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Japan, 1966. Saya is part of a secret team destroying daemons. She is sent undercover as a student at the Yokota Air Base in Fussa-shi, Tokyo, just before Halloween. She discovers that two of her classmates are vampires in disguise just as they are preparing to attack the school nurse; meanwhile, her colleagues have discovered another vampire acting as a bartender in the local red-light district. A spectacular battle ensues. Written by
Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
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Trivia
The plane flying over head, just before the closing credits start, is a Boeing B-47 US Air Force Medium Bomber, but the voice over implies it is a B-52.
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Quotes
David:
You ASSHOLE! Don't ever piss her off again! As far as we know, she's the only remaining original!
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Crazy Credits
A photo montage of the Vietnam war is shown during the credits.
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Connections
Remade as
Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)
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Soundtracks
"Let's Dance"
Words & Music by
Fanny Baldridge, G. Stone and
Josef Bonime
© 1935 Edward B Marks Music Company
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When you sit down to view Blood: the Last Vampire, the style and setting of this gothic noir anime grabs you instantly. Using a mixture of animation cells and computer-generated backgrounds, this is an effortlessly stylized visual breakthrough that hopefully will launch future endeavors in the style.
The problem with this particular film, though, is that it is far, far too short. At just over forty minutes filmed length, the story of a strange girl called Saya that seems to be some sort of vampire slayer barely gets the ball rolling on the enigmas behind this girl, the organization she works for, and the beasts she vows to slay before fading into the end credits. This makes you sit back, blinking at all the dazzling visual beauty that went into this well-crafted film, and wonder, 'what next?' Hopefully, there will be further adventures of Saya and the dingy, grimy world she lives in, each as well-designed as this one was, though with much more payoff.
All in all, worth looking at if only to see what the future of animation might look like.