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Ryllharu
Fri, 07-08-2011, 04:21 PM
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Description: Ukishima Shrine is located in an old, picturesque lakeside town. Shrine maiden Kisaragi Saya lives there along with her father, Tadayoshi. By day, she lives the life of a normal high school student at Sanbara Academy. By night, she hunts the Old Ones. Possessing supernatural physical prowess, the Old Ones prey on humans, and only Saya has the ability to defeat them. (Source: AniDB)

Note: You do NOT need to have seen the original movie or the Blood+ series to watch this. Blood-C is not directly related. This is a re-imagining of the Blood franchise by CLAMP.

Genres: Action, Contemporary Fantasy, Vampires
Links: AniDB (http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=8348), ANN (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=12857), Official Page (http://www.blood-c.jp/)


[Doki] Blood-C - 01 (720p) (http://tracker.anime-index.org/Doki_Blood-C_-_01_1280x720_h264_AAC_7700C546.mkv.torrent)
[Underwater] Blood-C - 01 (720p) (http://underwater.nyaatorrents.org/torrent/%5BUnderwater%5D%20Blood-C%20-%2001%20(720p)%20%5BCEBAC53A%5D.mkv.torrent)

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Being a big fan of CLAMP's designs (Code Geass characters, xxxHolic, Tsubasa Chronicle, Card Captor Sakura, etc.) and the original Blood franchise (not so much Blood+ though...) I was looking forward to this re-imagining. Blood has some good foundations behind it, and CLAMP has been really good at producing the kind of series this fits well with. xxxHolic is particular, which designs this seem to match the most.

So Saya becoming a meganekko, growing giant fluffy pigtails and having a fluttery skirt = mega-win for me.

As for the episode itself, I can't say I was surprised at all to see Saya singing a song on her way to school given that she's voiced by Mizuki Nana (http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=creator&creatorid=18) (Fate from Nanoha, Sylvette from Letter Bee, Hinata from Naruto). What did surprise me was how long that scene went on. As much as I like her singing (and she indeed sings the ED), I'm not sure if I want to see that kind of thing throughout the series unless they're going to make it a major part of the plot.

The two twins being voiced by the same actress is always a nice touch. That was another plus for me.

Not too much else happened in the first episode. It was very much introductory. Good fight animation, fun to watch, decent amount of humor, and shaping up to be very CLAMP (cafe for no apparent reason, amusingly impractical uniforms, ridiculous hair, twins for no apparent reason, etc.). I want more, as soon as possible.

But the OP...not the song so much, but the animation. It oozes sexiness.

Penner
Fri, 07-08-2011, 04:29 PM
Oho, i'll give this a go.

Any preference out of the two sub groups?

RyougaZell
Fri, 07-08-2011, 04:50 PM
Doki is good but quite slow. Underwater is fast but sometimes meh.

Going to download later. I used to be a CLAMP dork sometime ago =P. Not so much lately though.

Kraco
Fri, 07-08-2011, 05:15 PM
I dropped this after five minutes. Because Saya in this is a dojikko meganekko unable to walk on plain floor for three meters without tripping. Ryll's mega-win was mega-lose for me.

NeoCybercoin
Fri, 07-08-2011, 06:07 PM
Just watched it....I know it's not related to the Blood+ movie and series but still...I kept on thinking how they just completely ruined it in my eyes. Perhaps next episode will change something but I doubt it. Looks like it's just a highschool supernatural show right now.

Ryllharu
Fri, 07-08-2011, 06:47 PM
Just watched it....I know it's not related to the Blood+ movie and series but still...I kept on thinking how they just completely ruined it in my eyes.That's funny, because I thought the same thing in regards to Blood+ when compared to the original movie. Blood+ completely ruined Blood: The Last Vampire for me. I can accept this change because it isn't supposed to be related except through the basic concept.

vejita613
Fri, 07-08-2011, 08:26 PM
Wow, for a clamp series, this is pretty good. Especially in terms of the animation. I guess maybe its because I havent seen their work in a long time (I think XXXholic) or maybe its because they really wanted to step up their game (or both?). I wasnt planning on watching this, but I think I'll pick it up and see where it goes. Also, Nana playing a female Vampire? Seen it before, but I'm all for it.

Side note: Ive seen Blood TLV but not Blood+.

edit: I do find it a bit amusing that the school uniform just happens to be those colors.

RyougaZell
Tue, 07-12-2011, 09:46 PM
I didn't like it. And it had nothing to do with previous Blood series (haven't watched them). It just didn't click... and the only characters I liked are the twins. Not going to follow despite CLAMP.

Buffalobiian
Wed, 07-13-2011, 12:15 PM
It fell short of my expectations, I'll say that.

Saya's bush isn't really to my liking. Something sleeker like in the picture of the intro-post would have been nice. Also wasn't a fan of her being a complete ditz, yet performing superhuman feats in combat. Had she transformed between her two modes like another certain vampire girl (http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/5812/rosariothreadpichz2.jpg)I wouldn't have minded so much...

I like CLAMP designs though, so I'll stay on this for a little while longer. I just watched the Blood movie right before this, and can't help but feel the monster here was just... so un-intimidating.

Lucifus
Sun, 07-17-2011, 05:29 AM
[HorribleSubs] Blood-C - 02_(XviD_AnimeSenshi) (http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=228521)

Its certainly no Blood + (one of my favorite series of all time), but meh, great opening at least? o.0

shinta|hikari
Sun, 07-17-2011, 10:06 AM
This show is very CLAMPish, and it is not working in its favour, for me at least.

Idealistic
Mon, 07-18-2011, 09:49 PM
Yeah...... Not really feeling this show atm. But I'll prob see it through to the end because I like Saya's design, lol.

shinta|hikari
Mon, 07-18-2011, 10:31 PM
The action is great though. If they cut out the fight scenes, and replaced it with generic mahou shoujo fights, I would have dropped this in an instant.

Her singing makes me want to rip her throat out, or at least makes me hope one of those things do.

Yukimura
Thu, 07-21-2011, 12:39 AM
Finally got around to this one, the fight scenes were cool but the dojiko thing is hard to swallow considering she's supposedly the same person when she's tripping over air as she is when playing basketball like she belongs in the NBA or fighting evil statues. CLAMPiness is CLAMPy but that's nothing new. If it develops a story I might stick around but if it starts getting too much into the slice of life of her balancing school and monster hunter I suspect I'll drop. The twins were adorable though, if there is slice of lifeing to be done they might make an ep worthwhile.

Xelbair
Thu, 07-21-2011, 08:07 AM
This show is kinda weird. I think it would work way better if they split up the slice-of-life(which is decent enough - thanks to the godlike twins, they are the reason i won't drop this show) and the action part into two different shows... unless it will have a decent plot later on.

Buffalobiian
Sun, 07-24-2011, 07:45 AM
This would be easily fixed if only they have Saya transform, but it doesn't happen. :(

Underwater - Episode 03 (http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=230343)

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Wait, what? Saya tailed the guy... and just watched him get ripped to shreds? I can't get that man, it totally goes against her idea of protecting people. I never would have even though of her to be the let-someone-be-the-bait type. Then there's the randomness of having the baker come back after being away for all this time only to be seen, then consumed. ???

I think the cool guy and the dog are the same person, but the preview seems to go against that idea.

Buffalobiian
Fri, 07-29-2011, 09:21 AM
Underwater - Episode 04 (http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=232148)

Buffalobiian
Sun, 07-31-2011, 12:29 PM
[ASL]_Mizuki_Nana_-_BLOOD-C_ED_-_Junketsu_Paradox_[MP3]_[w_Scans].rar (http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=232688)
[ASL]_Mizuki_Nana_-_BLOOD-C_ED_-_Junketsu_Paradox_[FLAC]_[w_Scans].rar (http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=232689)

Ryllharu
Sun, 07-31-2011, 04:50 PM
Blood-C is kind of crappy, but the fights alone have been keeping my attention. Thankfully, it is starting to build together. There's hints here and there about how much more is going on than we're being told. Things such as:

- The Covenant. We don't know much about it at this point, but now it has been mentioned twice, and her father seems to know at least what it is, though he certainly isn't telling Saya yet.
- The Elder Bairns suggesting that Saya is being equally used (by who goes unmentioned). This is sort of implying that she isn't really that dissimilar to them. Do they mean that she too is a hunter (like they see themselves), or that she is also a man-eater but doesn't know it. The latter depends on whether or not Saya is a vampire, or that she is Saya from The Last Vampire...which brings me to the next point.
- The flashbacks in episode 4. They clearly showed the climatic scene in Blood: The Last Vampire.
- Saya is given "special" coffee made just for her. Is it "coffee," substituting for blood, or is it something to keep her brainwashed and controlled?
- The town itself is really weird. Nobody lives in it. Saya never encounters a single person through her entire route, despite passing a number of houses. The twins mentioned how empty the town is too.
- Tokizane versus Itsuki. There is a strange conflict between these two (not untypical of CLAMP shows though...). Tokizane seems detached, yet he is rather unusually concerned about Saya's wellbeing. Itsuki on the other hand, comes off very concerned about what Saya is doing. He's always got his eye on her, but it doesn't seem to be love or concern or attraction. It's something else. It feels...off.

It's enough to keep me interested, but it isn't a series that I feel like watching as soon as it comes out. It's starting to get there though.

shinta|hikari
Sun, 07-31-2011, 07:50 PM
The scene with the narration on Hate and Trust states (or at least implies) that Saya hated humans, and is not brainwashed into protecting them. I wonder how all that will develop.

Buffalobiian
Mon, 08-01-2011, 07:10 AM
The scene with the narration on Hate and Trust states (or at least implies) that Saya hated humans, and is not brainwashed into protecting them.

Why not?

If something hates you, you have to combat it with an emotion that can override it - ie make her hatred go into hibernation and get her to love humans.

shinta|hikari
Mon, 08-01-2011, 07:29 AM
That quote is an example of my particular epic typo tendency, one I actually do regularly (even once at work).

not = now

Buffalobiian
Sat, 08-06-2011, 10:33 AM
Underwater - Episode 05 (http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=234219)

Ryllharu
Sat, 08-06-2011, 01:33 PM
Yeah, so Blood-C is starting to get good. All those who left before the first two episodes, you're missing out now. It looks like from here on out, its only going to get crazier.

It seems that Saya is getting controlled somehow by the cafe's drinks and confections. I wonder if or how they differentiate the other monsters from vampires (assuming Saya still is one, which seems likely). The other monsters we've seen thus far are the kind that eat the whole of their prey, where a vampire wouldn't necessarily have to drain someone. Perhaps that's why Saya was chosen. She can straddle the line that the other monsters must always cross.

Buffalobiian
Sun, 08-07-2011, 10:25 AM
I totally think Saya is the one from the Last Vampire, as Ryll brought up previously. The dog's the guy who broke Saya's fall. The funny thing is that a vampire in general should hate things that are holy though, so Saya being clad in a miko attire and living in a shrine doesn't quite make sense since it clashes with her natural self. Likewise with walking around in the sun.

The teacher also suggested that the humans tried to communicate with the monsters, but they don't really care since humans were just food. Then what is this agreement the monsters speak of?

Nono and Nene having differing opinions this episode served really well to bring out how unusual this episode was/is-going-to-be compared to the previous ones.

Buffalobiian
Thu, 08-18-2011, 08:06 PM
Underwater - Episode 06 (http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=238228)

vejita613
Fri, 08-19-2011, 08:04 PM
Aww, I really liked two.

Buffalobiian
Sat, 08-20-2011, 06:55 AM
Aww, I really liked two.

I seriously did not expect Nene to die. When she did, I thought Saya would wake up, go into the classroom and see Nene there again. But my immediate response when she was killed was to blame Saya for the formalities with talking to her sword. I may have saved her, it may not have.. but I don't think it helped in the least.

Overall, I don't know who I can trust any more. Everyone's so fishy..

What I do think though, is that the dad is probably Saya's blood donor. He seems strong and rather healthy, but tired and worn out a lot of the time all the same.

Teacher is hot as usual, but my balls are shrinking away in fear..

Ryllharu
Sat, 08-20-2011, 09:08 AM
The only bright side of this episode was Saya in pajamas with her hair completely down...

I was really sad to see both of them go. A real tragedy that Nono got absorbed and possessed so soon after Nene was killed. She was probably outside looking for her twin when the Elder Bairn found her. I half expected "them" to clone Nene, and Saya would see them both in the morning as if nothing had happened.

I don't know why Nene didn't cling to Saya at the temple. Why would she stay so close to the doors?


Overall, I don't know who I can trust any more. Everyone's so fishy.. I think we know definitively who not to trust. Saya's father, Fumito, and the class president. The class president especially so, as he is disturbingly possessive of Saya sometimes.

They are definitely drugging her and bringing her to that room with all the Galilean thermometers. I'm guessing they feed her blood or patch her up by some other means while they brainwash her some more. This seems to be the first time she noticed a gap in time. Perhaps she is beginning to develop a tolerance to the drugs they use on her.

It's not clear which side the teacher is working on, or if she is on a third side. Her line about only Saya's head hurting leads me to believe she is on the same side as the other three, but her line about being careful makes me think twice. The others never show that level of concern for her.

Same goes for Yuka. She might be completely naive of all this like the twins were, but she also has a few lines that give off the feel she knows more than she appears to.

Tokizane is certainly on Saya's side, but where else his allegiance lies is anyone's guess.

Lucifus
Thu, 08-25-2011, 07:58 PM
What do they have for us this week I wonder.

[Underwater] Blood-C - 07 (720p) [135C29C8] (http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=240076)

Idealistic
Fri, 08-26-2011, 01:29 AM
Getting more interesting. How many eps is this suppose to be?

Buffalobiian
Fri, 08-26-2011, 12:18 PM
Getting more interesting. How many eps is this suppose to be?

No idea, but CLAMP sure loves their cross-overs. Even Blood-C's part of their universe now, hah.

shinta|hikari
Sun, 08-28-2011, 08:55 AM
Blood-C = Blood-Clamp.

That was made clear by this episode.

Xelbair
Sat, 09-03-2011, 12:00 PM
Doki - Blood-C - episode 8 (http://tracker.anime-index.org/Doki_Blood-C_-_08_1280x720_h264_AAC_39D4A912.mkv.torrent)


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let me say one thing - fucking cliffhanger.

Buffalobiian
Sun, 09-04-2011, 09:51 AM
Doki - Blood-C - episode 8 (http://tracker.anime-index.org/Doki_Blood-C_-_08_1280x720_h264_AAC_39D4A912.mkv.torrent)


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let me say one thing - fucking cliffhanger.

Yeah. I keep thinking that the dog is Tokizane because of its voice - my memory of its speech kicks in later on, and only then do I remember that it's actually a certain shop owner. I'm 99% sure "blood relationship" was describing their blood-donor/consumer relationship, but that scene did leave a 1% chance that they might have been truly family at some point.

Buffalobiian
Sun, 09-04-2011, 10:37 AM
[Nipponsei] Blood-C OP Single - spiral [DUSTZ].zip (http://tracker.minglong.org/torrents/%5BNipponsei%5D%20Blood-C%20OP%20Single%20-%20spiral%20%5BDUSTZ%5D.zip.torrent)

vejita613
Sat, 09-10-2011, 06:52 PM
Doki Blood C episode 9 (http://tracker.anime-index.org/Doki_Blood-C_-_09_1280x720_h264_AAC_481E377E.mkv.torrent)

Well there goes all my theories. But now Im beginning to wonder, what if its Saya thats actually killing everyone and the"Elders" are simply delusions in her head? I started thinking about this a few minutes into the episode, but then Kanako pretty much confirmed it. If this is true, then what the director said in the recent interview* makes alot of sense. It really does make me want to go back and rewatch the series and watch each battle. I know alot of people complained about her hardly doing anything alot of the times when humans were being attacked. And why the blood of the "Elders" was red. Didn't she lick some of it too?

Anyways, just a theory. I had plenty of them up until this point, and look where that got me. Guess I'll find out next week.

*Interview I was referring to. (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2011-09-01/blood-c-tsutomu-mizushima-and-junichi-fujisaku/)

Buffalobiian
Sun, 09-11-2011, 10:48 AM
Doki Blood C episode 9 (http://tracker.anime-index.org/Doki_Blood-C_-_09_1280x720_h264_AAC_481E377E.mkv.torrent)

Well there goes all my theories. But now Im beginning to wonder, what if its Saya thats actually killing everyone and the"Elders" are simply delusions in her head? I started thinking about this a few minutes into the episode, but then Kanako pretty much confirmed it. If this is true, then what the director said in the recent interview* makes alot of sense. It really does make me want to go back and rewatch the series and watch each battle. I know alot of people complained about her hardly doing anything alot of the times when humans were being attacked. And why the blood of the "Elders" was red. Didn't she lick some of it too?

Anyways, just a theory. I had plenty of them up until this point, and look where that got me. Guess I'll find out next week.

*Interview I was referring to. (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2011-09-01/blood-c-tsutomu-mizushima-and-junichi-fujisaku/)

Interesting. Admittedly the Chairman is the only person to have witnessed Saya fighting and survived, though Tokizane did seem to witness the corpse of the samurai-elder.

All this stuff started happening after the cafe guy gave her the sweets too.

Alhuin
Mon, 09-19-2011, 06:15 PM
Can't believe this hasn't been updated yet.

Underwater - 10 (720p) (http://underwater.nyaatorrents.org/torrent/%5BUnderwater%5D%20Blood-C%20-%2010%20(720p)%20%5B7DA01400%5D.mkv.torrent)

Things are taking a long time to unfold, but it looks like we're almost there.

I have to say that, I'm really growing to hate her singing in every episode. =/

NeoCybercoin
Mon, 09-19-2011, 06:40 PM
So has this anime really been getting a lot better then the 'lame' first couple of episodes?

shinta|hikari
Mon, 09-19-2011, 07:20 PM
Not really. Just blood and more blood.

Buffalobiian
Tue, 09-20-2011, 08:45 AM
I don't get what is more forbidden than eating humans. Certainly Saya's not feeding on the blood of other demons.. Maybe they're only allowed to hunt them, but not farm them like what Saya's feeding habit can be considered. Or perhaps it's the blood/flesh of shrine-people, since that Elder didn't touch the dad during the entire fight, but devoured Tokizane as soon as he got to the scene.

If the shrine's history records are fake though, chances are the priest and his shrine is also fake.

If she's feeding at night then it doesn't make too much sense for the coffee to contain any more blood. If it cures her headaches which in turn seem to indicate her "awakening", then the coffee more likely contains the drug that keeps her obedient/forgetful.

Ryllharu
Tue, 09-20-2011, 03:05 PM
The hair demon kept asking Saya what it was like to be starving.

It wasn't clear whether or not the tubes going out her back were feeding her blood...or taking it. That scene seemed more like a flashback from when Saya initially "accepted" the bargain, so I'm wondering if they drained her of blood as part of making her docile.

Either way, it isn't the coffee that contains the blood or whatever is sustaining Saya, it is the guimauve. Those have become her "favorite," and she didn't eat those one night when they appeared in her room. I can't remember if that was the same night she fought the hair demon, or one or two fights before that. In contrast, the coffee never fails to cure the "headaches," which are caused by her breaking through the brainwashing, and as they've gotten worse, they have started insisting she have a second cup.

Alhuin
Thu, 09-22-2011, 12:39 PM
@Rhyll: I could have sworn Saya was "living" at the shrine and fighting the Elder Bairns for some time before she ever ate any of the guimauve. It's possible they could have been using some other means to supplement the blood (or whatever is sustaining her), before introducing it, but I really think it's the coffee. I'm thinking the two are flipped in the roles they play, but the line about the guimauve being red (which, btw, they definitely look pink to me) suggests it has something to do with blood.

Ryllharu
Thu, 09-22-2011, 03:05 PM
She's first given it literally the morning after her second fight (that we see). Granted, she's given the coffee first, but I would guess the brainwashing serum would be more important than feeding her blood at first. Now that we know her memories are being altered, any "history" we hear about is completely suspect. The only things we can trust are what we've actually seen Saya do in the series, and with the twins returning at the end of episode 10, things are even more suspect.

Now we can't even trust the stories her friends relayed the audience by talking to Saya. They were either subject to similar brainwashing, or part of the nefarious "wager" from the beginning. The teacher certainly was aware of the true chain of events. Thinking back, a lot the dialogue with Tokizane feels like he's speaking to her for the first time. She doesn't think so, but she's brainwashed, and was always the one approaching him until after the bug-samurai fight.

Just because her "father" told her she has been hunting Elder Bairns (old ones, whatever) for some time, doesn't mean she actually has been. For all we know, that jizou bodhisattva one she fought in the first episode was the very first one she fought for the "wager" that has been going on.

Ryllharu
Sat, 09-24-2011, 07:24 AM
[Doki] Blood-C - 11 (720p)
(http://tracker.anime-index.org/Doki_Blood-C_-_11_1280x720_h264_AAC_FBFD2EB8.mkv.torrent)
About damn time, this episode has been four episodes late in coming.


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While I'm glad they finally got around the memory and brainwashing games, it did feel abrupt, and only Kanako-sensei's true motives were ever really hinted at earlier in the series. For the twins and Tokizane, it felt like it came out of nowhere. I certainly did like the evil twins though. It sounds like they were into some really nasty stuff before they got into trouble. Particularly their talk about obtaining a large quantity of spare uniforms and gathering a bunch of girls and...it's pretty obvious from there what they were involved in. Tokizane is probably in trouble with the yakuza or something like that.

I am very interesting what Yuuka was promised for her participation though. She's still loyal to the project, as is the class president. If she was as desperate as the other four are to see this farce end, she would probably have been on their side.

Kanako-sensei ended up being a very [redacted for cross-series spoilers] kind of character. I'm a bit surprised how similar she turned out to be to that other, "Secretly a Researcher, mocked by her peers" character.


This series would have been a lot more successful as a 6 episode OVA. Uncensored violence right from the start, and there wouldn't have been a need for 5 episodes that kept repeating the same stuff over and over and over and over. I can very much see why the four characters became so frustrated.

Alhuin
Sat, 09-24-2011, 01:23 PM
Parts of the episode did feel forced, like Rhyll mentioned, but some if it made sense. Best way to acquire humans for an experiment is to find ones looking for a way out of trouble. That being said, I wasn't very pleased with it. I was expecting the town and the people and everything to be "built" for her, but I was hoping her "friends" were just delusions she was creating subconsciously either due to the drugs, or from her will to remember the truth. And, like I'm sure someone mentioned before, the teacher being a partner in the experiment.

The cafe owner being the man in her flashbacks was obvious. What he said during one of the flashbacks makes me retract my previous claims toward Rhyll about the blood/drugs. He mentions that he should "give her something to eat", and though we don't see what it is, I'm led to believe it's the introduction of the guimauve. Since this would be before the brainwashing, it would make sense why, when we saw it in episode 2, she wouldn't remember it.

Have we had any information on whether the movie is going to be a continuation or a retelling? Knowing CLAMP, I halfway expect episode 12 to end on a cliffhanger and the movie being what ends everything.

shinta|hikari
Fri, 09-30-2011, 06:59 AM
Episode 12 (FINAL) (http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=249139)

That was an awesome last episode. It redeemed this show for me. All the parts that I hated, the awkwardness of the situation, Saya's unnatural personality, the lack of depth of the characters, and the random developments in relationships, were actually intentional. It looked like a badly done movie, and that was exactly what it was. The violence in this episode was also a notch above the rest of the series, and that is saying something.

Saya's original personality and voice are fantastic. There needs to be a sequel where she actually has this personality, and hunts the fuck out of that blonde bastard. I only hope that she changes her hairstyle a bit, and that her wounded eye regenerates.

Possible xxxholic spoiler:




If her wish was to remain herself, what did she have to give up? Was it Watanuki that gave her the contracted restriction of being unable to kill humans? Or was it some other entity we don't know about? If it was indeed Watanuki, then Saya was pretty smart in betting that she regains what she just sacrificed if she wins the bet, because her wish made sure she would win. However, she was absurdly foolish in believing that Fumito would actually honor such a promise, assuming she did believe him and not only humored his desire to play a game.

Buffalobiian
Fri, 09-30-2011, 09:43 AM
I thought, rather, that her price was her eye. It's ironic too that in order not to change mentally, she had to change physically.

I had an impression that her indifference to humans was around since the The Last Vampire.

Not too sure what to make of the light/katana neither - catching the light = regaining her true self?


The violence in this episode was also a notch above the rest of the series, and that is saying something.

You could totally see the delight in those Elder Bairn's actions, even if their expressions weren't human.

Idealistic
Fri, 09-30-2011, 03:19 PM
This last episode was definitely awesome...... Sadly, it took about 8 useless episodes to come to this.

Ryllharu
Fri, 09-30-2011, 06:10 PM
This episode illustrated perfectly why this should have been an OVA from the start. Though the fight between Tadayoshi and Saya was very fluid and well scripted, the animation was definitely lacking. Cut out the 6 useless episodes of cruft, and you've got a really good OVA series with a high budget. They slap on a movie conclusion anyway (I had been hoping it was a summary movie...), so to me, it makes the planning of the series even worse. Half the series was blatant filler.

Regarding Saya and her reward for victory, didn't she always refrain from drinking human blood in the original movie? In fact, I'm not sure she ever drank any blood at all. The series definitely made many references to Saya's 1966 final standoff in the burning gym of the movie. That was the flashback that kept giving her headaches. That reference would lead me to believe that there isn't much of a connection to the primary CLAMP universe (CCS, xxxHolic). I would guess that her promise was more the members of Red Shield than anyone in the CLAMP universe.

In retrospect, I enjoyed the series, but it should never have been stretched to 12 episodes + 1 movie. It was absolutely weaker for it.

Alhuin
Fri, 09-30-2011, 07:12 PM
9 months for the theatrical conclusion, then who knows how long for a quality fansub version.

I was quite happy with the series. The blatant filler wasn't all that bad; I enjoyed the fights with the "Elder Bairns". The brainwashing was drawn out, of course, but even that I could handle better than Saya's singing in every episode (almost).

Guimauve tastes like human organs, huh.

Looking forward to the Blu-Ray rips. Not only for the uncensored awesomeness, but to watch for the "hints" someone mentioned in an earlier post.

shinta|hikari
Fri, 09-30-2011, 11:09 PM
Not "tastes", but has the texture of human organs.

Uncensored Blood-C is gonna be fantastic.

Buffalobiian
Thu, 10-24-2013, 06:55 AM
[Anime-Koi] Blood-C: The Last Dark [h264-720p][EA86F404].mkv (http://www.nyaa.se/?page=download&tid=416832)
[Anime-Koi] Blood-C: The Last Dark [h264-1080p][637FF878].mkv (http://www.nyaa.se/?page=download&tid=416831)


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You know what? I still don't get this show. I do like Saya without her glasses, that's for sure. Her hair was also more streamlined and less "bushy" than I remember from the anime.

It sounds like Fumito did this all for Saya... but we're never told where he even met Saya initially, did we? The whole thing just seems so wtf.