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BioHunter (Special Edition)

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4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Most anime fans seem to gravitate towards the newer, childish, humor-oriented anime, and forget about the thrillers that made the genre popular in the United States to begin with. Biohunter should be one of those classics. It was made by the same people that made Wicked City and Ninja Scroll, two of the most famous old-school anime movies of all time, and it shows. The basic premise of the movie is that werewolves, vampires, and monsters actually could be real, if there were a genetic disorder that mutated people into these creatures. Two professors are fighting these monsters, and one of them has contracted the "demon virus" himself. The character designs are brilliant, especially for the infected professor. The action scenes are intense, and the animation is top-notch. There is a small amount of gore, but just enough to keep it exciting. It's R-rated stuff, but it won't make you sick like some anime. It's only an hour long, but it's definitely not rushed, and you probably won't even notice how short it is. This is one movie that you shouldn't miss out on!

What could be worse than contracting a virus that threatens to overtake you and make you consume human flesh, spreading at random for a seemingly an unknown reason? Try having to hunt the beasts that are infected while being infected yourself, keeping the virus in check (to some degree) while using it as a weapon to both detect the beasts and to destroy them as well. That's the reasoning behind the Bio Hunters, Komada and Koshigaya, and the Demon virus that seems to be working its way through the streets of Tokyo; most notably resulting in a series of brutal attacks on young women of the city and the subsequent ingestion of their internal organs. Still, that's before the oddities of love, emotion, politics, and divination enter the already clustered field.

Although in the really short department (45 minutes isn't something I normally approve of), Bio Hunter more than makes up for this fact with portions of intrigue - and the occasional person that happens across the mind of Yoshisaki Kawajiri. His stamp is more than apparent here, too, with the horror of the story delivering and the pace of the piece moving pretty quickly, showing the viewer that it is the lack of padding and not content that keeps the length minimal. Combine this with quality animation, a plot that drips blood, nudity, violence, some nice scenery dripping blood and violence, and a story that is worth keeping pace with and you have a "special something" that everyone should at least look into.

Let's get off on the right foot here, I find it very annoying how everyone compares every single anime to Ninja Scroll. There is no better anime than Ninja Scroll, ever! There, we've established that so now lets move forward and view this with an open mind. Imagine present day Tokyo, 4 women dead, bodies eaten, their live ivers ripped out. It isn't your usual weirdo or pervert...it's them. Imagine your a professor of molecular biology and you've discovered a new virus. A virus that turns seemingly normal people into deranged beast like killers with demonic powers..the "demon virus". It sounds far out to your colleagues but one believes you, your friend Kumada, and that's because he's been infected by it. It gets worse..at first it's somewhat of an advantage, he has an extrodinary immune system which means he can fight off the virus and use it at his will and transform into a demonic beast and help you in your battle to save lives and irradicate the virus. But now he's losing control of it, the virus is winning and to make matters worse a powerful political figure who controls the police force and has his private gang of machine gun waving thugs hot on your trail has been infected..and they've got your girl too! If you wanna know what else happens i suggest you buy this movie, watch it and then add it to your top ten anime file right next to Akira and Ninja Scroll.

One of the better animes I have seen, Bio Hunter has a pretty original premise. Two men work together to track down "demons". The demons are human but have a disease that causes them to turn to monsters. One of the men handles the medical angle. He has developed a drug that kills off the disease. The other is infected himself but he has an exceptionally strong immune system that allows him to control the transformation.

That is the basic plot and if you want to know what happens to them I guess you have to watch the movie.

So. You might ask. What makes this bad for the kids?

There is one prolonged sex scene right from the get-go. Nudity is sprinkled liberally throughout. Gory violence abounds. There are some disturbing scenes. An example is an attempted rape.

All in all, if you aren't offended by all that then you should give Bio Hunter a chance

I like this anime quite a bit. If you like animes like Wicked City & Vampire Hunder D, (The serious, dark feeling kind) than I think you will find this anime to be quite pleasurable.
It's slightly short (1 hour), but is long enouph to satisfy your yurning.

Definitely worth owning.

Komada and Koshigaya are biologist battling with humans that are infected with a virus that turns them into demons.

One cool twist is Komada is infected with the virus buts seems to be able to fight the virus off just enough to keep his human emotions intact when he sometimes transforms into a demon himself,this helps Koshigaya alot sence his just a scientist battling demons.

Overall it was a pretty good idea with a simple plot.The picture quality was o.k. and the dolby 5.1 sounded more like pro logic 2.0
Go ahead pick this up you won't be dissapointed, but do notice the anime only last 60 min.

When I bought this anime, I thought that is would be good but not excellent. After I finished watching it, I realized that this was one of the better animes that I have watched in a while. The only reason that I didn't give it 5 stars is that it was only like an hour long and it would have been a lot better if they spread this anme out into 2 hours instead. I hope that they come out wth a sequel!

..With plenty of gore to boot! I like this film a lot, because its good anime, action packed and has a good plot. Anybody who likes Ghost In The Shell or Zieram will like this one.

I really liked this one but its storyline was reminiscent of the Devilman series.

Regardless of what I have read here, I think this movie is not on the same technical or artistic merit as Akira or Ghost in the shell are. The graphic art is very poor, the story telling is also very badly done. Any one that is not a japanimation fan but does like pictures like the above mention, will find it as disappointing as I have. I do not recommend this title. don't waste your money .