Line #36 Anime/BloodTheLastVampire


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3	''Blood: The Last Vampire'' (2000) is an anime film produced by Production I.G and Creator/{{Aniplex}} and directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. A single-volume {{manga}} sequel, ''Blood: The Last Vampire 2000'' written by Benkyo Tamaoki, was published in Japan in 2001 by Kadokawa Shoten, and in English by Creator/VizMedia in November 2002 with the title slightly modified to ''Blood: The Last Vampire 2002''. Three Japanese {{light novel\|s}} adaptations have also been released for the series, along with a video game (which is the 6th game of the interactive adventure ''VisualNovel/{{Yarudora}}'' series). A LiveActionAdaptation of the film with the same title was released in May 2009.
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5	It later received AlternateContinuity sequels, ''[[Anime/BloodPlus Blood+]]'' and ''Anime/BloodC''.
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7	The story is set in the American Yokota Air Base located in post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Japan on Halloween 1966, a few months before the beginning of the [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]]. Its main protagonist is a girl named Saya, who hunts blood-drinking bat-like creatures called chiropterans for a secret organization known as the Red Shield.
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9	!!All adaptations Contains Examples of:
10	* AlternateContinuity: ''Anime/BloodPlus'' and ''Anime/BloodC''.
11	* BloodIsTheNewBlack: Saya in her berserk form.
12	* BraidsOfAction: Saya.
13	* CleanupCrew: Red Shield (The Council in the live-action movie) do this to cover up any evidence of chiropteran existence.
14	* {{Dhampyr}}: Created by crossbreeding experiments between vampire hunters and captured chiropterans.
15	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Saya.
16	* EmotionlessGirl: Saya.
17	* FictionalCounterpart: The USAF Kanto Base. The live-action movie doesn't mention Yokota, but the backdrop of Mount Fuji does imply it's USAF Yokota Air Base.
18	* KatanasAreJustBetter: The katana is Saya's weapon of choice.
19	* LastOfHisKind: It is implied that Saya is the last of the vampires ("originals") as opposed to the vaguely vampiric bat-monster chiropterans.
20	* TheLastTitle: "The Last Vampire".
21	* MeaningfulName:
22	** Multiple meanings for Saya. In Hindi & Kurdish, "saya" means "shadow", and in the latter language, it figuratively means [[AntiHero "care, attention"]]. In Japanese, it means scabbard, referring to [[SheatheYourSword the peace that comes with sheathing your sword]] (making Saya's name [[IronicName ironic]], though also a nod to her katana). A set of Kanji, 沙耶, means [[MysteriousPast "question mark"]].
23	** A ningen is a Japanese underwater cryptid and also means "Earthling" (but in a way that looks down on Earthlings). Onigen's name sounds similar to this.
24	* MoralityPet: For Saya: the nurse Mahiko in the movie, Akiko in the manga.
25	* NeckLift: Saya has a habit of grabbing those that piss her off by the mouth.
26	* NotUsingTheZWord: They're called demons, monsters and Chiroptera. Averted once, presumably for the benefit of the {{Muggle\|s}} nurse who [[FridgeLogic just gave an unbelievable story to identify Saya]].
27	** The Chiropeterans aren't called by this in the 2009 movie. Instead, they're known as blood suckers.
28	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Though not a whole lot is expanded upon in the film, it is shown that Saya cannot be hurt by sunlight. She does, however, seem to have a fear of religious symbols and reacts angrily to those who mention God.
29	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Saya, who has been physically fifteen years old since at ''least'' World War II and wasn't much younger-looking in 1892.
30	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Saya, whose eyes are dull red by default but glow dangerously when her vampiric abilities kick in.
31	* VampireHunter: Saya's profession is killing chiropterans, who are vampires.
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33	!!''Blood: The Last Vampire'' Anime Contains Examples of:
34	* AmbiguousEnding: The existence of Chiropterans as well as the true nature of the killings are covered up as per TheMasquerade. We learn that Saya is a vampire and is at least a century old, but nothing else as she disappears once her job is done. Our main human character is left with horrific memories of what happened and is left to wonder if Saya is still out there waging a one-woman war against the Chiropterans.
35	* BatOutOfHell: Chiropterans appear as monstrous bat creatures and feed on human blood.
36	* BigBad: The unnamed Chiropteran attacking the school.
37	* BilingualBonus: Much like ''Film/BonCopBadCop'', the dialogue switches languages every so often.
38	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The script seemingly goes out of its way to find a black character to kill first (some monsters had died, but he was the first human to have a graphic onscreen death.) We have an old white woman, running from demons when she runs into a giant black American military man on base. She explains to him that said demons are chasing her, and he starts laughing stereotypically, complete with giant nostrils and lips. Needless to say, he ends up standing under that one creepy tree, and the demon grabs him by the head. Disemboweled instantly.
39	* DramaticChaseOpening: The first scene is a hunt inside the subway train.
40	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Vampires attacking a military base on Halloween.
41	* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Saya, of course. Turns her into a veritable MookHorrorShow.
42	* LadyOfWar: Onigen in the movie.
43	* LastOfHerKind: In accordance with the title of the film, Saya is presumably the last vampire in existence; no others beings like her are shown or even hinted at in the film. It raises the question of what became of the other vampires and how/why Saya alone has survived up until now.
44	* TheMasquerade: The public has no idea that Chiropterans exist as a result of a mysterious organization called the Red Shield ensuring that their attacks on humans are covered up. The one person capable of effectively killing Chiropterans, Saya, works with/for the Red Shield and poses as an ordinary girl when undertaking a mission.
45	* TheMenInBlack: David and Louis are members of an organization called the Red Shield which are charged with protecting the world from Chiropterans. Per TheMasquerade, they hide the existence of the Chiropterans from the public and support Saya’s battles against them.
46	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Saya is a vampire but she has no problem walking around during the day. She also doesn’t prey on humans for their blood. Her only traditional vampiric trait is her aversion towards religious objects as well as becoming irritated when people mention God around her.
47	** The Chiropterans definitely live up to this trope as while they feed on humans for their blood, they have monstrous appearances and behave like mindless predators in most instances. They aren’t shown as having any weaknesses towards religious paraphernalia either.
48	* RainOfBlood: Type 2, with a body in a tree.
49	* Really700YearsOld: Saya is a vampire (presumably the last of her kind given the film’s title) and while she looks like a teenaged girl, she is at least a century old.
50	* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Saya wears a uniform for most of the movie and in the manga as well.
51	* TheStoic: Saya.
52	* TheUnreveal: Neither the characters in the film receive much insight into the nature of Saya and/or the Chiropterans. We learn that Saya is a vampire and is at least a century old, but where did she come from? Why does she fight the Chiropterans when she doesn’t seem to like humans all that much? Where do Chiropterans come from and how were they created? If Saya is the last vampire of her kind, what happened to the others? These questions and more have no answers.
53	* TranslationConvention: Various characters on the American Marine base in Okinawa, speak fluent English, or Japanese as appropriate. The DVD didn't offer dub selections for either, but allowed the viewer to choose, which language was subtitled.
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56	!!The Manga Contains Examples of:
57	* AmbiguousEnding: Possibly bordering on DownerEnding. [[spoiler: To make a long story short, Akiko is manipulated into murdering her father (and mutilating her sister's face) and is rendered into a catatonic state and hospitalized (with heavy implication that she's subsequently killed to silence her). Maya reveals the truth behind Saya's past and offers Saya to either eat her and become "complete" vampire or let Maya kill her. [[NeverFoundTheBody Maya's body is never found]] and Saya's handler promptly chews her out for this and threatens to discard her. Cut to a woman that could either be Saya or Maya walking the streets and two panels of the handlers remains...]]
58	* CarCushion: Used when Saya jumps off the roof of the school.
59	* DomesticAbuse: In the manga, Maya to Akiko. Eventually manipulating the poor girl to [[spoiler: murder her entire family, though she only manages to kill her father and mutilate her sister's face.]]
60	* EvilTwin: Saya has a twin sister named Maya.
61	* {{Fanservice}}: The manga is full of this.
62	* HotterAndSexier: The original anime film had virtually no sex or nudity in it. This changed a great deal in the manga.
63	* LesbianVampire: Maya, in the manga.
64	* MeaningfulName: Akiko's name sounds similar to Mahiko, with both having the same last syllable.
65	* PsychoLesbian: Maya.
66	* ThemeTwinNaming: '''S'''aya and '''M'''aya.
67	* TheUnfavourite: Akiko felt that her parents loved her younger sister more.
68	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Akiko eventually slides into this due to Maya's influence.
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70	!!The 2009 movie Contains Examples of:
71	* AbsurdCuttingPower: Saya cuts rocks thrown at her in half with her Katana, and contrary to what one would expect isn't left with a broken sword but a perfectly sharp blade afterwards.
72	* AliceAllusion: Alice [=McKee=]'s name is derived from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' for her first name (for Alice, it means she [[DownTheRabbitHole gets mixed up in a supernatural world]]; for Saya, both Saya & the story's Alice are lost girls in a world that is strange to them), and her last name is from the first syllables of Mahiko, who she replaces in the live-action adaptation. It also might be referencing how this Alice gets a "key" into "wonderland".
73	* AudibleSharpness: All over the place. At one point Saya's sword makes noise ''in its sheath''.
74	* BadassLongCoat: Saya has one in the beginning of the movie. Later she dresses as a {{Joshikousei}}.
75	* BigBad: Onigen, the leader of the Chiropterans attacking the school in the live-action movie.
76	* BulletTime: The movie sure loves this for the action scenes, almost every move Saya makes is shown in slow motion. Visual ShoutOut (or blatant rip-off) to ''Film/TheMatrix'' occur when both Saya and Onigen perform the famous dodge by bending over backwards.
77	* TheDragon: One Eye is this for Onigen in the movie, considering that it was him who killed Saya's mentor, this is kinda expected.
78	* InterestingSituationDuel: Saya battles TheDragon on a truck stuck between two cliffsides, saving her friend from falling down in between swordstrokes.
79	* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Onigen is Saya's mother. [[LukeIMightBeYourFather Or possibly she's just messing with Saya.]]]]
80	* MythologyGag: Saya's mother [[spoiler:is Onigen, the leader of the Chiropterans]], similar to how Saya from ''Blood+'' is [[spoiler:the most recent descendant (along with Diva) of a line of Chiropteran Queens]].
81	* ShoutOut: [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice]] [=McKee=] is the adaptation's version of Makiho, highlighting that she's just an ordinary person that goes DownTheRabbitHole when she gets mixed up in one of Saya's missions. At the end of the movie when asked if she knows the whereabouts of Saya, Alice answers that she is "searching for a way back from the other side of the looking glass." (as in, describing Saya as a lost girl like the Alice from the story).

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