[10x6] We take our first step into animation and Japanese film with 1985's Vampire Hunter D from director Toyoo Ashida, which adapts the famous novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi about a half-human/half-vampire ridding the world of the undead in a post-apocalyptic future where the Earth's been overrun with monsters and mutants...

To help us, making his debut on the show is comic-book writer Jared Wayne Gifford...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Jared Wayne Gifford

Editor: Dan Owen

"I have lived in this world for 10,0000 years, and yet you lack the capacity to understand what that truly means. When years cease to have meaning, boredom is a mortal foe. It is a war for constant stimulation, and if that means debasing our line with humans, then so be it." -- Count Magnus Lee

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Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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