Actually, and I don't know if someone's already pointed this out, but vampires walking out in day light is really true to the original lore of vampires. The whole "sun light kills them" thing was just added by later interpretations, first appearing in the 1922 German Expressionist horror film "Nosferatu," which itself was a thinly veiled adaptation of "Dracula."
Blood+ (2006) was the TV series and it is one of my favorite animes. You need to watch it......somehow. How did it become as rare as it is now. The DVDs were glitchy rush jobs and had a short print life, and all streaming services recently removed it. It makes me want to cry. That Bubblegum Crisis DVD and Bubblegum Crash DVD are on my Christmas List. I'll own Crisis and see Crash for the first time.
Chiropteran. It comes from the Latin word for Bat. Yeah, this is impressively animated and a lot of work went on behind the scenes that makes for a fascinating story. It's just a damn shame it's not better.
It actually has its roots in Greek by way of English and was THEN put into Modern Latin, hence the hard "chi" sound (yeah, they mispronounced it in the anime). It literally means "hand-wing". The actual Latin for bat is vespertilio.
Hi Sage to answer your question on what the Vietnam War has to do with Blood: the Last Vampire, there actually is a urban legend about soldiers seeing flying batlike creature during that time and even an supposed attack, the legend is called "The Night Flyers". Blood: the Last Vampire is loosely based off of this legend, anyway thanks for show it was pretty good as most of them are thanks.
I've said it once, I'll say it a thousand times: You can't just make a movie about vampires. I mean...You _can_, but it's just going to end up being a movie about emo superheroes. You could replace every character in any modern vampire film with various c-list X-Men and the movies would not change. But I digress. Vampires are a framing device. They are a metaphor. Dracula was all at once the embodiment of disease, Satanic black magic, and lust. He is a corrupting force more than he is a character, and that set the tone for what vampires would be for years to come. Of course, then Anne Rice came along and decided to write stories about the monsters rather than the people being tormented by the monsters. Don't get me wrong, it's an interesting idea, but she romanticized them _way_ too much, and the subculture that latched onto it forever changed and, in my opinion, ruined vampires forever. It's rare nowadays to see vampires portrayed purely as monsters without _at least_ having a halfbreed as the hero.
It never ceases to amaze me how EVERY vampire story always has to follow the interview with a vampire/twilight style story of a pretty boy emo vampire while there are a million other types of vampire out there. Nearly every culture has its own version of vampire, from the central African version that sucks out peoples blood using a giant straw while their sleeping to the Chinese kind that hops everywhere like it's in a sack race. Even the "classic" Dracula style vampire has nearly gone extinct with the twilight invasion.
Arthas Menethil My favorite vampire movie is the Lost Boys. They show the vampires as being monsters, are having the time of their unlives, and while sexy, are a corrupting sexy you don't want to be around. Hell, the halfbreeds are just people in the change that haven't killed yet.
I dunno, anime has had some badass vampire series like hellsing/ultimate, vampire hunter d, trinity blood, and castlevania to name a few. But then there are the ones that are more like twilight, such as Rosario to Vampire, Karin, and vampire knight, the last of the three being the worst.
"Nary a single asset is repeated or re-purposed anywhere." Look carefully at the dancing crowd right after he says that. I can see at least six different character models reused two or three times in that crowd. XD Not a huge deal by any means, but I just thought that was kind of funny.
What the movie has to do with Vietnam ? Well to me, Blood the last vampire is a metaphor. Saya represent the old japanese spirit, a powerful and ancient being controled by foreigners. Sage didn't noitice it but when the crédits roll, real photos of vietnam war are shown. Japanese soldiers were unofficially involved in nam with the americans. Why is it important ? Because Japan was not supposed to have an army, their inclusion in the conflict was "illegal" in a way. If you take the context of the film, vietnam war, Saya represents the japanese army controled by the americans. On the same note, that's why Saya doesn't like crosses and things like that. It's not because she just hates religion, it's because it is a foreign religion, that's what matters in the context of this film.
The spin-off series Blood+ which came from this is arguably one of my most favorite anime of all time. It expands into the "demons", called Chiropterans (with a hard C), which is derived from the Latin term for bats, as an experiment that began centuries earlier in Europe with the discovery of Saya, and her twin sister Diva, and it lead to a global conspiracy taking place in not only Japan, but also Vietnam, Russia, France, the UK and the United States. I highly recommend checking it out, because even a friend of mine who's not much into anime, found it appealing that even the pretty-boy vampires openly kill people in very gruesome and gory ways. Also in Blood+ Saya has a servant, Haji (voiced by Crispin Freeman in the English dub, making it the second time he's played a vampiric character after Alucard), who fights with an armored cello case!
God I am an ass, but in the clips you showed around 9:55 I saw the same cloned dancing couple animation 7 times (6 of which in the same crowd). It is entirely practical and the illusion is great, but it felt like a dare to spot them when you said it.
+butchdeadlift10 Was about to say this too. Already made up an explanation on how to spot them by separating the screen into 9 areas, etc.... but alas. 8)
+QuetzaDrake That's a fair point, but it's like how Underworld called werewolves "lycans." It's just like...come on. They're freaking werewolves. And "walkers" are freaking zombies. :-P
8:23 I had a few times like that playing the 1st Assassin's Creed game; what should have been a sneaky stabbing the target never saw coming turned into a chase through the streets and sword-fighting 5-10 other dudes.
Bennettt, I'm a fan of your work and you have always impressed me with the amount of information that you have provided on previous works such as your Grave of the Fireflies video. But this time, I feel that your own personal bias against the vampire mythos has lead you stray from the truth. I remember watching this movie at AX 2000 when it came out and it was highly acclaimed and praised because this film has the distinctive honor of being The first fully digitally animated film from Japan. And, the reason why the film is so short is because this was originally supposed to be a three episode OAV series, but due to a lack of time and money, only the middle segment was animated and given theatrical distribution. (I took the sentences from the IMDb website, but I truly remember the facts from my personal experiences watching the film premiere on AX 2000 and the articles from Anime USA magazine issue from the same year, which I purchased and still have on my files.) Still, this film is good enough that it actually won a few awards and nominations. I loved it when it came out and watching your review kind of stings a little. Still, I respect you and I love your work. I just think you were unfair and some what bias against this film.
+otakuploader if you respect my difference of opinion with Bennett, could you then keep your opinion to yourself? Don't tell me what I can and can not say, I stated facts, awards, good prices from public and being the first digital film ever made in Japan to state the fact that even though this is not a perfect film, it still had some redeeming value to it, and if that was not the case, then nobody would had care to make a live action movie and a tv series out of this "awful film" as you call it. I mentioned in my comment that I think he was unfair to the film, not that he was wrong. I like Bennett, but he himself admits that he doesn't like today's anime. In my opinion, he is wrong there too and now, I don't take his reviews seriously anymore. If you want to be a blind loyalists to him, than you are just as wrong as he is and there for, you have no grounds to tell me that I shouldn't say something. My post was for Bennett not for you, so mind your business and keep your opinions to yourself.
Msoulwing I am a fan of this channel. I subscribe, make comments (mostly positive) and give thumbs up. I do what I can to give my support to Bennett. This is the second time I disagree with his opinion and I get lip from you and from otakuploader? So what are the rules of the game here buddy? always agree and don't talk back? I'm not subscribed to your channel or to otakuploader's channel, I'm subscribbed to Bennett's channel. I gave my support to Bennett and now I am giving him my opinion. I believe I've earned that right. You don't like it? top shit.
Carl Angel No, the rules are quite the opposite of "always agree and don't talk back." Rather, when you put your criticism of a criticism out in a public comments section, you should expect that your own criticism may be criticized. For clarity's sake, my comment had nothing to do with your criticism of Bennett, but your response to otakuploader.
+Msoulwing it was clear that you didn't like my response. Her response is annoying and stupid to me and I could spend time explaining why, but I don't want to. And just in case you didn't understand the first time I said it. If you don't like it, top shit buddy!
I remember first watching this with my sis; it was years before this review came out. We popped this in, enjoying it the whole way through. We expected more to happen after she takes out that demon, but it all just came to a screeching halt. I distinctly remember saying "Wait, that was IT?!" my sis agreed with "Where's the rest of it??" Then we realised it was only 40 mins long, and we debated for a long while whether what we watched was even good.
+Christian Neihart I'm one of few who loves both the original Fright Night and the remake equally much. I grew up with the original Fright Night, but I think the remake is different enough to be a justifiable remake. Each of the movies have different strength and weakness.
that actually would make sense, some monsters could be repelled by it, but also be attracted to it, like a moth to a flame, praying on the vulnerable people praying in panic
Hmm, i think you should try Hellsing Ultimate. Its different than the vampire flicks you mentioned. Its less about the problems the vampire has, but more of how the people around the vampires use them. Kinda like they're a resource. The rest is ultrabloody awesomeness, along with some great atmosphere, music, action, animation, and probably the coolest voice ever from Alucard.
A Berserk remake could have been great with the quality of animation we have nowadays. Instead, we got poorly rendered CGI that look worse than the Berserk video game, and camera shots that won't stay the fuck still.
From what I remember of Blood+ it was really good. Granted I saw it a while ago so i could be remembering it wrong but I also saw Blood the last vampire right after and remember it being basically exactly as you described in the review.
I had to double check to see what you were referring to. It seems obvious that Sage is using it in the meaning of government secret agent, not a racial epithet.
I remember there being a Blood+ anime/ova series on netflix that was about 26 episodes long that seemed to have a slightly different story. Or am I thinking of a different show?
+cheezeofages I thought the vicious cruelty and nihilistic mindscrew of Blood-C made that show. It was basically CLAMP skewering its own cliches in the most over the top fashion possible and I fucking loved it. Blood+ by comparison is a boring and overlong shonen series that takes a halfway promising film and pads it out with a lot of the silly emotional pandering and angst Sage complains about in most vampire-based media, along with a cast of characters I mostly couldn't give a shit about.
I'm not a huge fan of blood+ because I adored the manga that was inspired from the film (which is so much better than the film itself) and it's my strange biased elitist feeling to ignore Saya needing help. Amen to blood c being trash tho, CLAMP can't redo X again.
9:53 "Nary a single asset is repeated or repurposed anywhere" Quickly, cut to a shot of literally the same asset being repeated and repurposed no less than 3 times.
9:55 - What do you mean, Sage? There's clearly asset reuse. I can see at least three of the same dancing pair, just with offset frames. There's no telling how many more duplicates are hidden in darkness.
It's a pity that Blood+ didn't keep the same character designs/general aesthetic of B:TLV, as the film really was gorgeous. Oddly enough, I never had any problems with the incompleteness of the animated film. It's nice to have some things left unexplained every now and then.
So I find it both commendable and hilariously ironic that as you were stating how the dance sequence does not reuse any stock that I could easily identify a stock reused multiple times in the frame you shared of the room full of dancing people. They literally copied and pasted couples dancing but spaced them out in such a way and with so many that, with the added effects too, just look like a bunch of individually drawn characters. Then again the way they go about it is both genius and looks amazing so huzzah
keep up with the great videos Ben, loving it all, even your first few episodes :-P your funny and down to "earth" wheil mixing in your own insanity. love the sage your serving up.
Sheesh, the comment section is essentially a war zone of people calling Blood+ twilight and Blood C shock value trash. Sigh..... " goes to enjoy Blood the last vampire for its visuals, Blood + for its fun cliches and Blood C for its utterly funny and interesting gore ideas " Yeah I am not going to pick a side in this silly debate, its possible to enjoy both sides and trashing people or a series because people do not agree and want to hammer it into other people just annoys me personally. Enjoy what you enjoy I say.
As far as the Blood anime franchise goes my personal rankings are: Blood + > Blood: The Last Vampire > Blood C with Blood C being one of the most atrociously bad anime I have ever see in regards to plot and characters.
+Kenneth Eaton You know, I was just about to say that Blood-c was a good anime before I realized that the only thing I remember about it is the ending. I remember more from the 50 (I think) episodes of Blood+ than anything from Blood-c. Despite all that though, it was animated well.
***** Yup you should see the diatribe I went on about it in another one of my comments. I went in depth about why I hate it so much. The Animation was the ONLY nice thing I have to say about Blood -C. It was drop dead gorgeous.
***** Well, it was done by someone from Clamp so of course the animation was amazing. I'm just sad that such a pretty show with a ridiculously gory death scene didn't have anything else that was interesting. I mean, shit, there are only 12 episodes! Even bad anime have something memorable, not just one scene.
TBH if you have seen the other blood+ stuff and look at this as lose BG stuff its faily good but going in bland you miss a lot, dont get me wrong its got holes as Sage has said but its much easier to enjoy and follow and when you got only blockbuster in town dial up helps.
this is a demo. the team maked this for there final in college. and when the teacher saw it he talk them into selling it. it was cut down a bit and had need voice add. but it is a demo.
Sage I recommend Blood+ because this is the original series this tech demo is connected to and this also explains the whole Vampire and bloodsucking monsters thing
Looking forward to next weeks episode. I have fond memories of Bubblegum Crisis 2040 (in fact it's the anime that got me into anime) and am curious to see the differences between the two.
+Redux You're not the only one. The anime aired on SBS here in Australia back in 2001, and it and Pokemon were the only anime I was really into at the time.
Hah so you saw it on SBS too? You're the first person I've talked to who saw it as well ;-). Did you ever see SBS run Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex?
+Redux I love 2040. I have it as one of my top favorite anime as well as one of my favorite girl powered shows. I've come up with a spin-off that takes place twenty years later and focuses on the heroines offspring who have to deal with a new form of robots that go crazy but it's harder to tell as they don't turn monstrous and look REALLY human.
DrLizShawOBE2 It came later,they aired the dub starting from the 15 September 2005 and again in 2007. Ratings mustn't have been that good on the second run as I've never seen it air again and to my knowledge SBS have never played 2nd Gig or Solid State Society sadly. Goleon It will always hold a special place in the hearts of myself and my sister ;-). That's an interesting concept, I do feel like the "sequel's heroes are the children of the original's" is a little bit overplayed however. Still, fighting voomers like what you described would add a unique conflict to the series.
Their were two Animes for the series Blood+ and Blood-C with a movie attached to that as well. The whole Blood series is confusing but still interesting that of feeling if certain events were from different or the same continuity...its hard to describe
11:23 Wow really? Insulting your fans? No comment on the racist depiction of the black man by Japanese artists, as per usual, but it's humorous to bring up erroneous bigotry?
I think blood the series as a whole is something you love or hate and you usually prefer one adaptation over another due to personal preference they are all different and are just that, adaptations and reinterpretations of one intriguing story. Personally this movie was not my favorite of the series but still visually stunning in it's own merit. It's worth a watch.
at 9:54 in the dance ball scene the couple dancing which are a guy in a cowboy hat and his lady are repeated assets they`re in the crowd closer to the camera ...
Ya I saw this MANY years ago on some channel in the middle of the night in high school. It was pretty enough but nothing stuck with me. Honestly this one comes up in conversation and best of lists quite often and I've always been puzzled as to why. It's just an animation showcase and little else. Worth watching once I suppose, if you're a production IG completist, but for anyone looking for something that is memorable you are better off looking else where. I'm shocked you found 18 minutes worth of shit to talk about on this one ;p
the MAIN PROBLEM with Blood the Last Vampire is that like Blue Submarine No6 the final act of the movie(or show) was put in a FUCKING VIDEO GAME. There is a ps1 Blue Submarine game that is literally episode 5 and 6 of the anime and for Blood The Last Vampire there is a PS2 game that acts as the last 30 to 60 minutes of this movie!!!!!! Why the hell did the Japanese do this in the early 2000s!!!!!!! Blue Submarine No6 would have been better at 6 episode OVA and Blood the Last Vampire would have been a way better movie if it was longer than 45 minutes!!!!
9:50 or so if you pause the video you can make out at least 3 couples that were copy and pasted so sorry sage there was some repeated animation from my count 4 times copy and pasted thro i only saw one couple get the photo shop treatment
Used to see this anime before the live action can admit it was good despite it's shortcomings. Then again I was impressed with anime like this way back then.
It funny to me that when he's walking about the animation in the dance scene, I could immediately pick out a woman who's dance loop was reused at least 3 times.
Im curious what your thoughts on the anime series is for Blood. I haven't watched it myself but I have heard so many mixed reviews on it. Also I wonder if you will ever be tackling the big granddaddy to anime and Manga. I would be interested in your opinion on series such as Princess Knight, Black Jack, Dororo and a few others.
+Salokin Sekwah Spoony is gone. All he does is vlogs now, because it's the least amount of work he can do and still trick people into feeding him Patreon money. Atop the Fourth Wall put out its Patreon-funded movie this week, y'know the show run by Linkara? The two used to always do crossovers and cameos in each other's stuff, moreso than anyone else. Know what Spoony contributed? A twenty second Dr. Insano cameo.
Well in batman versus dracula it says that vampires arent weak to sunlight and iconography doesnt phsically hurt them as long as they dont drink blood.
Came here from ThatAnimeSnob Great content you have there. I have been watching your chanel for a few days and loving it. Can you make a video on Angel Egg?
"... nary a single asset is repeated or re-purposed..." ... so what you're saying is that I didn't see several couples dressed the exact same, moving almost exactly the same with only a change of a few seconds between them? For reference, check out the ladies with the green dresses with the dark shoulders (one on the left, two on the right -- almost right above each other) or the couples with the long blond-haired women where you see them in profile, and you'll see that the women have exactly the same hair, outfits, etc. and are moving in exactly the same manner... in fact there's even more scattered about the dancing scene (although they're difficult to make out).
Anime does variations to the usual vampire formula with relative frequency. Another examples would be Vampire Princess Miyu, who does drink blood, but other than that doesn't exhibit any typical vampiric traits -- she's essentially a dark magical girl, and vampires are just one of the countless of subspecies of demonic Shinma. And then there's the Monogatari-series that takes a similar approach, though these vampires are next to impossible to kill, but can sometimes be cured back to human with some side effects. It almost seems to parody the cliché of a Marty Stu half-vampire protagonist with Koyomi Araragi, whose sole remaining vampiric power is his ability to heal, which just lets him get his arse kicked in the most epic ways imaginable and live to see another day.
At 6:55 I can see the same woman doing the same dance with the same man 3 times. One pair above the blonde woman in a red shirt at the bottom. One pair is the second couple from the right at the bottom. The third pair is directly above the second pair
im curious, does anyone know what the cut off age is for bennett to review a show or movie, as in a show must be "blank" years old before he'll review it, because i really want to see his opinion on gankutsuou: the count of monte christo
It's not an anime or manga but the comic book series American Vampire is pretty amazing. You should check it out Sage, it's a refreshing take on the whole vampire mythos.
If you want to know my thoughts on the TV show (Blood+, not Blood-C), its not for everyone but it DOES flesh out Saya as a better character, the side characters are MOSTLY memorable and the animation isn't anything spectacular but for a 50 episode long "epic" its good. The worst seasons, though, are seasons 2 and 4. They aren't bad in my opinion, they just suffer from a few episodes that do nothing except pad the season out to fit its 12-13 episode per season structure and a lot of them rely on character development of either people you JUST meet that episode OR have god awful dialogue that pretty much had me laughing or cringing most of the time. There's that and the fact that in Season 4...the villain of the show (whose Saya's biological sister, so...she ISN'T the Last Vampire) fucks Saya's adopted little brother (whose 10, by the way) and she insinuates that her other adopted brother (whose like 16 or 17) wants to fuck Saya (whose constantly 17) too. And it does try and "fool you" by revealing Saya is a vampire (or a Chiropteran) about 23 episodes in, even though she's 17 and has been told by everyone she was in the Vietnamn war and had an episode devoted entirely to a flashback where she killed Grigori Rasputin, and its set in modern time...if we didn't figure it out by the other movies we would've by those two things or the fact they say her blood is the only thing they have in fighting the Chiropterans...HOW was that a "twist". It would be like if Friday The 13th Part 11 tried to build a mystery that Jason was maybe the killer and in a shocking twist, he was. I know I'm making this show sound awful but I'm not intending to. If you want to see a different story than the two movies but done far better in areas such as explaining the mythos of what those things even are and fleshing out the character of Saya and the "agency" she works for a bit better as well as adding in a bunch of stuff and explaining her a bit more, this is for you. And for a 50 episode TV show, if the above paragraphs are ALL the problems than it can't be THAT god awful. The actors also don't act between languages either. The reason for that is that the show isn't JUST Japanese and American characters - you also have Russian, French and Vietnamese. As Sage said, acting between TWO languages is hard enough, imagine acting between five. You'd start to sound like Tommy Wiseau in at least one of them. If you want my opinion, however, the English dub is better than Japanese - the reason being is because the Japanese actors can't put on an accent whereas the English ones do it with ease. And theres the fact that most of the characters are American.
+Morbius Fitzgerald Blood Plus is one of my favorite anime! But if Sage watches it, I'm prepared for him to rip it apart. Its not perfect, they don't explain certain aspects of the plot. Like why does a female chropteran give birth to twins that are always female, why are the girls blood poison to the other twin. And, this one really bugs me-why does one queen have to be impregnated by the opposing queen chevalier-or male servant and bodyguard. I love most of the characters, especially Kai and how he mostly develops as the series goes on, the message of what it means to be a family, and the bitter-sweet ending, while not great-left me satisfied and content.
***** Yeah, I could have lived without all that, it was really not needed. I know Kai and Saya aren't related, but felt like his crush on his "sister" came outta left field, and of course made me a little uncomfortable. That, and, I really like Haji, but there is really nothing to him character-wise other then to protect Saya, and that's it! Seriously, why always females-what if one was a girl and the other a boy-or for once-twin boys! I'd be curious how'd that play out! And of course-opposing pregnancies by either sister!
satireknight I'm aware, I've own and watched this show at least ten times now. I know Saya and Kai didn't grow up together, but the show, for a while, gave a strong sibling dynamic between Kai, Riku, and Saya; then in the second half, his feelings for her seem to come outta nowhere! Maybe if they developed better, I could see it. But then, his feelings are always going to be one-sided, since ya know, Saya loves Haji.
what a coincidence that you're reviewing Bubblegum Crisis next, as I just watched a video about the show the other day and a couple episodes of the remake.
In light of your aversion to the vampire genre and angsty vampires in particular, I'm curious if you have an opinion about Hellsing, which features a vampire that really seems to enjoy being a vampire.
You know its funny. The Blood franchise is actually on TV Tropes listed under the trope "Deader than Disco" in the anime and manga section. Take a look. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DeaderThanDisco/AnimeAndManga
Actually, and I don't know if someone's already pointed this out, but vampires walking out in day light is really true to the original lore of vampires. The whole "sun light kills them" thing was just added by later interpretations, first appearing in the 1922 German Expressionist horror film "Nosferatu," which itself was a thinly veiled adaptation of "Dracula."
True carmilla was sickly in the sun but did not die
Blood+ (2006) was the TV series and it is one of my favorite animes. You need to watch it......somehow. How did it become as rare as it is now. The DVDs were glitchy rush jobs and had a short print life, and all streaming services recently removed it. It makes me want to cry.
That Bubblegum Crisis DVD and Bubblegum Crash DVD are on my Christmas List. I'll own Crisis and see Crash for the first time.
This is one of the few anime that my dad likes. Mostly because he was born at Yokota Air Base about the same time this film takes place.
Chiropteran. It comes from the Latin word for Bat. Yeah, this is impressively animated and a lot of work went on behind the scenes that makes for a fascinating story. It's just a damn shame it's not better.
And it is not that hard to pronounce!!!! I hate when ppl do that type of joke when you totally can say it!
It actually has its roots in Greek by way of English and was THEN put into Modern Latin, hence the hard "chi" sound (yeah, they mispronounced it in the anime). It literally means "hand-wing". The actual Latin for bat is vespertilio.
@@lancejobs I mean, tell that to the people who kept mispronouncing it in the movie. It's pronounced "kai-RAHP-tur-ahn".
Hi Sage to answer your question on what the Vietnam War has to do with Blood: the Last Vampire, there actually is a urban legend about soldiers seeing flying batlike creature during that time and even an supposed attack, the legend is called "The Night Flyers". Blood: the Last Vampire is loosely based off of this legend, anyway thanks for show it was pretty good as most of them are thanks.
I've said it once, I'll say it a thousand times: You can't just make a movie about vampires. I mean...You _can_, but it's just going to end up being a movie about emo superheroes. You could replace every character in any modern vampire film with various c-list X-Men and the movies would not change. But I digress. Vampires are a framing device. They are a metaphor. Dracula was all at once the embodiment of disease, Satanic black magic, and lust. He is a corrupting force more than he is a character, and that set the tone for what vampires would be for years to come. Of course, then Anne Rice came along and decided to write stories about the monsters rather than the people being tormented by the monsters. Don't get me wrong, it's an interesting idea, but she romanticized them _way_ too much, and the subculture that latched onto it forever changed and, in my opinion, ruined vampires forever. It's rare nowadays to see vampires portrayed purely as monsters without _at least_ having a halfbreed as the hero.
It never ceases to amaze me how EVERY vampire story always has to follow the interview with a vampire/twilight style story of a pretty boy emo vampire while there are a million other types of vampire out there. Nearly every culture has its own version of vampire, from the central African version that sucks out peoples blood using a giant straw while their sleeping to the Chinese kind that hops everywhere like it's in a sack race. Even the "classic" Dracula style vampire has nearly gone extinct with the twilight invasion.
Arthas Menethil My favorite vampire movie is the Lost Boys. They show the vampires as being monsters, are having the time of their unlives, and while sexy, are a corrupting sexy you don't want to be around. Hell, the halfbreeds are just people in the change that haven't killed yet.
I dunno, anime has had some badass vampire series like hellsing/ultimate, vampire hunter d, trinity blood, and castlevania to name a few. But then there are the ones that are more like twilight, such as Rosario to Vampire, Karin, and vampire knight, the last of the three being the worst.
"Nary a single asset is repeated or re-purposed anywhere."
Look carefully at the dancing crowd right after he says that. I can see at least six different character models reused two or three times in that crowd. XD Not a huge deal by any means, but I just thought that was kind of funny.
Yep! The couple with the blond lady in red dancing was immediately obvious.
What the movie has to do with Vietnam ?
Well to me, Blood the last vampire is a metaphor. Saya represent the old japanese spirit, a powerful and ancient being controled by foreigners.
Sage didn't noitice it but when the crédits roll, real photos of vietnam war are shown. Japanese soldiers were unofficially involved in nam with the americans. Why is it important ? Because Japan was not supposed to have an army, their inclusion in the conflict was "illegal" in a way.
If you take the context of the film, vietnam war, Saya represents the japanese army controled by the americans.
On the same note, that's why Saya doesn't like crosses and things like that. It's not because she just hates religion, it's because it is a foreign religion, that's what matters in the context of this film.
Man, I'm late to this, but that's excellent.
The spin-off series Blood+ which came from this is arguably one of my most favorite anime of all time. It expands into the "demons", called Chiropterans (with a hard C), which is derived from the Latin term for bats, as an experiment that began centuries earlier in Europe with the discovery of Saya, and her twin sister Diva, and it lead to a global conspiracy taking place in not only Japan, but also Vietnam, Russia, France, the UK and the United States. I highly recommend checking it out, because even a friend of mine who's not much into anime, found it appealing that even the pretty-boy vampires openly kill people in very gruesome and gory ways.
Also in Blood+ Saya has a servant, Haji (voiced by Crispin Freeman in the English dub, making it the second time he's played a vampiric character after Alucard), who fights with an armored cello case!
God I am an ass, but in the clips you showed around 9:55 I saw the same cloned dancing couple animation 7 times (6 of which in the same crowd). It is entirely practical and the illusion is great, but it felt like a dare to spot them when you said it.
+butchdeadlift10 more like an obligation. I too saw them
+butchdeadlift10 i was about to say that
Asses united
+butchdeadlift10 Was about to say this too. Already made up an explanation on how to spot them by separating the screen into 9 areas, etc.... but alas. 8)
pestopoliz I was counting a blonde woman with bun hair. You?
They're called Chiropterans because Chiroptera is the taxonomic order that bats belong to.
That's it.
+QuetzaDrake That's a fair point, but it's like how Underworld called werewolves "lycans." It's just like...come on. They're freaking werewolves. And "walkers" are freaking zombies. :-P
Lotus Prince Oh I'm not making excuses for it or anything, I don't really care. I'm just saying why they're called Triceratops.
+Lotus Prince It's a good distinction in this case though. Saya and these creatures are clearly not the same, even if they're related.
+QuetzaDrake Yeah, and it's a fair point. Thanks for the info!
+Msoulwing I suppose - it is bizarre that they'd throw that term around without explaining it, though.
A good vampire anime is Hellsing, where Nazi vampires attack London. Then the Pope's knights attack London.
+uanime1 and then Alucard attacks them both. Then a psycho priest attacks Alucard...
"No"
-shinji
+sumguy0110 And a cat that is here and not here slices it's head off so that it can take Alucard down
Sono chi no sadame
The only thing more badass than Alucard becoming Dracula would be if he just turned into a dragon!
I really wish they made more bilingual anime like this. It was very refreshing to watch, mentally stimulating in a way.
8:23 I had a few times like that playing the 1st Assassin's Creed game; what should have been a sneaky stabbing the target never saw coming turned into a chase through the streets and sword-fighting 5-10 other dudes.
Bennettt, I'm a fan of your work and you have always impressed me with the amount of information that you have provided on previous works such as your Grave of the Fireflies video. But this time, I feel that your own personal bias against the vampire mythos has lead you stray from the truth.
I remember watching this movie at AX 2000 when it came out and it was highly acclaimed and praised because this film has the distinctive honor of being The first fully digitally animated film from Japan.
And, the reason why the film is so short is because this was originally supposed to be a three episode OAV series, but due to a lack of time and money, only the middle segment was animated and given theatrical distribution.
(I took the sentences from the IMDb website, but I truly remember the facts from my personal experiences watching the film premiere on AX 2000 and the articles from Anime USA magazine issue from the same year, which I purchased and still have on my files.)
Still, this film is good enough that it actually won a few awards and nominations. I loved it when it came out and watching your review kind of stings a little.
Still, I respect you and I love your work. I just think you were unfair and some what bias against this film.
+otakuploader if you respect my difference of opinion with Bennett, could you then keep your opinion to yourself? Don't tell me what I can and can not say, I stated facts, awards, good prices from public and being the first digital film ever made in Japan to state the fact that even though this is not a perfect film, it still had some redeeming value to it, and if that was not the case, then nobody would had care to make a live action movie and a tv series out of this "awful film" as you call it. I mentioned in my comment that I think he was unfair to the film, not that he was wrong. I like Bennett, but he himself admits that he doesn't like today's anime. In my opinion, he is wrong there too and now, I don't take his reviews seriously anymore. If you want to be a blind loyalists to him, than you are just as wrong as he is and there for, you have no grounds to tell me that I shouldn't say something. My post was for Bennett not for you, so mind your business and keep your opinions to yourself.
+Carl Angel (CRangel) For someone who gives his opinion unasked, you sure are critical of others doing the same thing.
Msoulwing I am a fan of this channel. I subscribe, make comments (mostly positive) and give thumbs up. I do what I can to give my support to Bennett. This is the second time I disagree with his opinion and I get lip from you and from otakuploader? So what are the rules of the game here buddy? always agree and don't talk back? I'm not subscribed to your channel or to otakuploader's channel, I'm subscribbed to Bennett's channel. I gave my support to Bennett and now I am giving him my opinion. I believe I've earned that right. You don't like it? top shit.
Carl Angel No, the rules are quite the opposite of "always agree and don't talk back." Rather, when you put your criticism of a criticism out in a public comments section, you should expect that your own criticism may be criticized.
For clarity's sake, my comment had nothing to do with your criticism of Bennett, but your response to otakuploader.
+Msoulwing it was clear that you didn't like my response. Her response is annoying and stupid to me and I could spend time explaining why, but I don't want to. And just in case you didn't understand the first time I said it. If you don't like it, top shit buddy!
Didn't Samurai Champloo have an American playing an American?
i don't know if had an american, but it did have people who spoke perfectly fluent english.
samurai champloo didn't as far as I remember but I know Beck did
+TheKing4427 Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad? Are you kidding?
That anime had engrish gallore all over the place.
+Professor Detective Yep! That was Jamie Schyy.
+Professor Detective maybe , that shows had an awesome dub !
I remember first watching this with my sis; it was years before this review came out. We popped this in, enjoying it the whole way through. We expected more to happen after she takes out that demon, but it all just came to a screeching halt. I distinctly remember saying "Wait, that was IT?!" my sis agreed with "Where's the rest of it??" Then we realised it was only 40 mins long, and we debated for a long while whether what we watched was even good.
huh..the art style and animation reminds me of that one linkin park music video "breaking the habit"
Same animation studio
State Of The Human I’m not surprised.
@@rhinocore called it
Oh shit son! Bubblegum Mofacking Crisis! Also, now you're making me want to watch Fright Night and Daybreakers again.
+Christian Neihart I'm one of few who loves both the original Fright Night and the remake equally much. I grew up with the original Fright Night, but I think the remake is different enough to be a justifiable remake. Each of the movies have different strength and weakness.
"No"
-yoshi
+kurvos The original Fright Night 2 was cool as well, but the new Fright Night 2 was wet garbage.
Sho'Nuff Da Masta I haven't seen the original Fright Night 2, but... yeah, I can tell, the new so-called "Fright Night 2" is a piece of shit. XP
Sho'Nuff Da Masta Direct to video sequels normally end up being garbage.
Honestly Saya's issue with Christianity would be at least understandable if the prayer or something attracts the monsters.
that actually would make sense, some monsters could be repelled by it, but also be attracted to it, like a moth to a flame, praying on the vulnerable people praying in panic
Or inversely mentions of jesus or prayers harm her in some form
its not terrible, its better than the live action version. but blood + is soooo much better.
Hmm, i think you should try Hellsing Ultimate. Its different than the vampire flicks you mentioned. Its less about the problems the vampire has, but more of how the people around the vampires use them. Kinda like they're a resource. The rest is ultrabloody awesomeness, along with some great atmosphere, music, action, animation, and probably the coolest voice ever from Alucard.
Damn, now I gotta watch hellsing ultimate again.
Nah, Alucard still has those "woe is me" moments towards the end that Sage hates.
A Berserk remake could have been great with the quality of animation we have nowadays. Instead, we got poorly rendered CGI that look worse than the Berserk video game, and camera shots that won't stay the fuck still.
From what I remember of Blood+ it was really good. Granted I saw it a while ago so i could be remembering it wrong but I also saw Blood the last vampire right after and remember it being basically exactly as you described in the review.
Somebody needs to play Vampire Bloodlines
You have to redeem yourself by watching the whole of Blood+ because that was great!
I'm sure Bennett doesn't read these anymore but... Stakeland. That is a good vampire movie.
I'll admit I like this movie, because its a nice action pack without of the romance and a female character that isn't moping about it.
12:20 Um. Kinda awkward word choice there
"No"
-sonic
+rosenrot234 yeah that's what i thought, i was like "wtf, did he just, no, no he didn't" plays back video ".....i'll be damned...." 0-0
I had to double check to see what you were referring to. It seems obvious that Sage is using it in the meaning of government secret agent, not a racial epithet.
Crowley9
I totally understand that. Was still just odd. Maybe it was just some editing mistake? Bleh I don't know how that shit works.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only on to notice.
I remember there being a Blood+ anime/ova series on netflix that was about 26 episodes long that seemed to have a slightly different story. Or am I thinking of a different show?
Really ?
Blood+ is a bit better than this movie, Blood-C is complete poop imo, just a series of mind fucks for the sake of being mind fucky. No substance.
And don't forget the violence
Lots and lots and lots and LOTS of violence
That take the #1 spots on a lot of anime death lists.
but I like the mind fucks, and the hilarious over the top gore...I was in a weird place when I watched that anime a couple years ago
+cheezeofages I thought the vicious cruelty and nihilistic mindscrew of Blood-C made that show. It was basically CLAMP skewering its own cliches in the most over the top fashion possible and I fucking loved it. Blood+ by comparison is a boring and overlong shonen series that takes a halfway promising film and pads it out with a lot of the silly emotional pandering and angst Sage complains about in most vampire-based media, along with a cast of characters I mostly couldn't give a shit about.
I'm not a huge fan of blood+ because I adored the manga that was inspired from the film (which is so much better than the film itself) and it's my strange biased elitist feeling to ignore Saya needing help. Amen to blood c being trash tho, CLAMP can't redo X again.
+cheezeofages Don't fool yourself. Blood+ is atrocious.
9:53 "Nary a single asset is repeated or repurposed anywhere"
Quickly, cut to a shot of literally the same asset being repeated and repurposed no less than 3 times.
9:55 - What do you mean, Sage? There's clearly asset reuse. I can see at least three of the same dancing pair, just with offset frames. There's no telling how many more duplicates are hidden in darkness.
It's a pity that Blood+ didn't keep the same character designs/general aesthetic of B:TLV, as the film really was gorgeous.
Oddly enough, I never had any problems with the incompleteness of the animated film. It's nice to have some things left unexplained every now and then.
So I find it both commendable and hilariously ironic that as you were stating how the dance sequence does not reuse any stock that I could easily identify a stock reused multiple times in the frame you shared of the room full of dancing people. They literally copied and pasted couples dancing but spaced them out in such a way and with so many that, with the added effects too, just look like a bunch of individually drawn characters. Then again the way they go about it is both genius and looks amazing so huzzah
keep up with the great videos Ben, loving it all, even your first few episodes :-P
your funny and down to "earth" wheil mixing in your own insanity. love the sage your serving up.
Sheesh, the comment section is essentially a war zone of people calling Blood+ twilight and Blood C shock value trash.
Sigh.....
" goes to enjoy Blood the last vampire for its visuals, Blood + for its fun cliches and Blood C for its utterly funny and interesting gore ideas "
Yeah I am not going to pick a side in this silly debate, its possible to enjoy both sides and trashing people or a series because people do not agree and want to hammer it into other people just annoys me personally.
Enjoy what you enjoy I say.
"No"
-Zelda
And then he went on to have a long and fruitful career on Reddit.
As far as the Blood anime franchise goes my personal rankings are:
Blood + > Blood: The Last Vampire > Blood C with Blood C being one of the most atrociously bad anime I have ever see in regards to plot and characters.
+Wolfy I had the suspicion that Blood C was nothing but gore-sploitation.
+Christian Neihart Yeah it was Gorn/Shocksploitation at it's worst.
+Kenneth Eaton You know, I was just about to say that Blood-c was a good anime before I realized that the only thing I remember about it is the ending. I remember more from the 50 (I think) episodes of Blood+ than anything from Blood-c. Despite all that though, it was animated well.
***** Yup you should see the diatribe I went on about it in another one of my comments. I went in depth about why I hate it so much. The Animation was the ONLY nice thing I have to say about Blood -C. It was drop dead gorgeous.
***** Well, it was done by someone from Clamp so of course the animation was amazing. I'm just sad that such a pretty show with a ridiculously gory death scene didn't have anything else that was interesting. I mean, shit, there are only 12 episodes! Even bad anime have something memorable, not just one scene.
12:20 that is some hilarious poor choice of words on your part Bennett XD
yeahhh, the word choice could have been better
+KeroKaminaX I know, I was wondering that too. wtf.
"No"
-ryu
+KeroKaminaX He's been watching too much BBC and forgot that the word has...different connotations in America.
+gantzisballs Is he from Britian? Otherwise he knows exactly what spook means.
YES ! MY FIRST MECHA ANIME ! BUBBLEGUM CRISIS !!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SAGE ! YOU ARE AWESOME !
TBH if you have seen the other blood+ stuff and look at this as lose BG stuff its faily good but going in bland you miss a lot, dont get me wrong its got holes as Sage has said but its much easier to enjoy and follow and when you got only blockbuster in town dial up helps.
this is a demo. the team maked this for there final in college. and when the teacher saw it he talk them into selling it. it was cut down a bit and had need voice add. but it is a demo.
hey can you do a review on Martian Successor Nadesico
Sage I recommend Blood+ because this is the original series this tech demo is connected to and this also explains the whole Vampire and bloodsucking monsters thing
I’ve seen at least four times now.
Didn't they make another anime?
Blood Plus or something that explained everything and had a good cast?
Looking forward to next weeks episode. I have fond memories of Bubblegum Crisis 2040 (in fact it's the anime that got me into anime) and am curious to see the differences between the two.
+Redux You're not the only one. The anime aired on SBS here in Australia back in 2001, and it and Pokemon were the only anime I was really into at the time.
Hah so you saw it on SBS too? You're the first person I've talked to who saw it as well ;-). Did you ever see SBS run Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex?
No I didn't, only Bubblegum Crisis. Did it air at an earlier or later time?
+Redux I love 2040. I have it as one of my top favorite anime as well as one of my favorite girl powered shows. I've come up with a spin-off that takes place twenty years later and focuses on the heroines offspring who have to deal with a new form of robots that go crazy but it's harder to tell as they don't turn monstrous and look REALLY human.
DrLizShawOBE2
It came later,they aired the dub starting from the 15 September 2005 and again in 2007. Ratings mustn't have been that good on the second run as I've never seen it air again and to my knowledge SBS have never played 2nd Gig or Solid State Society sadly.
Goleon
It will always hold a special place in the hearts of myself and my sister ;-). That's an interesting concept, I do feel like the "sequel's heroes are the children of the original's" is a little bit overplayed however. Still, fighting voomers like what you described would add a unique conflict to the series.
i remember watching this after watching blood+. I was sure this is some kinda continuation but it seems to be a prequel to the story of blood+.
Geobreeders included bi-lingual dubbing too, culminating into one of my most favorite lines in anime:
"I don't speak Japanese"
Their were two Animes for the series Blood+ and Blood-C with a movie attached to that as well. The whole Blood series is confusing but still interesting that of feeling if certain events were from different or the same continuity...its hard to describe
11:23 Wow really? Insulting your fans? No comment on the racist depiction of the black man by Japanese artists, as per usual, but it's humorous to bring up erroneous bigotry?
So do this and blood+ have the same source material or something? :)
I think blood the series as a whole is something you love or hate and you usually prefer one adaptation over another due to personal preference they are all different and are just that, adaptations and reinterpretations of one intriguing story. Personally this movie was not my favorite of the series but still visually stunning in it's own merit. It's worth a watch.
at 9:54 in the dance ball scene the couple dancing which are a guy in a cowboy hat and his lady are repeated assets they`re in the crowd closer to the camera ...
I managed to get it on umd
review appleseed and dirty pair
"No"
-Tom
+94unclechuck I'd love to see Sage review Dirty Pair Flash.
In my opinion, this movie was still better than the show that came out afterwords.
+Zero Fighter Yes I agree. It's been a long time since I've watched the show that was based on this, but I remember not liking it all that much.
Your so right when it comes to vampire movies, enjoy them in my video games, not so much in movies.
Ya I saw this MANY years ago on some channel in the middle of the night in high school. It was pretty enough but nothing stuck with me. Honestly this one comes up in conversation and best of lists quite often and I've always been puzzled as to why. It's just an animation showcase and little else. Worth watching once I suppose, if you're a production IG completist, but for anyone looking for something that is memorable you are better off looking else where. I'm shocked you found 18 minutes worth of shit to talk about on this one ;p
1:33 Bennett I feel the same way about zombies.
the MAIN PROBLEM with Blood the Last Vampire is that like Blue Submarine No6 the final act of the movie(or show) was put in a FUCKING VIDEO GAME. There is a ps1 Blue Submarine game that is literally episode 5 and 6 of the anime and for Blood The Last Vampire there is a PS2 game that acts as the last 30 to 60 minutes of this movie!!!!!! Why the hell did the Japanese do this in the early 2000s!!!!!!! Blue Submarine No6 would have been better at 6 episode OVA and Blood the Last Vampire would have been a way better movie if it was longer than 45 minutes!!!!
9:50 or so if you pause the video you can make out at least 3 couples that were copy and pasted so sorry sage there was some repeated animation from my count 4 times copy and pasted thro i only saw one couple get the photo shop treatment
if you see more tell me so
Jeez, you put this out quickly.
Used to see this anime before the live action can admit it was good despite it's shortcomings. Then again I was impressed with anime like this way back then.
I remember watching this in highschool and being confused as hell.
It funny to me that when he's walking about the animation in the dance scene, I could immediately pick out a woman who's dance loop was reused at least 3 times.
What do we do in the shadows, that mock documentary on vampire is great
Im curious what your thoughts on the anime series is for Blood. I haven't watched it myself but I have heard so many mixed reviews on it. Also I wonder if you will ever be tackling the big granddaddy to anime and Manga. I would be interested in your opinion on series such as Princess Knight, Black Jack, Dororo and a few others.
HOLY SHIT HE'S DOING BUBBLEGUM CRISIS!
+Toa Aktra SHHHhhhh its the last part of the video for reason, to keep us in suspense.
Sorry,sorry. I tend to get overly excited.
You forgot to monetize, no ads.
CIPHER REFERENCE!!!
LLLLETTS HEEEEAR IT FOR THE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYS :DDD
Hey is there any reason Ben and Noah have done a collab in a while?
+Salokin Sekwah Noah is lazy as fuck.
+Salokin Sekwah Same reason why Noah hasn't really done anything (outside of some vlogs or whatever) on his own in a (long) while
+Finn Armstrong And a jerk
+Salokin Sekwah Spoony is gone. All he does is vlogs now, because it's the least amount of work he can do and still trick people into feeding him Patreon money.
Atop the Fourth Wall put out its Patreon-funded movie this week, y'know the show run by Linkara? The two used to always do crossovers and cameos in each other's stuff, moreso than anyone else. Know what Spoony contributed? A twenty second Dr. Insano cameo.
DAMMIT!
Where is my JoJo OVA review!?
Well in batman versus dracula it says that vampires arent weak to sunlight and iconography doesnt phsically hurt them as long as they dont drink blood.
Came here from ThatAnimeSnob
Great content you have there. I have been watching your chanel for a few days and loving it.
Can you make a video on Angel Egg?
"... nary a single asset is repeated or re-purposed..." ... so what you're saying is that I didn't see several couples dressed the exact same, moving almost exactly the same with only a change of a few seconds between them? For reference, check out the ladies with the green dresses with the dark shoulders (one on the left, two on the right -- almost right above each other) or the couples with the long blond-haired women where you see them in profile, and you'll see that the women have exactly the same hair, outfits, etc. and are moving in exactly the same manner... in fact there's even more scattered about the dancing scene (although they're difficult to make out).
i love the live action for this
I saw e first episode of Bubblegum Crisis years ago, should I watch the whole show before next weeks episode?
the episode wont come out until the 14th so watch the whole series you hqve enough time
"No"
Monkey D. Luffy
Anime does variations to the usual vampire formula with relative frequency. Another examples would be Vampire Princess Miyu, who does drink blood, but other than that doesn't exhibit any typical vampiric traits -- she's essentially a dark magical girl, and vampires are just one of the countless of subspecies of demonic Shinma.
And then there's the Monogatari-series that takes a similar approach, though these vampires are next to impossible to kill, but can sometimes be cured back to human with some side effects. It almost seems to parody the cliché of a Marty Stu half-vampire protagonist with Koyomi Araragi, whose sole remaining vampiric power is his ability to heal, which just lets him get his arse kicked in the most epic ways imaginable and live to see another day.
Oh! I love the vampire stories where the bastard is vicious out of apathy. Makes a good villain.
At 6:55 I can see the same woman doing the same dance with the same man 3 times. One pair above the blonde woman in a red shirt at the bottom. One pair is the second couple from the right at the bottom. The third pair is directly above the second pair
im curious, does anyone know what the cut off age is for bennett to review a show or movie, as in a show must be "blank" years old before he'll review it, because i really want to see his opinion on gankutsuou: the count of monte christo
Wooo next time is going to be awesome! I can't wait.
2:00 you just made me wanna see that movie, i mean making a cross with two shotguns? HOW COME I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS BEING USED MORE OFTEN?¡
It's not an anime or manga but the comic book series American Vampire is pretty amazing. You should check it out Sage, it's a refreshing take on the whole vampire mythos.
If you want to know my thoughts on the TV show (Blood+, not Blood-C), its not for everyone but it DOES flesh out Saya as a better character, the side characters are MOSTLY memorable and the animation isn't anything spectacular but for a 50 episode long "epic" its good. The worst seasons, though, are seasons 2 and 4. They aren't bad in my opinion, they just suffer from a few episodes that do nothing except pad the season out to fit its 12-13 episode per season structure and a lot of them rely on character development of either people you JUST meet that episode OR have god awful dialogue that pretty much had me laughing or cringing most of the time. There's that and the fact that in Season 4...the villain of the show (whose Saya's biological sister, so...she ISN'T the Last Vampire) fucks Saya's adopted little brother (whose 10, by the way) and she insinuates that her other adopted brother (whose like 16 or 17) wants to fuck Saya (whose constantly 17) too. And it does try and "fool you" by revealing Saya is a vampire (or a Chiropteran) about 23 episodes in, even though she's 17 and has been told by everyone she was in the Vietnamn war and had an episode devoted entirely to a flashback where she killed Grigori Rasputin, and its set in modern time...if we didn't figure it out by the other movies we would've by those two things or the fact they say her blood is the only thing they have in fighting the Chiropterans...HOW was that a "twist". It would be like if Friday The 13th Part 11 tried to build a mystery that Jason was maybe the killer and in a shocking twist, he was.
I know I'm making this show sound awful but I'm not intending to. If you want to see a different story than the two movies but done far better in areas such as explaining the mythos of what those things even are and fleshing out the character of Saya and the "agency" she works for a bit better as well as adding in a bunch of stuff and explaining her a bit more, this is for you. And for a 50 episode TV show, if the above paragraphs are ALL the problems than it can't be THAT god awful.
The actors also don't act between languages either. The reason for that is that the show isn't JUST Japanese and American characters - you also have Russian, French and Vietnamese. As Sage said, acting between TWO languages is hard enough, imagine acting between five. You'd start to sound like Tommy Wiseau in at least one of them. If you want my opinion, however, the English dub is better than Japanese - the reason being is because the Japanese actors can't put on an accent whereas the English ones do it with ease. And theres the fact that most of the characters are American.
+Morbius Fitzgerald Blood Plus is one of my favorite anime! But if Sage watches it, I'm prepared for him to rip it apart. Its not perfect, they don't explain certain aspects of the plot. Like why does a female chropteran give birth to twins that are always female, why are the girls blood poison to the other twin. And, this one really bugs me-why does one queen have to be impregnated by the opposing queen chevalier-or male servant and bodyguard.
I love most of the characters, especially Kai and how he mostly develops as the series goes on, the message of what it means to be a family, and the bitter-sweet ending, while not great-left me satisfied and content.
***** Yeah, I could have lived without all that, it was really not needed. I know Kai and Saya aren't related, but felt like his crush on his "sister" came outta left field, and of course made me a little uncomfortable. That, and, I really like Haji, but there is really nothing to him character-wise other then to protect Saya, and that's it! Seriously, why always females-what if one was a girl and the other a boy-or for once-twin boys! I'd be curious how'd that play out! And of course-opposing pregnancies by either sister!
satireknight I'm aware, I've own and watched this show at least ten times now. I know Saya and Kai didn't grow up together, but the show, for a while, gave a strong sibling dynamic between Kai, Riku, and Saya; then in the second half, his feelings for her seem to come outta nowhere! Maybe if they developed better, I could see it. But then, his feelings are always going to be one-sided, since ya know, Saya loves Haji.
but they're queen bees so they will always give birth to females.
Whoof, yeah, that show drops the ball in the 4th season.
what a coincidence that you're reviewing Bubblegum Crisis next, as I just watched a video about the show the other day and a couple episodes of the remake.
I enjoyed it. It has an air of mystery by not explaining ever last thing.
Before 1922 no one had ever heard of the idea of Vampires who can't walk around during the day.
What's the anime at 0:07
in the dance scene 14 assets were reused and not the least hidden
I remember watching this years ago.
what's the anime between ZOE and 8vanafter in the shelf where the wario cap is????? HS00????H500???
Fun fact, the line about 'six little friends and they all run faster than you' comes from the movie That Darn Cat. For really reals.
In light of your aversion to the vampire genre and angsty vampires in particular, I'm curious if you have an opinion about Hellsing, which features a vampire that really seems to enjoy being a vampire.
FREAKIN' A!!! BUBBLEGUM CRISIS!! ONE OF MY FAVORITE ANIME OF ALL TIME!
Interesting fact, From Dusk to Dawn started as script for a Tales from the Crypt movie. THE MORE YOU KNOW!!!! ;)
Hey bubblegum crisis, did you know anime just did an episode on that as well. What a coincidence
given the name appearance and blood fixation I wouldnt be surprised if the tech demo in question was for blood c
You know its funny. The Blood franchise is actually on TV Tropes listed under the trope "Deader than Disco" in the anime and manga section. Take a look. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DeaderThanDisco/AnimeAndManga
I REALLLY want you to review Hellsing. Albeit it does suffer a few vampire tropes, its great