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    Blood, The Last Vampire


    Genre: Animation For Adults

    Reviewed In Issue 54 (Nov 2001) Of Widescreen Review®

    Stars:
    The Voice Talents Of Joe Romersa, Stuart Robinson, Rebecca Forstadt, Tom Fahn, Fitz Houston, Steve Blum, Paul Carr, Chuck Campbell & Dave Mallow

    WSR Review Scores
    WSR Picture Rating: 5
    DD Sound Rating: 4
    DTS Sound Rating: NA
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    Critics' Composite Score: 4
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    Special Features
    Includes an English subtitled making-of featurette, a photo gallery, DVD-ROM and trailer.


     DVD General Information

    (Studio/Distributor): Manga Video
    (Catalog Number): 4078-2 WRO1
    (MPAA Rating): Not Rated
    (Rating Reason):
    (Retail Price): $24.95
    (DVD Type): Single Side, Single Layer (DVD5)
    (Widescreen Edition): Yes
    (Full Screen Edition): No
    (Anamorphic Widescreen): Yes
    (Running Time In Minutes): 48
    (Color Type): Color
    (Chaptered/Scene Access): Yes
    (Closed Captioned): No
    (Regional Coding): 1
    (Theatrical Year): 2000
    (Theatrical Release): Yes
    (Direct-To-Video Release): No
    (DVD Release Date): 08/28/01
    (THX® Digitally Mastered): No

     Credits Information

    (Director): Hiroyuki Kitakubo
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      WSR Narrative Review
    Story Synopsis:
    Blood, The Last Vampire takes place in the fall of 1966. The Vietnam War is under way, but a threat greater than the war dwells within the U.S. Military compound. Hired by a top-secret organization, Saya

    DVD Picture:
    The anamorphically enhanced 1.85:1 DVD exhibits gorgeous anime images that exhibit good definition and

    Soundtrack:
    The Dolby

      WSR DVD-ROM Review
    DVD-ROM Enhancements Rating:
    Disappointing

    DVD-ROM Review:
    Viewing the DVD-ROM features included with this title do not just jump out at you - you must do a little searching. On the disc, you can find a screensaver, the original trailer, two desktop wallpapers, and a Web site link. To find the screensaver, you must open the folder for your disc drive, and double click on the Extras folder. You then double click Screensaver, and open the folder Win (if you are running Windows) or Mac (if you are running Mac OS). In the Win folder, you run the program Install.exe, and in Mac OS, you run the file called Blood. The screensaver is a montage of images from the film with lines written in Japanese below the images. The trailer is found in the Trailer folder after double clicking the Extras folder. The trailer is in a mpeg format, thus you must have a mpeg viewer installed onto your computer to view it. Entering the Wallpaper folder located in the Extras folder is where you can find the two desktop wallpapers. You can view them in your favorite Internet browser by opening the file Picture.htm found in that folder. You then choose the resolution you want to use, and right click on the screen selecting set as wallpaper to make it your desktop image. There really is not much to this title, and without an easy to use installation method that is more user friendly, I am forced to bestow Blood with the rating of Disappointing.

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