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What Vampire Hunter D games and audio dramas are there?

One game, and a second life in sound: D has been a voice performance almost as long as he has been a book.

There is exactly one Vampire Hunter D video game: a PlayStation survival horror title from Victor Interactive Software, released in Japan on 9 December 1999 (catalogue number SLPS-02477), built on the world of Bloodlust ahead of the film. Jaleco published it in North America on 28 September 2000, and JVC brought it to Europe the same year. Hiroshi Yanaka voices D in Japanese, John DeMita in English.

In sound, the series runs deeper. Kaneto Shiozawa, the 1985 film's D, also voiced him across Japanese audio dramas, and the franchise's audio shelf holds a genuine rarity: the 2005 Audio Drama CD Box premiered an original Kikuchi short story, Message from Cecile, which was later adapted as the American comic Vampire Hunter D: Message from Mars.

Vampire Hunter D PlayStation game North American cover, Jaleco
THE GAMEThe 1999 PlayStation game in its North American Jaleco release: survival horror inside the Bloodlust castle.

THE GRAPHICAUDIO ERA

English, full cast, 2021 onward
A movie in your head
From December 2021, Dark Horse partnered with GraphicAudio on dramatised adaptations of the novels: full voice cast, original music, and sound effects, adapted by Scott McCormick from Leahy's translations.
The cast
David Cui Cui plays D, low and flat, as the books demand, and Terence Aselford plays the Left Hand, which means the palm gets some of the best lines in modern D.
Still running
The adaptations marched steadily up the shelf, passing volume 23, Iriya the Berserker, in July 2025, with the series continuing. For English fans, this is now the fastest moving edition of the novels.

WHY ONLY ONE GAME

A fair question
The honest answer
No source documents a cancelled sequel or a lost second game. The 1999 title simply stands alone: a licensed survival horror from the genre's boom years, when every dark property got exactly one PlayStation disc.
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