Talk:Vampire Hunter D

message: There is a source cited for the live action film but the website is only accessible to paid subscribers. If someone knows of a free version available somewhere, it would be more appropriate to cite that instead. -- Defunctzombie (talk) 03:40, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Live Action Source

message: I've changed the words "mercinary" to "mercenary," "worriors with mystical powers" to "warriors with mystical powers," even though I'm not sure why this sentence is in there.  I also changed the phrase "they a traveling to a 'pathway to the stars' " to "they travel to a pathway to the stars." -Unknown
:You don't need to talk about stuff like that unless someone contests the edit, pretty straightforward. Tyciol (talk) 08:23, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Typo

message: Is that correct?-- Dangerous-Boy
:I don't think so. If you look at the books, you'll realize Mr. Kikuchi's trick. He did not mention any date and time other than the year 12090 at the beginning of the 1st novel. That means the date of other stories are unknown, and chances are they might be happening in arbitrary orders. I guess, if it is truly Mr. Kikuchi's intention, will there be any chance for a reunion between 3D (D and Doris and Dan)? Japanese fans who have chance to read all of the novels so far must know this most clearly? Any Japanese readers out there? Can you tell me about the date of all 16 novels?
::(The newest book has a reference to Doris and Dan... A doctor character made it. I'll avoid actual spoilers, but the recent novel is said to have happened at least a few years after the first.) -Unsigned
:There is no internal evidence indicating the date at which the second movie is set—not in the movie or the novel. The video game corresponding to the movie gives the date as A.D. 12,090, which is also the year of the first movie and first novel. Internal evidence indicates that the novels occur in chronological order (source: translator Kevin Leahy); the fourth novel definitely occurs after the first, as characters from the first novel are mentioned in it. I've deleted the date of the setting of the second movie.—TheCert 03:25, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Date for setting of Bloodlust?

message: I think there should be more description in how the books are far more in depth in regards to story development and description of the fictional history of the future the world is set in. Also there should be some discussion on the differences in pacing and development of characters that were barely in the original movie. I also think there should be a section discussing D’s powers and skills, I don’t think the article even makes mention of his often used ability to emit his aura to overcome his opponents with fear. Leon Evelake 06:01, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually it's not an ability so much as a consequence of his supernatural nature, comparable to prior folk belief in martial arts of an evident battle aura which is much used in Japanese pop culture. Pops up frequently in Rurouni Kenshin, Fushigi Yuugi and Flame of Recca, and innumerable fighting games/animes/manga. But I'd forgotten to mention it. --Sazynska 06:48, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Movie-Novel differences

message: Maybe we should considering splitting the article. It's getting very big. --Dangerous-Boy 09:23, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Splitting the animated movies and novel sections may be a good idea if the article continues to increase in size. Leon Evelake 02:28, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the article is getting big, but some of the bulk currently in place (19 March 2006) may be inappropriate for inclusion as a violation of NPOV. Much material contributed by S. Sazynski appears to represent one critic's interpretation: for example, "Kikuchi makes a point to have D behave out of character and mysogenistically insult Leila's 'unnatural' and 'unfeminine' nature" or "Poor Mashira" or "the movie's excellent theme." I don't want to start a revert war, but there is room to argue that much of the article currently reads more like a term paper or critique than an encyclopedia article and perhaps should be cut.—TheCert 04:38, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Splitting the article?

message: It should be mentioned that the noble responsible for the experiments in “Raiser of the Gales” is deeply implied to be Dracula and that their mental encounter seemed to be the first time D met him as an adult. Also that he referred to D as his only successor, suggesting that he had been intentionally trying to create a new race of vampires since the events related in the first book. Leon Evelake 02:33, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dracula’s involvement

message: I've tweaked the summary to make it a bit less USA-centric. (Urban Vision's license is for the USA or for North America; other entities have released the movies in Japan, the UK, Europe, Australia, and perhaps elsewhere—for that matter, the first movie was originally released in America by Sreamline, then Orion Home Video, before Urban Vision got the rights).
Is there a way of documenting that the movies are considered "cult classics"? I'm in favor of cutting this phrase, or at least moving it to discussion of the movies rather than the summary. Changed "radio dramas" to "audio dramas," so these are at least mentioned in the article.—TheCert 13:35, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Summary edits

message: :In the english trailer of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, the voice-over was done by Micheal McConnohie who voiced the original english voice of Vampire Hunter D, the first film.
Can anyone provide evidence for this recent addition? The voiceover in the Bloodlust trailer sounds like John Rafter Lee, who voiced Meier Link in the English dub.—TheCert 19:07, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust trailer voiceover

message: Addressing a few changes I made in this section: Gimlet and Golem are both named in the movie: in the Japanese dub, Golem repeats his own name as a sort of battle cry while attacking D; Rei murmurs "Gimuretto" [Gimlet] after killing him. These names are not reflected in the Streamline dub. Golem is called "the tortureless" in the book because this is a translation of the kanji characters used to represent his name, 拷零無 (gõremu). As the English translation of the novel indicates, Rei-Ginsei means "serene silver star."—TheCert 04:31, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vampire Hunter D: movie-novel differences

message: I went ahead and buckled down a while back and made one. Vampire Hunter D (Novels) PLEASE read the discussion page before editing it, though. WtW-Suzaku 14:16, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, since the Novels article has the complete listing, I think it's probably okay to delete the novel listing from this article. I'm going to delete it again now. You don't need to revert it, Mr. Article Reverting Guy. WtW-Suzaku 07:20, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Novels article

message: Converting the Japanese word ダンピール (dampiiru, Japanese rendering of dhampir) into the Latin alphabet is transliteration, not translation. "Dampiel" is the form shown in the Orion Home Video edition closed captioning and the Japanese dub subtitling on the Urban Vision DVD of the first movie. I am aware that the two previous sentences contradict may seem at odds with a statement about this movie at the IMDb, — my changes to the article's parenthetical remark about this misunderstood term are based on definitions of the words "transliteration" and "translation" and on the versions of the movies I have seen.—TheCert 18:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dhampir, dampiel, dunpeal, and transliteration

message: Removed from article for now until citation or reference is given:
:D is believed to have inspired the creation of Alucard from the Castlevania series of games. After all, besides being vampires, they are also the son of Dracula. Even the world presented in the games bears much resemblance to the world of the novels and movies.
-Dangerous-Boy 03:56, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Castlevania stuff

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===Vampire Hunter D Volume 1===
The first volume of Vampire Hunter D lacks an official subtitle. In subsequent novels it is designated simply as "Vampire Hunter D: Volume 1."
The story is similar to the original movie, but goes into far more detail in terms of plot, character, and building Kikuchi's world. The novel itself is discussed in the section concerning differences between the original movie and book.
===Vampire Hunter D Volume 2: Raiser of Gales===
Ten years ago, four children - three boys and a girl - went to play at the foot of a hill where an old Noble Castle stood-- and  vanished. Several days later, only three of the children returned, one of whom was irrevocably changed. All three lacked memory of events that transpired while they were missing-- even under torture and repeated questioning.
The novel opens in the snowy village of Tsepesh (Tepes in the final translation), where residents solemnly carry casket with a dead child, killed by a vampire. Suddenly, a hand breaks through the coffin, impaling the expert vampire-hunter hired by the town-- with his own stake, in full daylight!
D is called by the mayor to find out what's going on and stop the vampires. Not long after, he uncovers a plot to create vampires with the ability to walk in the daylight. Lina, the girl out of the group who had vanished, tries in vain to gain D's affection while also struggling to bring her village fame by being accepted for a position in the Capital. D soon learns that a Noble kidnapped the four children and experimented on them in an attempt to make a new breed of vampires by splicing human and vampire DNA.
===Vampire Hunter D Volume 3: Demon Deathchase===
This volume inspired the second Vampire Hunter D Movie, and the translated version was published in the US in January 2006. D arrives at a village to find a single vampire has killed the entire population, who have come back to life and are attacking a group of fellow Hunters called the Marcus Brothers (Nolt, Kyle, Leila, Grove, and Borgoff). The ghost of a wealthy man manages to ask the Marcus Brothers to retrieve his daughter from the Noble responsible before the attack. This leads to the grueling and competitive hunt for the Noble responsible, as well as his human captive.
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Don't know what do with this yet. It's already listed on the list of vhd novels.--Dangerous-Boy 05:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved from novels section

message: This volume inspired the second Vampire Hunter D Movie, and the translated version was published in the US in January 2006. D arrives at a village to find a single vampire has killed the entire population, who have come back to life and are attacking a group of fellow Hunters called the Marcus Brothers (Nolt, Kyle, Leila, Grove, and Borgoff). The ghost of a wealthy man manages to ask the Marcus Brothers to retrieve his daughter from the Noble responsible before the attack. This leads to the grueling and competitive hunt for the Noble responsible, as well as his human captive.
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Don't know what do with this yet. It's already listed on the list of vhd novels.--Dangerous-Boy 05:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vampire Hunter D Volume 3: Demon Deathchase

message: Does anyone know how tall D is? -Unknown
:Unless it's said in the manga, I don't think so since the height of other characters isn't mentioned either to extrapolate from. I'd assume pretty tall though. Tyciol 21:50, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Common mistake people make... They are novels, not manga. That is something that really needs to be debunked, because the novels are constantly being referred to as "manga" and "graphic novels" these days, which is just wrong. There has been no officially produced Vampire Hunter D manga in the last 20 years, and the new series being illustrated by Saiko Takaki is a recent development. WtW-Suzaku 06:19, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was aware the height wasn't mentioned in the novels because they were already covered so well. I thought maybe Takaki's manga might add new information, I'm not sure if he's just adapting stories or if he's given artistic license. Tyciol (talk) 08:23, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: D’s Height

message: The two pictures from this article are from Bloodlust. I think it would be balanced to show both of D's incarnations, to show the change in appearance in both him and his hand. Showing Meier Link and Magnus Lee as examples of powerful vampires may also be valuable, along with perhaps Carmilla and Rumika/Lamika. Tyciol (talk) 08:23, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: Manga vol. 5
--KrebMarkt (talk) 19:28, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review(s) 

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message: No info about the music? I cannot find this anywhere, but I think Streamline made new music for this, like they did with 8man after. I was looking for my favourite song from D the other day, and could not find it. I recall the exact scene it was in. Nothing. I got the soundtrack. Nothing. 79.106.203.26 (talk) 08:44, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music