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Anime Recommendations?
PizzaSHARK:
Hey, like I said, it's pretty and that's about all it's got going for it.
MadassAlex:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 27 Nov 2008, 11:49 ---What has happened to vampires in popular culture? The only really good vampire anime I can name off the top of my head is Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust...Are there any others? Please don't recommend Black Blood Blothers or Blood+...both of those were annoying with Blood+ being one of the angstiest things I've ever watched.
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Hellsing. I can't believe you didn't mention it. Hellsing. HELLSING.
As for the answer to your first question:
It's quite simple. Vampires have been oversexualised. Now, I have no issues with sexy vampires. Any Mistress Of The Night is quite welcome to take her teeth to my neck. The issue arises when their pretty traits conflict with their status as hated and feared monsters. Anne Rice's "Interview With The Vampire" worked because, while Louis was a good-looking guy and very eloquent, he couldn't get past the instincts that threatened to destroy his ties with his mortal values.
"Hellsing" is great because while there are vampires acting as protagonists, they are not quite as clear cut as in stuff like Underworld and Twilight. Alucard is a morally bankrupt weapon bound to an agent of the Church, while Seras is infantile in her power and still clinging to her own mortal values. Plus, she's smokin' hot. The anime is kind of divergent, but the manga (and thus, the OVA of Hellsing) is about the Knights Of The Round Table using Count Dracula to fight against Nazis and the Inquisition.
I gotta thank Khar for that phrasing.
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: Ikrik on 27 Nov 2008, 11:49 ---The only really good vampire anime I can name off the top of my head is Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust...Are there any others?
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I believe I already mentioned Rosario Vampire.
plumbob78:
--- Quote from: MadassAlex on 28 Nov 2008, 09:25 ---Hellsing. I can't believe you didn't mention it. Hellsing. HELLSING....
"Hellsing" is great because while there are vampires acting as protagonists, they are not quite as clear cut as in stuff like Underworld and Twilight. Alucard is a morally bankrupt weapon bound to an agent of the Church, while Seras is infantile in her power and still clinging to her own mortal values. Plus, she's smokin' hot. The anime is kind of divergent, but the manga (and thus, the OVA of Hellsing) is about the Knights Of The Round Table using Count Dracula to fight against Nazis and the Inquisition.
I gotta thank Khar for that phrasing.
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Hellsing Ultimate is very good. IMO, don't bother with the TV series, they had to make up a bunch of shit because the manga was still ongoing. The TV series doesn't have the Nazis.
PizzaSHARK:
I always liked the Nosferatu style of vampires myself. I always thought undead should be more like animated rotting cadavers more than basically not-living-but-otherwise-normal.
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