I had to stop watching this about six minutes in to create the above video. Please watch it before it gets removed which it surely will. Ok, I’m a fan [...]
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I have not seen Blood+, so I wasn't sure what to expect from this other than awesome fights and CLAMP character designs. I was not disappointed. The majority of the episode was pretty slow moving, and I wasn't sure what to make of it at first. Wasn't this supposed to be a show about fighting vampires? Based off of what I had seen of Saya so far, I assumed that something crazy was going to happen to her in order to kick off the fighting part of the show--I was even expecting the old cliches of her coming home to find her house on fire and/or her father dead which would cause her to swear revenge or something along those lines--but what actually happened was completely different. She arrives home, her father gives her the sword, and tells her to go kill a demon that's nearby. And suddenly the cutesy character was gone. Saya was completely serious until she went back to her father to report that the demon was dead. From this... ...to this. This raises a lot of questions as to Saya's "real" personality. Some people are calling foul, saying that Saya is a Mary Sue and that CLAMP is trying to have it both ways, but I don't think that's the case here. CLAMP is pretty good at mindscrews too, in case anyone forgot. The opening scene talks about human nature and asks whether someone is "born" into it or "becomes" it; basically, the nature versus nurture debate. This makes me think that the personality that Saya showed for most of the episode--accidentally falling, singing about breakfast, picking up trash on the way to school--might be an act of sorts. She could simply act the way that she does so as to not draw attention. Who would suspect that the cute spacehead girl also slays demons and vampires on a regular basis? That said, she does go back to her cute act rather quickly once the demon is dead, which makes me wonder how much her father has to do with her actions as well. So... which one is the "real" Saya? The space-case who's always late for school? Or the badass demon killer? Where does one end and the other begin? I realize that not everyone is happy with this first episode, but I've found plenty to keep me interested, even if CLAMP pulls another convoluted ending out of this one. I'm willing to stick around and see where this show goes. Images from NicoNico.com.
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Summary: Kisaragi Saya’s mom died around the time Saya entered elementary school, and ever since then it’s just been Saya and Tsuyoshi at the shrine.  Like her mother, Saya seems to have visions, but Saya can never seem to catch the small light that keeps appearing in her visions.  We are then treated to several [...]
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It’s the time of the year again! The first impressions are long overdue as I bring you my opinions of the shows I’m watching currently for the Summer Season. Originally I was going to put Uta no Prince-Sama together with the former two, but I decided to replace it with No. 6 at the last [...]
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Faceplantz I guess the first thing to start with is, "WTF did they do to the Blood series?!" If I was the creator who sold the rights, I would shoot myself so that I could get away from it and then roll in my grave. What they did to Blood with that first episode was so blasphemous that they have zero chances of redeeming themselves. Seriously, how did she make this shot? The anime started
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Blood-C Synopsis: Saya Kisaragi is a high school student who serves as a shrine maiden at her family’s temple. Saya is also responsible for killing these strange monster thingies that sometimes attack for no discernible reason. And she’s also a klutzy ditz who falls down a lot and is often late for school. Thoughts: I’m [...]
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Drama, Mystery, Horror, Vampire, Supernatural Category:  TV Date Aired:  Jul 2, 2011 Studio(s):  Production I.G, Aniplex, Mainichi Episodes:  Ongoing Summary: Anime Series is a collaboration between Production I.G and manga creator quartet, CLAMP.  This original series was announced in the May issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine.   [Source:  ANN] *Screenies were taken from [...]
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First off I would like to mention that I’m a big fan of Production I.G, as they seem IMO to do some interesting and mature works IMO. I thought that both opening and closing themes are excellent IMO, though I prefer the opening theme better out of the two. As this is the first episode, [...]
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Blood-C is a bad show and you should feel bad for liking it. Okay, so it’s grossly unfair to tar a whole series with the same brush based on the first episode, but the first episode of Blood-C is terrible. It begins with some pretentious narration going on about human nature, set mostly to images [...]
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Blood C is the brainchild and hellspawn of both CLAMP and Production IG. Basically the same people who get paid good money to reuse the Enigma of Amigara Fault character models again and again, and the people who produced the previous entries in the Blood franchise. And this show is indeed very CLAMP-y, from the [...]
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It’s even more amazing than I imagined .. And here we get another amazing work from Clamp. Seriously, this is why I love CLAMP so much, they never cease to amaze me.  ^_^  The detail was AMAZING, we have a unique cast of characters ( not to mention our bad ass megane heroine)  and the [...]
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With the first batch of Summer shows already airing, it’s time once again for First Impressions posts! Kicking things off this time, we’ve got both shows that end with weird random letters: Blood-C and Double J! Blood-C Blogging: Probably. Watching: Definitely Genre: Action, Mystery, Drama, Horror, Vampire, Supernatural Episodes: Unknown Notable Seiyuu: Nana Mizuki, Keiji [...] Related posts:The Loli Brigade [First Impressions] Sofuteni [First Impressions] 30-Sai no Hoken Taiiku & Maria Holic Alive [First Impressions]
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Okay so here we go – Summer First Impressions time!  I figured that since these are only short impression posts I won’t kill myself writing them……..we’ll see how I feel about that by the end of the week XD Today we have loli basketball, statue battles and NEET detectives…….otherwise known as Ro-Kyu-Bu!, Blood-C and Kami-sama [...]
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Okay so here we go – Summer First Impressions time!  I figured that since these are only short impression posts I won’t kill myself writing them……..we’ll see how I feel about that by the end of the week XD Today we have loli basketball, statue battles and NEET detectives…….otherwise known as Ro-Kyu-Bu!, Blood-C and Kami-sama [...]
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Kinda creepy shot. Lol Blood Clampy-clamp-clamp. For a first episode this is pretty disappointing. I mean I love Clamp and I love Blood+ but what happened to this one? I was really anticipating this series. Even the fight scene was disappointing. I mean half the time I was laughing at how weird the choreography is [...]
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All CLAMP. If you’ve ever seen a CLAMP anime, you must be familiar with overly elongated humanoids with tiny, tiny heads. Even with this in mind, I can’t help but get drawn out of the anime by the characters’ bizarre … Continue reading →
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Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel - Kyun Kyun Tokimeki Paradise Short Synopsis: Our lead character are magical girls who fight crime. What the..? This is really weird: at first sight this series seems exactly like the OVA. In fact, the entire first scene was completely borrowed from the OVA. However, as the series went on, it became [...]
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Blood-C Short Synopsis: Our lead character hunts monsters. Oh boy! Talk about a standard set for the rest of the season. This episode was rock-solid in every single way. Even the Noitamina series are going to have their hands full on trying to come close to the level of detail in this episode. Especially the big [...]
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  Basketball and vampires? This show has it all. Apparently the first episode had a special webcast today! Like I have any idea what’s going on. Its first episode doesn’t air for realsies until next Thursday. Impressions: That was a little… underwhelming. It does look good, quite good, although it bleeds Clamp from every oriface. There was [...]
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According to the May issue of Monthly Shounen Ace magazine, a new original animated series, entitled ���Blood-C���, will premiere in July of this year. The story will be written by CLAMP and produced by Production I.G. This would also mark the third anime title in the Blood series. *Staff Credits: Story: CLAMP Character Design: CLAMP [...]
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