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Review:
The story are just basic shounen plot, but the execution can't be worse than this. I would complaint even at the basic story and pacing, but they did more than that, they butchered the whole things with a lot of skipping and missing lots of details and hope the viewers understand, the pacing also super fast and just unnatural. The easiest thing I can point out to give example is that a shounen should have some kind of training arc, they did, but it's at the end of the series (Episode 11 out of 12 to be exact). Everything in this anime is so wrong with the plot armor and plot holes here and there, but the worst part is the MC, he's not only pathetic, but also inconsistent to the core. If you want to make a pathetic MC then it's fine, but don't make him suddenly become shounen protagonist for a couple minutes to be back to his pathetic self later, believe it or not, they did this for most part of the series. If I don't know better, I would assume that he have multiple personality disorder. I think they should add some fantasy tag to this series, because everything in this anime is just modeled to real world, but none adhere to it's rules, it's just like fantasy. Small notes also goes as to why they think gore brutal killings are okay but not curse words...
The visuals are okay, not the greatest, but it's decent to some degree, and it's able to at least hold that quality until the end. The battles are mostly using the blood technique, so there's hardly any movements, and if any, it's choppy, but the blood itself are decent if not for the unnatural way of the blood splash and the blood amount, but you can argue that it's controlled so by them, so it can't be bound by normal logic. The perspective of several buildings and rooms are weird, the size are inconsistent, and looks like the designer didn't research much to several things, many things are just defying physics, I think it's okay if it's some fantasy magical world, but it's not okay in this anime that took place in normal nowadays earth that supposedly have this blood control super power, because then the other thing should work just as normal as it were before (except the blood things).
The sound effects are just bad, let me put it out first, even some retro games have better sound effects in this one, it's so over the top, so exaggerated that even normal people can recognize it as fake, maybe it's supposed to give extra creepy effects, but it's working adversely to that. The voice actors are also something, when several have done okay job, the others did horrendously wrong, the quality between the seiyuus can't be this wide... The OST are mediocre at best, I didn't remember any of it, nor I feel it helps to build the atmosphere while watching this anime.
Conclusion:
Reasons to watch:
-You're looking for some gore bloody anime with a decent visuals
Reasons NOT to watch:
-Inconsistent characters build
-Overuse of plot armor
-Rushed pacing of the empty predictable plot
-Bad sound effects with some mediocre OSTs
