VAMPIRE HUNTER D 1985 SUBTITLES LICENSE
Perhaps that’s why when Madhouse announced plans to produce a new version in the late 90s, Urban Vision (who picked up the license to the original D in the post-Streamline years) got in on the production in a big way. Shortly thereafter followed an OVA adaptation (directed by the late Toyoo Ashida) which, released in these United States theatrically in the early 90s by Streamline, is remembered fondly as a prime example of that blend of blood, guts and tits that endeared a generation of university-aged males to Japanese cartoons in the first place. If this doesn’t sound cool, you better stop right here. Kikuchi’s post-apocalyptia is a mish-mash of gothic horror, spaghetti western and sci-fi where vampires own space ships, fire lasers and ride around on robot horses.
This ain’t your great-grandson’s post-apocalypse. Vampire Hunter D does not have this problem, because Hideyuki Kikuchi, the author of the D novels, set them in 12,090 AD. To Clarke ‘n’ Kubrick, 2001 seemed like an impossibly, incredibly futuristic date, while it’s now better remembered as “when it used to take 20 minutes to download a song on Napster.” In Akira, World War III begins in 1992. A lot of science fiction stories have this problem where, if they’ve managed to stay relevant long enough, the year in which they are set starts to sound silly.
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