In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only....BLOOD! Saddly your cyber-steed and join Magnus, Gordon, and Felix as they traverse the fairytale parkland and blasted frontier of Vampire Hunter D, the light novel and anime franchise of Hideyuki Kikuchi and Yoshitaka Amano. 10,000 years after Humanity's self-imposed demise in nuclear hellfire, the Nobility, the vampires of ancient legend, have remade the world in their own grim and terrible image, enslaving humans as little more than cattle to serve their advanced civilization, and unleashing countless genetically-engineered horrors from myth and legend upon the world. But their cyber-cities lie empty and their hyperspeed highways are silent as the last of the Nobility, wracked by degeneracy and haunted by ennui, are hunted down by skilled mercenaries known as Vampire Hunters. The greatest of these, D, is a legendary Dhampir, the offspring of a human and a Noble. Soft-spoken, deadly dangerous, and haunted by his past, D wanders the frontier hunting down the last of his Father's kind...
Crisply written, with a deep and original science-fantasy setting, Kikuchi fuses western and eastern storytelling elements into a unique and compelling serial, and the film, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust by MADHOUSE reproduces the art of Yoshitaka Amano in an OVA dripping with atmosphere and drama. If you like Pulp, this is an episode for YOU! If you enjoyed this episode, follow Felix on Telegram at t.me/felixfunhouse and on Substack at https://substack.com/@felixfairmont
