I will start out by saying I haven't seen anything related to the Blood Franchise until now. Blood-C is a collaboration between Production I.G and manga team CLAMP which is where my interest to see this came from. Unfortunately the series suffers what I both like and hate about CLAMP. Blood-C in the end proves to be only a bloody and violent mismatch.
Blood-C for the most part doesn't skip out on the action, it's very violent and very bloody however where it really lacks is in the storyline. CLAMP besides their unusual noodle art CLAMP's signature style is also well known for cute romance stories involving cute girls and cute looking boys. For the Blood franchise I can't tell if you it's appropriate, however I can tell you as far as this story goes any scenes with implied romance lag horribly. That is the apex of the problems with Blood-C is the ridiculous pacing problems and a seeming inability to build an atmosphere and keep it. The kind of cuteness worked for Cardcaptor Sakura and even Tsubasa Chronicle and even XXXHolic, but for some reason for a series like this, it feel very out of place.
The first five episodes are a joke of how much they abuse this cute girl version of Saya with her walking to school, singing and eating sweets then going off to hunt monsters at night and returning soaked in blood. Rinse and repeat you will find this series growing stale very fast even if you are a patient viewer. With each episode you question Saya's competence to be a fighter against these supernatural beasts and it's even more egregious in the eight episode where a monster appears in the school yard and she stands there doing nothing, while her classmates get slaughtered left and right.
The monster fights provide some excellent action and animation, gallons of blood and a little scariness but like so much of the story lacks any good suspense. Much of it has CLAMP's finger prints so glaringly over it that it's a gaudy series. Great animation and great music but a very lackluster story. For sure not one of CLAMP's better works and certainly not one of I.G's shining series either.
Blood-C for the most part doesn't skip out on the action, it's very violent and very bloody however where it really lacks is in the storyline. CLAMP besides their unusual noodle art CLAMP's signature style is also well known for cute romance stories involving cute girls and cute looking boys. For the Blood franchise I can't tell if you it's appropriate, however I can tell you as far as this story goes any scenes with implied romance lag horribly. That is the apex of the problems with Blood-C is the ridiculous pacing problems and a seeming inability to build an atmosphere and keep it. The kind of cuteness worked for Cardcaptor Sakura and even Tsubasa Chronicle and even XXXHolic, but for some reason for a series like this, it feel very out of place.
The first five episodes are a joke of how much they abuse this cute girl version of Saya with her walking to school, singing and eating sweets then going off to hunt monsters at night and returning soaked in blood. Rinse and repeat you will find this series growing stale very fast even if you are a patient viewer. With each episode you question Saya's competence to be a fighter against these supernatural beasts and it's even more egregious in the eight episode where a monster appears in the school yard and she stands there doing nothing, while her classmates get slaughtered left and right.
The monster fights provide some excellent action and animation, gallons of blood and a little scariness but like so much of the story lacks any good suspense. Much of it has CLAMP's finger prints so glaringly over it that it's a gaudy series. Great animation and great music but a very lackluster story. For sure not one of CLAMP's better works and certainly not one of I.G's shining series either.