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• Blood - The Last Vampire | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £6.46   |  Saving you £10.53 (163.00%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Blood the Last Vampire brings a moody atmospheric quality all of its own to the Japanese animated film tradition. In a few short enigmatic scenes, we learn of the young girl Saya who is working for nameless government agencies and is sent, after one of her killings, to pose as a new pupil at an American school on an air force base. The Vietnam War is underway, but this does not concern her--she is involved with a far older war. All we ever find out is that she is not quite human, and that two of her schoolmates (and a whore in the mean streets adjacent to the base) are something yet again. Much of what ensues--gore and metamorphosis and nightmare chases--is all the more confusing for being seen through the eyes of a schoolteacher who never learns very much. This is a dreamlike film which does not have to make entirely literal sense, far more so than the creator's more famous Ghost in the Shell. It is also a memorable stage in the development of digitised animation. --Roz Kaveny

• Leo Da Vinci: Mission Mona Lisa | DVD | (15/07/2019) from £4.23   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The young Leonardo da Vinci is able to recreate his world of brilliant discoveries, intelligent inventions. In this adventure together with Leo there are new and old friends, amongst which the strong and determined Lisa that the young boy is in love with without being aware of it. There is also a handful of fearful pirates that resort to strong-arm tactics to reach their goal: get the treasure that is under the sea next to the island of Montecristo. Thanks to his futuristic inventions, most importantly the diving suit, Leo finds the treasure first... but the pirates are on his tail!