This it simply the first volume of the animated series based upon the bad-ass video game series "Night Warriors". If you've never played a "Night Warriors" game, and you want a little background before you see this series, here goes: first of all, "Night Warriors" is a fighting game VERY similar to Street Fighter, going with the more superhuman animated look of Anime, than the realistic looking stuff like "Mortal Kombat". Secondly, the characters are all based on your classic horror movie monsters, including a werewolf, a couple of vampires, a Frankenstein's monster, a mummy, a zombie, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. These beastly combatants are known as "Darkstalkers", because they can only come out at night. As for the story itself, it seems like we've walked into the middle of an opening story arc or something, as one of the Darkstalkers, the Count Dracula clone on steroids Demitri Maximoff, has found a way to bring constant night over the Earth. The humans of Earth are understandably pissed, so they attempt to de-throne the good count, permanently. Also, some of the Darkstalkers aren't too keen on Demitri's rule either, so the humans have a few monstrous allies! Most notable of which is Morrigan, a scantily clad vapiric piece of ass, who decides she wants a piece of the Count. They fight it out, but their battle is interrupted when the humans send in a gang o' mesomorphing robots in an attempt to kill them both, failing miserably when the couple proves too strong. Here's a tip for all you scared humans: Don't attack the only remotely powerful potential allies you have! Eeeeeeeeeediots! Elsewhere, we get introduced to a couple of other Darkstalkers, the gorgeous young pussy cat girl Felicia and the British heavy metal white zombie (get it? not only is he a zombie that's white, but there's also the heavy metal band White Zombie?) Lord Raptor. Also, we see another story arc arise, as we say hello to a young psychic girl named Anita, who is also the sole survivor of the mass genocide of her home town, saved by her mental powers. A traveling circus stops at the town, sees that the girl is the only person left, and label her as a Darkstalker, then prepare to kill her themselves. Lucky for her a half-human/half-Darkstalker Vampire Hunter named Donovan, carrying a HUGE (we're talking "Cloud in Final Fantasy VII" huge) sword arrives on the scene, saving her with the help of his bulletproof hat, and then claiming that they will work together to wipe the other Darkstalkers from the face of the Earth. Boy, he must've really hated his mom or dad to wanna wipe out the entire race! Anyway, as they walk off into the sunset, one of those morphing robots watches in the distance. This was a really good Anime, but I'm sick of how cheap-o the fucking American release companies are anymore! I mean, they have plenty of room, yet they insist on only sticking 45 minutes of footage on a single volume! That's bullshit! Todd McFarlane releases the "Spawn" animated series on one full length tape per season, yet these assholes want to put 'em out 45 minutes at a time and charge the same price?! Hell, even just your average NINETY minutes would have sufficed, but 45? Fuck you guys. I suggest you rent a copy of this video and not purchase it. I mean, it was great, but you can only fit so much into 45 minutes! Just do what I did, rent it, then copy it over onto another tape before you return it. You won't have the video box or the "official" cassette, but do you really wanna pay $20 just for that?! Besides, with your own tape, you can fit the whole series on, or just throw on some other anime, like the "Street Fighter V" episodes! Take that corporate Amerika!

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Sequels: This is simply the beginning of a series, possibly four parts, maybe more.

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