Vampire Hunter D-Licious

I recently watched the cult classic anime movie Vampire Hunter D (1985).  "Dark, fiction sci-fi romance"; there is something fatalistically wonderful about the leading ladies in this anime.

Why is this a cult classic?  The opening scene says it all.  The heroine is hunting velicoraptors in a miniskirt with a machine gun. 

Above are some pencil sketches colored in Adobe Photoshop.