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Blood: The Last Vampire (2009 - Live Action) Coming to Blu-ray in October

By brenden ⋅ July 3, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Can’t say I was a huge fan of the 2000 animated version of Blood: The Last Vampire. I mean, I really wanted to like it. I tried. But it just came up short for me. And I’m not referring to the 48 minute runtime here. The film just left me wanting. I loved Production I.G.’s animation. Blood looked great. It just didn’t feel like a great vampire story to me.

That being said, I am kind of excited to check out the Blood: The Last Vampire live action film when it opens in theatres here, in Canada (perhaps it’ll be playing at the Fantasia Film Fest in the next couple of weeks?) Despite the film only just making it’s cinematic debut overseas, the Japanese Blu-ray release has already been announced. The Asian Blu-ray Guide got the scoop today:

“Jeon Ji-Hyun’s adventures as the katana-wielding vampire huntress Saya will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on October 9th. According to CDJapan both releases will include English subtitles, even though the original language is English anyway…Sadly you can’t always trust the region code information coming from CDJapan, but so far no Kadokawa Blu-ray Disc has been reported as region locked.”

Tags: Animation, Anime, Blood: The Last Vampire, Japan, Martial Arts