✔ Positive Aspects ✔
◧ Pretty cool animation, somewhat reminiscent of Kuroshitsuji: colors of medium to high saturation/medium vibrancy, distinct character designs though not that close to live-action series as far as details go.
◧ Simple yet interesting concept: a 'family' of vampires slowly taking over a geographically isolated village in order to create a safe haven for vampires.
✘ Negative Aspects ✘
◧ A virtually absent soundtrack, as if nothing was playing in the background.
◧ The unfolding of the plot was peculiar. Even though the series was gradually, and even-handedly, building up the story over the first 10 episodes, it hit a major slump over the next 8 or so episodes. During the initial build-up, the series was oscillating between drama, horror, and suspense, whereas during the slump, it was stuck on a 'horrorless', melodramatic loop. The last 4 episodes were characterized by a fairly anti-climactic ending, despite the fact that the first 10 episodes were promising something completely different, and with the very last episode ending too abruptly to not question whether the viewer may have missed something.
◧ As far as character development goes, the series did not do a bad job, compared to other series, in depicting the primary characters', secondary characters', and antagonists' intentions, beliefs, emotions, and thought processes, but, overall, it was lackluster compared to what itself was aiming at. Instead of gradually and coherently building up, it was randomly dropping material.
Overall: A series that had some solid potential but did an excellent job wasting it on I don't even know what.
