History Anime / NightWarriorsDarkstalkersRevenge

* MakeMeWannaShout: In the opening, Rikuo unleashes his ''Sonic Wave'' move on Hannya, bowling him over with a burst of sound. When that didn't work, he [[MakingASplash summons a tidal wave]].

* OffModel: The Huitzil robots appear with the character's alternate grey palette (the default palette in the second arcade game) instead of the usual gold. Likewise, the [[HumongousMecha giant Huitzil]] is gold during his introduction scene, only to somehow be grey when he shows up to fight Pyron.
** Jon Talbain is similarly colored with one of his alternate palette from the second game, black instead of his default blue.

On March 14, 2022, Creator/DiscotekMedia announced that they'll be [[https://twitter.com/discotekmedia/status/1503547948491161603 re-releasing a Blu-Ray version]], featuring restored video quality in both Japanese and English voice tracks, as well concept art galleries and original Japanese promotions as part of the extras.

* BerserkButton: Downplayed. Anita's [[EmotionlessGirl stoicism]] makes her barely react to anything, but she doesn't like anyone messing with her doll, the only surviving memento she has of her decimated village. She shows off her PsychicPowers for the first time when a trio of church boys throw away her doll and try shooting at it with a Dark hunter's rifle. The ''angriest'' she gets is when she gives Donovan a DeathGlare for beheading her doll and tries wielding his own sword, Dhylec, with her PsychicPowers in an attempt to kill him, although he easily evades her attacks.

** Subverted with Lord Raptor; in the English Dub, Creator/ScottMcNeil gives him a deep, rumbling voice in his human guise, but in his true form as a zombie Darkstalker, his voice takes on a rasping quality. While he's a villain in the game series, he's more of an {{Antihero}} here, as he saved Felicia from a group of Dark hunters.

* NoSell: Lord Raptor gets roasted onstage by a bunch of Dark hunters wielding flamethrowers. But when they turn their flamethrowers on a vulnerable Felicia, Lord Raptor reveals that the flames didn't really affect him at all, and proceeds to open a can of whoopass on Felicia's attackers when they [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere try to flee the premises]].
* OffModel: The Huitzil robots appear with the character's alternate grey palette instead of the usual gold. Likewise, the [[HumongousMecha giant Huitzil]] is gold during his introduction scene, only to somehow be grey when he shows up to fight Pyron.

* TranquilFury: Donovan never loses his cool even when angry.

* OneHandedZweihander: Being a Darkstalker, Bishamon can wield his gigantic katana with one hand.

* HumansAreFlawed: Humans are arguably shown at both their worst and their best. Many times the Darkstalkers are discriminated against by humans, some of which act even worse than the Darkstalkers at times. There are some humans are willing to help, such as the doctor who helps Felicia after her encounter with the Huitzil. With that said, some Darkstalkers are truly evil dangerous monsters and humans have the rightful fear of them as they've been subjected to several atrocities by Darkstalkers (the biggest one being apparently photosensitive Darktalkers blocking the sun, preventing the needed photosynthesis for crops to grow and thus causing famine for the humans [[note]]It's never specificed exactly ''which'' Darkstalker "stole" the sun, although Demitri would be the most obvious suspect being a vampire -- much of the weather seen in the Human World is constantly covered in clouds.[[/note]]).

* KarmaHoudini: Demitri. He killed innocent people all the while acting arrogant. He not only survives at the end, but it's implied Morrigan will share the throne of Makai with him and he may become ruler of the Demon World as he such much wishes, along being in love with him.

* HumansAreFlawed: Humans are arguably shown at both their worst and their best. Many times the Darkstalkers are discriminated against by humans, some of which act even worse than the Darkstalkers at times. There are some humans are willing to help, such as the doctor who helps Felicia after her encounter with the Huitzil. With that said, some Darkstalkers are truly evil dangerous monsters and humans have the rightful fear of them as they've been subjected to several atrocities by Darkstalkers (the biggest one being apparently photosensitive Darktalkers blocking the sun, preventing the needed photosynthesis for crops to grow and thus causing famine for the humans [[note]]It's never specificed exactly ''which Darkstalker'' "stole" the sun, although Demitri would be the most obvious supect -- much of the weather seen in the Human World is constantly covered in clouds.[[/note]]).

The [=OVA=] was initially released in America on VHS and DVD by [[Creator/VizMedia Viz Video]] and [[Creator/{{Geneon}} Pioneer]], with an English dub by Creator/TheOceanGroup, before going out of print. It has since been licensed and rereleased on DVD by Creator/DiscotekMedia.

* AnimatedAdaptation: The second one of ''Darkstalkers'', after the SoBadItsGood [[WesternAnimation/{{Darkstalkers}} american cartoon by Graz Entertainment]].

* BerserkButton: Downplayed; Anita's [[EmotionlessGirl stoicism]] makes her barely react to anything, but she doesn't like anyone messing with her doll, the only surviving memento she has of her decimated village. She shows off her PsychicPowers for the first time when a trio of church boys throw away her doll and try shooting at it with a Dark hunter's rifle. The ''angriest'' she had been when she gives Donovan a DeathGlare for beheading her doll and tries wielding his own sword, Dhylec, with her PsychicPowers in an attempt to kill him, though he easily evades her attacks.
* {{BFS}}: Donovan's hooked sword, Dhylec. Its might is depicted in the OVA when Donovan summons ''Ifrit Sword'' for the first time and carves a massive wedge in the ground, scaring away the humans who tried shooting him out of fear. Anita also tries using it to kill him after he beheads her doll by using PsychicPowers to carry Dhylec, though Donovan evades her attacks easily.

*** Two demon thugs working for Demitri encounter Morrigan in the sewers and try to fight her. Morrigan easily kills them both.

* DeathSeeker: Implied with Anita; Donovan states that Anita has closed off her own emotions because, as the SoleSurvivor of a village decimated by Darkstalkers, she doesn't think she deserves to live. In order to prove to her that she does have the right to live, Donovan brings out rage in Anita by beheading her doll. This is what likely led to [[spoiler:Anita's decision to travel with Donovan]].

* EmotionlessGirl: Anita. Donovan implies that she closed off her own emotions so she could protect herself from the emotional fallout she would potentially suffer from both witnessing her entire village being butchered by Darkstalkers, and the suffering she would bring to others with her PsychicPowers. However, it's deconstructed; Donovan also points out that in doing so, Anita has become selfish in believing that she herself has "no right of existence", and immediately tries proving her wrong by [[OffWithHisHead beheading her beloved doll]], provoking the closest thing she has to rage. She also refuses to acknowledge Donovan as her "friend" when he is severely injured from saving some humans from Hannya, prompting Hsien-Ko to [[WhatTheHellHero angrily yell at her]]. Mei Ling also speculates that stubbornness to remain closed off from her emotions is the only thing she has as protection from the world's horrors. That said, Anita gradually [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts]] throughout the course of the OVA thanks to Donovan's kindness, even [[BreakTheCutie openly crying]] twice and eventually smiling in the end.
* EnemyMine: The house of Aensland propose a temporary alliance with the other noble houses of the Demon World in the wake of Pyron's easy defeat of most of the Darkstalkers. [[DirtyCoward They refuse, asking Morrigan Aensland to defeat Pyron alone instead, while they prepare to attack house Aensland in the chaos.]]

* EvilSmellsBad: Felicia can DetectEvil through smell. When she travels to the human world to get her license to perform there, she is bowled over and left dizzy from an unknown stench, commenting that the town "smells so wrong". As it turns out, human hunters are out to pursue Darkstalkers such as Lord Raptor, who saves her from them during his concert.

** Subverted with Lord Raptor; in the English Dub, Creator/ScottMcNeil gives him a deep, rumbling voice in his human guise, but in his true form as a zombie Darkstalker, his voice takes on a rasping quality. While he's a villain in the game series, he's more of an Antihero here, as he saved Felicia from a group of Dark hunters.

* HappinessInSlavery: Discussed; during a conversation with his butler, Demitri believes that eternal servitude to a vampire lord is the "greatest happiness" humanity can only achieve.
--> '''Demitri Maximoff"''' Is not a lifetime of faithful servitude to me the greatest happiness their kind can attain?

* HighAltitudeBattle: Demitri faces off against Morrigan on the top of his airship while it's flying towards Morrigan's kingdom. However, when hordes of Huitzil robots come pursuing them, they end up fighting together.
* HumansAreFlawed: Humans are arguably shown at both their worst and their best. Many times the Darkstalkers are discriminated against by humans, some of which act even worse than the Darkstalkers at times. There are some humans are willing to help, such as the doctor who helps Felicia after her encounter with the Huitzil. With that said, some darkstalkers are truly evil dangerous monsters and humans have the rightful fear of them as they've been subjected to several attrocities by darkstalkers (the biggest one being Demitri taking over the sun and leaving the humans out of resources and dying).

* KarmaHoudini: Demitri. He took the sun away (which also limited human's food resources and lives) and also killed innocent people all while acting arrogant. He not only survives at the end, but it's implied Morrigan will share the throne of Makai with him and he may become ruler of the demon world as he such much wishes, along being in love with him.

* LackOfEmpathy: Justified with Anita; while she does understand what emotions are, she has willingly closed them off to protect herself from the pain of losing her entire village to Darkstalkers and out of belief that she as the SoleSurvivor doesn't deserve to live. It's deconstructed in that in protecting herself, she cast off what made her human and behaved selfishly, stubbornly believing that humans are "weak" and initially refusing to call Donovan a friend despite his kindness. She later averts it when she does finally gain enough emotion to cry and smile.

* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Lord Raptor tours all over the human realm as a handsome rock star. When admiring himself in a mirror backstage, his reflection briefly shows his true form as a long-dead zombie.

* MsFanservice: Morrigan and Felicia, as usual. Morrigan even appears naked when swimming in a lake on the demon world, where she shows her lovely body.
* NeverMyFault: The leader of the militia who beseiged a town to combat the Darkstalkers has his soldiers fire on Felicia's train that's carrying innocent passengers, leading to many casualties and thousands more injured. He then pins the blame on Felicia for being a "spy" [[FantasticRacism just for being a Darkstalker]], even when Felicia makes it clear that ''he'' was responsible for all those deaths.

** Jon Talbain is similarly colored with one of his alternate palette from the second game.

* StaircaseTumble: Felicia meets Lord Raptor this way; severely disoriented by the smell of Darkstalkers, she ends up tumbling down the stairs backstage.

* TruerToTheText: To date, this OVA is the most faithful depiction of the Darkstalkers series than the western animated series, manga or Udon comics have been.

** Demitri is also depicted as being a genuine threat and a cruel vampire. He wants to drink Morrigan's blood and take over the demon world by force. And unlike the udon comics, he does not need any portal to go to the demon world, he is capable of doing it on his own like the games.
* WorthyOpponent: Demitri and Morrigan regard each other as such for giving the other a good fight. Demitri even gives her a small token of thanks when she destroys a Huitzil robot about to attack him from behind.
* WouldHitAGirl: The Dark hunters pursuing Lord Raptor wouldn't hesitate to train their flamethrowers on a weakened Felicia and [[KillItWithFire burn her alive]] for being a Darkstalker, regardless if she actually did anything wrong against humanity. Lord Raptor [[EveryoneHasStandards takes offense to this]] and harvests the Dark hunters' souls for consumption to protect her. Demitri also has no problem attacking Morrigan, neither does the two vampires thugs Morrigan meets in the human world.