Blood: The Last Vampire is an 2000 anime film produced by Production I.G and SPE Visual Works and directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. The film was aired in cinemas in Japan on November 18, 2000. The single volume manga sequel, titled Blood: The Last Vampire 2000 and written by Benkyo Tamaoki, was published in Japan in 2001 by Kadokawa Shoten, and in England by Viz Media in November 2002 under the title "Blood: The Last Vampire 2002".
Three Japanese light novel adaptations have also been released for this series, along with video games. It also spawned the fifty episode anime series in the alternate universe entitled Blood
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Plot
The story is set in 1966. The main character is a girl named Saya, who hunts creatures like bats called chiropterans. I was introduced on the subway, where he killed a man in a suit. Her American contact or official arrived. One of them, David, started writing briefly about other missions, while another, Louis, discovered that the man I just killed might not be a chiropteran.
My next mission started at American Yokota Air Base, which is active in Vietnam's buildup of war. At least one chiropteran has managed to infiltrate the air base, and it's only a matter of time before they eat again, go into hibernation, and become untraceable. I would pose as a school girl, infiltrate a high school adjacent to the base, and then track and kill the chiropteran.
At school, I ran to a gentle nurse, Makiho Amano, on the night of the annual Halloween school party. Two of MY classmates, Sharon and Linda, made a visit to Makiho at the nurse's office. Suddenly, I burst into the room, kill Linda and hurt Sharon, break her sword in the process. Both girls were revealed to be chiropteran. Makiho became shocked at the revelation. Meanwhile, a third chiropteran reveals itself and starts walking to the base. Back at school, Makiho regains his courage and chases Sharon into a room full of Americans dancing in costumes, where she finds Sharon changing. I saved it and both fled to a nearby motorcycle. The chiropterans trap them inside and attack.
David gave me a new sword, and I used it to kill Sharon. The last chiropteran then decides to run away, trying to smuggle the cargo plane that departs. David and I chased and he managed to attack chiropteran and hurt him by turning it off. He then stood on a dying creature and let some of his blood drip into his mouth. Louis arrives and restores Makiho before the local police contact him.
After that, Makiho was seen in an interview with a government official who questioned him about the events of the night. However, it was revealed that all evidence of the battle between myself and the chiropopists had been covered up and both David and I had disappeared, leaving Makiho with nothing to prove the truth of his story. The interviewer then asked him to identify me in a picture that has a girl who looks identical to him, except the picture was taken in 1892. The only other description of the picture is the word "VAMPIRE". Makiho then returns to school, where he tells me that he never really finds the full truth behind Saya and the chiropteran, and wonders if he's still out there against them.
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Character
- I am , I /b> chasing chiropteran using katana. It is implied that he is the last remaining vampire and is called "the only one left original." I have no weaknesses against sunlight, though it is not known whether he has any of the other vulnerabilities that are often associated with vampires. However, she becomes depressed when she finds religious equipment and gets angry when people call God before her. I display the senses and powers of the superhuman, as well as the cunning, the intellect, and the skill. The manga series shows he is a human-vampire hybrid. His age is unknown, but a picture of himself with nine other people is featured in the movie with the date 1892 and the word "vampire" attached to it. Although he considers most humans as an insult, he seems to have some sort of respect for David. Spoken by Youki Kudo.
- David is a man who works for a US government organization called the Red Shield. He relayed missions to Saya and helped him at various points in the movie. Spoken by Joe Romersa.
- Chiroptera (chiropterans or, as pronounced in the movie, chiropterate), from Greek for "hand wing" ( ?? ( yokushu ) in Japanese), is a hematophagous bat-like creature, comparable to humans in intelligence. They disguise themselves as human beings and gradually change, become big, horrible, and long-legged. In this form, further transformation produces rough wings that allow the creature to glide, but not fly freely. Chiroptera lives by feeding on human blood. They have incredible speed and power. They heal almost instantaneously from non-lethal wounds. Because of this, the only way to easily kill them is to cause them to lose enough blood from one attack.
Production
The production president of I.G, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa wants to produce a new project that is an original concept rather than being an adaptation of anime or manga series. He approached Mamoru Oshii, who runs a series of lectures known as "Oshii Jyuku" to teach new filmmakers how to create their own projects, about his ideas and ask him to show his ideas. The submission of Kenji Kamiyama and Junichi Fujisaki became the basis for the upcoming film: a girl with a sailor suit who uses a samurai sword. Ishikawa suggested the Yokota Air Base for the film arrangement, referring it as "the state of California in Japan". Hiroyuki Kitakubo was selected as a film director, a position he received on condition that he was given an artistic license with the material.
After the title of the Blood: The Last Vampire job, Kitakubo chose the video game designer Katsuya Terada to work on character design, and Kazuchika Kise as the animation director. When asked why he chose Terada rather than a regular character designer, Kitakubo stated "I personally feel he has an amazing talent, his character has a feeling for those who are universal and that's probably why he has drawn characters for video games that people play." around the world. "He went on to note that he wanted Terada and Kise together, and would not hire Terada because Kise did not agree to work on the project.The film produced uses full digital animation instead of following the tradition of using animated cels, all inked movies, colored, and then animated with a computer.It also uses a particularly "low light" setting, with many movies featuring large amounts of gray and brown.
In directing the film Kitakubo notes that he has read Dracula and watched the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, they may have an influence on this film as the rest of his life experience. IG Production made a new breakthrough in Blood: The Last Vampire by being the first company to film an anime series almost entirely in English, with Japanese subtitles, feeling that it will help the film reach foreign markets with more easy.
The resulting film is very short for a theatrical work, which only covers 45 minutes. Kitakubo stated in a 2001 interview with Animerica that he had the rest of my future and future future in his own mind, but it was up to others are involved in the making, whether there will be a sequel. Production I.G notes that they are intentionally meant to be a three-part story, with the rest of my story to be taken through in a light novel trilogy and two-volume video game.
Media
Movies
Produced by Production I.G, SPE Visual Works, and Sony Computer Entertainment, Blood: The Last Vampire is directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. The movie character designed is made by Katsuya Terada. The original script was written by Kenji Kamiyama, while his musical score was composed by Yoshihiro Ike. Before the movie is over, it is licensed for release in North America by Manga Entertainment.
It was first aired at the fifth International Fantasy, Action and Genre Festival of Cinema, dubbed Fantasia 2000, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada where it was screened for participants on July 29, 2000. The film premiered in Australia on August 26, 2000 at the Olympic Art Festival Sydney 2000. This made his theatrical debut in his native Japan on November 16, 2000.
Manga Entertainment released theatrical films in North America in the summer of 2001, followed by VHS and DVD releases on August 26, 2001.
Manga
Using the concept of Mamoru Oshii, Production I.G asked Benkyo Tamaoki to write the sequel to Blood: The Last Vampire to complete the story. This took me to 2002, with a new generation of handlers and continued his quest to destroy chiropteran. Properly named Blood: The Last Vampire 2000 ( ???? ??????????? 2000 , Buraddo Za Rasuto Vanpaia 2000 , single volume titles published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten on May 1, 2001. License and released in English in North America by Viz Media with the title Blood: The Last Vampire 2002 on November 5, 2002. In the manga, David has retired and I have a new handler making it very clear that he has no respect for his. He sent her to Jink? Sen Sh? Ritsu Valley High School under the name "I Otonashi". There, he learned that chiropterans lived side by side with humans, until humans began experimenting on them in the 19th century to try to gain immortality. Experiments increase the instinct of killing chiropterans and eliminating their initial respect for humanity. Scientists, in turn, developed twin anti-chiropteran weapons. Maya, the prototype, still needs blood and can change like any other chiropteran. Secondly, I, need not drink blood and do not have the transformation ability so that he is perceived as an enhanced weapon. Maya is looking for me, wants me to eat it so they can become pure chiropteran blood. After this meeting, Maya's body could not be found, but it was never shown if I granted her request. I killed his handler and walked towards the night.
Light novel
A light novel trilogy was created in relation to Blood: The Last Vampire and published by Kadokawa. Published in Japan in October 2000, Blood: The Last Vampire: Night of the Beast ( ?????????????? , Kemonotachi no Yoru ) written by Mamoru Oshii. It was published in English in North America by DH Press on November 23, 2005.
The second novel, Blood: The Last Vampire: The Dark Blood Invites ( ??????????????? ??? , Yami or Izanau Chi ) is written by Junichi Fujisaku, who also directs the spin-off of Blood <. This was published in January 2001.
The third novel, also written by Fujisaku, is Blood: The Last Vampire: A Tragic Dream in Shanghai ( ??????????? Shanhai Aiby and published in July 2001.
Video game
In 2000, Production I.G and Sony Computer Entertainment Japan produced two volumes of Blood: The Last Vampire video games. The game features musical scores by Yuki Kajiura with Youki Kudoh repeating her role as My voice, and over two hours of theater quality animation. This was a graphic adventure that took me and he chased down Chiropterans to Tokyo in 2000. There he met a seventeen-year-old boy who began to wonder about Me and the history of "Blood". Both volumes of the game were released to PlayStation 2 in Japan on December 21, 2000. Famitsu magazine printed the first volume of 33 out of 40. Animerica 's Brown calls the original game "boring", but praises it for having "beautiful animated series".
In 2006, Production I.G and Sony re-released the game. Both volumes are combined into one game for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). This game is called Yarudora Series Vol. 5: Blood: The Last Vampire ( ???? ????? Dancing the Last Vampire Blood ) and released in Japan on January 26, 2006. Combined games include new front covers and additional features, including strategy flowcharts, digital art galleries, and some exclusive movies.
Live action movie
In May 2006, Bill Kong, producer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Kong and Yu originally planned to finance the project itself, but in November 2006, Production I.G formally approved the film and began offering financial support. Through a relationship to Manga Entertainment, the French company PathÃÆ'Â © into the film production company. Yu is retained as a producer, but Chris Nahon takes over as director of the film. Korean actress Jun Ji-hyun, who adopted her English screen Gianna Jun for release, plays My role. Instead of being paid direct licenses, Production I.G will receive a percentage of all revenue generated by the film.
Originally scheduled to be released worldwide in the spring of 2008, the film premiered in Japan on May 29, 2009 under the title Last Blood ( ?????? , Rasuto Buraddo ) . The film was released in the UK on June 26, 2009. Sony Pictures licensed the film for release in North America, where it was released to theaters by Samuel Goldwyn Films on July 10, 2009.
Spin-off
In 2005, Sony and Production I.G announced the making of Blood , a fifty episode anime television series. This is held to be an alternative universe that tells Blood: The Last Vampire; has few connections and similarities with movies, and many differences. Blood aired in Japan on October 8, 2005 on MBS/TBS and aired until September 23, 2006. The series was directed by Junichi Fujisaku and featured original character designs by Chizu Hashii. Through Sony's international division, Blood is licensed for distribution in various regions. In the United States, the series is broadcast as part of the Adult Swim Cartoon Network from March 11, 2007 to March 23, 2008. The anime becomes a franchise of its own, with two light series novel adaptations, three manga adaptations, and two video games.
In 2011, a new series called Blood-C was produced by Production I.G with the manga maker CLAMP.
Reception
Blood: The Last Vampire received many awards at film festivals around the world. In 2000, he was selected as "The Best Feature Film of Asia Public Prize" at the Montreal Fantasia Film Festival where he debuted; he won the Grand Prize in the animation category at the Cultural Arts Festival of the Japanese Culture Body, and won the Noburo Ofuji Award at the Mainichi Film Competition. In 2001, he won a Special Prize at the Akasaki Film Festival and was selected as Best Theatrical Film Features in World Animation Celebration. Director Hiroyuki Kitakubo won the award for his work on the film at 6th Animation Kobe. It received the Grand Prize for animation at the 2000 Japanese Media Art Festival.
In its first week of launch in North America, over 70,000 DVDs and 30,000 copies of VHS from Blood: The Last Vampire have been sold. In the first month after its release, it became the sales title of Manga Entertainment in the company's history. The movie also appears on the list of Video Business, Billboard, Video Store Magazine and Entertainment Weekly for DVD sales. The company attributes this success to the use of two unconventional marketing methods: limited theater release before the DVD release to market the title and offer the entire movie for free on the day when the DVD was released via streaming video broadcast on Sputnik7.com where it was downloaded by over 61,000 viewers. Marvin Gleicher, then President of Manga Entertainment, stated that "the success of this film has proven to be a pivotal moment in Manga Entertainment history."
Michael Stroud of Wired News praised the mix of 2D and 3D elements and quoted Academy Award-winning director James Cameron, who said: "Digital imaging has entered a new era." The world will regard this work as the best quality standard in animation digital. "In The Anime Encyclopedia, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy praised the film for its innovative use of English," stunning animation "and a sequence of top-class action, but criticized its length and lack of conclusions. Animerica Urian Brown's review describes it as "a wonderful part of animation" that is "beautiful and sandy... slick, dark, and sexy" movie that will make viewers forget about the lack of "story, depth, and character development. "
According to Monthly Electronic Games , Blood: The Last Vampire is an influence behind the "visually stunning" of the Crackdown video game . Cinefantastique listed the anime as one of the "10 Important Animations".
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See also
- Vampire movie
References
Further reading
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Perper, T.; Cornog, M. (2007). "Hacker on the Threshold: Me and the Nature of Evil". Mechademia . 2 : 295. doi: 10.1353/mec.0.0016. - Looser, T. (2009). "Gothic Politics: Oshii, War, and Life Without Death". Mechademia . 4 : 55-73. doi: 10.1353/mec.0.0041.
- Bolton, C. (2007). "The Quick and the Undead: The Dynamics of Visual and Politics in Blood: The Last Vampire ". Mechademia . 2 : 125-142. doi: 10.1353/mec.0.0011.
- Bolton, C. (2009). "Virtual Creation, Simulated Destruction, and Memory Produced at the Mecho Art Museum in Second Life". Mechademia . 4 : 198-210. doi: 10.1353/mec.0.0049.
External links
- Official Production Site I.G Blood: Last Vampire (in Japanese)
- The Official Aniplex Website Blood: The Last Vampire (in Japanese)
- Official Production Site I.G Blood: The Last Vampire English
- Sony Pictures official Blood: The Last Vampire live action movie website
- Blood: The Last Vampire (movie) in the Anime News Network encyclopedia
- Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) on IMDb
- Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) on IMDb
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