An anime that is completely on my point. The pictures and settings are magnificent and magnificent. The details and subtle psychology are very brilliant. It finally makes me step into the new field of Japanese comics that I have never dared to try before. At the same time, I am also in the process of watching movies. In, I realized that what I have been searching for for so many years turned out to be a defect buried in my childhood.
The storyline of this Japanese comic is not very different, but the story of a bounty hunter struggling to recover a human girl. But its wonderful place lies in the setting of the story and the characters. The main line of the story actually revolves around D and Layla. On the surface, they are chasing "prey", but in fact, they are chasing and responding to "their own deficiency."
D and Layla took the path of a vampire hunter, actually looking for or responding to the lack of childhood unconsciously. Just like two small flames in the wilderness that are close to each other, warming each other, they are equally arrogant but scarred deep in their hearts. After inadvertently approaching, they agree that if whoever dies first, the other party will go to TA’s grave and offer a flower. .
During Layla's childhood, her mother was taken away by a vampire. Her father failed to save her mother and died. The mother who was bitten into a vampire was beaten to death by the villagers in front of her. The tragic death of my parents in childhood became a permanent trauma entrenched in my heart. On the road of vampire hunters, Layla is on the surface for revenge, but in fact she is filling in the lack of childhood. In the illusion that can express the desire in her heart, Layla returned to her childhood. She hugged herself hiding in front of the grave, saying don't worry, I know all about you...I know better than anyone. That stubborn, but lonely and scared childhood self was Layla's eternal absence. Not being deeply understood, not being warmed, that fragile core is not being embraced. Layla thought she was revenge, D replied, "If hunting down prey becomes a pleasure, even women will become less like humans." D saw that Layla who was constantly revenge was always lost." "Revenge" is just a cover-up of the lack, a legitimate escape from the question that cannot be answered.
D is the son of the King of Vampires and humans. He is rejected by humans under the fateful curse of a half-blood. He can only become a vampire hunter, relying on this kind of work to place and redeem his "original sin". D knows that his destined predicament will never be solved, so he can only save himself in disguised form by saving others in the pain of eternal life.
He and Layla’s response to the lack was different. D did not switch, but faced the original sin of becoming a half vampire. He walked on this path with pain but determination like a god, becoming a bounty hunter, taking money to do things, but also "nosy". "Doing things with money" is his free response to the excluded identity, while "nosy" is the focus of his response to the lack, and it is also his salvation behavior. Since the fact that he was given birth as a mixed-race cannot be changed, all he can do is to stop letting the mixed-race show up, because he knows and enjoys the pain of the mixed-race. He persistently pursued Charlotte, the human girl who eloped with the vampire "nobleman", and insisted on bringing her back. During the pauses in several conversations, D may have been moved by their love, but D’s way of salvation is to prevent the union of vampires with humans. It's not that he has no emotions, but he knows too deeply that the immortal ability of vampires cannot hold back any love. Cross-species love will eventually only bring deeper pain, harm to each other, and to yourself. He met this result, so he avoided all the possibilities of love.
And this kind of original sin, tormented by pain and loneliness, has been carrying out the redemption that was not caused by him all his life, and the ability of immortality makes this redemption seem to have no end, so tragic and heroic. D, the director and screenwriter put him in such a position, it is destined to make our audience heartache and unforgettable.
So in my opinion, the biggest theme of this anime is not the tragic love between the eloped vampire and the human girl, but the missing path of the pursuit and redemption of the two vampire hunters.
"The most powerful tragedy is an unanswered question."
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