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I am in eternal debt to Robert for bringing this movie with him, as he said he would. There were so many great aspects. For one thing, the title character. A seven-foot guy with an enormous sword, a giant hat, a cyborg horse, and a symbiotic left hand. You don’t get much greater than that! In addition to this overwhelming general coolness, you have the fact that D’s a dampiel (if I misspelled that I’m sure Robert will be good enough to inform me). That is, a half-vampire.
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The movie had great parts. One of the characters’ skin kept changing colors. D’s hair seemed to change colors. There was a candle that paralyzed vampires and dampiels. There was a mutant that moved space and impaled D on his own really freaking huge sword. Three chicks turned into serpents and got drugged up by repeatedly licking D. One of the characters dressed in pink and was seen with about three whores walking around the city at night. D’s left hand tried to resuscitate him. Doris whipped a guy. There was not one but TWO scenes of pointless nudity/indecency. Which brings me to a point (not THAT kind of point, I'm a chick in case the name didn't tip you off)
Doris (the heroine) looked like Pippi Longstocking with breasts. Breasts that the viewer was exposed to on two occasions within about ten minutes. At one point a vampire (the same guy whose skin kept changing colors) ripped her blouse and fondled her. Ignore the fact that Doris’ blouse is in one piece and her chest is fully covered in the next shot. Shortly after this, Doris is shown in the shower. Shots of her naked (back and front) are interspersed with clips of the vampire that fondled her (and was once a friend/father figure to her) falling off a cliff. The next scene has some interesting confusion with whether Doris is wearing a nightgown or a bathrobe, not to mention that D about sinks his fangs into her throat when Doris insists on pressing herself up against him with the back of her neck exposed. The movie spends about two or three minutes just watching D fight the urge to drink some Pippi blood.
It’s a fun, bloody, vaguely kinky anime that would have been a lot better if all the touching moments had been left out. But I guess the cheesy bits are part of the experience.
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