Blood-C

Peaceful schoolgirl by day, fearsome monster slayer by night, Saya Kisaragi is leading a split life. Equipped with a ceremonial sword given to her by her father for sacred tasks, she vanquishes every monster who dares threaten her quiet little village. But all too soon, Saya's reality and everything she believes to be true is tested, when she overhears the monsters speak of a broken covenant—something she knows nothing about. And then, unexpectedly, a strange dog appears; it asks her to whom she promised to protect the village, curious as to what would happen if she were to break that promise. Tormented by unexplainable visions and her world unraveling around her, we travel with Saya through her struggle to find a way to the truth in a village where nothing is as it seems.

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Adaptation:	Blood-C
Other:	Blood+, Blood: The Last Vampire
Sequel:	Blood-C: The Last Dark
Side story:	Blood-C: None-None Gekijou
Summary:	Blood-C: Special Edition

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Kisaragi, Saya

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Mizuki, Nana
Japanese

Nanahara, Fumito

Supporting

Nojima, Kenji
Japanese

Dog

Supporting

Fukuyama, Jun
Japanese

Motoe, Nene

Supporting

Fukuen, Misato
Japanese

Tokizane, Shinichirou

Supporting

Suzuki, Tatsuhisa
Japanese

Motoe, Nono

Supporting

Fukuen, Misato
Japanese

Kisaragi, Tadayoshi

Supporting

Fujiwara, Keiji
Japanese

Amino, Yuuka

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Asano, Masumi
Japanese

Tsutsutori, Kanako

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Miyagawa, Miho
Japanese

Tomofusa, Itsuki

Supporting

Abe, Atsushi
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Cook, Justin

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Furukawa, Shin

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Maruyama, Hiroo

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Uryuu, Kyouko

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"spiral" by DUSTZ

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"Junketsu Paradox (純潔パラドックス)" by Nana Mizuki

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Dec 10, 2023

Clarine

Recommended

Blood-C faces widespread criticism, but I found it to be a hidden gem. The aesthetics are visually stunning, the characters are engaging, and the action scenes are intense. It's a unique anime that, despite public opinion, I strongly recommend for its captivating blend of beauty, character depth, and adrenaline-pumping action. However, it's crucial to note that some scenes are notably gory and violent, which may not be suitable for everyone. Yet, these moments are not gratuitous; they serve a purpose within the narrative, adding depth to the story. Give it a chance, and you might discover the underappreciated charm of "Blood C."

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Feb 17, 2022

ArkonBlade

Mixed Feelings

I almost want to rate this higher than a 6 because there is some great Stuff in this Anime when it's not being boring as all hell. It's got some issues.

Lets start from the beginning, The first 4-5 episodes are mostly extremely, and I mean Painfully dull. Do you want to follow a schoolgirls mundane life at school as she walks to school singing awful songs and having boring mundane conversations with her friends at school for 15 minutes each episode? Because that's what you are going to get and its painful to watch.

Now the other 5 or so minutes an episode is ...

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Sep 8, 2023

ThatAnimeSnobRE

Not Recommended

Blood-C is the remake of Blood+, which is a remake of Blood the Last Vampire, which was a rehash of the old chicks with swords routine in half an hour. I have nothing against remakes, if they are done once every 20 years and try to offer something new to the table. Yet look at this; three iterations of the same premise in less than a decade? This is plain overkill and on top of that it was becoming worse with each new entry.

The bait of the show is that the drawings are done by CLAMP, the team of women who are famous for their ... spicy premises, taboo relations, and skinny tall pretty characters. It is present here as well, making the series 300% more kawai and anorectic than before. Everybody looks so cute and all; they even included a pair of identical twin girls, like those in xxxHolic in an attempt to sell more. Down to it, it’s a visual gimmick that does not add anything important besides a weak lure of the sort ‘Oh, hey, CLAMP artstyle with twins’. Another bait is that they named it Blood just to attract the fans of the previous versions, which is another cheap trick since all three entries have close to no relation with each other.

These baits ended up backfiring, since most of said fans were disappointed by the very loose relation. They ended up comparing it all the time with the previous versions and other CLAMP works, instead of just seeing it as an individual show. Which is a bad thing since a show must be able to stand on its own two feet instead of needing earlier works for support. But it’s ok since it still managed to find a way to be remembered for something. Blood the Last Vampire is a cult movie for its weird animation. Blood+ is famous for its dark themes. Blood-C will forever be remembered as THE MOST RIDICULOUSLY GORE FINALE OF ALL TIMES. Further analysis on that later on, let’s focus on some other aspects first.

The first thing that made an impression on me is the heroine’s looks. In this version, besides looking as a typical anorectic CLAMP character, she also has very long hair and glasses as extra accessories. Both combined with her being absent-minded and you have an excuse to make fun of her silliness. She is also a miko priestess assigned to kill monsters from the very start. And if we are to take something out, NO RED LIPS, a detail that made her previous iteration annoying to look at.

Besides that, there definitely is a lot more moe in here, as well as a far better feel of physics. Blood+ was notorious for its serious looking characters and the badly done visual effects that made motions and backgrounds to feel artificial. Blood-C did far better in terms of fluid animation and a setting that feels alive instead of artificial (although in-story it’s actually the other way around). Production I.G. definitely improved the visual appeal and also turned Saya into a walking collection of fetishes, like klutz, athletic, wearing glasses and miko uniform on top of an already school uniform. The otakus are going to huff and puff heavily with her, unlike the one in Blood+ who looked and acted in a very plain way, and it was easy to get bored of her. On the other hand, her beginning as a normal girl and progressively turning into a monster slayer had a charm of its own. Too bad it took dozens of episodes and had numerous resets of progress because she was very indecisive.

So this new Saya is now a klutz, like any typical shojo character, yet during sports or battle scenes she kicks ass. Is this even possible? No it isn’t, it’s just there to make her look silly; later on a revelation proves that all that are just moe smokescreen for her real persona. So the core idea is still the same, as she again has no clue who she really is, she has a sort of amnesia, and the whole thing is finding out about it and dealing with it. In a way it improved her version from Blood+ where she was boring for being very passive and indecisive for a long period of time. She is not a crybaby anymore, who needs dozens of episodes to realize who she was, what her dark persona was, and to find the courage to start fighting.

This does not mean that the story moves faster because it is only a 12 episode series. Despite removing the slow build-up and beginning as an already full-fledged monster buster, most of the episodes are filler. And despite trying to make you think she is not passive and indecisive this time, she still freezes whenever a monster attacks her friends, a thing which results to a huge death toll that could have easily been avoided if she WASN’T FREEZING for no apparent reason. Thus, believe it or not, the old Saya, yes the boring one, made more sense since it was in her character to be inactive. This version has her freezing for no in-story reason and it’s done just so the monsters can kill people first, for easily avoided gore. Aka, it’s mindless entertainment.

The character roster is far smaller in this version, which doesn’t affect the plot since none of them were doing anything, but also make her far more isolated as a character. In the previous version she had several relatives, allies, enemies, even renegades, and all of them played an important role in her development, as slow as it was. It also did wonders in fleshing out of the setting. Here most of the characters are nothing but minor schoolmates and monsters with no personality, thus there is almost no fleshing out. The former are just doing silly cute stuff and the latter just kill people, thus you are not given enough reason to care about them.

The action part of the show is a hundred times more exciting that any battle in the previous version, which was simple and sluggish to the point of yawning. Here, the choreography is damn detailed and well played out… although hardly plausible. Saya’s veeery long hair doesn’t seem to hinder her at all. I mean at one point she is fighting in a lake where her hair must have absorbed water equal to a small pool. And her glasses never seem to fall off despite the very violent shakes and strikes. Are they sown on her ears or something? Does she even need glasses with those Chiropteran evil eyes of hers?

The action is also very inconsistent, since despite having some cool choreography, the power scaling is all over the place. Sometimes the heroine is faster than light, sometimes she freezes when the monsters attack and butcher people. Sometimes the monsters attack only at night, then for no reason they can attack at daytime. It is supposed to surprise you, although there is very little effort placed on fleshing out the characters, thus the result is hardly as shocking as the director may have intended. Hey man, I don’t know these people, why should I be shocked?

The show goes for a major plot twist in the end, in a last attempt to amaze us with a last moment revelation. Besides being far-fetched as hell, it also pretty much turned the whole show into a farce, not only mocking the heroine for being so oblivious all this time, but also the audience who expected something more serious from all that. Out of nowhere we get this huge exposition dump that feels like you were being trolled the whole time. And they made it as farfetched as they could, as if they wanted you to facepalm every 2 minutes. If the plot twist had taken place sooner and was presented in a slower manner instead of all at once, while bothering to flesh out the people involved, it could have been amazing. Instead of that you mostly get a monster of the week formula with dull plot and a rushed and messy revelation in the end. Yet, as sloppy as it was in this aspect, it definitely wins in a different one. I officially consider the final episode THE MOST RIDICULOUSLY GORE FINALE OF ALL TIMES. And that will probably be the only thing people will remember this show for. It made even Elfen Lied to look like a papercut.

Other than that, yeah it was pretty shit. It’s like the writers got bored of their own nonsense and like disinterested children they destroyed the sand castles they had spend hours in building. Cartoony characters, mindless violence, and trollish ending is all you get. Despite its numerous problems, Blood+ is the better series.

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