Vampire Hunter D

Science-fantasy in which a wandering samurai of sorts saves the day. It is engaging enough at the outset but soon devolves into a showcase for lovingly detailed gore. At every turn it's amusingly convinced of its own coolness, like when a kid writes a story and ends every sentence with an exclamation mark.

Grungy, fast paced anime can’t overcome weak and familiar plotting, and a perhaps par for the course sleazy tone, but it’s view of its world and intriguing design of its characters help almost win the day; nicely animated scenes of bone crunching gore help maintain interest.

Combine the enjoyably batshit insanity of Ninja Scroll with Castlevania, and you basically have Vampire Hunter D. It has pacing issues, as most anime films do, but the first five minutes has a dinosaur, werewolf & vampire, so whatevs.

One of the better anime I've seen, there's lots of blood and angst.

I am not a big anime fan but this one actually wasn't too bad.

GREAT!

Not as good as I would have expected after seeing the more recent one

Pretty good quite early anime as far full length features flick go. It definitely has the Manga Entertainment style running through it; no holding back blood, guts, gore, and good looking ladies. The story is fairly good and the characters are interesting. The talking hand is weird and funny?

Anime is an acquired taste. Once you have the taste for it, VH-D is one of the very best anime movies out there. A nice, kind of unique storyline. A talking hand. And plenty of blood. It's a lot of fun.

Pretty damn decent idea for a horror film that's ruined by uncreative and thoroughly silly treatment

An alright anime, I guess, if you're into vampires and shit.

Love the animation, the cheap synth soundtrack and the blend of european gothic and techno-futurism but the story is seriously undercooked garbage.

76.500

Great anime, because it doesn't focus on high school, goofy action-hero nonsense or panty shots.

Part 1 which is the lesser known one. 2 is better, but this is good as well.

I'm pretty sure people who are voting on VH-D are mixing it with its 2001 sequel VH-D:Bloodlust, because the first one is absolutely rubbish.

classic anime

D is a pretty Kenshiro-esque 80s hero, traveling the world all stoically and using his unstoppable badass powers to fight evil and rescue the damsel. But this is great because it has lots of nutty supernatural elements with that rough-around-the-edges look of 80s anime.

An entertaining anime film, though, surprisingly, not as good as its sequel.

Cooooooool

it may be anime but damn if it isn't awesome.

Outstanding animation, excellent combat sequences, and solid story.

As a young man before the time of animu inundation, this movie was balls to the wall awesome.

One of the best anime movies ever

yeah.... chida y extraña.. aveces saca de onda.

Definitely a handful of unintentionally funny parts.

One of the best vampire stories made anime.