Blood-C: The Last Dark

7.5/10.

The purpose of the movie I guess was basically to tie up plot points and what not, to wrap up the franchise, but honestly it really didn't. Just opened up a bunch more questions and confusion with too many technical term and explanations going on.

But the betrayals were done well. Some character portrayals were good but most of the supporting characters were really just a tree in the background; not much about them, they were just there to get the plot moving, and annoying at times.

Saya's character development in this is fairly minimal; she's regained control of her true self, the wish she made to ... Watanuki, but her true moment doesn't really shine until the near-ending of the series which was, truly sent me down into a spiral of emotions. Unfortunate, but the series wrapped up too well.

Fumito, our villain, also has a 180 degree personality change in this; it just seems like whatever he did to Saya in the anime just went to waste and that's just not significant anymore; his true goal was something completely different that really questions the purpose of the anime; nonetheless, this villain wrapped up his ending way too well and I honestly could've cried.

Characters aside, this opens up a whole plot hole as to whether xxxHoLiC exists on the same dimension as Blood-C because Saya is able to visit Watanuki's shop. Or perhaps Saya visits the shop through an inter-dimensional portal that is made only for Saya when she walks past the shop's gates... le sigh we will never know. Saya's wish and prices are never revealed even though this is what could've driven a huge part of her personal character development arc, but oh well. I'll just sigh and look past this.

BIG MAIN CHARACTER IMPROVEMENT .
Sayu in the original anime series was one of the worst main characters ive seen , like almost as bad as Yuki from Mirai Nikki, she would watch her friends or multiple people she swore to protect die to the monsters and take forever to draw her sword and do something about it, she would also never use her OP red eye powers until she gets beaten down and just one shots the enemy. Like if she was smart she would use that power from the beginning and minimize casualties and saved so many. In the sequel movie, The Last ... Dark, shes an absolute beast, shes literally the polar opposite of her former self, she would use her red eye powers to basically 1 shot assassinate her foes before they have a chance to fight back and if she did get into a full on fight, she would look for an opening and strategically use her red eye powers to deliver the killing blow.

For me the biggest let down was the change in art style, the original 2011 anime series animation and artstyle was straight up eye candy for its time and still holds up very well to this day, they should have kept it instead of going the heavy CG route .

I would say its definitely worth watching , even if u didnt like the Blood-C series, its a big improvement but there's a lot of CG to digest.

A truly masterful simple story with a magical passion that drags the audience in both out of sympathy, and excitement for the main character through the anime alone, and yet the movie forced itself on that. The movie wrapped up the main story, tying all loose ends with a forced, cliche plot. Cliche wouldn't necessarily mean poorly done, but it was in bad taste with especially the ending. The budget that flew into this was phenomenal, even appraisal worthy of how beautiful the art direction led, outside of a lot of its cgi moments that stood out, and yet its a shame everything felt rushed, ... and almost just out of passion that the original anime had alone. Overall, cliche themes, weeby bait, and most of all, a flat story had me feeling disappointed for the most part watching this movie. I personally feel as if the main story could've been ended better instead of what seemed to be a harsh cash grab.