Story
If your familiar with the previous Blood franchise then you know what you are getting; a sword wielding badass kicking some monster butt. Sounds awesome right? Unfortunately no matter how cool the fighting scenes were in this anime, it was watered down by the incredibly dull dialogues between the paper thin characters and the slow paced story. To make it short, there is no real development in this anime until the last two episodes and trust me, it's not worth going through 10 episodes of Saya's amazingly boring daily life just to see that. The twist in the end is the only saving grace of this anime. However the ending is far from perfect; it leaves a lot if unanswered questions.
Art
I do not like CLAMP's art, the gangly thin bodies freak me out. I was kind of annoyed with Saya's gravity defying pigtails but it's a minor complaint. Everything else was just fine. The fighting scenes were great.
Sound
I can't remember anything worth mentioning about the OST, so it was probably average.
Characters
Characters? What characters?
Jokes aside, all the characters felt like cutouts. You have the seemingly innocent klutz that turns into a monster killing machine at night, the bad boy and the class president that is interested in her, the annoying twins and the level headed friend (oh and the nice "family friend"). Of course the anime tries to redeem itself in the end by the shocking ending but frankly I didn't care about the characters in the first place so it lacked impact. *yawn* The only character I was slightly interested in was Fumito.
Enjoyment
The fighting scenes are enjoyable and so is the ending. The rest is Saya and her cookie-cutter friends hanging out. I will leave you to decide whether it's worth it.
Overall
If the story was more fleshed out and the interaction between the characters were more believable (feels so damn staged) it would have been a decent anime. However the anime failed to do so. If you must watch this anime, skip every episode to the fighting scene except for the two last episodes. Makes the whole anime much more enjoyable.
