It spawned sequels (one of which we do not speak of) and TV series, and still gets games and toys now, despite its very one-and-done ending, as well as making Katanas & Trenchcoats an urban fantasy aesthetic.
(Also check out Incarnate. I am partially responsible.)
And it mostly still stands up, thanks to some performances happy to throw everything in, not being too rooted in the 80s, and the weirdness of its international casting having been weird from the very beginning.
The immortal feeling lost in the modern world and trying not to get involved, the handful of friends he can never really be close to, the flashbacks to the pain of leaving his mortal life behind, it all comes together nicely.
And the sketched-in background with no good answers to why this is happening gave just enough to work, while making people want more. It was inevitably followed by several different answers and none of them good, but that doesn’t mean more stories in a world like this couldn’t work.
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