Black Blood Brothers

Black Bloods and Red Bloods, vampires and humans. Despite their differences, these two races once fought together in a crusade against a formidable foe. A decade later, the vampire war hero Jirou Mochizuki, known as the "Silver Blade," travels with his younger brother Kotarou to the Special Zone—a safe haven where vampires and humans live in harmony.
However, their journey is suddenly faced with danger when a conflict erupts between vampire migrants and human forces from the Special Zone. With the rise of a developing conspiracy from an old enemy, Jirou will need the help of his new ally, Mimiko "Compromiser" Katsuragi, as well as the power of his ancient bloodline to protect what he treasures the most.

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Mochizuki, Jirou Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Mochizuki, Kotarou Main

Minami, Omi Japanese

Warlock, Cassandra Jill Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Katsuragi, Mimiko Main

Nagata, Ryoko Japanese

Clock, Zelman Supporting

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Sei Supporting

Takagi, Reiko Japanese

Warlock, Cain Supporting

Yasumoto, Hiroki Japanese

Eve, Alice Supporting

Minami, Omi Japanese

Wong, Kelly Supporting

Tsuji, Ayumi Japanese

Zaza Supporting

Toriumi, Kousuke Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Kawamura, Hiroshi Producer

Hosokawa, Osamu Producer

Ogisu, Hirotsugu Producer

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Nov 21, 2017

DarkRavie

Recommended

Ten years after the Holy War in Hong Kong, Jirou Mochizuki with his young brother Kotarou, return to Japan to live in the “Special Zone”. Trouble soon follows in the form of the Kowloon Children, an immoral clan of vampires that want to take over the entire vampiric race. Jirou, aka the Silver Blade, Katarou and their new friend, Mimiko Katsuragi a compromiser for the Order Coffin Company, the humans in control of the “Special Zone” have no choice but to put an end to the Kowloon threat.

My Thoughts:
This is one anime I truly enjoyed watching. Jirou’s character acts tough but you see the ... love he has for his brother; and Kotarou is always smiling, he brings light into Jirou’s otherwise gloomy mood. Black Blood Brothers is a 12 episode series I recommend watching. I do hope they do a 2nd season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Dec 12, 2020

chewyTofu

Mixed Feelings

All my scores/reviews are subjective/personal af so feel free to agree/disagree! Your opinions are valid!

NON-SPOILER SECTION

Plot (+1): The world-building was cool. Everything seemed to flow and there was not really any filler.

Characters (+1): The characters were well established, however, pretty generic.

Tone (+1): Action shounen with comedic moments in there. It built up tension when it needed to be there.

... Consistency (+1): Yeah, it was pretty consistent.

Did it well? It got pretty boring with all the info-dumping.

PERSONAL Enjoyment Factors:
Characters (like/love?) (+0.5): I liked the characters in the beginning… but nothing that I loved. I really wish that the main character, Mimiko was scrapped as she served no purpose but to be a self-insert. She was boring. Jirou had a bit more personality, but not much more. I really wish that more focus was given to the other vampire characters because they were really interesting and had really cool powers that could’ve had more potential with more screen time. I especially liked Zelman. Poor Kotarou, I wanted him to have more development but he just became the generic little brother character.

Soundtrack (OP/ED): Nothing that I really enjoyed or would listen to outside of watching the show.

Engagement (+0.5): Too much info-dumping, they sit around and talk... a lot.

Ending: Read-the-manga ending, so beware if you still decide to watch this. It felt like they wanted a season 2 but was never renewed.

Overall: 5

SPOILER SECTION
Characters (like/love?): Kotarou (Jirou’s little brother) being the reincarnation of Alice (Jirou’s former lover) was very SUS to me. I did not enjoy that ‘twist’. Sorta makes the title itself a lie since they aren’t really brothers.

Ending: It was a pretty cute ending, but I guess now that it doesn’t have a season 2, it’s all left to the imagination. With this type of ending to the first season, I can only assume that the series finale would have a happy ending, too. Meaning that they’d find some loop hole so that Jirou stays alive or something. Obviously, they’re building up his and Mimiko’s relationship.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Aug 29, 2023

ThatAnimeSnobRE

Not Recommended

Black Blood Brothers is as mid and rehashed as anime can get, practically a collection of tested elements that have worked out many times in the past, presented in a subpar way. It took as few risks as possible and went for the formula others already established earlier and in better ways, thus it failed to be memorable. Here is the breakdown.

1) Incomplete story

The story is about a vampire super soldier fighting evil organizations of vampires, who want to … we are never told. What we are told is that this world is willing to have coexistence between humans and vampires and that many people ... are offering their blood willingly in order to keep the other kind peaceful. Plus, chances of turning into a vampire are not that high. So yeah, this coexistence is quite the interesting theme, but we never see what the villains plan to do and the whole brainwashing fuss I mention later kind of ruins it.

2) Annoying main character

At first, the lead reminded me of a much calmer Alucard (from Hellsing), as he too is a vampire dressed in red, fighting other vampires to protect the humans. But in reality he is a lot closer to Vash (from Trigun). He is the typical noble warrior, acting too goody with everyone and doesn’t want to hurt innocents; the result of which comes off as stupid. He clearly has no qualms about killing hundreds of vampire soldiers in the beginning of the show but he is more than willing to stop his attack and let the villains escape or heavily injure him if they are holding hostages. As noble as that sounds, it is nothing but lame in practice. The villains will escape and kill far more innocents, or he will almost lose his life for a nobody.

What is even more stupid is how he has no problem when killing vampires who are brainwashed to attack him. They basically count as innocents, so why is it okay to kill them so casually? Because of the berserk state they are in? Killing their controller would switch them back to how they were, so what the heck is his problem?

Also, he keeps around him two very annoying and problematic side characters. They are there just to cause trouble, so it’s stupid to drag them along everywhere he goes, just to act stupid and incompetent while he is next to them.

3) Annoying side characters

One is his brother, a very young cheerful vampire boy. People around him are cut to pieces and he will just ask for ice cream. He is completely out of touch with reality, and thus he ruins the atmosphere of the show. He will always trust people, always want to play, always say only the sweetest things. I WANT TO STRANGLE HIM. He is supposed to offer a bright side to the story and even act as a comic relief mascot animal with all that optimism of his. But for all we see he is nothing but a delusional idiot who always gets kidnapped or ends up in the middle of a battle, just to force his brother to side-track in order to help him out. He is not as uber-awful as Raki (from Claymore) but he shares the same ridiculous archetype.

The other sidekick is this neurotic office girl, who is the typical damsel in distress. As soon as she stands next to the MC she keeps hitting him and insulting him like he is a lowlife. Typical tsundere nonsense to make women come off as a bother and not funny at all.

4) The villains’ motives
We don’t get to see them. We see how stereotypically evil and megalomaniacs they all are, and that is pretty much all of it.

5) Brainwashing
Powerful vampires can mindcontrol lesser ones into doing anything they want, thus turning them to drones and cannon fodder in battles. They are mostly just innocents trying to have a normal life, yet with this cheap plot device the villains can have as many foot soldiers as they want. As cool as it sounds, it is just trashing the personalities of everyone if they can be stripped of free will in a heartbeat. It also ruins the coexistence theme of the two species and makes the MC to come off as a hypocrite when he won’t do a thing when the villains use HUMAN hostages, but he will have no problem when killing VAMPIRE innocents.

6) The hero’s hat
Just because it looked cool on Alucard or D, doesn’t mean that a big hat will look good on anyone. In this case, it was drawn in a way to make the hero look stupid.

7) Average production values
Animation and sound are just average; there are neither heavy artistic overtones nor great voice acting and smart dialogues. The main intro song was nice to listen to for a few times but that’s it.

Piece all the above together and you can see why it’s a simplistic adventure with annoying characters and wasted potential. But to be honest the fight scenes had decent choreography which was not mostly magic attacks doing any shit the scriptwriter wants. Besides stopping bullets and mind control, the action was cool hand-to-hand or sword-based. Not that anyone will care anymore, since the colors are not Demon Slayer level.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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