Review-Blood-C

Written by airyie on July 23, 2011 at 7:27 PM

Story 3/5
Dialogue 2/5
Animation 2.5/5
Entertainment 1.5/5

There aren't many episodes released, so I can't say for certain. But as far as story goes, this series has all the makings of an decent one. However, this judgement is not on the released material, but rather a reflection on the Blood franchise - which is known for Saya, psycho vampires, and a government conspiracy. While it is clear in the first episode that BloodC has all the potential to make a decent addition to the franchise (blood, gore, ignorant girl), for me it just doesn't live up to the past.

One reason for this is the opening concept. In Blood+, Saya was an ignorant an clumsy girl who was thrown, BAAM, into a psycho world and forced to adapt. BloodC seems to have adapted this initial formula, but modified it a bit. It is this modification I have a problem with. In BloodC, NewSaya is very dual-faced and dual-natured. She seems genuinely clumsy and overly kind, but then shows a very skilled and serious side. Normally when they do this in anime they pass it off as either the kind/generous side is: being faked for a cover or the serious person has an aspect of good-moral-character. In BloodC this does not happen. One minute she's sugar, and the next moment she's spice. These two aspects of NewSaya are messily clumped together, and these attributes seem to contradict themselves to the point of ridiculousness. It doesn't make sense. And if they tried to explain it later on in the series, it would just be awkward sounding.

Dialogue, I'm not going to say much, but it is pretty average, and the current story just makes it seem kind of stupid and pointless.

Animation. The animation very top notch by anyones's standards. It clearly isn't newbie stuff. However, the character designs are awful. Terrible. A main detractor from the show. Seriously. Most characters are Clamp's design, which really do not go well IMO with the serious tone the Blood franchise has been building. With the exception of the 'father', all the characters' features are too soft and silly for the show's nature. It is almost like watching a perversion of Card Captor Sakura. Somehow the animators manage to make some of the fight scenes pretty badass looking, but it is hard. Especially with NewSaya's hair. It is ridiculous, huge, and in no way fitting of the show. If she's going to be fighting weird demon-things at night the girl needs to cut her hair before someone grabs it and uses it as leverage in a fight. Basically, the character design should have been been done by someone other than clamp. I nominate Kouta Hirano for the job. <--I mean, his resume makes him perfect for the job.

Entertainment. I was not entertained. Even with the fight scene, I was just wishing it was over. I just couldn't get into it. I'll come back in 7 episodes though, and check again, but I'm pretty sure I'll just be disappointed.

Overall: give it a chance. Who knows, you may like it. You can never be sure unless you go in watching it with an open mind and judge for yourself.