In a far-future time ruled by the supernatural, a young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.
Direction
Toyoo Ashida squeezes epic scope from tiny OVA budget
Production
Yoshitaka Amano's character designs drip with impossible elegance
Sound
Synth score that sounds like a Casio funeral
Director
Toyoo Ashida
Kaneto Shiozawa
D (voice)
Michie Tomizawa
Doris Lang (voice)
Seizo Kato
Count Magnus Lee (voice)
Ichiro Nagai
Left Hand / Narrator (voice)
Kazuyuki Sogabe
Rei Ginsei (voice)
Kan Tokumaru
Danton (voice)
Kazuko Yanaga
Older Snake Sister (voice)
Kazumi Tanaka
O'Reilly (voice)
Keiko Toda
Dan Lang (voice)
Motomu Kiyokawa
Dr. Feringo (voice)
Yasuo Muramatsu
Roman (voice)
Yoshiko Sakakibara
Younger Snake Sister (voice)
Yusaku Yara
Greco (voice)
Shinya Ôtaki
Gimlet (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This OVA was produced in just six months with a budget that would make a shoestring look generous—explaining those famously repeated animation cycles.
Released during the mid-80s anime boom, it helped establish the 'dark hero' archetype that would dominate 90s American perceptions of Japanese animation through channels like Sci-Fi's Saturday Anime block.
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