The character, Count Magnus Lee, is named as an homage to Christopher Lee who played Dracula in a long series of Hammer Films.
The film takes place in 12090.
The sword D carries is a Grosse Messer (German for Great Knife)
Hideyuki Kikuchi, the writer of the Vampire Hunter D novels that this movie is based on, uses more of the Hammer Horror Film collection of Dracula movies as his basis for storytelling rather than the original Dracula novel written by Bram Stoker or the classic Universal Pictures collection of vampire films that began with Drácula (1931).
In the original Stoker novel, Dracula was a magical being who could walk around in daylight, could shape shift into multiple forms (bats, a wolf, fog, rats), and could use hypnosis as a means of distant communication between himself and his victims/cohorts. There was also an emphasis that only natural Earth elements could fight him off (and fight vampires in general) that included - garlic, rose stems, communion wafers (grains and bread), mirrors, and silver. And while the Universal Pictures movie series subtly used many of those ideas from the novel in their own Dracula films, it was actually the Hammer Horror series that nonchalantly created the more commonly known (and popular) rules that most all non-Bram Stoker vampire stories have adhere(d) to: Crosses frighten, paralyze, and burn vampires. Holy water can melt a vampire like it was acid. Sunlight turns any part of a vampire it hits into ash. If a vampire falls into a large body of water, they would become paralyzed and slip into a coma. Human blood could immediately cure most ailments a vampire has sustained (open wounds, fatigue, and depression, etc). And any item associated with the Catholic Church can automatically be used as a weapon to fight off a vampire in general (cloaks, bibles, incense, candles, and the building itself, etc).
Yet, one of the most obscure, but most important, rules that the Hammer Horror Films had ever created was in how only pure wooden stakes through the heart could kill a vampire while anything else would just stun them. This law specifically explains a moment in this Vampire Hunter D movie when D was stabbed through the heart by Rei, yet somehow survived. In the original Vampire Hunter D novel, the Left Hand character explained that a metal stake was used and that D simply needed to "wake up" after Left Hand removed it and absorbed the elemental powers of Wind and Earth around them both to help speed up the rejuvenation process.
Since these Hammer-based rules and regulations have all appeared in many of the Vampire Hunter D novels at various points in time, one can also then assume that the main protagonist in the Vampire Hunter D franchise, D, is the descendant of the Dracula played by Christopher Lee and not the Dracula from the original novel or the Dracula played by Bela Lugosi.
In the original Stoker novel, Dracula was a magical being who could walk around in daylight, could shape shift into multiple forms (bats, a wolf, fog, rats), and could use hypnosis as a means of distant communication between himself and his victims/cohorts. There was also an emphasis that only natural Earth elements could fight him off (and fight vampires in general) that included - garlic, rose stems, communion wafers (grains and bread), mirrors, and silver. And while the Universal Pictures movie series subtly used many of those ideas from the novel in their own Dracula films, it was actually the Hammer Horror series that nonchalantly created the more commonly known (and popular) rules that most all non-Bram Stoker vampire stories have adhere(d) to: Crosses frighten, paralyze, and burn vampires. Holy water can melt a vampire like it was acid. Sunlight turns any part of a vampire it hits into ash. If a vampire falls into a large body of water, they would become paralyzed and slip into a coma. Human blood could immediately cure most ailments a vampire has sustained (open wounds, fatigue, and depression, etc). And any item associated with the Catholic Church can automatically be used as a weapon to fight off a vampire in general (cloaks, bibles, incense, candles, and the building itself, etc).
Yet, one of the most obscure, but most important, rules that the Hammer Horror Films had ever created was in how only pure wooden stakes through the heart could kill a vampire while anything else would just stun them. This law specifically explains a moment in this Vampire Hunter D movie when D was stabbed through the heart by Rei, yet somehow survived. In the original Vampire Hunter D novel, the Left Hand character explained that a metal stake was used and that D simply needed to "wake up" after Left Hand removed it and absorbed the elemental powers of Wind and Earth around them both to help speed up the rejuvenation process.
Since these Hammer-based rules and regulations have all appeared in many of the Vampire Hunter D novels at various points in time, one can also then assume that the main protagonist in the Vampire Hunter D franchise, D, is the descendant of the Dracula played by Christopher Lee and not the Dracula from the original novel or the Dracula played by Bela Lugosi.
When the chariot of the count arrives in the village, in the population appear Kenshirô and Lynn.