this channel is actually OP. i get the deep dive on goated cult classics without having to take more than 16 minutes out of my busy hustler lifestyle?? i cant let my enemies find out about this
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So I have a fun story about Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. I first encountered it during Anime club in my high school, specifically thanks to the teacher who was sponsoring the club. See, they're an old school weeb who used to actually import anime and help apply translations n' stuff to it as a hobby, and when they actually saw Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, they fell in love and bought their own copy of it. When they became a teacher and started hosting an anime club at the highschool, they wanted to share this love with everyone else, so every Halloween week (or whatever week is closest to Halloween) they would opt to host a pizza party where they'd buy walk-in special pizzas from a nearby local pizza place and share Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust with the club. It was awesome, and that's how I watched the movie no less than 4 times in high school and still love it today.
back during covid my brother and I lived together in a little terrace house in melbourne, and because there was nothing to do we would just watch movies every single night. We watched Metropolis during that time and it was a super memorable experience. That movie is just BIG. Reminded me a bit of some of the large scale stuff in Akira. Underrated movie I think
Cool to see your commentary on this. Vampire Hunter D was pretty much my introduction to japanese anime, rented it on VHS. There is actually two separate english dubs, one in 1992 and the new 2015 one. The older dub has some better voice acting talent imo, but it also has a rougher translation script. If you give it another watch some day, I'd recommend giving it a try with the 1992 streamline dub.
I know it's purely a coincidence that during the last 3 day span when I couldn't write due to injury more than half of the channels I'm subbed to upload content, but in my headcanon it was all on purpose. Thanks for this one!
awesome vid! Speaking of vampires, I don't know if you're taking requests and no pressure if not, but I love your analysis of music and I'd love to hear what you think of the Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines soundtrack. Imo Rik Schaffer did an amazing job and I'd love to hear what a musical expert like yourself has to say about it. :)
Funny you mentioning Romeo and Juliet at the ending of Bloodlust. In the manga there is no Camilla and D spares the Vampire (Meyer something) after comming to the same realisation than in the movie. But since the facility was already destroyed, there is no way for them to leave earth. In a plottwist, the weakened Meyerling gets sniped by the bow user (that is possessed by one of those face demons that D also has in his hand) of the Marcus Family and dies. After the fight it turnes out Charlott killed herself after Meyerling died by impaling herself on his claws. Quit reminiscent of how Romeo and Juliet also both end up dead by the end of the play. Seems they wanted a "good" ending for the movie and not end on such a downer like the manga did.
yo thank you for sharing, it was very interesting to read and i did not know that. Makes the Romeo and Juliet parallel feel a lot stronger. I feel like cursed lovers is a bit of a broader theme than R&J, even though that is the quintessential version of it. But cursed lovers who BOTH DIE at the end? Now that is Shakespearean af
What the hell, I saw your Half Life video, then watched VHD on my own completely unprompted, then came back to the HL video and clicked on your channel, and THIS was the most recent video.
Definitely agree with you about the first movie, excited for the second one (actually paused for the spoilers which I don't normally care about). All of the tertiary antagonists getting tossed off the same cliff within like 2 minutes had me on the fucking floor, I do not understand how the writing was so... Like That.
@@SimonZinzovski HOLY GODDAMN... I cannot even begin to express how much better Bloodlust is. Actual tears in my eyes, "I am going to rewatch this again and soon" energy (which is saying something, I've only even seen Alien maybe 3 times and that's my favorite of all time). I did feel a part of my soul die a little when you said the english release WAS the primary release, because... ough the voice acting is a little rough at times, but WOW what a gorgeous movie and what an incredible plot. I've never cosplayed before, but I already have Leila's haircut and a half-complete cyberpunk-y getup so... who knows. Also definitely grabbed a couple samples of Mire for my goth-industrial project, love that his VA gave just a tiny little bit of Andrew Eldritch to the performance.
Also yeah, the movie shot up from "Oh this is really good" to "I'M MAKING ALL MY FRIENDS WATCH THIS" specifically once they get to Carmilla's castle. And the whole just... JUST the castle bit could've been it's own movie and still would've been incredible, real insane quality of writing and animation working together.
I haven’t commented a vid in years but you’re wrong saying the psx game looks bad :D it’s real good, such a treat for anyone that has played on that platform and knows the franchise.
thank you! 15-20mins feels a bit nicer for this format than like 5-10mins does i think. I'd be keen to experiment with more 30min+ stuff, but you know, gotta make sure the length is justified
@@SimonZinzovski For sure once you get into the 20 min range I feel like that can be a bit much for most viewers, but with the amount of editing and research you do you could most definitely pull off those iceberg type videos/video essays! I would def watch those
@@SimonZinzovski Nope, it's the same! There are two Hellsing animes, one with an original storyline and the other one following the Manga, which is the OVA/Ultimate
Loved the original film after initially seeing it on cable as a teenager. Got it on DVD after that. The worst (practically unintelligible) dub in the film is the giant mutant who yells out, “Going somewhere?” I bought the PS1 game to try out on my PS2 and ended up reselling it a short time later. It’s truly unplayable, due to its extremely poor controls.
12:33 I think the City of Night and Darkness is actually the space station from the opening sequence, in which case... let's hope vampires don't need to breathe because that think did not look like it was still sealed. Alternatively, they might've meant another station, presumably in sun-synchronous orbit on the far side of Earth.
Also I'd say that D's character arc is more about learning to forgive his mother for his existence and to not indiscriminately rage-kill every single other vampire he comes across. But ig we don't get the chance to see if he actually learned that or if it is just a return to the status-quo so it could be either.
Bloodlust was made by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and that dude doesn't miss. His stuff can be very off-putting to some but animation and vibe wise it's always top tier.
If I get the time it would be really fun to do a deep dive on him tbh. Wicked City looks particularly interesting, but is there anything specific you'd recommend from him?
Thanks for interesting and well-crafted videos! It's been a while since I saw the first Vampire Hunter D -movie, but I think the blatant sexism was descriptive and not normative, meaning that the fictional world happened to be a cruel and somber place for women that is not justified. But my interpretation might be too benevolent because as we all know, if we look at the subject in the domain of making the movie, studio-execs usually need to cram fan service in any means necessary to some particular genres of anime and there isn't any thought or idea behind that.
I like that reading of it! I think it is always interesting to delineate between the ideologies of the fictional world, and the ideologies of the fictional piece itself. It makes me think of how in Tropic Thunder RDJ plays a method actor doing blackface. Which was obviously controversial, because he is literally DOING blackface. But within the narrative of the film they address, critique and lampoon RDJ's character for doing blackface. So they got backlash for doing blackface, but they were doing it to clown on blackface as a stupid and racist thing to do. Anyway, I think there is certainly an element to Doris's characterisation as a woman disempowered by a cruel world that makes sense. But at the same time, we are literally shown her panties and breasts regularly in a pretty lecherous way. If she's meant to be the daughter of a werewolf hunter, and a hunter herself as shown at the start of the movie, why is she so feeble and useless throughout the film? BUT ALSO, the movie doesn't actually give a lot of time to Doris, because it doesn't have a lot of time to do much of anything at all. So like, maybe I'm projecting my political opinions onto a very thin character as a way to fill in the blanks? Perhaps all that is needed is a more robust characterisation? I don't know! It's interesting to think and talk about though hey
Great vid! Loving the more informal and laid back style! Def going to check these out as I remember catching snippets of these on Adult Swim when I was a kid.
You know, it would probably be a more fulfilling experience to watch the '85 flick with Subs on. I guess I thought dubbed would be good if I used clips in the video, but I didn't really end up doing that very much lol. Part of it is probably that the bad dub on this one is kind of part of the fun for me personally. But yeah, now that you mention it idk why exactly I made that choice. I just sort of did? 😅
I like when modernites believe that a woman wouldn't use their body to get what they want from a powerful man. Don't worry guys, Vampire Hunter D and the sequel are ten times cooler than anything we have available now.
Seemed pretty obvious that Doris was resigned to the fact that she lived in a society where most men didn’t respect her boundaries and treated her as property. You make it sound like she was offering herself to D in an attempt to manipulate him. She just assumed that he had the same motivations as the men she’d been harmed by in the past.
@@GhostIntoTheFog Both are true you goofball. It takes two to dance. Figure this out immediately or else women will keep running the victim game on you and it will work every time.
this channel is actually OP. i get the deep dive on goated cult classics without having to take more than 16 minutes out of my busy hustler lifestyle?? i cant let my enemies find out about this
Feel free to use the obscure horror trivia that I provide you with to impress fashionable non-binary baddies on dating apps. I won’t even ask for a referral fee 🤝
So I have a fun story about Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. I first encountered it during Anime club in my high school, specifically thanks to the teacher who was sponsoring the club. See, they're an old school weeb who used to actually import anime and help apply translations n' stuff to it as a hobby, and when they actually saw Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, they fell in love and bought their own copy of it. When they became a teacher and started hosting an anime club at the highschool, they wanted to share this love with everyone else, so every Halloween week (or whatever week is closest to Halloween) they would opt to host a pizza party where they'd buy walk-in special pizzas from a nearby local pizza place and share Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust with the club.
It was awesome, and that's how I watched the movie no less than 4 times in high school and still love it today.
This channel better than half of UA-cam
Too kind!!
I like how you went through the whole video without addressing The Hand, let that be a surprise for those watching the movie :D
lmafo, that goofy ass hand is too much for me to deal with. people just gotta experience that on their own
Woahh, first comment! Your videos are really impressive I can enjoy your analyses even if I’ve never experienced the media
heck yeah thanks Jenny! always good to see your comments 😁
Hell yeah Simon doing bad PS1 games
Maybe the world doesn’t need it, but perhaps it deserves it
the Metropolis anime now that is a fucking banger
back during covid my brother and I lived together in a little terrace house in melbourne, and because there was nothing to do we would just watch movies every single night. We watched Metropolis during that time and it was a super memorable experience. That movie is just BIG. Reminded me a bit of some of the large scale stuff in Akira. Underrated movie I think
Thanks for making a video on Vampire Hunter D ❤
Love the flub of the title at 6:44, even when it’s not the subject of the video Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines finds a way!
Keep up the good work legend
another certified Zinzovski banger
Thank you my friend 🙏
Cool to see your commentary on this. Vampire Hunter D was pretty much my introduction to japanese anime, rented it on VHS. There is actually two separate english dubs, one in 1992 and the new 2015 one. The older dub has some better voice acting talent imo, but it also has a rougher translation script. If you give it another watch some day, I'd recommend giving it a try with the 1992 streamline dub.
I know it's purely a coincidence that during the last 3 day span when I couldn't write due to injury more than half of the channels I'm subbed to upload content, but in my headcanon it was all on purpose. Thanks for this one!
I hope you get better soon!! I'm really glad to hear that my video could provide you some enjoyment 😄
You have a very funky and original style! Lovely videos 🎉
thank you so much!!!
awesome vid! Speaking of vampires, I don't know if you're taking requests and no pressure if not, but I love your analysis of music and I'd love to hear what you think of the Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines soundtrack. Imo Rik Schaffer did an amazing job and I'd love to hear what a musical expert like yourself has to say about it. :)
!!! I have plans to do this soon!
Funny you mentioning Romeo and Juliet at the ending of Bloodlust. In the manga there is no Camilla and D spares the Vampire (Meyer something) after comming to the same realisation than in the movie. But since the facility was already destroyed, there is no way for them to leave earth. In a plottwist, the weakened Meyerling gets sniped by the bow user (that is possessed by one of those face demons that D also has in his hand) of the Marcus Family and dies.
After the fight it turnes out Charlott killed herself after Meyerling died by impaling herself on his claws. Quit reminiscent of how Romeo and Juliet also both end up dead by the end of the play.
Seems they wanted a "good" ending for the movie and not end on such a downer like the manga did.
yo thank you for sharing, it was very interesting to read and i did not know that. Makes the Romeo and Juliet parallel feel a lot stronger. I feel like cursed lovers is a bit of a broader theme than R&J, even though that is the quintessential version of it. But cursed lovers who BOTH DIE at the end? Now that is Shakespearean af
What the hell, I saw your Half Life video, then watched VHD on my own completely unprompted, then came back to the HL video and clicked on your channel, and THIS was the most recent video.
Definitely agree with you about the first movie, excited for the second one (actually paused for the spoilers which I don't normally care about). All of the tertiary antagonists getting tossed off the same cliff within like 2 minutes had me on the fucking floor, I do not understand how the writing was so... Like That.
!!! Pls come back and tell me how you liked the 2nd one
@@SimonZinzovski HOLY GODDAMN... I cannot even begin to express how much better Bloodlust is. Actual tears in my eyes, "I am going to rewatch this again and soon" energy (which is saying something, I've only even seen Alien maybe 3 times and that's my favorite of all time). I did feel a part of my soul die a little when you said the english release WAS the primary release, because... ough the voice acting is a little rough at times, but WOW what a gorgeous movie and what an incredible plot. I've never cosplayed before, but I already have Leila's haircut and a half-complete cyberpunk-y getup so... who knows.
Also definitely grabbed a couple samples of Mire for my goth-industrial project, love that his VA gave just a tiny little bit of Andrew Eldritch to the performance.
Also yeah, the movie shot up from "Oh this is really good" to "I'M MAKING ALL MY FRIENDS WATCH THIS" specifically once they get to Carmilla's castle. And the whole just... JUST the castle bit could've been it's own movie and still would've been incredible, real insane quality of writing and animation working together.
I haven’t commented a vid in years but you’re wrong saying the psx game looks bad :D it’s real good, such a treat for anyone that has played on that platform and knows the franchise.
I'd actually be really keen to play it! I only said it looks like it's bad because reviewed pretty terribly and has like a 32 on metacritic 😅
@WDarKHawKW You must have a lot of patience. I’ve played it and found it virtually impossible to effectively control D.
love the longer videos!
thank you! 15-20mins feels a bit nicer for this format than like 5-10mins does i think. I'd be keen to experiment with more 30min+ stuff, but you know, gotta make sure the length is justified
@@SimonZinzovski For sure once you get into the 20 min range I feel like that can be a bit much for most viewers, but with the amount of editing and research you do you could most definitely pull off those iceberg type videos/video essays! I would def watch those
Bro Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust slaps
This is certified hood classic
I think you probably should check out Hellsing's OVA and if not that, the soundtrack alone, it's very much worth the time.
Is that different to Hellsing Ultimate? Because I love hellsing ultimate
@@SimonZinzovski Nope, it's the same! There are two Hellsing animes, one with an original storyline and the other one following the Manga, which is the OVA/Ultimate
Loved the original film after initially seeing it on cable as a teenager. Got it on DVD after that. The worst (practically unintelligible) dub in the film is the giant mutant who yells out, “Going somewhere?” I bought the PS1 game to try out on my PS2 and ended up reselling it a short time later. It’s truly unplayable, due to its extremely poor controls.
VHD: Gothic Rule of Cool Personified.
^^^hit the nail on the head tbh
12:33 I think the City of Night and Darkness is actually the space station from the opening sequence, in which case... let's hope vampires don't need to breathe because that think did not look like it was still sealed. Alternatively, they might've meant another station, presumably in sun-synchronous orbit on the far side of Earth.
Also I'd say that D's character arc is more about learning to forgive his mother for his existence and to not indiscriminately rage-kill every single other vampire he comes across. But ig we don't get the chance to see if he actually learned that or if it is just a return to the status-quo so it could be either.
Bloodlust was made by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and that dude doesn't miss. His stuff can be very off-putting to some but animation and vibe wise it's always top tier.
If I get the time it would be really fun to do a deep dive on him tbh. Wicked City looks particularly interesting, but is there anything specific you'd recommend from him?
@@SimonZinzovski I’m a fan of Ninja Scroll and his Highlander anime, it’s leagues better than any of the actual sequels or the TV Show.
Highlander anime huh? 🤔 very interesting
@@SimonZinzovski it’s also post apocalyptic dystopian
holy shit this looks awesome, i know what im watching next
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You look like the Cruelty Squad Developer
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Thanks for interesting and well-crafted videos! It's been a while since I saw the first Vampire Hunter D -movie, but I think the blatant sexism was descriptive and not normative, meaning that the fictional world happened to be a cruel and somber place for women that is not justified. But my interpretation might be too benevolent because as we all know, if we look at the subject in the domain of making the movie, studio-execs usually need to cram fan service in any means necessary to some particular genres of anime and there isn't any thought or idea behind that.
I like that reading of it! I think it is always interesting to delineate between the ideologies of the fictional world, and the ideologies of the fictional piece itself. It makes me think of how in Tropic Thunder RDJ plays a method actor doing blackface. Which was obviously controversial, because he is literally DOING blackface. But within the narrative of the film they address, critique and lampoon RDJ's character for doing blackface. So they got backlash for doing blackface, but they were doing it to clown on blackface as a stupid and racist thing to do.
Anyway, I think there is certainly an element to Doris's characterisation as a woman disempowered by a cruel world that makes sense. But at the same time, we are literally shown her panties and breasts regularly in a pretty lecherous way. If she's meant to be the daughter of a werewolf hunter, and a hunter herself as shown at the start of the movie, why is she so feeble and useless throughout the film?
BUT ALSO, the movie doesn't actually give a lot of time to Doris, because it doesn't have a lot of time to do much of anything at all. So like, maybe I'm projecting my political opinions onto a very thin character as a way to fill in the blanks? Perhaps all that is needed is a more robust characterisation?
I don't know! It's interesting to think and talk about though hey
Great vid! Loving the more informal and laid back style! Def going to check these out as I remember catching snippets of these on Adult Swim when I was a kid.
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed the style :)
Why did you watch the dub?
Subbed version is how this peice of art supposed to be watched
You know, it would probably be a more fulfilling experience to watch the '85 flick with Subs on. I guess I thought dubbed would be good if I used clips in the video, but I didn't really end up doing that very much lol. Part of it is probably that the bad dub on this one is kind of part of the fun for me personally. But yeah, now that you mention it idk why exactly I made that choice. I just sort of did? 😅
weeb :)
Slanderous
I like when modernites believe that a woman wouldn't use their body to get what they want from a powerful man.
Don't worry guys, Vampire Hunter D and the sequel are ten times cooler than anything we have available now.
Seemed pretty obvious that Doris was resigned to the fact that she lived in a society where most men didn’t respect her boundaries and treated her as property. You make it sound like she was offering herself to D in an attempt to manipulate him. She just assumed that he had the same motivations as the men she’d been harmed by in the past.
@@GhostIntoTheFog Both are true you goofball. It takes two to dance. Figure this out immediately or else women will keep running the victim game on you and it will work every time.