Yami no Teio: Kyuuketsuki Dracula

On a seemingly normal night in Boston, a satanic ritual is taking place: a bride is to be offered up as a sacrifice. However, Dracula, the King of Vampires, swoops in and steals her, with the intent of depriving the woman of both her blood and her life. And yet, despite his earlier motives for abducting the bride, Dracula is astonished by her beauty and decides to keep the woman as his wife.

He and Domini, his spouse, lead a fruitful life together, bearing a healthy son by the name of Janus, with Dracula's crime against Satan fading from memory. On the other hand, Satan hasn't forgiven him for stealing his rightful bride and is plotting to ruin his happiness when the time is right. Another group, the Vampire Hunters, similarly wish to destroy Dracula as vengeance for the souls he has taken to feed himself.

Now carrying the burden of a family, Dracula must protect himself from Satan's plots as well as from the vengeful Vampire Hunters in a desperate fight for survival and forbidden love.

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Dracula Main

Utsumi, Kenji Japanese

Harker, Quincy Main

Hisamatsu, Yasuo Japanese

Janus ing

Sogabe, Kazuyuki Japanese

Prince of Darkness, Satan ing

Shibata, Hidekatsu Japanese

Tomo ing

Tanaka, Yasuo Japanese

Voice of God ing

Fujii, Toshiyuki Japanese

Malissa ing

Nakano, Seiko Japanese

Layla ing

Katsura, Reiko Japanese

Lupeski ing

Takiguchi, Junpei Japanese

Domini ing

Suzuki, Hiroko Japanese

Okazaki, Minoru Director

Yamano, Satoko Theme Song Performance

Yokoyama, Seiji Music

Nagaoka, Akinori Assistant Director

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Apr 29, 2025

TheNoo

Recommended

The 4th review in my shitty anime review series. Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned, holy crap I actually enjoyed this one. No caveats, no "get shitfaced", no "watch with a friend", I actually deadass enjoyed "sinking my fangs" into this one.

Story: 8/10, it's a pretty decent vampire story to be fair. Following Dracula as he attempts to protect himself and his wife from Satan, God, and a group of vampire hunters who are all after his life. For the constant absurdities the story spews, it flows surprisingly well and honestly was a joy to watch. Sure some bits felt insane or nonsensical - but, this ... is an anime that does *not* have the "Slice-Of-Life" genre and deals with supernatural creatures and demons, I think it's unfair to slash at the film for something that it clearly *doesn't* need to do.

Characters Design: 8/10, I love Dracula's design, both aesthetically and his actual personality. He comes off as a very tragic figure, being a revived Vlad the Impaler (who in this was a patriotic Ruler who cared and protected his people) cursed with vampirism and immortality. He falls in love with a mortal human and has a child, the wife however was initially the promised bride to Satan and so sparks to plot. Dracula unironically comes off as a great person, he's shown to care deeply for his wife and son, consistently puts himself in harms way to protect others. Sure it's not your conventional Dracula retelling where he's a smug bastard who revels in his power and cares for no-one but himself, but it still holds a certain charm that makes it fun to watch. The other *relevant* characters would be spoilers to the film, so I'll just say while not as developed as the Count himself, they aren't detrimental to the plot and I have no qualms with them.

Animation: 5/10, cut this some slack. "oh it looks choppy, it looks bad" boo fucking hoo, this came out in the 1980s, and it looks pretty goddamn good. If you can't watch something because it's old or whatever, then simply stay away from this to begin with. Otherwise, it doesn't take away from anything, and I'd go as far as to say it's decent considering the age of the film.

Sound: 9/10, the OST in this is amazing. It actively captures the right kind of atmosphere it wants to whenever it tries, sure some sound effects hold me back from giving it a 10, but otherwise it's right up there. The VA is pretty good as well and no complaints there.

Ending: 6/10, honestly I can't say too much here without spoiling it. But, I will say the ending felt a tad bit rushed and kept me from rating it a 9.

Overall: 8/10, this is actually a fun watch. Compared to the other low rated shows I've seen so far, this was actually entertaining without me looking for things to poke fun at. I fully recommend checking this out if you ever get the chance, it's only one and a half hours and it's bloody fun.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 22, 2024

therex55213

Mixed Feelings

This anime might be about vampires, but I'm starting to think you people are the ones out for blood.
I found this item on a list of "lowest rated" anime, and quite honestly after watching it? Looking at its contemporaries in the year before and the year after? Y'all are just mean. Sure, it's mid, and let's count the ways:

Story: 5/10. A series of coincidences, god and the devil conspire to subject Dracula to the worst day(s?) of his life. A little disted but at no point did it really lose me. Felt somewhat like an episodic miniseries compressed into a film, mind, but that was ... not uncommon for the time. Overarching plot is your usual tragic vampire in love with a human fare, no real surprises there but also not necessarily handled poorly.

Characters: 5/10. Flat and one-note for the most part, Dracula the perpetually kicked dog gets the most characterization and development despite not really being protagonist or antagonist in his own film. I've seen better, but I've seen worse.

Art: 6/10. Dated now, but of its era and by golly not the worst of its era. Mid for sure, but for the quality of art and animation coming out at the time ('79-'80) it is no worse than its kin. Jerky, but there are other much more beloved things from this era that looked as bad or worse.

Sound: 6/10: A little repetitive, but serviceable. They knew the halloween vibe they were going for in the soundtrack and while it was a miss in some places it was a hit in others. Sound effects were on the lower end, but the music was fine to good.

Enjoyment: 6/10. Got some legit laughs out of me as Dracula's (un)life just kept getting worse. Beyond that, the film set out to tell a modern Dracula dark fantasy story and I guess it accomplished that.

Mean score: 5.6/10, rounded to nearest whole as 6/10.
I see people in the reviews here comparing it to The Room or Garzey's Wing. Take a step back and look at the year of this thing's release, and the adjacent years. You really think Mobile Suit Gundam "lets have characters just say the themes of our show explicitly out loud while animation errors punctuate every scene" is better than this? It isn't, don't kid yourself. This is just a mid anime movie from 1980, probably produced in 1979, and every element of it speaks to that. I wouldn't recommend people bother with watching it, but I won't ridicule it for the craftsmanship normal of its era.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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May 8, 2020

Hanma_Orochi

Not Recommended

Hello everyone ! well, this time is the time to review a classical yet quite obscure anime (for the right reasons), but, before starting this no spoiler review i want to clear some stuff up, first of all, it is not as bad as people say sometimes, calling it absolute trash or the worst horror anime ever, and another thing is that this is not a adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel, but actually an adaptation of the Marvel comics story of a same name that is a adaptation of the novel, so this is kinda of the adaptation of a adaptation (yeah quite ... messy).
Now lets get into it, as i mentione this is an adaptation of an adaptation, trying to convert a book converted into a comic book into a anime is a task that well, can be called tough at the very least. In this anime you will see some points from the novel, others totally made up and some that i dont know if were originated from the comics because i didnt read it haha, and that is the problem, the anime tried to be original and to be faithful at the same time, which cause it to end up boring and rushed at the same time.
The movie tells the story of a satanic cult trying to realize and "black sabbath" or a "dark cult" in order to summon satan and present him a new bride, with Dracula being the messenger to Satan, taking the bride to him, but he ends up falling in love with her and betrays Satan and the whole cult. On the other hand we have descendents of Van Helsing and the Harker family who are there to hunt and kill the non-life king Nosferatu Dracula.
This sums up the plot and the initial story being told, but there are some plot twists and revelations that cause the movie to become boring sometimes or totally nonsense, but then when things have to be solved it gets very rushed in, which is the biggest problem from this anime.
That anime is indeed a classic of horror and a very underated one, if you are a horror anime fan, or a vampire fan or someone who really likes classical 70/80´s anime i would recommend you gave it a try, of course it is not a mandatory one as we have Golgo 13, Kick no Oni, Sagata Sanchirou and Ashita no Joe on that period, but if you already saw those and doesnt have anything better, give old Dracula a chance, also, it is a stand alone movie so if you dont like it so much, at least you wont need to see 20+ to find out what happened.
Technically speaking the art style is average most othe time, but has times of glory throught the movie and has that early 80's and late 70's style that i do enjoy, the only problem is with the sound, the soundtrack is good, but the voice action quality sometimes feel off, but as it is very old i can understand why converted versions have a worse quality sound wise. Well, in resume, give it a try guys, i believe even if you dislike it you will still have some good laughs with some crazy over the top stuff that happens there.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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