"Unlike the original 1985 Vampire Hunter D - a low-budget, direct-to-video effort - 2000's Bloodlust is opulently produced, a post-apocalyptic action epic stuffed with black leather, red lips, and supernatural bloodletting. It's brutal but also sexy as hell..."
"Its director, screenwriter, and storyboard artist, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, isn't nearly as celebrated in the United States as his peers Hayao Miyazaki or Mamoru Oshii, but his films are arguably as influential. Bloodlust is his finest work, one of the last great features from anime's seductive video-store era that Kawajiri's ultraviolent titles like Ninja Scroll and Wicked City helped shape."
"Bloodlust is approachable by design, an adaptation of author Hideyuki Kikuchi's Demon Deathchase novel in the ongoing D saga. After that opening sequence, we meet the anti-hero D, a half-vampire-half-human bounty hunter..."
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