Vampire Princess Miyu [OAV Series]

Regia: Toshihiro Hirano
Year: Japan 1988
Number of discs: 1
Production: Yamato Video, 2006
Technical data: 110 minutes

Shinma are supernatural creatures, who devour the hearts of men and lead them to ruin. Long ago, they were sealed off in Darkness ... yet some of them live secretly among humans, hiding in the line that separates day from night. But there is someone struggling to send the Shinma back to the Darkness they belong to: the Guardian and a charming vampire. His name is Miyu, and no one knows his secret.

Ep. 1- Otherworldly Kyoto
Ep. 2- A puppet party
Ep. 3- Fragile armor
Ep. 4- Still time ..

Vampire Princess Miyu

Regia: Toshihiro Hirano
Year: Japan 1988
Number of discs: 1
Production: Yamato Video, 2006
Technical data: 110 minutes

Miyu is a teenager similar in appearance to many others, and is in high school. What his companions ignore (or only discover in unpleasant and dangerous circumstances) is that Miyu is a powerful vampire, whose job it is to guard the passageways between the human world and that of the Shinma, powerful form-changing entities that they feed on the life force of men. Her allies are Larva, a masked Shinma she defeated and has been her protector ever since, and the familiar little demon Shiina, who can see through illusions. Miyu herself has the power to control fire, as well as the strength and wisdom of an ancient vampire, and must harness her abilities to counter the forces of darkness - not just the Shinma of Japan, but the threat of invasion by of the Western Shinma, and the ambiguous Reiha, who may be another immortal guardian. But how long can a vampire live among humans and remain immune to their emotions? ...

Vampire Princess Miyu. TV series. Vol. 2

Regia: Toshihiro Hirano
Year: Japan 1988
Number of discs: 1
Production: Yamato Video, 2006
Technical data: 125 minutes

Miyu mysteriously disappears from a taxi. For her, this is a simple joke, but the taxi driver is discovered dead and rumors run that a vampire is to blame. Miyu begins the investigation, and soon finds himself facing an unexpected enemy. Kiyoshi and Kayo are brother and sister and have supernatural powers; but these gifts have made it impossible for them to enter society and now they live as vagabonds. Friendship with a stray dog ​​seems to bring a little light into their life, but it is the beginning of a tragedy. Miho was discovered by a famous producer and is due to debut as a singer. Seeing her insecure and afraid, the producer himself gives her a pair of red shoes as a gift of good luck. The girl overcomes her shyness and enthusiastically begins her career. But the influence of the red shoes is not over. A young couple adopts a recently deceased neighbor's cat. The cat seems to bring happiness and good luck, but while the husband`s affairs improve visibly, the wife`s affection for the cat becomes an obsession that leads her to neglect her work. Vacation time, to spend in a spa town. On the shore of the lake, Chisato meets a child who is waiting for someone to arrive. Miyu and Reiha sense the presence of a Shinma, but when they arrive at the lake to investigate they discover a strange sight. Contains the episodes of the series n. 6 - 10 ..

Vampire Princess Miyu. TV series. Vol. 3

Regia: Toshihiro Hirano
Year: Japan 1988
Number of discs: 1
Production: Yamato Video, 2007
Technical data: 125 minutes

A Yakuza killer is injured and upon awakening discovers that a mysterious surgeon has completely altered his appearance. He decides to start a different life and without being recognized he courts his ex-girlfriend, while the city lives in terror for a series of incomprehensible murders. In search of his lost cat, a young man enters the garden of a dilapidated villa. There he meets a mysterious woman, who claims to love cats. When Miyu's friends entrust him with a kitten, he decides to give it to him, but it seems that the old villa appears only after sunset ... A ghost ship is sailing the northern sea; at the same time Larva's behavior becomes more and more strange and in the end he disappears, leaving behind him an inexplicable message: "The light of the sea". Left without her protector, Miyu must face a Shinma determined to kill her. The captain of the ghost ship is a Shinma from the west, who hopes to free his old friend Larva from the spell that binds him to Miyu. Meanwhile, Miyu herself has reached the shores of the North Sea and, with the help of the unreliable Reiha and two misled Shinma, prepares to take back Larva. Contains the episodes of the series n. 11 - 14

Vampire Princess Miyu. TV series. Vol. 4

Regia: Toshihiro Hirano
Year: Japan 1988
Number of discs: 1
Production: Yamato Video, 2007
Technical data: 125 minutes

How is it possible that a mermaid is imprisoned in the municipal aquarium? Yet it is there, beautiful, in a room almost always closed to the public. Leaving all doubts aside, the young Tokishiro is determined to free her. However, he did not think of all the legends about the immortality of mermaids. Priestess Yui-Li, who has just arrived from Hong Kong, prepares to face and repel a Shinma of Chinese origin who has exterminated her family. It is difficult for her to distinguish Miyu from the rest of the race she has sworn revenge against. A man abandoned everything to complete his novel. He cannot imagine that the woman he has been living with for a long time is actually a Shinma, and in fact she herself is beginning to forget. The past and reality, however, soon upset their little world. Something strange happens in the city: certain buildings crumble to dust for no apparent reason. What connection can there be with the life of an employee who finds himself a prisoner of an unknown space, forced into a job that he does not understand and that he forgets as soon as he has completed it? Contains the episodes of the series n. 15 - 18

Vampire Princess Miyu. TV series. Vol. 5

Regia: Toshihiro Hirano
Year: Japan 1988
Number of discs: 1
Production: Yamato Video, 2007
Technical data: 125 minutes

Kasumi is an artist famous for the beautiful dolls she creates and for their impressive realism. To free her from the hassles of everyday life, her agent gets her a helper, but the young woman's presence triggers reactions of uncontrollable jealousy in Kasumi. Following a butterfly, Miyu meets Ruri, who confides in her his concern for his father. He avoids any human contact and now practically lives in the greenhouse, which is inhabited by beautiful butterflies. Miyu manages to sense the presence of a Shinma. Three Shinma brothers terrorize a remote village, and also demand that the village chief deliver their daughter Sato to them. Sato's family is descended from the tutelary Shinma, whose job it was to watch over the Guardians. Miyu decides to help her, flanked by Reiha. Japan, 19s. Miyu, unaware of the fate that awaits her, lives quietly with her mother. Normal village life is interrupted by the arrival of a theatrical company, whose members make friends with the girl. A band of renegade Shinma prepares to kill Miyu before he awakens as a Guardian. Contains the episodes of the series n. 22 - XNUMX