Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) is a Japanese anime film produced by animation studio Production I.G. and Sony's anime production arm, Aniplex. It was distributed across North America by Manga Entertainment. After the film's success as a cult hit, Sony and Production I.G built up a franchise around the film which involved games, novels, and a manga. Initially only released in Japan, the manga and novel have since seen a North American print in English.
A follow-up two-part PlayStation 2 game, produced by Sony's computer game production arm, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, saw a Japanese-only release in 2000. It featured the same animation quality as the film, and a host of new characters. Due to the game being divided over two discs, retail sales were not as high as anticipated.
Essentially the film is a suspense/action thriller set in Japan during the fall of 1966, when the United States involvement in Vietnam has turned into a full scale conflict. The film features the story of a young girl named Saya: armed with a Japanese sword, she is sent by a mysterious "organization" to hunt down vampires that are hiding amongst the inhabitants of the Yokota U.S. Air Force Base - a small American enclave 30 km from Tokyo.
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Based on outfits worn by Tokyo Game Show Capcom "booth babes". 4" scale Chun-Li, Cammy, and Ingrid from Street Fighter, Morrigan and Lilith from Darkstalkers, and Tron with a kobun servebot from MegaMan. Each come in two different color variations and each figure is randomly packaged in a colorful box.
A playable character from Samurai Shodown(Samurai Spirits in Japan)
Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) is a Japanese anime film produced by animation studio Production I.G. and Sony's anime production arm, Aniplex. It was distributed across North America by Manga Entertainment. After the film's success as a cult hit, Sony and Production I.G built up a franchise around the film which involved games, novels, and a manga. Initially only released in Japan, the manga and novel have since seen a North American print in English.
1/6th scale garage kit by Cerberus Project, Iris is a character from erogame Princess Waltz published by pulltop
Paranoia Agent is a Japanese anime television mini-series about a social phenomenon in Musashino, Tokyo caused by a juvenile serial assailant named Lil' Slugger. The plot revolves around a large cast of people most often Lil' Slugger's victims or the detectives assigned to catch him. As each character becomes the focus of the story, disturbing details are often revealed about their secret lives.
PC prequel to the Ps2 hit "Tears of Blood", 2001 saw the release of The Phantom of Avalanche in South Korea by developers Softmax. The Phantom of Avalanche is commonly cited by manga fans for its detailed artwork. Though not officially localized outside of South Korea, numerous fan translations have been promised for the game, to date no translations have been completed.
