The combination of the horror type of film-making and anime is one that works out surprisingly great and effective in this movie.

It has a great dark and horror type of atmosphere and genre story. You can also expect lots of violence and gore from the movie. Yes, I really think that horror-fans will also enjoy watching this movie, even if they aren't familiar with the Japanese anime genre.

The characters are all fantastic looking! Of course especially the mysterious looking D. Some characters are cool looking, others odd and some of them downward scary! It are not just only vampires in this movie!

The main character D is a great one. Lets say he's a sort of combination between Blade and Abraham Van Helsing. It would definitely be great to see more movies involving this character. He's mysterious, he's cool and he has got some real fighting skills.

The movie is fast paced and features lots of action in it. The action is always something original and different, so the movie at all times remains entertaining as well as exciting. Of course the movie shows some oddness but that's also all part of the charm of an anime movie.

The animations are looking as you would expect from a movie such as this. It's no better or any worse than similar type of movies. It's a very imaginative looking movie, set in a dark mysterious place, in a sort of post-apocalypse far future.

Well worth seeing for both anime fans, as well as horror lovers.

8/10

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Her village plagued by an ancient noble vampire called Lee, Doris enlists the help of D, a dhampir (half vampire/half human) who is dedicated to slaying vampires.

Despite my love for weird Japanese cinema, I've never really been a fan of anime. However, being a horror obssessive, Vampire Hunter D intrigued me enough to give it a try. As I expected, the drawings are fairly crude at times, and there's no escaping the Manga trappings -- wide-eyed characters with strange body proportions, action surrounded by hundreds of movements lines, crazy visual viewpoints -- but I still found this mid-'80s 'classic' to be a lot of fun.

The story -- based on the Vampire Hunter D novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi -- is consistently entertaining, director Toyoo Ashida creates an effective other-worldly environment inhabited by an assortment of very weird creatures, and the titular character has a cool 'wandering warrior' vibe not unlike The Man With No Name or Ogami Itto.

Plus there's a lot of enjoyably excessive violence, plenty of bonkers silliness (D has a talking hand!),and a very cute female character in Doris, who is designed to appeal to those who fantasise about buxom young Asian women constantly flashing their knickers (i.e., your average Manga fan). Knowing his audience all too well, Ashida even throws in a gratuitous shower scene featuring nudity from the girl!

7/10. It's not made an anime fan out of me, but I liked it more than I expected to.

In a far-future time ruled by the supernatural, a young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.

Typically I do not care for anime. Netflix used to recommend it to me and I had to repeatedly tell them to stop it. To this day I have seen fewer than five I really enjoyed. I just do not happen to care for the genre (although some of the bigger ones like "Dragon Ball" and "Sailor Moon" are alright).

This was a pleasant surprise. I like horror films, so maybe it helped having the vampire aspect. And I especially enjoyed that they had the mythos of the half-human, half-vampire. We do not hear or see that often in the horror genre,and it was a nice touch.