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Most
people's impressions of Blood: The Last Vampire was "ok, but
it ended far too quickly." Not a lot was summed up in the 40
minutes and finished with a lot of unanswered questions. So the question
needs to be asked, with Kai Doh Maru being from the same production
house Production IG, have the lessons from Blood been learned? I'm
guessing not.
Kai Doh Maru sees recently orphaned Kintoki flee from her parents
killers and found by Raiko, the captain of "The Four Knights".
Kintoki is renamed Kai Doh Maru and is brought up to be a warrior
with the Four Knights which leads to much blood shed and killing as
two political factions fight over power of a single town.
What shouldn't be right, is that the storyline written above comes
mainly from the back of the DVD case. The case seems to give more
insight to the film than the film actually does, which really isn't
right. What we get is a rushed 40 minutes trying to squeeze in as
much info as possible and ends up being a mess of a storyline jumping
back and forth. Kai Doh Maru seems to build up to a possible huge
explosive ending and ends up being a small wind release. 'Extremely
anti-climatic' aren't the words to use, think of something much stronger
to describe it.
Animation and design-wise the film does regain a little self-respect
back. While the bland colour styles used aren't fantastic, they do
give an old historical feel to the film, as it should. But character
designs bring the film down another notch, Kintoki being the worst
one, with me sitting there think she was a guy with a high-pitched
voice. I know she was brought up as a boy, but it could of least of
looked like she was a bit more feminine.
Kai Doh Maru may have been made by Production IG and from the creators
of Blood, as the box proudly says, but it doesn't excuse the fact
that Kai Doh Maru is stupidly short with little to no background info
and damn right confusing. If you've exhausted ever other option for
something to watch and really feel the need to watch a DVD or have
a gun being pointed at your head, then consider it. Unless your under
those circumstances, don't bother picking it off the shelf. Look for
something else to watch.
3/10 - No need to point the gun at my head, I'll happily pull
the trigger to stop watching
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