Blood+

[masamuneehs]

first time watching a Shinsen presentation of Blood+ in awhile.

Collins smelled like trouble right from the get-go. Son of a bitch will obviously pull a Judas in one of the upcoming episodes.

Joel and David's conversation was a little dry, but I was impressed with Joel's character. A little on the scrawny side, but a pretty good leader figure. David didn't sugarcoat anything at all when he gave Saya her new sword (and man is that thing wicked looking. Could do without the jewel though, but i suppose that has some big symbolic importance...) Lewis always cracks me up.

Collins though, Collins is your standard 'even though i'm doing a great thing for all of humanity I really just want to be rich and famous so i'll be a traitor to obtain that' scientist character.

This was totally a 'regroup' episode for all of the characters. A little too dry and stiff in some points, some dialog came off really over serious.

The Schiff are in the episode 26 preview, looks like we're going to get some action again Oh and Riku's voiceover for the preview is both sad and creepy at the same time...

[Ryllharu]

I didn't think this eps was particularly dry. All of it was pretty much necessary, I think a lot of people were spoiled by the movie, which was all action. Here, the creators are given all the time they need to delve into each of the characters. I've been enjoying all of it. Admittedly, we've been getting stuck into a pattern as of late. "Oh no, what have I done?" followed immediately by "I must fight until the end" etc. and repeat. Hopefully this will be the last time.

Nice short scenes with the reporter and the Ojou. There's something wrong with her though, talk about mood swings. Good for a couple of laughs.

I fully agree about Riku's preview. The final line has to be one of the creepiest things I've heard in a while.

One question. Diva basically proved that since Saya hasn't been partaking in blood lately, that she's become considerably weak. We've cleary seen Diva drink, and we know the Sif and regular Chiro's do, but I don't believe we've ever seen many of the Chevalier do so. They've killed people, many in some instances, but it doesn't seem like they drink blood. Hagi hasn't, Solomon hasn't, and as far as I can guess, only Amschel has. Unless I'm not remembering something.

[NeoBear]

I completely agree with the observation you made about doing wrong then saying some crap about fighting till the end. I feel like I have herd that line over a dozen times in this anime alone. I didn’t hate this episode but it did fill kind of unnecessary, to me the reporter and the school girl seem like nothing more then a way to waste screen time lately and or give us a break from all the self doubting of a lot of the main cast. Things look good for next week’s episode though. Buy the way am I the only one who thought the music they played while David was talking to Saya was totally out of place?

[Yukimura]

Woot Blood+ 26!
Bakakozu 25 & 26 batch

[darkshadow]

Ty for the heads up, downloading now

[dragonrage]

oooooo Blood, pretty. Thanks for the good new man.

[Ryllharu]

I really liked the new opening animation. I don't care for the song either way, its better than the last one, but its hard to beat Aozora no Namida. I really like the part at the end where Saya and Diva are facing off.

As for 26 itself, great fights with the Schiff and their uncommon weapons. Kai is back to being a whiner, but this time it is understandable. As we all expected, Amschel is probably up to something that is not directly in Diva's best interests, but his own.