Category: TV Genre:Action, Horror Year: 2005 Studio: Production I.G
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Chiropteran – is an un-dead monster with a grotesque figure, however it can disguise it's self as a human and sucks people's blood. There is a secret organization called Red Shield, they exist to hunt down the Chiroptearns.
It is the year 2005, in Okinawa. A high school girl Otonashi Saya spends her life peacefully, she seems normal but the only thing about her is that she lost all her memories a year ago. Her perfect life ends with a accident.
She meets Hagi, who's in a black suite playing a cello, he gives her a Japanese sword. At this moment, history turn a new page.
Mar 12 2009 07:51 AM I'm not sure when I started watching Blood+ but I think it was over a year ago. I have finally finished watching it. Quite honestly, what made me decide to watch it in the first place were all the pictures which featured a cellist. I'm a musician and cello is one of my instruments so I decided to give the anime a go purely on that basis. Well there turned out to be a lot more fighting, and blood, and monsters, and blood, and dying, and lots more blood, than musical moments; however, the addition of Diva's singing (voice is another of my instruments) was welcome. With a name like Blood+ lots of the crimson stuff was pretty much to be expected.
The incident with Riku made me shelve Blood+ for quite a few months. I almost didn't finish watching it at all but a discussion of the anime made me decide to look at a few more episodes. The latter half of the anime is very bleak. The first part is positively sunny by comparison which is certainly saying something. Despite some slow and very dismal episodes, the story developed and took some interesting turns. I found the conclusion tragic but, overall, satisfying.
Regarding the OPs ... I also liked all but the last ... the others are all on my iPod.
As for Haji ... he looked more like an angel than a chiropteran ... perhaps that was the intention. He plays some fantastic Bach on his cello ... that's angelic enough for me.
but yeah, I never watched AIR. I'm not saying Kaji's final form was "lame", taken in perspective it's "kinda" cool, but given all the build up from the series, all the awesome monster there were... it was very... anticlimactic.
Aww, then you didn't get the joke T___T The point is, in the end the guy turns into a crow ^__^
P.S. Not to say I think Blood+ is bad, but it is really not that great either. AND, it had some of the awesomest OP sequences (hehe look at my sig lol), except for the last one which totally blew.
seriously! I see the first intro, I think "hmm, that's cool". I see the 2nd, "whoa, that's pretty cool". I see the 3rd, "WHOAH! Awesome-sauce!!! *does a happy-dance". 4th, "what the crap?!".
but yeah, I never watched AIR. I'm not saying Kaji's final form was "lame", taken in perspective it's "kinda" cool, but given all the build up from the series, all the awesome monster there were... it was very... anticlimactic.
QUOTE (Arbiter Libera @ May 06 2008, 02:58 PM)
I can't really be certain if Haji showed his Chiropteran form (don't really have DVD here so I can't check), but I didn't say he cant's change. Instead, he refuses to change. Is it because of the previously mentioned incident, to keep his human as close to him as possible or just to differentiate from Divas Cavaliers I can't say with complete certainty.
If I'm not mistaken, we didn't get that many shots of Solomon in his full form either.
I'm pretty sure winged-kaji was his ultimate chiropteran form, at least that's the vibe I got from watching the series. The definitely made it seem like his final form.
But yeah, all-in-all, Blood+ was pretty sweet, but I think it would have been much better as a 26 ep. series. It moved... rather slow.
But was anyone upset by Kajii's true form near the end? I mean, it was pretty lame, in my standards. You've got all these awesome super-chiropteran uber-monsters laying waste on the world, and Kajii has... nothing but crow wings???
But now I'm seeing it as it's broadcast in its english dub and... bleack. I don't usually mind English voice actors, but these guys are just bad. Gotta love the publicity, though.
Well it's better than Yukito's final form in Air XD
As for the dub, I just checked it out and it is not as bad as everyone says; not only are the main characters' voices tolerable, but there is even a hint that the guys attempted some degree of voice acting ^____^ The guy with the french accent is annoying though... AND compared to dubs for Full Metal Panic! or Lucky Star, this dub is great...
But, i still cannot understand AdultSwim's criteria for anime import... They either mutilate old classics or pick out not-so-successful but long-running series... Is mediorcity a requirement? Something I wanna know....
P.S. Not to say I think Blood+ is bad, but it is really not that great either. AND, it had some of the awesomest OP sequences (hehe look at my sig lol), except for the last one which totally blew.
May 6 2008 04:58 PM I can't really be certain if Haji showed his Chiropteran form (don't really have DVD here so I can't check), but I didn't say he cant's change. Instead, he refuses to change. Is it because of the previously mentioned incident, to keep his human as close to him as possible or just to differentiate from Divas Cavaliers I can't say with complete certainty.
If I'm not mistaken, we didn't get that many shots of Solomon in his full form either.
May 6 2008 04:03 PM bah you made me watch from episode 50 and down so i could find the episode where he revealed his real form after a looong time (ep 43). they even had a flashback with it and it still showed those two pair of wings or did i missed something
May 6 2008 12:56 PM He has Chiropteran form, but he has a reason from the past (incident caused by Saya that made his arm "stunned" in Chiropteran form and that's why it's always covered by bandages) why he refuses to show his inhuman side.
Makes you wonder how strong he'd be if he fought with everything he has at disposal.
i agree everybody else have a full body transformation (or what? its been a long time i last watched it) and kaiji true form was a pair of wings but saya looked very sexy when her hair was longer why should kai CUT IT?!
May 6 2008 03:44 AM The blood+ that i watch in animax asia is also english dubbed...but the voice for saya n haji is nicely match...90% of the characters' voice is nice...the most important to me is the main characters' voice need to be match properly as we are going to hear them always...anyway good job to animax asia..hmmm..i think they dubbed it...i think...correct me if i'm wrong ...hehehe
or did i missed something 
why should kai CUT IT?! 