20 Agree with you 100%, I was thinking the exact same thing while watching for the first time. I hope if they ever do a live action movie based on anime (and not the book) this is how they do it.
Space Dandy premiered in the US first too
ketsukozapdos only hours before Japan though!
Speaking of anime the premiered in the states first, Space Dandy did that as well.