it wasn't bad enough for me to shut off, but it wasn't good enough for me to actually watch it. i had it on the monitor next to me and honestly, i think i actually watched about 5min out of every 2 or 3 episodes, yet was able to follow the story perfectly.what is right: cool concept. kai has a pleasant voice. haji is hot.what is not: where to start!??first off, have they never heard of background music? the music in here is minimal, used strictly in the same way as a laugh track - to let you know that this scene is actually pretty dramatic so you can stop laughing now.the art: two-dimensional and pretty rudimentary, really. artists need to learn how to draw noses - Saya and others were often drawn with noses cut so short they looked like skull-faces.credibility: are there seriously - SERIOUSLY - no people with epicanthic folds in all of japan and Vietnam? why do they all have Japanese names if they're all white, blonde, blue-eyed, etc?the voices: dreadful. i was on the 8th episode before i discovered that the reason the German accent was so awful was because the character was, in fact, french. a million foreign accents tossed into a polyglot salad and not a one of them done right. the Jamaican accent was particularly painful - it takes more than using a Swedish Chef accent and throwing in the word "mon" at the end of every sentence to make a Jamaican accent.the storyline: okay, i'm sorry, but that bit with riku? that was just pervy. lay off the perv, guys - i don't care if you're Japanese, different culture, blah blah, you're marketing over here, now.the blue roses: .... i have no idea what that was all about.haji: halfway through the series, i was actually speaking to him saying "omg, dude! grow a pair!". it got very tedious listening to him pledge his undying love again and again and again with those mopey, soulful gazes that she'd return with eyes brimming with all the love and affection of a dead salmon.saya: whiny, whimpering little sot.i changed my mind - from a 4, i'm making this a 2. not bad enough to be actually awful, but not good enough to watch, definitely not for a second time.

This is a series based on an anime movie called "Blood: the Last Vampire". The animation is good, without being great, the music is above average up until the middle of the series when some meaningless teen pop music is added as the final track. The story is interesting, but it makes no sense in the long run, but what's really annoying is the personalities of the characters.Basically you have a good vampire queen with a vampire servant and a whole bunch of human friends fighting the evil vampire queen with a whole bunch of vampire servants and a whole bunch of human employees. The good always seem to win because the bad are either bored or completely distracted by other things, while the few situations that could be exploited in the advantage of the main character end in emotional outbursts and impotent tears.What makes it even more ridiculous is that these vampires can only be killed by the blood of the other kind of vampire. Still there are always humans ready to shoot their little guns and (sometimes) shotguns or SMGs. Can anyone guess what happens to them?I watched all the 50 episodes in order to get to the bottom of the story. It was a complete mess, but now it's over, I can move on. Bottom line: there are a lot of worse animes out there, but there are a lot of them that are better, as well.

Motivated by the great 'Blood: The Last Vampire', I started with pleasant anticipation 'Blood+', only to be disappointed from the beginning.I persevere hoping that the story will go its own way and being more interesting in later episodes.But it was gloomy. 'Blood: The Last Vampire' has no outreaching story, but has a formidable style, some convincing characters and a peculiar art.'Blood+' seems to be made pregnant by stereotypes, and nothing more than this.Boring!I needed a lot of willpower to survive viewing this 'lousy job', just to write this comment.

Yes folks, somebody at Production IG had the great idea of turning Blood: the Last Vampire into a fullblown TV series. However, instead of maintaining the noirish horror/suspense feel of the OVA, Production IG has decided to give this version a more lighthearted, teener-friendly feel.It's basically an alternate setting for the Blood franchise, as the backstory contradicts information presented in B:tLV. Instead of being a dark, brooding killer with an aversion to holy symbols and a disturbing sword-fetish, this Saya is an anemic, yet bubbly little teener with a serious bout of amnesia. Things change however, once the first Chiropteran steps in, and Saya is forced into the role of champion. In fact, the characterization stays throughout most of the series, even when she finally remembers her past.And this is what is troubling with the anime. The main character, Saya, seem to have graduated from the Ikari Shinji School of Reluctant Heroism. Despite having vampire powers, she remains ineffectual throughout most of the series, to the point that she ends up endangering the lives of several allies. It was cool when Evangelion did it, but honestly, can we not have another procrastinating, guilt-ridden hero? It's becoming as old as my mother's sense of fashion.Conversely, Kai, Saya's foster brother, acts more like the hero for any generic super-fantasy-martial-arts anime, without the super martial arts powers. He constantly spends his time getting into the line of fire, despite becoming aware early on that he's more likely to become bat-chow in the face of even the weakest Chiropteran.Both these characters get a personality overhaul after episode 33, but by then it's too little, too late; you've already been subjected to 32 episodes of whining heroine and headstrong idiot.Art-wise, the characters look good. Again, it's not the more photorealistic, noir look of B:tLV, but it's pretty nonetheless, maintaing the original's fusion of traditional cel-animation and CG work. The characters are mostly animated well, although some episodes have shoddy in-between work, resulting in choppy-looking animation.The Japanese dub is passable, although there are a few times when the voice actors are not properly synched with the animation. What puts me off though is the fact that it has a multinational setting, but all the characters speak perfect Nihongo. Even in 19th century Russia. This tends to be jarring especially since the OVA used either bilingual seiyu or American voice actors when necessary.Overall, it's a more kid friendly version of Blood the Last Vampire. So if you found the original too dark, and if you prefer your heroes weak and ineffectual, then this series is for you.