As Brian Ruh, author of Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii, points out, Vlad Love is Oshii’s first anime in about a decade and the first TV anime since Urusei Yatsura in which he’s had a major role.
Mamoru Oshii is famous for influential anime feature films like Patlabor 2: The Movie and Ghost in the Shell.
Prior to that, he made a name for himself directing the Urusei Yatsura TV series in the early 1980s.