YMMV / The Empire of Corpses

• Adaptation Displacement: Because Funimation licensed the movie but the novel still hasn't been translated into English^note Haikasoru, which has translated Itoh's and Toh Enjoe's books before, said in a twitter reply they may do it in the future, but there's nothing concrete as of this writing, most Western fans only know the movie's version of events.
• Spiritual Adaptation:
  • Of Anno Dracula. Both are set in a Victorian era altered by a famous literary monster (this time it's Frankenstein) and feature a cast of Public Domain characters.
  • Its premise is very similar to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but with the other stories entangled around Frankenstein. Both even have Mycroft Holmes as M.
• Only the Creator Does It Right: The anime gets this treatment from a sizeable western fanbase, commonly citing too much focus on bombastic set-pieces and the narrative that is perceived to not quite measure to what fans expected from the late Project Itoh's literature works.