Yami no Teiou - Kyuuketsuki Dracula (16mm HD 1080p Scan)
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Happy Halloween! Here's a release you guys might like: an HD scan of "Yami no Teiou - Kyuuketsuki Dracula", scanned directly from 16mm!
This was an adaptation of Marvel Comics' "Tomb of Dracula", done by Toei. In this anime, Dracula steals a woman that was intended to be a bride for Lucifer—overcome by love, he is unable to suck her blood and instead decides to marry her & the two even have a kid together. However, Lucifer isn't happy, and a lot of people are out to get Dracula—including a distant relative of his and the children of several victims whom he killed many years ago...
After this aired on Japanese television, well—much like Toei's Frankenstein adaptation (which aired years later and which I also subbed lol), it never re-aired after that and was never officially released on any form of Japanese home media. Can't say the same for Frankenstein, but for Dracula there's actually no way of knowing if this is indeed lost media—and no I'm not just saying that because there's no home media release in Japan. Through a separate source...Toei has admitted that this isn't even in their archives—either they legitimately don't have this anymore or they do and they just haven't bothered digging that deep for it.
This however did get an English dub release in America and several DVD releases in Europe, one of which included the JP audio track as a bonus.
These reels were acquired from Yahoo Auctions JP in...2019 I think? Fun fact: a separate auction for the reels had shown up on the same site when I was in high school and stayed up for quite some time, but alas I could not buy these as the listing was expensive at the time and OFC I had no means of purchasing them as a jobless student.
I really do wish I had somehow gotten those reels instead, because the ones used for this release aren't pretty unfortunately. LOTS of dirt, scratches, and blue mold everywhere...color correction was done for this release, but beyond that, a full restoration is impossible currently. Though if new reels ever show up again I'd definitely look into getting those and doing a v2 of this!
As usual, scanning & encoding was by Kineko Video. The subs for this release were taken from Over-Time, however their version had mistranslated/missing lines which have since then been fixed up for this release—work courtesy of Yume. The English dub has also been stitched to this scan, stitched by Jefferson Taylor and taken from a newly-recorded VHS copy of his.
Happy Halloween! Here's a release you guys might like: an HD scan of "Yami no Teiou - Kyuuketsuki Dracula", scanned directly from 16mm!
This was an adaptation of Marvel Comics' "Tomb of Dracula", done by Toei. In this anime, Dracula steals a woman that was intended to be a bride for Lucifer—overcome by love, he is unable to suck her blood and instead decides to marry her & the two even have a kid together. However, Lucifer isn't happy, and a lot of people are out to get Dracula—including a distant relative of his and the children of several victims whom he killed many years ago...
After this aired on Japanese television, well—much like Toei's Frankenstein adaptation (which aired years later and which I also subbed lol), it never re-aired after that and was never officially released on any form of Japanese home media. Can't say the same for Frankenstein, but for Dracula there's actually no way of knowing if this is indeed lost media—and no I'm not just saying that because there's no home media release in Japan. Through a separate source...Toei has admitted that this isn't even in their archives—either they legitimately don't have this anymore or they do and they just haven't bothered digging that deep for it.
This however did get an English dub release in America and several DVD releases in Europe, one of which included the JP audio track as a bonus.
These reels were acquired from Yahoo Auctions JP in...2019 I think? Fun fact: a separate auction for the reels had shown up on the same site when I was in high school and stayed up for quite some time, but alas I could not buy these as the listing was expensive at the time and OFC I had no means of purchasing them as a jobless student.
I really do wish I had somehow gotten those reels instead, because the ones used for this release aren't pretty unfortunately. LOTS of dirt, scratches, and blue mold everywhere...color correction was done for this release, but beyond that, a full restoration is impossible currently. Though if new reels ever show up again I'd definitely look into getting those and doing a v2 of this!
As usual, scanning & encoding was by Kineko Video. The subs for this release were taken from Over-Time, however their version had mistranslated/missing lines which have since then been fixed up for this release—work courtesy of Yume. The English dub has also been stitched to this scan, stitched by Jefferson Taylor and taken from a newly-recorded VHS copy of his.
Enjoy!
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