Trinity Blood

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Japanese: トリニティ・ブラッド

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 21

Chapters: 89

Status: Finished

Published: Aug 23, 2003 to Apr 24, 2018

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Theme: Vampire

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Asuka

Authors: Sunao, Yoshida (Story), Kyuujou, Kiyo (Art)

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Score: 7.80¹ (scored by 5,138 users)

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Ranked: #1308²

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Popularity: #1022

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Ranked #1308Popularity #1022Members 17,963

MangaAsukaSunao, Yoshida (Story), Kyuujou, Kiyo (Art)

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In the distant future, Armageddon has caused the appearance of a second "Vampire's" moon. This sparks the beginning of a war between humans and "Methuselah," the vampires that feed on their blood.

Esther Blanchett is an orphan who was raised in the Church of St. Matthias in the city of Istvan. One day, she meets Abel Nightroad, a priest sent to subdue any threats to the Vatican, an organization allied with humanity. Beneath Abel's meek facade hides his real identity as "The Crusnik": vampire who preys on the blood of his own kind and the Vatican's greatest weapon.

Esther's peaceful times are cut short when the church is bombed and she is betrayed by her only friend Dietrich. With nowhere else to go, she teams up with Abel and Tres Iqus, a machine disguised as a human, to travel to Rome and look for answers behind the devastation of her home. However, their journey will not be easy, as they will have to battle various obstacles as well as discover the secrets of Abel's past.

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Trinity Blood had twelve volumes published in English by Tokyopop from November 7, 2006 to March 30, 2010, which were republished digitally by VIZ Media from June 24 to December 30, 2014.

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Alternative version:

Trinity Blood: Rage Against the Moons, Trinity Blood: Reborn on the Mars

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Nightroad, Abel

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Iqus, Tres

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Blanchett, Esther

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Fortuna, Ion

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Sforza, Caterina

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Nightroad, Cain

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von Lohengrin, Dietrich

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Watteau, Hugue

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Nightroad, Seth

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Aslan, Astharoshe

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Oct 27, 2021

Sinishi

Recommended

Well, I recently finished reading this manga and I really enjoyed it.

I had already read the novel before and the art of Thores for me is going to be unsurpassed (at least for Trinity Blood), but I think Kiyo managed to express each of the characters in a good way and his art is really nice to say the least.

The story is almost the same, but seeing it in panels gives you another feeling, besides, I love the shojo winks in some scenes, it's a bit more enjoyable for me because the plot is usually heavy at times.

The ending leaves me longing for ...

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Jul 30, 2011

eliseee

Recommended

Preliminary (Unknown/89 eps)

Can't believe there hasn't been a review for this manga yet.
Anyway, I'm enjoying the heck out of this. I basically hate any and all vampire-type series (Twilight, Vampire Knight, whatever) but this manga barely has any romance and focuses mainly on action and plot, which is a big A+ from me (and the little romance present isn't bad). There's some interesting twists on the typical vamp stuff (no sparkling!) and the action moves at a pace fast enough to keep me on my toes.

Characters are also pretty awesome. The protagonist (Abel) has a front of being clueless and clumsy (which makes for comedic relief), ...

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Sep 24, 2018

Tyrraell

Not Recommended

This manga, Trinity Blood, has both cliche'd and interesting premise in the same way - it's portraying the bleak postapocalyptic future after a presumable WW3, from which every country on the world has suffered heavy loses and alterations, and also, on the world vampires had appeared. Therefore the humankind with it's various countries, now labeled Terrans, is in clear opposition to the large empire of the Vampires, calling themselves Methuselah. And with vampires, as a natural cause, the Vatican state had suddenly risen to be one of the top political and influential power of the humankind, a country whose representatives are our main cast ... of characters. And I will be honest, I really appreciated the idea of having a thrilling political drama about this fictional world and it's inhabitants, but apparently that wasn't the main goal of this manga it seems. Trinity Blood tries to be alot of things, to appeal to very large audience, but in my opinion, it's certainly lost it's touch to do just that.

Story wise, with this sophisticated premise, it had great potential to be very insightful and smart read, but it doesn't even try to be that, instead it just combines almost every single shonen and shoujo cliche you could have think of, making it, very unappealing. We got the "guys talking half an hour in epic fight" stuff you can see in the shounen genre, and the over the top, melodramatic dialogues in which the characters, sobbing, with sparkly eyes explain why they're sorry, which is a shoujo thing usually.

Also the manga is plagued with bland humor, especially at the start, which didn't help much in both exposition of the story or representing relateable character traits, we see the gluttonious apetite, using too much sweets, clumsy cuteness, the usual tropes.
As for the art, for me personally that the manga's biggest ashievement, it certainly can look very good, the clothes and garments were highly ornamented and personally-designed for every single character, alot of the mangaka's effort certainly went there. Although I don't really think it does too good job in trying to represent the steampunk gothic atmosphere of this world, with it's serious and dreadful setting of a war between the vampires and the humankind. For the fans of the cute designs, they'll be in heaven - every single male looks like a model from a shoujo manga, and all the females are volupturous and fanservice-y disgned, so you can oogle the pages alot.

As for the character's personality ... oh, we're hitting the bottom on this one. Every single person is very one-dimensional and can be portrayed by just one sentence, maybe the only exception will be Abel, since he's mashup from Vash the Stampede from Trigun and Alukard from Hellsing, which didn't mix quite appealing in my opinion. That was the worst part of the manga, and it totally destroys any thrill or interest in the plot or the setting. Also the characters are set to have just two moral views - they hate the other race in the guts and they want it killed, cuz why not, or the mindset that we're all the same and we should hold hands and sings songs while dancing over rainbows.

And with all these mashups of tropes, forgettable characters and obvious plot conclusions, I can say that overally I didn't enjoyed it at all, some arcs are better than others so I can't verify that everything in this manga is not worthy of your time, but it's incredibly flawed in a way. Probably if you are looking for shoujo manga with characters without much depth or substance, sprinkled with shounen fight sequences and pretty gothic outfits, you may enjoy it more than I did.

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