[Pointless exposition.]
[Boring flashback sequence.]
[Horribly censored action scenes.]
Watch our movie! The end.
There’s a single eye-catching moment in the entire episode: Saya struggles to save her “teacher” by diving headfirst into an Elder Bairn’s mouth, crawling down its esophagus, and somehow finding the exact place to drive a stake through the monster’s heart. But after that, it was more exposition. Exposition about the Shrovetide. Exposition about Saya’s “dad.” Exposition about the Elder Bairn’s nature. To the people who still enjoy this show, are you entertained? Is this why you’re here? To be force-fed information like a goose being stuffed with corn. But instead of harvesting your liver, Blood-C is the most recent transparent attempt at getting you to fish out your fat wallet for some tie-in movie.
Enough’s been said about the show’s lack of development. This did not need twelve episodes, yadda yadda yadda. So I’ll just focus on how the finale plays out, and it’s like some damn RPG. The last boss is… YOUR FATHER!
I question the choice to frame this shot of Saya’s father with her blood-covered legs.
DUN DUN D-D-D-D-D-DUUUUUUUN! But if you thought the final boss would go down easily….
ONE MORE FORM:
SAFER DADIROTH
And so Saya fights a weird gorilla thing… it’s like a Ronso from Final Fantasy X. And for the final fight of the series, the animation is kinda silly:
Okay, okay… I guess you can find any flaw in an anime if you just randomly pause throughout an episode, but still, I’m not here to be fair to Blood-C. I’m done being fair when I thought the show might have turned a corner nearly two months ago, but it didn’t. It has been nothing but a steady slide since the fifth episode so Blood-C deserves all the criticism it gets. This is how the wall looks when Saya collides with it:
Then Saya’s “dad” punches it:
No change, huh? But just seconds later:
Good job, guys. Some of you will think that this is nitpicky, but the lack of thought and consistency is exactly what got Blood-C down this road to begin with. The story feels like a first draft. Oh, I’m sure more than a single person looked it over, but there has to have been some groupthink involved for the anime to turn out the way it did.
“Yeah, we have the best twist ever!”
“Yeah, I agree — high five, buddy! I don’t want to voice any opposition because this is teamwork and we should have harmony!”
I won’t waste a single penny on this series and that’s something to be thankful for. Some people will argue that we have to support the industry, blah blah blah, but there’s no point in doing so if you’re just going to help proliferate terrible anime. I can only hope that others will wise up and allow the DVD sales to be an abject failure. This is the only way the creators will realize the mess they’ve created.
The only thing that’s remotely well done in this show is the violence, but what am I? 12? This is goddamn Mortal Kombat. And what did the dog even do? Nothing. It did nothing.
Your moment of zen:
Saya Snake
Elder Bairn!?
In case you haven’t seen it already by now, there’s one of the standard completely obtuse and press-safe interviews floating around out there about Blood-C’s production.
I’d say “enjoy”, but…
I’ve skimmed through the interview but–
In Blood-C I had the opportunity to work with a stellar staff, one unthinkable for a standard TV production. This is what I’d been looking forward to most, and what I’m enjoying most as we are making the show now.
I think I’ve lost it.
“CLAMP’s sensitivities?” Is this because they’re women? I don’t know what to say about that interview. I guess my belief that the whole thing was dominated by groupthink is stronger than ever.
While the finale was pretty darn fun (At least I thought it was) everything was so crappy it’s hard to recommend this show, it’s not even a ‘so bad it’s good’ brand of horrible. It’s like the perfect thing to watch to get yourself into a self-induced coma.
I hate to admit it though, I want to see that movie.
Steal it if you must!
No – take hostages and make them pay you!
Meh, the flood of violence is eye-catching at first, but I can’t imagine it holding my attention for long. Even if the entire series had been nothing but blood and gore, it would have just been a rural Deadman Wonderland.
If you’ll excuse me, I’ll contact Blood: The Last Vampire’s Saya to go to the Future and kill this abomination.
Didn’t watch either of the previous two Blood series, but from the interview linked above, seems they’re mighty proud of this incarnation of Saya.
The finale managed to take obscene, hilarious levels of violence that would make an Obituary album blush and even make that somewhat boring.
Oddly enough, I think Blood-C would work far better as a movie, though I’m not willing to check it out on principle.
If anything, the time constraints of the movie will help them keep things concise. Still, there’s always the danger of them spending too much time recapping the events of the series to get viewers up to speed.
I thought that Saya’s dad’s final form made him look like a Thundercat, but maybe that’s just me.
Either way, it looked dumb.
Nah, most of the people I watched it with (bro1, bro2, sis and bro1+2’s buddy) pretty much thought so too.
What this is worse that the beyblade G revolution manga. Some big bad guys appear and then it ends on “see what happens next in our movie”.
No, how about you finish your manga as a manga!!!
Overall,
They might as well make another Blood anime and design Saya in the K-ON style. She’ll only get cuter from here on.
Only if cute girls sit around and drink blood and eat guimauve.
I actually marathoned this series to episode 11 when I was bored last meek. I don’t think I would have had the patience to come back week after week. It was really poorly executed. They bring back cardboard cut outs just to poorly develope them AGAIN and kill them AGAIN. Really? They could’ve stayed dead and you could have just got the class prez who was still alive (died anyway) to vomit exposition with the teacher cause he probably wouldn’t want to continue the shenanigans anyway with every one dying around him… The whole reason for the truman show was to change saya but why change her to a stupid bimbo and if you can brainwash her to the extent that she can’t figure anything out on her own why not just user her to do your bidding. Did they just want a steady supply of her blood? that was a fucking expensive and inefficient way to do it. What government agency would approve of such idoicy? It’s just not good.
I think digesting the show in weekly chunks was the only way I could get through the series. I really don’t think I could sit through consecutive hours of this show.
There are no amount of words to properly convey the level of suck that this show emits.
So I’l just say it: IT SUCKS.