Blood+

Saya Otonashi is a seemingly ordinary girl living a mundane life with her adoptive family in Okinawa City. In fact, her only peculiarities are suffering from anemia and being unable to remember any of her life beyond the previous year.

However, Saya's forgotten past quickly comes back to haunt her—one night, she is attacked at school by a creature that feeds on human blood. Just when all hope seems lost, a mysterious man named Haji appears and fends off the creature temporarily. But when her rescuer forces her to drink his blood, Saya suddenly enters a trance and slays the monster with ease, using her own blood as a catalyst.

Saya then learns of an organization named Red Shield, founded for the sole purpose of defeating the hellish beasts. Now Saya and Haji must work together with Red Shield to fight these fearsome monsters and unlock the secrets to the girl's past.

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Haji Main

Konishi, Katsuyuki Japanese

Otonashi, Saya Main

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Miyagusuku, Kai Main

Yoshino, Hiroyuki Japanese

Diva Supporting

Uechi, Aki Japanese

Goldsmith, Solomon Supporting

Tsujitani, Kouji Japanese

Moses Supporting

Yanagi, Naoki Japanese

Miyagusuku, Riku Supporting

Uechi, Aki Japanese

Mahler, Nathan Supporting

Fujiwara, Keiji Japanese

David Supporting

Kosugi, Juurouta Japanese

Fei-Ong, Karl Supporting

Sasaki, Nozomu Japanese

Ochikoshi, Tomonori Producer

Maruyama, Hiroo Producer

Morishita, Katsuji Producer

Morotomi, Hirofumi Producer

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Mar 14, 2008

TheLlama

Recommended

A show about a girl who fights monsters... sounds kind of unoriginal, no? Well, whatever it sounds like to you, this is one helluva awesome show :D

The story is dark, sad and action-packed. I like how they present everything with a sad setting; it's not like it's just one big brawl after another; it is emotions and resolve-strengthening, it's battles which have a reason other than just being yet another battle. The story keeps complex but simple enough to follow without too much thinking "what's happening?"

The animation style in Blood+ is really cool. It's got good shading details, and the characters looks good too; they've ... got a nice variation of character designs, some detailed and some maybe not so detailed. The animation is flawless; at least no noticeable errors. The background art in this series is amazing; the sceneries and cityscapes are wonderful to look at.

The music rocks too. The OP/ED songs are great (aside the fourth OP, which was all but good), and the background music is just as it should be; moody. It sets the right mood to all the scenes, and it fits very good with the series' sad tone.

Blood+ has the best character development of any anime I've watched. I'm completely enthralled by its characters, and how they change during the course of the series. They're deep, three-dimensional characters, and their relationships with each other are fascinating. I also like how a simple death during the beginning of the series had a large effect on the characters.

What I like about Blood+ is that despite being about vampires, it focuses on almost anything but the vampire aspects of the characters, with the latter being used mainly as a MacGuffin. Therefore, you'll enjoy this series even if you do not like vampire anime, and you'll love it if you like vampire anime.

All in all, Blood+ is among the better series in the vast world that is anime, and a series you'll enjoy watching.

To 'Not Helpful' voters (and you 'Helpful' voters too): Feedback greatly appreciated =)

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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May 15, 2019

Potatoc

Mixed Feelings

Watched this after I ran out of shows to watch and read all the superb reviews about it.
I was a little disappointed ngl; would've definitely dropped it if it weren't for Haji.

First half of the series is so insanely boring/awfully slow paced even watching it at 2x speed. It did have a good initial setup that made me curious about Saya's past, but I'd recommend just skipping around after the first 2 episodes to get the basic gist of what happened afterwards since the execution isn't that worthy to waste time over (it's another one of those mandatory tragic backstory to prep for the character ... development later). Second half is pretty ok personally since Haji felt more relevant. The compositions/panelling of the scenes are also dull in my opinion; it didn't really do its job to enhance the ominous atmosphere the slow pacing seems to try to get at. With that being said, if you wanted to watch it over the battle scenes overall, I wouldn't; it's bland in the entirety of the show.

In spite of the R17+ cause of the blood/violence, the story itself is probably better oriented for around 14 yr olds. I would've definitely enjoyed it more at a younger age, as it would be more difficult to guess the plot. If you decided to watch this after watching shows like FMA, boku no hero academia, one punch man, attack on titan, tokyo ghoul or code geass, it's best not to watch this; it'll be way too boring. (On a flip side though, I was a lot more motivated to work painfully trying to finish this series lol.)

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 1, 2011

GoodEnoughForMe

Not Recommended

When Blood+ came out back in 2005, it was one of the seasons most anticipated releases. The original work, Blood: The Last Vampire, screamed for a longer storyline that showed some development. And while Blood+ was to take place in a separate universe, if it managed to construct a decent story around the beautiful aesthetics of the film, then we would have had a definite winner. Sadly, Blood+ is, to put it bluntly, a bit of a mess.

Blood+ starts off decent enough. Saya, our protagonist, is revealed to be the only one capable of killing the human killing, blood sucking chiropterans. Early on, a ... bit os a standard "mysterious past" is established, although over the course of 50 episodes, it's never explained as well as it probably should have banned. Those hoping for a one woman show, like Blood: The Last Vampire, may also find it interesting that Blood+ sort of becomes a band of travelers movie with Saya's close friends, Riku and Kai, and her guardian of sort, the mysterious cello playing Hagi.

One of the biggest problems of this show is that so many of its elements are very, very conventional. Saya is an amnesia sufferer who has "forgotten" about her past as a bloody killer. The American military is interfering in the role of vampires, which would have made for a decent little conspiracy story, if predictable, if it was fully explored. We are also treated to a bevy of corny "live your life for today" speeches from the likes of Saya's friends. It's all very standard fare.

This wouldn't have been too bad, and would have been saved in part by the decently exciting action, if the series wasn't so arbitrary. New rules and twists are introduced haphazardly to the plot at seemingly unfit times. The Schiff, who are basically manufactured vampires, are tossed into the mix lazily, and their new set of rules and characters pops up and then is sort of left behind as the series progresses. This is how a lot of the second half of the show works. As Saya pursues Diva, the head honcho of the bad guys, all kinds of unexplored sub-plots are layered on; besides the aforementioned Schiff, we have some conflict between Diva's guardians (they're the bad guy equivalent of Hagi, basically), and political dealings with the American military, but they all feel terribly unimportant and underdeveloped, because the show ends up basically becoming one long, protracted chase scene, with Saya desperately trying to locate Diva and defeat her once and for all. This is extended by a relentless number of fight scenes that begin to lose their importance as we realize they are basically just delaying the final showdown.

The show becomes simultaneously bogged down by the unneeded subplots, as well as too narrow-minded in how it chooses to be "mysterious" about all the characters and backgrounds. No, a show needn't spell out everything for the viewer, but we're never really given much to go on, if anything, from Saya, Hagi, and Diva and her cronies. Even as one of the antagonists essentially falls in love with Saya, it all feels very rushed and heavy-handed. While the pacing manages to keep the show watchable, it becomes so repetitive and predictable that it fails to stand out.

The ending itself is something pretty much any viewer will be able to see from a mile away (and it has to do with another weird arbitrary rule that seems to be heaped on just to attempt to make it sad). Because of this, the emotional punch it is supposed to provide is more like an emotional feather dusting.

There are some positives, the animation is good, even if it lacks the dark appeal of The Last Vampire. The various world locations we get to see manage to help keep things varied. Kai becomes an interesting character with a soft-side to go along with his rambunctious one, that we can really empathize with. The action is generally pretty exciting at first. But the show just wears out its welcome with the arbitrary introduction of new ideas and characters that are often abandoned simply to fit the plot. It makes you wonder why they were needed in the first place.

Ultimately, this all leaves Blood+ as a watchable, but simplistic and by-the-numbers vampire flick.

3/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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