Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned is a 1980 animated Japanese TV movie version of Marvel’s The Tomb of Dracula comic produced by Toei and directed by Minoru Okazaki. It was titled Yami no Teiō: Kyūketsuki Dorakyura (闇の帝王 吸血鬼ドラキュラ – translation: “Emperor of Darkness: Vampire Dracula”).
Much of the main plot was condensed and many characters and subplots were truncated or omitted. It was sparsely released on cable TV in North America in 1983 by Harmony Gold dubbed into English under the title Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned and then on VHS by Vestron.
Plot teaser:
Count Dracula, lord of vampires and the sovereign of the damned, steals away a bride intended for Lucifer. Not only does this anger his dark creator but also a satanic cult and his fellow vampires. He finds that the sins of his past will not allow him to live a normal, mortal life. Events become complicated when he comes under attack from all sides, including his vampire hunting great-grandson and the children of others he murdered long ago.
Reviews:
‘Watching Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned isn’t just like watching a car wreck, it’s like watching a slow motion oil-tanker-and-helicopter collision set to Rammstein music. It’s a lot of fun, simply because every time you think it can’t possibly get any dumber, it somehow manages to top itself. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to rent this tape as a kid, but I’m pretty sure at least one older brother must have used it to make a sibling cry.’ Justin Sevakis, Anime News Network
Choice dialogue:
Dracula: “Yeah, I had a run-in with Satan.”
Voice Cast:
| Character |  Original Japanese voices |
 English dub voices |
|---|---|---|
| Dracula | Kenji Utsumi | Tom Wyner |
| Domini | Hiroko Suzuki | Arlene Banas |
| Janus | Kazuyuki Sogabe | |
| Quincy Harker | Yasuo Hisamatsu | |
| Rachel van Helsing | Mami Koyama | Melanie MacQueen |
| Frank Drake | Keiichi Noda | Dan Woren |
| Satan | Hidekatsu Shibata | Richard Epcar |
| Lilith | Reiko Katsura | Edie Mirman |
| Anton Lupeski | Junpei Takiguchi | |
| Torgo | Yasuo Tanaka[29] | Robert V. Barron |
| Saint | White God | |
| Narrator | Ryō Ishihara | Robert V. Barron |
