Blood-C

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English: BLOOD-C

Synonyms: Blood-C

Japanese: ブラッドシー

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 8, 2011 to Sep 30, 2011

Premiered: Summer 2011

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Aniplex, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Dwango

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Production I.G

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Mystery, Horror, Supernatural, Vampire, School

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 6.68¹ (scored by 81,020 users)

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Ranked: #5097²

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Popularity: #532

Members: 184,335

Favorites: 615

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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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The first episode was pre-released on Nico Nico Douga on July 1, 2011. The regular TV airing started on July 8, 2011.

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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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Characters & Voice Actors

Kisaragi, Saya

Main

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

Tsutsutori, Kanako

Supporting

Miyagawa, Miho
Japanese

Kisaragi, Tadayoshi

Supporting

Fujiwara, Keiji
Japanese

Amino, Yuuka

Supporting

Asano, Masumi
Japanese

Tomofusa, Itsuki

Supporting

Abe, Atsushi
Japanese

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Mizushima, Tsutomu

Director

Iwanami, Yoshikazu

Sound Director

Kyougoku, Yoshiaki

Episode Director

Hata, Hiroyuki

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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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Sep 30, 2011

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

DarkRyter (All reviews)

937 people found this review helpful

You will not like this series. Yes, you, the reader of this review. Yes, I can tell.

You will watch the first couple episodes. You will be befuddled by the juxtaposition of a slice of life high school setting and utterly brutal, gory, monster battles. You will detect no overarching plot and abandon it.

You will have been a fan of Blood+, and will not like this anyway.

You will watch the whole series, be extremely upset with the ending and story execution, wonder what was the point of it all, and not like it.

You will be turned off by the gore and not like it.

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Oct 4, 2011

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

Jigoku-n3ko (All reviews)

225 people found this review helpful

Blood-c is one giant troll of an anime. Unfortunately, it proved so good at the gimmick it used that it chased away most of the audience before the good times started rolling. I was going to give it a stinky 3 by episode five but then I continued watching and by the end it had redeemed itself. Still, that is no excuse for those awful, eye-gouging first episodes.

Story:
Since you are most probably a returning customer to the Blood franchise, you are already familiar with the story. Sword-wielding mystery girl in a high school uniform fights man-eating monsters. Mystery is solved in a gory, splattery, bloody, dismembering, brain-bits-flying, bone-cracking way.
Blood-c has no continuity with the previous anime of the franchise. It takes the basic story and spins a different tale. So, if you, like me, were expecting more Haji—gawd, there can never be enough Haji!—you will be sorely disappointed. Sigh~ (Allow me a moment to once again overcome my disappointment in this crucial omission)
So, is this a good story? In a word, yes. But that becomes apparent only when you finish it. Once again, the first few episodes are trolling you in a very horrible way. This would have been acceptable in a 24 episode show but in a 12 episode show it did irreparable damage. So, it requires a certain masochism to get you through to the good part.

Characters:
It is very difficult to talk about the characters without including major spoilers, so I'll do it this way…
Saya is a high school moe-tard klutz by day and a kickass, monster-slaying, katana-wielding warrior by night. How could that possibly be combined, you ask. Watch to the end and be amazed.
The rest of the cast—no, I am not being lazy, it has to be this way—are just as they should be. Watch to the end and be amazed.

Animation:
Anorexic 7-feet-tall people design courtesy of CLAMP aside, this anime really rocks the fight scenes. Smooth, sleek, gory; these scenes are the main reason to watch this anime. Every time it was blood--fest time it was like the anime became ten times better. Even the animation came alive.

Music:
I noticed three distinct soundtrack groups. One for the horrid slice of life wannabe. One for the creepy times and one for the fight scenes. I must say the creepy times soundtrack impressed me the most. It was exquisitely creepy.
OP: Awesome. Fluid and beautifully stylised animation with a standard j-rock ditty. I wish the whole thing could have been like the OP.
ED: Boring. I skipped it every time.

Overview:
It is very difficult to recommend this because it sabotages itself with a horrible beginning but if you are into gory stuff, this will not disappoint. It is not called “blood” for nothing, you know. Some of the brutal stuff I saw popped my eyes out and I was even watching the censored version. I would have liked to see it uncensored but there is no way I'm watching this again. I would rather re-watch Blood+ ...where Haji is.

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Aug 18, 2011

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

artist-retired (All reviews)

129 people found this review helpful

Soooooo, how do you like your revival of a popular franchise? Ruined or half assed, story wise?

STORY: Years ago there was an unfortunate case of assault, the victim? Blood the last vampire, a popular movie that spawned an even more popular over-hyped anime series: Blood+, the perpetrator had no motives, it was a cruel and brutal assault in form of a live action, and ever since, Blood has been hospitalized in a vegetative state and was never heard from again... Until...
In the year 2011 however, a famous group of manga creators, CLAMP, visited Blood in the hospital in order to try to revive it from read more

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May 15, 2013

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

Hatul (All reviews)

80 people found this review helpful

This is a spoiler free review.
Also this is my first review, so be nice. And English is not my native language, so sorry if there are some mistakes.

Ok, So this is the third installment in the Blood franchise by Production I.G. Which is a great studio that had done some amazing things, but at the same time it's no stranger to failing miserably, as demonstrated by this particular anime.

*Story*

Well, if you're familiar with the previous 'Blood' installments, you'd know that the premise is about a schoolgirl with a sword who fights vampire-like creatures known as 'Teropterids' in the original movie, and 'Chiropterans' in Blood+. read more

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