Feb 23, 2009
Got some time? didnt care much for blood the last vampire? well come on in~
like most of you guys, i first saw this on adult swim while waiting for my weekly dose of shounen; i landed on an unpolished gem. story starts slow ill admit.. real slow. however if you can get past that, you will be rewarded with an adventure. story revolves around a girl named saya and her adventures to kill off the vampire kind;generic enough for you yet? well saya is one of the two "pure bred" vampire queens in the story, other being her twin sister diva. In the end, with
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the misunderstanding of one, saya makes it her duty to hunt down diva and her chevaliers (knights). i wont give out too much information, but if you are into semi historical, betrayal, and a large scale adventure.. this might be for you, however if you are into 44 mins of mindless gore like blood the last vampire, look elsewhere.
Thing that i really liked about this show is the art, not much to say except that everything is drawn exceptionally, the outfits, background, and the battle scenes are top tier. the drawings of the "vampire"s are also very well done to the point that it can be somtimes disgusting ( they do however tone down the gore compared to blood the last vampire). ***THE OP ART IS TOP OF THE LINE***
OP//ED//VA are all supurb 10/10. the only thing truly stopped me from dropping this show during ep 1-13 was the op but mostly ED Kataritsugu koto which i look foward to every time. i really liked the fact that they used different voice actors for saya and diva, giving them a distinguishable voice ( you american dubbers learn from this) yet still show some similarity.
ok.. lets talk about some of the downsides and upsides of the characters. The good part of the charactes is that the main characters feel.. somewhat balenced if not underpowered which is alot considering most of todays shows have a lvl 9001 protagonist killing billions of enemies. as someone previous from this review said: they feel alive, as if you can meet them if u headed to okinawa. Now the bad part.. i personally feel as if they added too many "unnecessary" characters which in the end didnt help with the flow of the story at all. i was so annoyed with the camera guy and his mafia princess because of the amount of screentime they had.
Enjoyment... this is hard to say. im not going to defend its early episodes, because id be fighting a losing battle.. however, if you can survive through the early parts, the story later on will suck you in and keep u there till the very end. unlike most other shows, i can say that the ending to blood+ was satisfactory and very open to people whom want to decide whom and who is still alive etc.
9-10-10-8-8
should average to 9! why was the overall score an 8?
simple, rewatch value is very low (non existant in the early episodes) because of the fact that it isnt rocket science. the story made sense the 1st time and therefore no reason to watch it again. its a good show, and if you have the time to kill 50 episodes, id reccomend it to anyone who likes a good story, but if you were misguided here due to this being a "sequel" to blood the last vampire, the X button is to the top right
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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