Reviews for Blood+ (6.89)
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Fujisaku Jun`ichi
Ishii Akiharu
Blood+ took me longer than usual for a 50 episode series. That is telling. I`ll try and keep this review short, since there are already plenty of reviews on this one. Art & Animation[/...
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Blood+ took me longer than usual for a 50 episode series. That is telling. I'll try and keep this review short, since there are already plenty of reviews on this one.
Art & Animation
6.5/10 (rounded to 6)
it was merely "ok". for a vampire-themed anime I was expecting something a lot darker, but apart from a few gothic touches here and there and some occasionally good (but no better) backdrops, there was nothing special about both the quality or the artstyle of this anime.
Sound
7/10
BGMs were ok, Diva's singing was beautiful, there were several OPs and EDs, but they all remained in the realm of "horrible j-crap", so no surprises there. I watched dubbed version and the actors were doing their job pretty well, but again, no real standouts.
Story & Character
blood+ is a character-centric drama, don't let anything else fool you, the politics and the few bits of intrigue just make up the backdrop for the characters to act out their love, hate, friendship, whatever. it is kind of a downer, thus, for the story doesn't really go much anywhere. things are always conveniently happening for the right character to intervene in the right moment, just to move the plot relationships along. many of the setting details go on unexplained (even if it was suggested that there was supposedly some more details) mostly, so what you're left with is the cast and their dramatic relationships, nothing beyond that.
to top it off, this anime is slow as fuuuuuuck. I do enjoy moody animes, but since the art section was kinda meh, the moody bits aren't impressive, and most of the time they don't even have mood, they're just prolonged exposure shots showing somebody standing still with camera slowly moving away or something. seriously, if they cut out,say, half of the time wasted on these no-action shots, this anime would lose, like, at least 5 episodes of its length. make the plot go a bit faster, and we're down a 10 or perhaps even more.
so what about the characters, whose tragedies we must witness so slowly? are they worth our time?
well, depends. and it's a bad start of this paragraph for a character-centric anime. most of the characters do get some considerable backdrop, main characters do even get some character development, which is pretty cool, however very little of this feels as something exceptional or even interesting. for a vampire-themed anime, once again, there was just so little darkness, just plain' ol' shallow evil and good ol' love conquers all and good ol' strong friendly fat dude and good ol' ... well, I did like the characters, but they and their story remained firmly in the realm of "meh".
story 6/10, characters 6/10
value
little. there're better vampire-themed shows out there. there're better dramas out there. there're better 50 episode series out there. it's ok for a time waster, but it's of no consequential value.
5/10
enjoyment
I enjoyed it enough to watch it all, but there's little to take away from here. got some few emotional spikes here and there, but they were no more than small blips on a radar. 6/10
Art & Animation
6.5/10 (rounded to 6)
it was merely "ok". for a vampire-themed anime I was expecting something a lot darker, but apart from a few gothic touches here and there and some occasionally good (but no better) backdrops, there was nothing special about both the quality or the artstyle of this anime.
Sound
7/10
BGMs were ok, Diva's singing was beautiful, there were several OPs and EDs, but they all remained in the realm of "horrible j-crap", so no surprises there. I watched dubbed version and the actors were doing their job pretty well, but again, no real standouts.
Story & Character
blood+ is a character-centric drama, don't let anything else fool you, the politics and the few bits of intrigue just make up the backdrop for the characters to act out their love, hate, friendship, whatever. it is kind of a downer, thus, for the story doesn't really go much anywhere. things are always conveniently happening for the right character to intervene in the right moment, just to move the plot relationships along. many of the setting details go on unexplained (even if it was suggested that there was supposedly some more details) mostly, so what you're left with is the cast and their dramatic relationships, nothing beyond that.
to top it off, this anime is slow as fuuuuuuck. I do enjoy moody animes, but since the art section was kinda meh, the moody bits aren't impressive, and most of the time they don't even have mood, they're just prolonged exposure shots showing somebody standing still with camera slowly moving away or something. seriously, if they cut out,say, half of the time wasted on these no-action shots, this anime would lose, like, at least 5 episodes of its length. make the plot go a bit faster, and we're down a 10 or perhaps even more.
so what about the characters, whose tragedies we must witness so slowly? are they worth our time?
well, depends. and it's a bad start of this paragraph for a character-centric anime. most of the characters do get some considerable backdrop, main characters do even get some character development, which is pretty cool, however very little of this feels as something exceptional or even interesting. for a vampire-themed anime, once again, there was just so little darkness, just plain' ol' shallow evil and good ol' love conquers all and good ol' strong friendly fat dude and good ol' ... well, I did like the characters, but they and their story remained firmly in the realm of "meh".
story 6/10, characters 6/10
value
little. there're better vampire-themed shows out there. there're better dramas out there. there're better 50 episode series out there. it's ok for a time waster, but it's of no consequential value.
5/10
enjoyment
I enjoyed it enough to watch it all, but there's little to take away from here. got some few emotional spikes here and there, but they were no more than small blips on a radar. 6/10
