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Vampire Hunter D by Saiko Takaki

Owner: Timothy Finney
Artist: Saiko Takaki (All)

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Title:	Vampire Hunter D by Saiko Takaki
Artist:	Saiko Takaki (All)
Media Type:	Marker
Art Type:	Commission
Views:	499
Likes on CAF:	8 9
Favorited on CAF:	1
Added to Site:	9/12/2023

Description

Vampire Hunter D started in 1983 as a series of novels written by Japanese author Hideyuki Kikuchi with illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano. The series has since spawned two really good anime movies, a manga series, an American comic adaptation, a video game, as well as an assortment of other media.

The hero, D, who travels a post-nuclear war future Earth, is a dhampir, the half-breed child of a vampire father and human mother. Like Marvel's Blade, D doesn't have an aversion to sunlight nor an urge to drink blood, and is an ideal vampire hunter. D rides a cybernetic horse with mechanical legs, wields a crescent longsword, wears a mystical blue pendant, and has a good supply of wooden needles that he can fire off at high speeds. He also hosts a sentient symbiote named, simply enough, Left Hand, a wisecracking homunculus with a human face residing in his left palm who can suck in massive amounts of matter through a vacuum tunnel, and generally comes in very, um, handy when D gets into a jam.

I first encountered the character in the, now cult classic, 1985 anime movie. It was grim and gritty with a blend of Michael Moorcock fantasy, post-apocalyptic science fiction, and Hammer gothic horror. I loved it, and it became one of my early favorite anime. (The 2000 anime movie was also awesome. Also worth a mention, I got to see a lot of really cool Amano Vampire Hunter D art at an art exhibition near my home here in Niigata Prefecture.)

I've been waiting to find the right artist to do a commission of D, but the right artist/moment never really seemed to present itself... until recently. My friend Yoshi was able to hook me up with Saiko Takaki, a Japanese manga artist who drew "Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D" starting in 2007. The art is on a shikishi art board, and the picture doesn't quite do the art justice.

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	Timothy Finney
Joined:	August 2006
Last Login:	September 2025
Country:	JAPAN
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