Grabbing chunks wholesale from a variety of anime and live action vampire stories, NightWalker serves up a few good parts and quirky characters, but is for the most part too derivative, too scattered, and too angsty to distinguish itself from its kin, and not even stylish enough to feel at home with them.Īh, another vampires hunting monsters series (see: Hellsing, Vampire Princess Miyu, Darkstalkers, Vampire Hunter D, Blade, et al). ![]() Aside from the concept it fails to take advantage of, it's biggest strengths are probably the cool funky soundtrack and solid cast from the leads down through a variety of single-episode appearances. ![]() The relatively light early episodes and generally non-noir visual style provides an odd contrast for the darker later part of the series, and on the whole it doesn't go where I would have expected, but the individual (and mostly self-contained) episodes are predictable, lacking in originality, and not much fun, either, and it doesn't even look stylish enough to forgive the generic vampiric angst. Though the idea of a friendly vampire detective sounds like it has potential, in the end Night Walker is yet another dark, angst-ridden vampire drama.
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