VAMPIRE HUNTER D Getting New Bloody Audiobooks!
The horror genre within Anime doesn’t get enough attention(in our opinion) and one that took horror to new heights was the epic Vampire Hunter D. The original story came out in novelizations in Japan and expanded from there. Now we are set to get some full cast recordings of these audiobooks in the states. Very niiice!
Both the first movie and its follow-up (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust) adapted two of the first three novels of the franchise, in the titular novel and Demon Deathchase.
Graphic Audio shared the news that the world of Vampire Hunter D would be translated into three audiobooks this December, though these opening novels are only the opening salvo when it comes to the many stories that were created by Hideyuki Kikuchi over the years:
D was an interesting character as a Dhampir, a half-human, half-vampire warrior traveling the countryside, especially when it came to the world that took place in the far future of 12,000 AD. While managing to keep his bloodthirsty at bay, he also had to struggle with one of his hands being its own entity, played out in horrific display in both of the anime films. Vampire Hunter D was one of the biggest anime movies in the 1980s when it debuted. It would be interesting to see if a live action or even new series could come from these new novels.
