Blood: The Last Vampire
| Blood: The Last Vampire | |
Japanese poster for Blood: The Last Vampire
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| Genre | Action, Horror |
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| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Hiroyuki Kitakubo |
| Produced by | Ryuji Mitsumoto Yukio Nagasaki |
| Written by | Kenji Kamiyama |
| Music by | Yoshihiro Ike |
| Studio | Production I.G |
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| Released | July 29, 2000 (worldwide) November 18, 2000 (Japan) |
| Runtime | 45 minutes |
| Manga | |
| Blood the Last Vampire 2002 | |
| Written by | Benkyo Tamaoki |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly Ace Next |
| Published | April 2001 |
| Light novel | |
| Blood: The Last Vampire: Night of the Beasts | |
| Written by | Mamoru Oshii |
| Published by | Kadokawa |
| English publisher | |
| Published | November 2000 |
| Light novel | |
| Blood: The Last Vampire: 闇を誘う血 | |
| Written by | Junichi Fujisaku |
| Published by | Kadokawa |
| Published | January 2001 |
| Light novel | |
| Blood: The Last Vampire: 上海哀儚 | |
| Written by | Junichi Fujisaku |
| Published by | Kadokawa |
| Published | December 2005 |
| Game | |
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Production I.G Sugar and Rockets (PS2) Sony Computer Entertainment (PSP) |
| Publisher | Sony Computer Entertainment Japan |
| Genre | Horror, Adventure |
| Platform | PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable |
| Released | December 21, 2000 January 26, 2006 (PSP) |
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Blood: The Last Vampire is a 2000 anime film produced by Production I.G and SPE Visual Works and directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. The film premiered in theaters in Japan on November 18, 2000. A single-volume manga sequel, titled Blood: The Last Vampire 2000 and written by Benkyo Tamaoki, was published in Japan in 2001 by Kadokawa Shoten, and in English by Viz Media in November 2002 under the title Blood: The Last Vampire 2002.
Three Japanese light novel adaptations have also been released for the series, along with a video game. It also spawned a fifty-episode anime series set in an alternate universe titled Blood+ as well as a second anime series, Blood-C. A live-action adaptation of the film with the same title was released in Japan in May 2009.
The story is set in 1966. Its main protagonist is a girl named Saya, who hunts bat-like creatures called chiropterans. Saya is introduced on a subway train, where she assassinates a man in a suit. Her American contacts or handlers arrive. One of them, David, begins to brief Saya on another mission, while the other, Louis, discovers that the man Saya has just killed was probably not a chiropteran.
Saya's next mission begins at the American Yokota Air Base, which is active in the buildup to the Vietnam War. At least one chiropteran has managed to infiltrate the air base, and it is only a matter of time before they feed again, go into hibernation, and become untraceable. Saya is to pose as a school girl, infiltrate the high school adjacent to the base, and then track and kill the chiropterans.
At the school, Saya runs into a meek nurse, Makiho Amano, on the eve of the school's annual Halloween party. Two of Saya's classmates, Sharon and Linda, make a visit to Makiho at the nurse's office. Suddenly, Saya bursts into the room, killing Linda and wounding Sharon, breaking her sword in the process. Both girls are revealed to be chiropterans. Makiho goes into shock at the revelation. Meanwhile, a third chiropteran reveals itself and begins making its way to the base. Back at the school, Makiho regains her nerve and pursues Sharon into a room full of dancing Americans in costume, where she finds Sharon transformed. Saya saves her and both flee into a nearby motor pool. The chiropterans trap them inside and attack.
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