Yeah...the plot "left a little lacking" is an 
understatement...they killed everyone off so that 
there would be no loose ends ("The audience can;t 
follow it? Fine, just kill everyone, they'll like 
that."). On it's own, it is a gorgeous 
movie...but the manga is definitely much better. 
Even if it's taking forever...*x* The characters 
are much more developed, and you feel a bit more 
sorry for Kamui (his character intrigues me, in 
the manga), but at the same itme Kamui isn't half 
as whiny ;p You can understand him better, and 
his whole conflict with Fuuma (which, in the 
manga, is turned into a nice twisted kind of 
romance ^^;;), and Kotori is not a bubblehead. I 
hated her movie design. 

But the blood is pretty. Of course, I have an 
obsession with blood in anime. I once drew the 
Great Gatsby as a comic, and the scene where's he 
shot there's a frame of the bullet going through 
his head, blood spurting out one side, as his 
pupils dilate ^_^ Pretty...

-Misha-chan