Blade (film) has become the vampire hunter Blade. He raids a Los Angeles rave club owned by the vampire Deacon Frost. Police take one of the vampires to the hospital, where he kills Dr. Curtis Webb and feeds on hematologist Karen Jenson and escapes. Blade takes Karen to a safe house where she is treated by his old friend Abraham Whistler (Kristofferson). Whistler explains that he and Blade have been waging a secret war against vampires using weapons based on their elemental weaknesses, such as sunlight and silver. As Karen is now "marked" by the bite of a vampire, both he and
Blade of the Immortal for "the character for eternality" 萬字, and represents Dharma, universal harmony, and the balance of opposites. The series won an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival and the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in 2000 for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material. In the QuickAndSimple listing of the top 10 anime, Blade of the Immortal secured 10th place. The manga had 5 million copies in print as of February 2017. Blade of the Immortal "Blade of the Immortal" follows the deeds of Manji, a skilled samurai who has a decisive advantage: no wound can kill him, except