Blood: The Last Vampire
In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new katana to her. Soon she saves the school nurse Makiho Amano from two vampires disguised of classmates and Makiho witnesses her fight against the powerful demon.
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- Cast:
- Youki Kudoh , Saemi Nakamura , Tom Fahn , Fitz Houston , Paul Carr
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best movie i've ever seen.
Best movie ever!
Absolutely Fantastic
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Watched #Blood....This is an A rated anime about a vampire works for government secret service killing the daemons which survive on human blood....The movie has badass action sequences and brilliant animation. You will really like the badass poker faced serious chief character Saya. The short film simply increases your hunger and you will be wanting more.... The screenplay and direction is also top notch....The only down side is that it is a short film.... 45 minutes is too less fir a movie of this calibre. The movie depicts an incident and ends with many unanswered questions and the thirst of more! More ! MOre ! MORe ! MORE !....#mustWatch for every anime and action lovers and all the guys out there.... p.s.... I'm not talking about Disney movie lovers....
Standing at 48 minutes long, Blood: The Last Vampire is cornucopia of pure violence, bad a55 combat and suspenseful monster slaying action. It has exceedingly smooth animation combined with highly detailed artwork, appealing character designs(a far cry from the cutesy big eyed girls in most anime) and awesome fight choreography.However, look beyond the "wow factor" and there is little else that this film offers.In terms of plot, it is very straight forward and predictable with few story twists. The characters are typical action movie stereotypes with the main character of Saya being seriously under-developed. It is very difficult to emotionally connect to any of the characters at all. There is no sense of peril in the fights due to Saya being characterized as some unbeatable monster hunter extraordinaire. Although the actors do their best to bring out as much emotion from the characters, the flat dialogue falls squarely on the shoulders of the writers. I do, however, applaud the decision to record a mixed language dialogue(western characters speak English, Asian characters speak Japanese) as it enhances the realism of the setting.To top it all off, The pacing of the movie in erratic and it shows in the more subdued scenes of conversation where things get really boring. Lump that together with a huge let-down of an ending and you have Blood: The Last Vampire.Sure, this anime is famous. But we have to look at what made it famous and it definitely was not its half baked story or 1 dimensional characters. I bet It was only the animation.An anime film with good animation only is not a good anime film. There has to be a balance and sadly, Blood: The Last Vampire does not have that balance. A bloody over hyped waste.
-partial synopsis- It takes place on an American base in japan, a girl named Saya comes to the base to hunt down these creatures called chiropterin (the name may be mistyped) they feast on human blood to live, and the creatures has set sites on the base for a dining hall feast so Saya must stop them... no matter what the cost or BLOOD takes...-my opinion- the anime is astonishing with it's full CG cover effects, with a lush out call of great violence, though the story does seem to go off, all the blood and carnage and call of the hunt cover for a thin quick plot.*also there is now a series based of the movie called BLOOD+(it somewhat tells more to the movie, with a few alterations mixed in) although both the movie and series are a must see!
I am a big fan of anime and I love the Japanese with their beautiful artwork, quirky or just plain weird characters and overly intricate stories. I watched Blood: The Last Vampire and then sold the DVD if that says anything. It has some good moments and some good art; however, the story is brief without any backstory to flesh it out and the actions of the characters don't always make sense.One of the main characters is just plain annoying and I found myself wishing for her demise a short way in. The 45 minute "film" lacked a director that could present a flowing cut section from an ongoing story. All you'll see here are good angles for scenes and a somewhat chopped up story that leaves you wishing you could get your money back for the DVD.