Rewatched this and I have to say it holds up really well...

Rewatched this and I have to say it holds up really well. The art direction was done very well and it is probably one of the best attempts to make a setting that blends magic and future tech.

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Cool character designs too.

Yoshitaka Amano is a god.

Isn't there supposed to be a new Vampire Hunter D tv series coming soon? I hope they keep the god tier character designs from Bloodlust.

Much better than the book. Pity the BDs look so bad.

Amano's designs with Kawajiri's direction is fantastic.

Supposedly there is going to be a new tv series? This true?

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>"produced entirely in cg"

FUCK

THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!

>"produced entirely in cg"

Oh god damn it.

Well.... at least it's sumtin

>CG

First berserk and now vampire hunter D. God help us.

All I heard is that vampire hunter D has stupidly OP universe breaking characters. Kinda turns me off to it.

Oh no...

CLANG

Is Berserk 2017 at least going to be mostly 2D? Any PVs for that? Or is there truly no hope?

Vampire guy did literally nothing wrong. He really didn't deserve any of the suffering he endured.

Technically Yukata Minowa's designs, but he really nailed Amano's style.

It could be alright, Digital Frontier does nice looking CG.

I think you are confusing D with Alucard

wut

No? It's vampires and guys with crossbows and guns.

>it took me a second rewatching before I realized she was dead at the end
Fuck I felt retarded for not picking up on that the first time.

It's better than the book ending where They both die to a bullshit 1-shot arrow and then D and the other hunter chick just fuck off and leave their corpses on the floor.

He did turn some villagers into vampires.

D is pretty hax, but the stories also focus on the more vulnerable characters to build tension. Like if D's dead or busy fighting somewhere else we switch to the POV of his clients or fellow hunters trying to survive.

Didn't the village try to lynch him?

He failed to protect his waifu.

He was relatively young and weak for a vampire.
One thing the book did better than the movie was get across how pants-shittingly terrified of D he was.

I never liked his FF work.

It does, but those are rarely the focus of it. The protagonist is just an invincible ship bringing you through very harrowing lands. I think there are heavy sci-fi elements only because the author thought his books would never sell without them having a sci-fi focus because that was the craze back then (I think there were still heavy shockwaves from Star Wars), so he make it vampire hunting set in the far future.

He's not, Alucard checks the closet at night for D.

The book makes everything more depressing, at least the movie salvages a good end.

I watched it for the first time a couple of months ago and it was fucking excellent. The end was great too, I loved Leila.

Pretty sure it's been hit by the curse of 100% CGI.

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"good-bye D, good-bye! Promise you'll come back and see us. Promise!"

Made me tear up, back in the day.

What's wrong, user, do you hate the future?

;___;

you fools

vampire hunter d is a horrific, desolate, dystonia universe. Don't you see this perfectly fits the motif?!

That is so beautifully 80s.

>Bringing your own waifu to her death.
>Having to live with that for eternity.
Pretty bad suffering right there.

I like the nice 80s pantsu shot at 13 seconds.

The part that gets me during the ending sequence is when he rides by that dusty old mosque just standing by itself in the middle of a desert. It only really sunk in then how ancient D is and how far into the future the movie is set.

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The eternal struggler.

No. Higher level vampires in Ds universe make alucard look like weak. D and his father could absolutely crush alucard.

>Invincible ship

Eh sounds kinda boring there. I liked how he was in the first movie more. Powerful but not quite invincible.

>Powerful but not quite invincible.

Did we watch the same first movie?

D is a boring gary stu and the books are genuine fujoshi garbage
Bloodlust movie actually changed many plot points including the entire ending due to how shit it was in the book (lol Meyer and the girl get 1 shotted by an arrow, D and the hunter bitch mock their corpses and leave them to rot the end)

Blood lust was a fine movie. The 1985 first movie based on the first book was okay but its flaws were evident.

The books are just unreadable with the amount of purple prose throughout though.

The game also has the CLANG. clearly nobody minds it but memesters on Sup Forums

It's been ages since I watched or read Hellsing but I thought Alucard had been cursed by God, who in the series is the real and omnipotent version, to live forever and there was basically shit-all anyone could do about it? He would just release more and more power as the situation he found himself in became more dire.

Could be wrong, and I don't really know anything about the D series beyond the movie.

Fuck me why

He has different levels he goes to, but it eventually culminates to releasing all his devoured souls to fight as his army, has a suite of cool abilities, but comparing him to D is silly. He would genuinely shit his trousers with D just standing around.

The first movie doesn't really cover it well, but I think the second mentions that the series takes place over 10,000 years into the future. Where man has risen to great heights and then collapsed. Only for Vampires to slither out of the night and take control and use their super science and magic to create all sorts of abominations and monsters that roam the Earth. Now the Vampire civilization has collapsed and we're exploring a post-post-pose apocalyptic world.

I thought "vampires" were what men once were but the remnants of the former empire now living in their own little detached kingdoms where they rule with terror.

Don't aliens invade at some point and cause a 1,000 year galactic war?

Considering how long the books run I'm not surprised.

I think Cthulu even showed up at some point but ended up getting his ass kicked.

Actually, the world got nuked in 1999 and the Nobility took over after that.

Yes. Some vampires like Mayerling (Meier Link in the movie) were hailed as heroes during that war.

Is there any artwork of the aliens?

Only this image was ever found.

I remember him struggling with a creature in the counts mansion and he was actually knocked out or "dead" once. He never really one shotted his enemies either so I assumed he wasnt.

It's adapted from an early book so he struggles a lot more than he usually would. The vamping up of his powers as time goes on is cool the way he goes places.

No he was cursed by the devil. But he isnt invincible. Not completely. If you put a stake through alucards heart when he releases all his consumed souls to fight as his army he will die permanently.

Thats why the major destroyed london and pit alucard and anderson against each other. To kill alucard you have to exhaust his arsenal and strike before he reloads.

There must be something in the books then, because in Bloodlust D seemed strong but not that strong, and he didn't seem to have any hax powers; although from reading about the series I guess he does. I think it's time I dug it out of my archive and watched it again.

Was it because he hadnt honed his powers yet or was younger?

Ayyy you're a pretty funny guy.

Bloodlust D and '85 movie D are both adapted from early books.

Matching these adaptations would prove a nice spectacle but any beyond and it's a one-sided massacre.

Just cranking up of power as the series progresses, I guess. Apart from a few things his powers were 'always' there but apparently he just chose not to use them, the best thing about him is how he gets a lot of situations done with just a regular longsword and his sword skill.

They show up in "White Devil Mountain" but there were no illustrations of them in it, surprisingly.

Speaking of aliens, there's a comic in the works called "Message From Mars" based on a short story by Kikuchi.

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It's also amazing how in butchering the original story it improves it immensely

Cool. A little disappoint that there's no art of them. The series has some cool monster designs and I was curious how an alien would appear.

>there but apparently he just chose not to use them
The early books do cover him trying NOT to use his vampire abilities like he's afraid of them. The later books kinda forget that part and he vamps out at the slightest provocation.

Might be some pics of them in later, we're slowly catching up with the Japanese releases.

They're described as very tall and thin, with four arms and wearing black battle armor. I imagined something like the Engineers/Space Jockeys but more Amanofied.

>very tall and thin, with four arms
Considering how Kikuchi has talked about being a fan of the old Hammer horror movies, that description makes me wonder if he ever got into pulp sci-fi like the John Carter series.

I wouldn't be surprised, he really likes Lovecraft and other old school authors.

What the hell? I just finished this movie and I now I went on Sup Forums to find a ready made Vampire hunter D thread. Must be a Halloween phenomenon on Sup Forums

Leila is cute!

CUTE!

C U T E !!!!!

That's partially correct.

For one Alucard will only let humans "kill" him, and secondly even if you drive a stake through his heart he will just go to sleep until he is awakened again.

Schroedinger Alucard on the other hand exists and doesn't exist at the same time.

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Okay so if you had the chance, who would you kiss?

D?
Leila?
Meierlink?
Charlotte?

YAMEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

First they fuck up Berserk and now D. Holy shit what's next, Vagabond? Mugen no Juunin? Vinland Saga?

Fuck this gay anime world.

shaking my head to be honest sempai.

>Schroedinger Alucard

That still kind of upsets me.
Wouldn't dying to the major have technically counted as dying to a human?
isn't that what he wanted?

Did he only want his bff anderson to do it? wtf?

never thought this movie was that great but yeah the animation is top tier

That scene where she's talking to him while he's buried during the storm is pretty dang comfy.

Meierlink needs a hug.

>Mugen no Juunin?
Beetrain already fucked that up years ago, and they didn't even need CGI to do it.

>Wouldn't dying to the major have technically counted as dying to a human?
Cyborgs!=humans

Well the first movie was alright without Bloodlusts great animation quality. So maybe it'll be fine?

>secondly even if you drive a stake through his heart he will just go to sleep until he is awakened again

Nope. Nothing implies this. He only awoke after this happened before because van helsing let him live in order to establish the hellsing organization. He can die.

>he only lets humans kill him

The only a man can kill a monster line isnt exactly literal.

Only the animation does. The story is weak as shit as well as the characters (Charlotte is fucking awful). Its technical merits are to be praised given that this was a digital production yet still looks like it was done entirely on cels.

I felt bad for the bounty hunter that was bedridden and could only run around in his spirit form. They made the brothers better characters in the anime than the novel.

The story is actually nice, and compared to a lot of anime films and TV series it's good too. Leila is probably the most fleshed out character. What makes a character good, is it development or how well they are portrayed? Or is it just whether you like them or not? Because characters can be portrayed without development; as in the case of D (for the most part) in this movie. He's a matured character, he's not going through a life changing crisis or discovering himself as a person so there's not going to be the kind of character development people usually complain about a series lacking. I agree that he's not very well fleshed out, but part of that is due to his stoic, silent and aloof personality; there are illustrations of his character in the things he does and says but they're sometimes small and subtle.

As I said before Leila is the most fleshed out, you get to see more of her personality and emotions than any other character and she even changes and develops a bit. Meier and Charlotte are kept pretty mysterious until the end, I agree Charolotte wasn't much of a character, Meier could/would have been if it wasn't for the direction of the setting and story to keep him and his motivations mysterious. If you think about it there's a lot to explore in his character, but not the time to do it. Remember this is only a short movie.

It made me start buying the Nook versions of the books.

It's 100% Berserk Broadcast CGI.

>The story is actually nice, and compared to a lot of anime films and TV series it's good too
>Precedes to not explain what makes it good or what makes the characters good

It was a more than adequate rebuttal given the great length, depth and insight of I didn't have that much room left anyway, but I did explain a little of what made some of the characters good. Nice reaction image and greentext thought.

Is CG really unforgivable? I loved me some CG cartoons way back in the day and it doesn't look terrible.

Is it just an opportunity cost thing? What might've been?

It's amazing. The music and artistry are both out of this world. If only it had been an hour longer, the pacing wouldn't have felt so rushed and Carmilla wouldn't have felt so tacked on.

>produced entirely in cg

Name 1 recent fully cg tv anime that doesn't have shitty animation and framerate.

Also, he has a cool name.

Yeah, about the novel, HOW MUCH OF A GIANT SUB DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO LET A BEDRIDDEN SKELLY LITERALLY RAPE YOU ON A REGULAR BASIS?

I love the art style so much. Why can't we have more?

Wut?

Yeah.
It's what happens to Leila in the novel.

Rape is one of the main staples of Hideyuki Kikuchi's writing, and one of his main strengths as a writer.

So he's a shit writer. Good to know what to avoid.