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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302564761
Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 630256476X
Label: Animeigo
Manufacturer: Animeigo
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Animeigo
Release Date: April 16, 1995
Running Time: 60 minutes
Sales Rank: 42120
Studio: Animeigo
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
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Director Toshihiro Hirano (Magic Knight Rayearth) based this four-part OAV series on a horror manga by his wife, Narumi Kakinouchi, and the title has remained popular since it appeared in 1988-89. In 'Unearthly Kyoto,' the viewer meets Himiko Se, a self-described spiritualist, who has come to the ancient capital to perform an exorcism on a princess who has been in a coma for 60 days. The assignment brings her into conflict with the title character, who has dedicated her existence to destroying the Shinma, a race of demon-gods who attack humans. The two women square off again at a school where the students are inexplicably disappearing in 'A Banquet of Marionettes.' The skeptical, rational Himiko makes an effective foil for the powerful and sensual Miyu, who battles the Shinma with the aid of her redoubtable servant Larva, a creature with a face like a scarred carnival mask. Miyu resembles a cross between a traditional Japanese doll and an anime heroine. She is delicately beautiful, but self-assured and in command of formidable powers. And her beauty has a perverse edge: she remains a vampire who offers humans immortality in exchange for the blood she requires. Quite literally a femme fatale, Miyu recalls the beautiful but deadly heroines so popular in turn-of-the-century Western literature. Unrated; suitable for ages 13 and up for violence and grotesque imagery. --Charles Solomon
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Rating:  - buffy move over
this show gets you to know that there are some things in life like keep friends close and your enimeies closer deal while kicking butt and feeding your lust for blood this show has it all from gay themed show and people becomeing mindless zomies for demons:)
Rating: - Miyu is really cute
This story is made with a idea that Shinma (written as 2 words in japanese: God-Devil) needs to be perished out of the bright world and Miyu is a hunter of Shinma. She hunts Shinma as her destiny according to her words. She is not working for human. When this story was made, the japanese tended to accept any logic like that idea can be OK, but another idea will be OK too. That is the why this kind of story was accepted widely in Japan. (Not by kids, but older than 17-18 years old boys)
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Rating: - Is she friend, or fiend?
Originally released in the late 80s, this anime is a bit outdated but thanks to a fine remastering of vol.'s One and Two of the VPM (Vampire Princess Miyu) OAV's that came out before the more recent TV series, which I haven't seen yet but is said to be more fluff, the picture and sound quality are just like new.
Eternally 13, Miyu is a vampire unlike any other. She often appears as a schoolgirl in broad daylight with an innocent, childlike persona, but a hidden darkness lies within her falsified ... Read More
Rating:  - from Fringe Video Fanzine Issue #006
In-depth sometimes confusing character driven manga with an occult edge about a girl who just happens to be a vampire. At times the animation is remarkable, other times still un-moving animated cells fill the screen. -/In "Unearthly Kyoto" As demons strive to gain control of the earths mortal plane a spiritalist named Himiko travels to Japan to help a child in a coma. Rumors of vampire attacks lead Himiko to discover the mysterious Vampire Princess Miyu. Although its hard to tell at first, ["...is she friend ... Read More
Rating: - Enter the Princess
These episodes mark the first appearance of Miyu, a vampire who has been chosen to hunt demonic creatures called Shinma. Shinma feed on human misery and disaster, which they accomplish through a variety of seductive schemes. Miyu's companion on this lonely, and often grim, task is Larva, a Shinma with whom she has shared blood. In these early stories, it is never clear if the hero of the stories is Miyu or Himiko, a young spiritualist who perceives Miyu as a threat just as great as the demons the vampire hunts.
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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302564761
Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 630256476X
Label: Animeigo
Manufacturer: Animeigo
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Animeigo
Release Date: April 16, 1995
Running Time: 60 minutes
Sales Rank: 42120
Studio: Animeigo
Theatrical Release Date: 1994