Yeah, I’ll bet.
…’cause it’s not as if anything has changed. “Blah blah, why do you watch anime you don’t like.” I’m sorry — I didn’t know it was against the rules to watch bad anime. Anyway, on with the show.
• Sandwiched between No.6 and Dantalian no Shoka, the first three quarters of Blood-C is like the anime equivalent of muzak. It says nothing, it does nothing, it is nothing.
• Actually, the people behind Blood-C are geniuses. Since every episode follows the exact same format, it’s like getting paid to do nothing. Just storyboard the first episode then copy the format for the rest of the season — brilliant!
Whoever animated these characters is also living easy.
• Seriously, are there any interviews with the people behind this anime? I’d love to know what they were thinking.
• For some reason, I’m beginning to suspect the cafe owner and Saya’s dad have a little something something going on.
They’re carefully watching over Saya as she learns to slice tamagoyaki (it’s hard!). Oh, our little Saya’s growing up! She’s going to make some morose, emo boy so happy! “…whatever, it’s not like I wanted to eat your obento anyway….”
• That’s not a dog and this is not Azumanga Daioh.
• So why is the teacher hitting on Saya? I’ve heard that this is pure CLAMP.
And yet, I’m feeling only pure revulsion. Adults in positions of power coming onto minors — oh those wacky CLAMP ladies!
• “It’s only the third episode and I’m already fresh outta ideas! What should we do!”
“Let them eat… cake!”
See, we gotta behead these people or we’ll just keep getting bad, cake-eating anime. The anime elites don’t care about us!
• Also, Saya confirms her hipster status:
“I don’t know anything about your silly idols!”
• Elder Baird? Trigrams?
It’s the third episode already but the anime still haven’t bothered to explain what any of these terms mean. Oh, I guess it’s my fault for not knowing. Why didn’t I follow the cultural zeitgeist known as the Blood series when I had the chance!
• Saya fights a train-looking monster that appears as if it’s made out of bubblegum.
Oddly enough, Saya follows and watches some catatonic dude enter said “train” and get gruesomely murdered.
So much for his worried wife — Saya just can’t be assed to walk any faster!
• The show completely shocked me by moving the monologue from the start of the episode to the very end — what a change-up. The monologue basically went “What if A… no! — what if B! …nah, it’s A. *roll credits*” Stunning writing. Every statement is loaded with meaning and subtext.
Wow, this is beyond shitty writing. When I saw the killing moment I couldn’t believe my eyes. The poor bakery guy is horribly killed by the train monster…and Saya stays right outside and does nothing. I still can’t wrap my mind around this. So why exactly is Saya fighting those monsters? Saving humans can’t be the reason anymore, that much is sure.
Not only the rest of the episode is so useless again it’s unbelievable but also the ghost town the characters live in is becoming a poor joke. I was so lol’ing when Saya saves that dog something and warns him that it might get hit by a car. In a ghost town, where I’ve seen almost nobody despite our talking heads, even at school. At least the creators seemed to have realized that this scene was beyond ridiculous and tried to make it funny…I guess.
I’m really glad I dropped this show.
Yeah, three episodes and we don’t know a damn thing about Saya’s mission. I am almost tempted to say the town is fake, but then again, they must have enough people to fill up that giant high school of theirs. Every anime has a giant high school.
“It’s the third episode already but the anime still haven’t bothered to explain what any of these terms mean. Oh, I guess it’s my fault for not knowing. Why didn’t I follow the cultural zeitgeist known as the Blood series when I had the chance!”
The worst part of this is that even if you know the various Blood instalments, you do not understand any better what is going on. These “Elder Bairns” and “Trigrams” are totally unrelated to what happens in the OVA, live action, manga or even in Blood+ (at least for the manga version, but I don’t think the anime is that different)
Welp, it’s worse than I imagined it — the anime makes sense to absolutely no one.
Arrgh!! That does it!!! I’m going back to western cartoons!!!! At least they can tell a joke!!! And have a better main character range!!! Anime is now pretty girl this and pretty girl that and the harem genre.
That Bunny Drop anime is about family members which I like. Why can’t anime show the miracle of child birth, raising a family, retirement, elderly life, real high school life like studying for an exam making lifelong friendships or having disagreements or arguments? What about having a hobby that doesn’t involve girls like chess or kite flying or surfing or sports? Why can’t a male protagonist have the same story line as Hanasaku Iroha? A guy with something to prove to his grumpy relative. It’s just I’m getting too old for this high school anime drama going around. It’s not relatable at all. Bunny Drop about learning the struggles of child rearing. That’s something in my age range.
sorry about my rambling.
By the way, is Saya getting more cuter than her first design?
I’d tell you but someone stole my HNNNGH-thoscope.
She used to have bigger lips and smaller eyes. She looked so Japanese.
”…’cause it’s not as if anything has changed. “Blah blah, why do you watch anime you don’t like.” I’m sorry — I didn’t know it was against the rules to watch bad anime. Anyway, on with the show.”
It’s funny, because I also hear people say that Blood-C is just slowly paced when in fact nothing happens. I decided to drop it and going by the look of things, I made the right decision.
Slow-paced is fine; glacially-paced is not.
Indeed. Slow paced shows usually have something to offer in terms of characterization, setting, tone, complexity, etc. Blood-C is just plain boring, and pointless.
I keep watching in the hopes that it will turn a 180, throw everything out the window, and mindfuck the audience. Ga-rei Zero style.
That is honestly the only thing they can do at this point that will turn the show around and make it good.
I guess, but that doesn’t strike me as something Production I.G. would do. They’re kinda vanilla when it comes to anime.
This is more wallpaper paste speckled with sherbet than vanilla.
At this point, I’m just bored. The first third followed the same script, the second third somehow had a script even more banal than the first, and the last was just Saya being lazy before tearing a giant glob of sentient taffy to pieces.
I wonder if having to adapt “Usagi Drop” has anything to do with how boring “Blood-C” is.
It’s a possibility. I guess studios need a shittiness quotient that they have to reach, or else they lose funding.
I’m just working off the assumption that “Sacred Seven” is a joke because Sunrise is busy executing the hell out of “Tiger & Bunny.”
I’m gonna theorize that the first 20 slow episodes will be similar to watching to a survival of the fittest, where those who realize that this anime was pure utter crap will leave. Then those who were left surviving will see the episodes with all the epic shit that was people we supposed to watch in the remaining 5-6 episodes.
Oh dear God, are you telling me this series is going to be over 20 episodes long?
I’ve been hearing of an upcoming movie of this as well. And Blood+ was about 56 episodes long.
So Blood-C might stick around for a while. And we are doomed.
The show only has 12 episodes, and after 1/4th of it is over, I feel like I know nothing more than I did when I read the preview. I’m hoping it stops walking in one place and meets up with Mr. Plot soon, otherwise time will run out.
The CLAMP fanboy within me is telling me how this all is a giant masterplan to show us how desolate the village is an how strange (not necessarily baddies, but I wonder if all of them are civilians unaware of the masquerade) the few inhabitants it has are – I’ve been getting creepy vibes from the teacher since ep. 1, and I also found the blue haired chick weird in the first episode, although we haven’t really seen much of her and thus she is now off my radar. And the twins are the second most likely character to turn into a monster or monster slayer or whatever, after the teacher.
The anime fan within me, however, demands the plot to come, fast, and is not as patient.
Actually, the cafe owner and Saya’s dad having a little something going on would be the purest CLAMP going on here.
Well, someone has to help the cafe owner mold those guimauve.
*cue “Unchained Melody”*