in june 2015, a new cgi animated series tentatively titled "vampire hunter d: resurrection" was announced, produced by unified pictures and digital frontier. the series would be produced by kurt rauer and scott mclean, and directed by yoichi mori, with "bloodlust" director yoshiaki kawajiri acting as supervising director and series creator hideyuki kikuchi providing editorial supervision. the series was currently in pre-production, and is developed as an hour-long serial drama with the intent of being broadcast on a major american cable network or on-demand provider, with japanese distribution to follow. as of june 2016 the series is still in pre-production, with plans to begin shipping the project to distributors by the end of the year. given the abundance of source material, the current plan is to produce as many as seven seasons, without revisiting the source material that was adapted into the first two films. in february 2018 it was announced that the pilot episode would be written by brandon m. easton, writer for the "message from mars" comic book series. the first draft of the pilot was completed in october 2018.