Reviews

It’s unfortunate when you come across a show of any kind that’s this jumbled and incomplete but it happens every now and then and Bloodivores happens to be high on that list of “wtf did I just watch?”. This show could use a lot more than just a bit of work. For starters, the first and most important thing to point out about this anime is that there’s no clear plot whatsoever; you just don’t know what’s happening the whole time. There’s no clear intentions, no story clarification and no objectives for the characters other than what the plot immediately forces upon them (like surviving a monster attack or escaping a room). Honestly I couldn’t explain this anime to someone if I tried. The story starts off in one place and really goes nowhere. You don’t know what the characters are trying to do, where they are, or what’s happening; they just seem to be wandering around the entire time and there are no story elements that tie anything together. I can’t even say there were plot holes in this anime since there isn’t even a plot. All the events feel unrelated to each other and insignificant, and the lack of any overarching story makes the whole thing boring to watch.

Moving onto the next factor: characters. There’s not one likable character in this show. No backstories, no motivation or goals, no endearing personalities and absolutely no character development. All of the characters just seem to exist for the sole purpose of carrying on the atrocious excuse for a “plot” which still goes nowhere. The character design is as bland as it gets as well; there are background characters in other anime who are more interesting than the entire main cast of this show combined. In fact, there are some characters who are completely useless and unnecessary to the entire show, the only piece of information you get about them being their name; they don’t even help to move the story along. There are so many smaller elements in the show that are brought up once and never touched on again; you get no explanation for them and they only seem to exist for the convenience of whatever the plot is supposed to be. Blowing through any possible potential for its plot and characters, you’d think that this show would at least have some impressive artwork/animation to show off, but in all honesty the quality of the visuals was just about as bad as the rest of it. The animation is below average and just cringey to watch. There were a few moments where the audio didn’t line up with the animation and far too many moments where there were just still frames without sound, making for a very boring watch. With crappy animation, no outstanding visuals and even a mediocre to poor soundtrack, this show also failed in displaying any impressive art.

In all honesty, the first impression I had when getting into this anime was that it’s a low budget show; poorly made and lacked any thought or hard work that could have been put into it. Any potential for any aspects of it actually being interesting was squandered by the lack of explanation for the heck what was going on the entire time. The whole thing was confusing and boring to watch. It was uneventful, unclear, unamusing, and just mundane. I forced myself to get through the whole thing in hopes of some phenomenal ending acting as salvation for the nightmare that I just watched but was also disappointed by a nonsensical and abrupt conclusion. Honestly, there’s not a single thing I can pinpoint about this show that was well done.