Product: Bio Hunter [VHS] (1995)
Rating: 5.0
Liver: What Nine out of Ten Demons Prefer
What could be worse than contracting a virus that threatens to overtake you and make you consume human flesh, spreading at random for a seemingly an unknown reason? Try having to hunt the beasts that are infected while being infected yourself, keeping the virus in check (to some degree) while using it as a weapon to both detect the beasts and to destroy them as well. That's the reasoning behind the Bio Hunters, Komada and Koshigaya, and the Demon virus that seems to be working its way through the streets of Tokyo; most notably resulting in a series of brutal attacks on young women of the city and the subsequent ingestion of their internal organs. Still, that's before the oddities of love, emotion, politics, and divination enter the already clustered field.Although in the really short department (45 minutes isn't something I normally approve of), Bio Hunter more than makes up for this fact with portions of intrigue - and the occasional person that happens across the mind of Yoshisaki Kawajiri. His stamp is more than apparent here, too, with the horror of the story delivering and the pace of the piece moving pretty quickly, showing the viewer that it is the lack of padding and not content that keeps the length minimal. Combine this with quality animation, a plot that drips blood, nudity, violence, some nice scenery dripping blood and violence, and a story that is worth keeping pace with and you have a "special something" that everyone should at least look into.