Vampire Hunter is not the first amine based on a best selling video game. Most game amines usually fall by the wayside with a boring and dull plot despite efforts of beautiful amanation and fluid fighting. Even the semi-sucsessful Fatal Fury series pales compared to the plot of King of the Fighters and the popular amine Movie, Street Fighter 2, just clots up and chokes whatever plot the game has. To even understand most of these series you need to be familiar with the video game.
However....
Vampire Hunter is the first to stand
out with a wonderful plot that can stand on it's own with out the games
to understand what's going on. To many Vampire Hunter seems to be in the
horror gene or fighting action at your first innocent glance. The fights
are beautiful, fluid, and good paced but there is so much more to this
than fighting. The story doesn't step anywhere towards shock horror with
gore and next to senseless violence. Vampire Hunter reflects the view of
society towards people who are 'monsters', 'freaks', and makes the viewer
question who are really the monsters? The seven deadly sins and the seven
vitures are attributed to the characters though out the anime if you take
a closer look. You'll also notice that most of the sinners are human and
the vitreous are shown in the Darkstalkers...
Note, the spelling and the grammer from here
on down is proably going to be awful, please forgive me.
Virture/Sin | Human | Darkstalker |
Wraith Kindness | Anger is the biggest sin that the humans display during the series. Anger at their own weakness, anger at a young girl, anger at a entire race. | Felicia, Gallon and Zabel displayed acts of kindness towards others. Yes, even Zabel. The zombie showed kindness by saving Felicia's life in the first OVA. |
Greed-Generosity | In the second OVA the Head of State displayed greed towards gaining the Armor of Hannya which Bishomon wears. He uses others to try and gain this armor only to be destroyed by what he wanted. | Lin-Lin and Lei-Lei show generosity
towards Antia during the second to the final OVA despite the troubles they
deal with.
|
Evny-Love | Hunting for someting to fill in this box. ^_^;; | Felicia, Lin-Lin, Lei-Lei, Morrgain and Demitri show some form or example of love. Felicia shows love towards humans who fear her by saving their life. Lin and Lei prove their love to ther mother by sacifricing themselfs. Morrigan gives up everything to tell Demitri how she feels. |
Lust-Self Control | The Townsmen in the Second OVA who tried to rape Lin-Lin | Donovan is the prime example of Self Control |
Gluttony-Faith | The rich family who shoves ahead
of many and arranges at boat for themselves in the third OVA.
|
Lin-Lin, Lei-Lei, and Phobos. Lin-Lin
and Lei-Lei have faith in their mission for their mother. Phoboes belived
in the plan of a 'dead' God to the end.
|
Pride-Humility | The humans prided them selfs on finding, "God" while the Darkstalkers have nothing to believe in. This "God" however is Pyron, not the enity who created them, Darktalkers, light and darkness. | Bishomon shows humility in the
series by admiting his mistake to gain the armor for himself. He also bears
himself to wear the armor to bansh the curse by his own will power.
|
Sloth-Zeal | Anita is the example of Sloth by forming a self imposed curse to make sure she dosen't get hurt by anyone again. She becomes so empathic to the world she dosen't know how important she really is. | Once again, Anita is the example of Zeal as well. In the end she nearly loses everything she's had. When Donovan sacfices his life Anita realizes how much he and the planet means to her. She drops resentment and saves Donovan's life. |