Art of Vampire Princess Miyu
/Vampire Princess Miyu is an animation OVA (Original Video Animation) produced by AIC and directed by Toshiki Hirano in 1988. The anime was based on the homonym horror manga series by Narumi Kakinouchi and Toshiki Hirano. The anime was originally presented in a 4-episode OVA licensed by AnimEigo in 1988, and was later adapted into a 26-episode television series licensed by Tokyopop (later by Maiden Japan) and released in 1997. The pictures on this page are a collection of artworks created for this OVA.
THE STORY
Stranded in the space between the human world and the demon underworld, the series central characters are a Japanese vampire girl named Miyu and her Western Shinma companion Larva. Miyu is the daughter of both a human being and a Shinma (a name for a race of "god-demon"). She was born a vampire and as such, she was awakened as the guardian whose destiny is to hunt down all stray Shinma and send them back to "the Darkness"; charged with the responsibility of returning the evil demons away. Before turning 15 years old, she yearns to return to the darkness herself but not until she has banished all the Shinma from Earth. And since her awakening, she remains cut off by the facts of who and what she is…