Blood: The Last Vampire - Recommendations

• TV (26 eps)
• 2002

Samurai Deeper Kyo is a story of two men in one body - the humble, polite Mibu Kyoshiro and the legendary samurai Onime-no-Kyo, who has a price on his head. Consequently, Mibu Kyoshiro is captured for having an uncanny resemblance to the samurai. As the story of SDK progresses, we learn more about the two unique souls that inhabit the same body.

• OVA (3 eps)
• 2000

Setsuno Muda is a high school boy with a cruel fate, trapped in a forbidden love for his blood sister and inhabited by the spirit of the Organic Angel Alexiel. As the final battle between Heaven and Hell approaches, and forces gather against him, he must soon make decisions that will inevitably alter his future for better or worse. But for poor young Setsuno, his anguish and torment might be more overwhelming than the blood on his hands, as conflicts are settled and lives are changed forever...

• Movie (1 ep x 8 min)
• 2003

By the age of twenty, O-Ren Ishii was one of the world's top female assassins. Her first taste of death was bearing witness to her parent's murder by a ruthless Yakuza boss, Matsumoto. Using her childish innocence and feminine wiles, O-Ren pursues Matsumoto, intending to escort him to his bloody end.

• OVA (1 ep x 73 min)
• 2009

During the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front, a group of Soviet teenagers, each with an extraordinary ability, are drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army. They are opposed by a Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th Century Order of the Sacred Cross and enlist them in the Nazi cause.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2011

Bitten by a vampire while pregnant, Eric Brooks' mother gave birth to a baby boy: a child born with all the strengths of a vampire and only one of its weaknesses. Struggling with a blood thirst but imbued with supernatural powers, that child has become the vampire hunter known as Blade. Seeking justice for his mother and peace for himself, Blade tracks Deacon Frost, the vampire who killed her, throughout Asia. 

• OVA (1 ep x 30 min)
• 2016

It is the year 2025, five years since devastating terrorist attacks put an end to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. An international school run by the United Nations now stands in the former Olympic site on the edge of Tokyo Bay. Hana Togetsu is sent to that school as a part of the special unit run by the UN and her mission is to retrieve a student Shunichi Nanase. As she is about to complete her mission, American military arrives in search for a different man but that disrupts Hana's mission and the situation soon turns bloody and violent.

• OVA (1 ep x 17 min)
• 2006

A young woman awakens in a desolate town with no inhabitants. She’s unable to read signposts or remember anything about who she is or what she’s doing there. All she can do is recognize the symbols that appear on her hands, identifying her as Agarta, devourer of dragons. Alone and in an unfamiliar place, Agarta must remember the reason she is there and defeat the evils within.