Until very recently, video game adaptations were successful among production companies. This happened because a good list of producers had no idea what they worked with – they just knew that a particular title was popular among the children. This is how Dark came to life. The short -lived animated series is based on a series of popular video games, and since its release in 1995, it has been mainly forgotten. Now Crunchyroll and Discotek bring The show in a blu-ray outing that strikes the shelves in October.
Dark tell the story of a descendant of Merlin Which gathers with mythical creatures such as vampires, werewolves and merfolk to prevent an extraterrestrial suzerain from conquering the world. To do this, the villain recruits supernatural creatures called Darkstalkers to wreak havoc on the planet.
At the time he was released, Dark Critics shocked for two reasons. The first is that the original combat game is incredibly violent and full of sexual references, so the announcement of a children’s show based on her surprised everyone. Once it is released, it has become clear that all adult references have been cut off from history and iconography. Then another surprise came: the story is barely similar to video games, and the quality of animation was massacred by criticism and fans. Despite its sadly famous elements, the series has become a kind of relic because of its disappearance from consumer media.
“Darkstalkers” really a series of anime?
Can television shows like Avatar: the last Airbender,, Samurai JackAnd Batman beyond be considered an anime? Some fans would say they can because the influence of Japanese art style is obvious in each framework. On the other hand, we have high -level series like Solowhich is entirely based on South Korean products but made in Japan. If you have used similar standards, Dark would certainly be considered an anime series, but the small difference here is that Dark has not become as emblematic as these other programsEven if he still lives in the memories of his fans base – and now he can also exist on their shelves.
In addition, Dark Received the complete anime treatment – which underlines its influences – in 1997, when it was published as an original video animation of four episodes (OVA) produced by Madhouse, the same animation studio responsible for anime classics such as Yu yu hakusho,, TrigunAnd CARDCAPTOR SAKURA. THE Dark The OVA series is also available for purchase at the Crunchyroll store.
THE Dark The Blu-Ray edition arrives at the shelves on October 28.
Dark
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Kyle Labine
Harry Grimoire
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Safran Henderson
Morrigan Aensland
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Michael Donovan
Half Maximoff
