You are willing to exchange longevity for freedom.

Jerod 2022-12-11 17:54:39

The lonely castle surrounds the sound of the organ, and the gorgeous four-wheeled carriage carries the nobles in black robes. With a pure face like a crescent moon, Charlotte lay down beside the golden coffin with closed eyes, her slender eyelashes trembling like butterfly wings, and it was not fear but happiness that was revealed.
Because she loves the nobles in the coffin deeply, no matter being baptized, or the mysterious and unknown night capital, they do not constitute a reason for her fear.

Outside of the carriage, the hunter D on the black horse, who seemed to be enveloped by the night, has a sharp and graceful lip line under the wide neckline, and the black robe is filled with the night breeze hunting, holding the rein tightly and tightly. Follow.

I can't forget this scene for a long time. Although this seems very gloomy and gloomy, I still find it beautiful.

D is a descendant of vampires and humans, but was cast aside by the two races at the same time. Whenever the bloodthirsty desire ignited, he could only hold himself tightly in pain, no one would come to comfort him, and he never knew how warm it felt. Therefore, he hid his pale and handsome face, wielded a long sword to slay demons and demons. Life is a person's life, and death will also be a person's death. Perhaps death is also an extravagant desire for him, half of the body's blood does not even allow him to die easily. He has a long life, a lonely life, imprisoned by the shackles of mixed races.

Such D is favored by many moviegoers.

But I prefer the noble Mael. Perhaps the love under tragicism is particularly embarrassing. The forbidden love between Mael and Sherlock can not help but remind me of the four hundred years of blood-sucking shock. Because I love Sherlock deeply, I don't want to baptize her, and I don't want her to become a painful and bloodthirsty monster like myself. I would rather expose myself to the sun, and hug me tightly with my beloved girl. Because he loves Mael deeply, even if he is bitten, he is willing, as long as he is with that person, betrays his own race, and does not hesitate to cross the sea of ​​time.

Are they not bound. Fettered by the rules of the world, but also fettered by each other's love. That's why I want to desperately stay away from everything, go to the unknown night capital, and live a peaceful life with only each other.

Oh and Layla. My favorite Layla.
In the animation, Layla's voice sounded casual but self-determined. She has short golden hair and deep eyes like the blue sea.

The friendship between her and D is also worth seeing. This is probably the only thing with a bit of bright color in the entire animation. Never forgetting that rainy tree hole, Layla closed her eyes and made a faint agreement with D that in the future, no matter who died first, the other party would go to her tomb and lay a flower. In the end, D followed the agreement and came to the tomb near Leila, watching from a distance the scene of people offering flowers to her, which became my only tear point in this entire animation.

I think that when she left Camilla Castle and asked D to carry her for a while, Layla had already let go of herself and broke free from the shackles of her deceased mother.

Is Layla the only person who is free in this animation?

And D, in the end, will still embark on a journey of a person. Just leave the world with a black back like a night.



The animation ten years ago, the magnificence of the Middle Ages, the vampire hunter under the moonlit night. The character design follows the style of Yoshitaka Amano, who drew illustrations for the original work, and fully expresses the magnificent and bizarre features of Amano, and makes it compatible with the overall style of the animation. Many scenes in the film, such as the appearance of D under the moonlight, the noble Mael who stepped out of the carriage and burned in the sun to save Charlotte, and Camilla's blood resurrection, are magnificent and amazing.

In today's view, it is still not simple, or even gorgeous. The strong Baroque and Gothic style, coupled with the vampire theme, is undoubtedly the favorite of many people. Strange and gloomy, yet romantic and magnificent, human exploration, and love interpretation, it is worthy of a classic work.

I heard that the 1987 theater version is even more stunning. It combines the luxurious, noble, aloof, majestic, restrained and other qualities of a vampire. The perfect storytelling of Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshiaki Kawajiri's extremely violent aesthetics, all the scenes are exquisitely exquisite, and Amano The ethereal and ghostly original painting by Xi Xiao. Very yearning.

Highly recommended!

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Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust quotes

  • [first lines]

    Title card: The distant future... vampires rule the night, but their numbers are dwindling. With huge bounties on their heads, a class of hunters has emerged: Bounty Hunters. One hunter is unlike the rest. He is a dunpeal: a half-human half-vampire. At war with himself, feared by all, tortured and alone, he is... Vampire Hunter D.

  • [Leila throws a knife into Caroline's head]

    Caroline: Now that cleared my head. I really should return the favor, don't you think, honey?