What are you so smug about? Your anime sucks.
Fanfiction terrible.
Let’s get the good stuff out of the way first. Blood-C should be a series of anime shorts with each episode featuring a slick sword fight against some monster. Forget the slice-of-life stuff we’ve been getting — I’d watch the last four minutes of Blood-C over that any time. There’s a dearth of shows with well-animated battle scenes and if this had consisted of just that, I wouldn’t have minded Blood-C too much.
The way the fight at the end of the episode shifted locations from a rocky hilltop to a watery cave interior — this isn’t revolutionary, but it’s at least entertaining to watch.
“But what about the story and the character development? Won’t anybody please think of the character development!”
Man, more is not always better and the character “development” in Blood-C sucks balls. First, we interrupt the action at the start of the anime with more pretentious voiceovers from some unseen dude regarding mankind’s nature. The start of Blood-C is the narrative equivalent to all the “Since the dawn of time…” openings you frequently find in terrible college essays. Y’know, the papers you totally winged the night before and still got an “A,” but in reality, you probably got a gentlemen’s “B” because research professors are too lazy to really read some undergraduate drivel (that job’s for ass-kissing graduate students).
Then the rest of the episode unfolds in exactly the same fashion as the first, but somehow, all the negatives from last week have been magnified a billion times over.
I was singing as I walked to school when my tomodachi overheard me and, OMG, hazukashii desu ne!! But it’s okay because he invited me for some adorable sweets called guimauve!
What is this — Azumanga Daioh?
Then I got distracted by a cute inu. It ran away when I tried to pet it. （ ´Д｀）
Saya’s so virginal, the word ‘kiss’ makes her blush. This is in spite of the fact that she’ll be murdering some plant with tentacles and vagina dentata by the end of the day, but let’s just pretend this doesn’t matter whatsoever.
Because of the dog, I was almost late to class. The seito kaichou was really nice to me though, but my friends kept giggling — OMG why!
I swear — anime always does this “sexy” close-up when the obento is about to be unveiled to the world. The characters then act like they’re eating gourmet food and not a bunch of stuff that had been sweating in their bags for the last several hours.
Lunch came and so I hung out with my nakama and I showed them my obento!
The immaculately rendered egg made me laugh.
Tokizane-kun walked by and he looked so lonely so I offered him a piece of my tamagoyaki! Maybe I should start making my obento though so I can really tell him I cooked it! He ate it and then touched my cheek and said something totally weird but he’s so cool. ~doki doki~
Oops, I just took 16 min. of my own anime’s runtime! Time to do battle! Jya ne~!
It’s really too bad how this anime is turning out, because I actually kinda like the soundtrack.
I couldn’t even get to the fighting, because the slice of life shit is sooooooooooooooooooo fucking boring. Ugh.
Pretty much.
It isn’t even really development. It’s just random chatting that adds nothing to the characters or story whatsoever. I’m usually pretty patient, but it serves no purpose whatsoever to have 80% of the episode consist of pointless banter in a series advertised as action. If it would spread both evenly, I wouldn’t mind so much at all.
Maybe it adds to the fact that the characters are stupid, like adding a negative number!
At this point, it’s detracting from any sort of value that the characters have in the series. And that’s terrible.
And to think Blood-C is a one-cour series.
Not that it’s really surprising that roughly 80 percent of the content is once again made up of pointless fluff, and well… nothing more, but it must suck when you prepare yourself for some decent action and maybe even an interesting story, and all you get is another genki high school girl singing how great today is going to be.
It’s not like there isn’t already an entire morass of other forgettable shows that depict an idealistic school life while neglecting anything of actual interest, like conflict, or that other thing called drama, or what about raising some hard questions about human nature and societal concerns?
But all that stuff is just boring, I guess.
I dunno about pointless fluff — I’m sure the encounter with the emo dude is “important” — it’s just not terribly interesting. And I dunno, I’m going to have to lay the blame on Production I.G. One can argue that a studio can only do so much with an adaptation, but Production I.G. has a reputation of making anime with a placid pace.
And I asked myself: This is part of the Blood franchise…right? Looks more like a parody/fanwork of it.
I’m not too familiar with the Blood franchise, but it must say something about the current trends of anime if the latest incarnation of a vampire-slaying series has become yet another slice-of-life snoozefest.
to the people who do read the reviews of this anime before wasting 10 x 30mins of your life – watch from ep 11 onwards.
Anyone who would watch anime from Clamp is just asking for it. They make the worst anime in the world. They never finish or provide good development in the story or characters. They always have to add weird plot twists which make no sense. CLAMP should never have touched Blood franchise. Blood Plus and Blood the Last Vampire are great and shouldn’t have Blood C in its franchise.