Reviews for Blood+ (6.89)
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Fujisaku Jun`ichi
Ishii Akiharu
Blood+ is an interesting series. It has possibly the single most unusual take on vampires I`ve ever seen, and has some moments of brilliance. It`s also twice as long as I`d like it to be, an...
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15.11.2007 08:25 - direct link
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Blood+ is an interesting series. It has possibly the single most unusual take on vampires I've ever seen, and has some moments of brilliance. It's also twice as long as I'd like it to be, and tends to focus on entirely the wrong things.
Animation:
Technically speaking, it's well animated. On the other hand, I really don't care for the art style, and the character design tends towards the boring. Probably helps to like males though, as there's considerably more bishounen than bishoujo.
On a semi-related note, the third opening is visually fantastic.
Sound:
The sound is larglely good. You'll be hard-pressed to find someone that likes the fourth opening, though.
Story:
The story irritates me. Not because it's bad, which it's not, but because it much more time dropping hints than actually telling you what's going on. The times where they actually tell you what's happening, it's largely irrelevant. There's a fair amount of mysteries remaining at the end.
Character:
Blood+ spends most of the time focusing on the characters. Unfortunately, it tends to focus on the wrong ones. More specifically, the protaganists and the bit parts. While my reasons for complaining about the series' tendency to spend a couple of episodes focusing on characters that never show up after that should be self-explanitory, I doubt my reasons for complaining about characterizing the leads are. It's fairly simple. Even though they spend most of the series talking, none of it actually matters to the plot. Despite all of the growth they're supposed to go through, none of their roles actually change.
Conversely, there are characters in other groups that go through massive role/loyalty changes, and they usually don't have much to justify it.
Animation:
Technically speaking, it's well animated. On the other hand, I really don't care for the art style, and the character design tends towards the boring. Probably helps to like males though, as there's considerably more bishounen than bishoujo.
On a semi-related note, the third opening is visually fantastic.
Sound:
The sound is larglely good. You'll be hard-pressed to find someone that likes the fourth opening, though.
Story:
The story irritates me. Not because it's bad, which it's not, but because it much more time dropping hints than actually telling you what's going on. The times where they actually tell you what's happening, it's largely irrelevant. There's a fair amount of mysteries remaining at the end.
Character:
Blood+ spends most of the time focusing on the characters. Unfortunately, it tends to focus on the wrong ones. More specifically, the protaganists and the bit parts. While my reasons for complaining about the series' tendency to spend a couple of episodes focusing on characters that never show up after that should be self-explanitory, I doubt my reasons for complaining about characterizing the leads are. It's fairly simple. Even though they spend most of the series talking, none of it actually matters to the plot. Despite all of the growth they're supposed to go through, none of their roles actually change.
Conversely, there are characters in other groups that go through massive role/loyalty changes, and they usually don't have much to justify it.
