Blood: A Series Retrospective 

The Longman Cometh

BLOOD SERIES MENTIONED!! ALL 12 OF US BLOOD FANS ARE EATING GOOD!!

Blood is that show you saw at 3am when you fell asleep with the TV on lmao

Blood+ is an underrated gem and still one of my favorites to this day. I wish they released a blu ray version for the show.

"She's attacked by a man-eating monster, but saved by a mysterious metro-sexual monster" 😂😂😂

Honestly even though Blood C was kinda slow, I *loved* how stilted and awkward it felt, because it mostly seemed reflective of what was happening. Blood C is a show about a bunch of people playing roles they find incomprehensible. Saya is a "hero" who doesn't actually care about the people she's protecting. Her paternal figures are "guardians" who actively want her to become a worse, more miserable person. Her "friends" are mostly sociopaths who are terrified of her and force the interaction because they're being paid to. The scene where Saya's enforced love interest repeatedly tries to confess to her and bounces off her genuine confusion at why he would act like that is one of my favorite scenes in anime.

Blood+ was my first anime ever and it left quite an impression on me as a 8 year old hahaha

You did blood+ fans a huge service by mentioning this obscure lost in oblivion piece 😭🙏🏽

Diva is such a tragic figure in a sense, her last scene, all she wanted was a family, she wanted to be loved like saya was

I always thought Blood-C was a separate franchise, to be honest. I'm a bit confused why you'd try to break the goddess who'd sworn to never kill a human, because if you succeed, you're probably the target of her oath breaking. There's faster methods of suicide that don't doom the whole planet, and alternate motivations all seem flimsy.

I really enjoyed Blood C. The "boring" aspect created a kind of creep factor and sense of emptiness in the world that I haven't really seen in any of the other shows I have watched. The plot twist that they were all actors the whole time caught me off guard.

The Blood franchise was a favorite of mine growing up, but hardly anyone knew about it. I watched Blood: The Last Vampire anime/manga and Blood+. I tried to watch Blood-C, but couldn't get through an episode. I also had a similar problem where I wanted the universe, lore, characters, or gore expanded upon, but all of the iterations would only fulfill one of those desires and compromise the others.

I remember watching Blood+ as a kid on Adult Swim and I loved it, I watched it every Saturday night religiously

"Blood sucks" damn we've been bamboozled lol.

The thing that truly killed Blood C could be defined in two words "Stagnation" and "excessiveness". Last vampire had a slow pace but the world felt alive thanks to focusing on different aspects besides Saya herself, the characters were simple but complimented each other and the story well enough to make it interesting and every event had some form of consequence or effect on the larger world and the characters, the gore both on anime and manga had varying degrees but both knew when to tone things down for the sake of serious, funny or heartfelt moments. Blood C fails at all of these, nothing that happens ever moves or changes anything no matter how many people die and the gore is so ridiculously excessive even during supposedly important or sad moments that it's hard to take anything in it seriously. Blood C genuinely would've been a lot better had it either leaned more heavily into simply being a dark comedy or dropped the plot twist a lot sooner and then worked towards developing an actual plot with that like the people in the town planning a rebellion or an escape since all the deaths make them realize this psychopath is intent on killing everyone for the sake of his simp boner and Saya having to decide whether to help them or not or if she even cares, all the while trying to keep up the facade so shit doesn't hit the fan. Overall, watch the movie, watch the anime, read the mangas, and if you want mindless over the top gore, watch C too

freaken finally! somebody talks about BLOOD. by the way in the blood+ series i remember the reason why during the climax when diva died and sia didn't is because when diva got preggo and delivered twins the potency of her blood disappeared. and that's why saya's blood triumphed, saya never got child (like she & diva's chiroptera mom). saya never got to have children to pass the power of her blood to. but i kind of also like your interpretation to it, keeps to the theme. the chiropterans are a product of diva's blood mutating normal peeps. i always thought that saya' s blood could be used for the same means since she and diva came from the same chiropteran mommie. fun fact "chiroptera" is the scientific name for bats!

Considering "Rothschild" derives from an older German spelling of "Red Shield," I don't think the Goldsmith brothers' names are an accident.

Having watched all three, I guess what they did with Blood-C is give people what they were missing in Blood+; G O R E. Also, Blood-C is probably more famous because it's CLAMP. It sucks but its CLAMP. And the fact that it is part of CLAMP's multiverse only made it even more interesting. The anime was done exactly as intended, you feel awkward because everything is fake. Had they continued and expand on it after the anime, things might pick up and become better. But then it was revealed that she made a deal with HolicXXX's protagonist so that means it will have to dip into that franchise too and that franchise is connected to Cardcaptor Sakura as well as several more series done by CLAMP. Narurally, before Marvel or the Spiderverse, we have CLAMP. You can just imagine how big this series will really be had they continue. Also, with extra magic. I still think Blood+ to be better in story telling because it takes its time and expand. Blood-C is...like a school play by edgy teens. Blood The Last Vampire's manga was exactly what you said. I don't even know what I'm reading then and I don't think I want to know now.

Blood+ was an elusive piece for me because I watched it on tv as a kid, but bc I was a dumb kid I couldn't abstract the plot, didn't help that my watch time was inconsistent. Years later I was thinking about it and wondering what the plot could be. Then your video was recommended to me and I was like "Blood SERIES?". In the end, Blood+ premise wasn't as complex as I was expecting, but at the same time it's very well made, and the story works that premise very well. The whole media around it and its background I had no idea about and I'm surprised how meta it can get. I also had no idea Blood C was from the same series, despite the name, I thought it was just a coincidence. Blood C never interested me, even after my friend showing compilations of it on youtube. It felt weird that things kept appearing and killing people, but the compilation made it look like everyone just resumed to the status quo after monsters went in a murdering spree, so I never felt a sense of plot. Still I'm glad to have this lil bug in my head satiated now that I understand what the plot of Blood+ was, and what the + means. Now I must uncover the plot of Black Cat

A bit of the summary of Blood + reminded me of Claymore, specifically the part of the female main character having a tragic event that set her on the path of revenge. I'd like to see your thoughts on that

Holy shit, I’m just now realizing I saw the second movie when I was like 7. The kid turning to stone stuck with me for years and I could never find the anime it was from. This is it. Thank you so much lol.

So the blood-c opening is done by Dustz who's lead singer is Ray Fujita who plays Zero in Garo the toku series. He speaks Japanese, French, and English fluently he is highlight of garo. And i have the only English published last vampire light novel and it takes during the Vietnam war follows a highschool student that accidentally see saya in action and a Vatican secret agent trying to figure out who saya is. Anyways the chiropterans are actually a type of ape that co evolved to be humans natural predators the bat stuff is convergent? evolution to make it easier to hunt us. Saya is basically a Dhampir and it's technically hybrid vigor. Also the people she works for are basically the same group blood+ saya works that last vampire also works for. Anyways it kinda a dry read with like 4 massive exposition dumps that explains the "questions" the movie leaves idk what the other 2 say

Look, as soon as you said Blood C was done by Clamp... they do love stories. I haven't read anything by Clamp that WASN'T a love story. It's not always romantic, and very, very rare is the Clamp Love Story that's in any way healthy... but Fucked Up Love Story is what they DO. I am not surprised that this is what they did with Blood. I'm only surprised the big bad in love with the heroine wasn't also her brother.

Never heard of this anime before, but I'll give this a try. Thanks CC.

Good work CC, I remember watching Blood + when I was younger and I distinctly remember it relatively fondly.

This is a banger video, deserves more attention 100%. I remember Blood + when I was a kid and binged it with my brother on really early Netflix. Always thought that series was pretty banger, and the first movie was so cool to me. Agree with everything you said about all the animes. I’m definitely checking out the Manga because I’ve been pretty on the fence about checking it out but now I’ll definitely be getting into it.

Oh you really just made my week as a Blood + fan, (and Diva apologist) as it seemed most of the anime world forgot about it. I pretty much agree completely with your analysis and I wanna add that we were ROBBED of seeing that fight between Diva and Solomon. They could've also showed more superhuman feats from Saya and Diva (I would've loved to see her mow through the red shield ship). Also you've got a new sub. I wish they would've stayed with the Blood + world longer and made a sequel and prequel, they had SO MUCH POTENTIAL TO WORK WITH. With Nathan being the chevalier of Saya and Diva's mother, Diva's children (I know there's a manga about them but it'll never be translated).

The way that girl thought she was gonna get a cookie only to get shut down like that is hilarious

The Blood+ segment was great, your delivery was pretty effective by the end of it. Genuinely surprised it was 50 episodes though, I was expecting like 26 lmao

Blood+ was one of my favourite anime and definitely deserves its flowers. The MUSIC is astounding considering it had the twin talents of HANS ZIMMER AND MARK MANCINA working on it too, which is probably why it's best remembered for its opening songs. Other than, obviously, the third op being used for the Spongebob meme lol

God this video sure was a trip down memory lane. Happy too see the Blood series being talked about. Thanks for the vid.

It is... I don't know if it's relieving or disturbing to know there's competition for "Edgiest Franchise in the World" that can actually match Corpse Party and Terraformars, but Blood C... wow.

Hey, I love Blood C. I binged the whole show in one night. You take calling this show stupid back!

Blood+ was a game changer for me, saw it the very year it came out, and I was a highly impressionable teenager, and I might actually rewatch it now because of your video.

When it comes to gore, perhaps the one that I've found the most shocking is the manga Bougyaku no Kokekko, which is about giant chickens. As silly as that sounds, one must remember that chickens are monsters, tiny dinosaurs, and if they were 8 feet tall they'd be scary. My family has chickens, always has, and I recall a story where a opossum got into the chicken house and my brother found the corpse in the corner. Don't mess with chickens.

Blood C is a lot more unique and fun though , you can see the stuff of + in other series but you can t see the stuff in C in other series. Blood + is great in a conventional manner Blood C is greater in an unconventional manner

Blood+ has a light novel sequel known as Blood# with Diva's twin daughters as the protagonists. The novel is not officially translated and bits and pieces are translated through fan efforts. Saya temporally wakens from her sleep and Haji appears. David's son is named Adam (If I remember right). I think Blood# would make for an interesting topic to discuss, but is really a obscured thing related to Blood+.

but blood c's character not acting like real people is because they aren't real it's all fake and i think it's intentional to make us suspect that something isn't right it's kind of uncanny valley. from the very first episode you get this creepy feeling. maybe for someone who already knew saya's story prior to this you couldn't really enjoy it cause you expected a lot. but then again, my biggest criticism is that fumito's motivations aren't clear like they never explain why this random rich man is so deranged to the point of creating a fake city just to destroy it, that just made absolutely no sense. and the never expending on what the pact between saya and humans as well

I watched Blood+ as a teen (never finished) and Blood: The Last Vampire in college. Only now did I find out they were related 🤦😅 Great vid! Subbed.

Stumbled onto your channel and definitely really enjoy these retrospectives.....Please do more of these! *Note: Fully agree with Blood: The Last Vampire being the best one out of the bunch but I LOVE this series!

Blood c may not be the greatest story wise but I absolutely LOVE Saya's design in it ❤

Very well put together and written, was worth the length. Personally I loved the original Blood, was initially put off by some of the design on my first watch but realized I was missing a lot just by comparing it to other anime I was watching at the time. And no, you didn’t miss anything from missing the live action Blood, it makes everything Netflix is doing with their own live action look better.

Omg Blood + was my favorite show when I was younger and loved the soundtrack.It’s so nice to see a deep dive into the franchise!

Can I just say I love Blood C. And the kicker is that I legitimately don’t know WHY? I mean I don’t just get people’s criticisms, I agree with them. Yet, I still find the show charming, and remember it fondly, then binge it every now and again.

25:30 Imagine trying to say "Ultimate Life Form" and not think about Shadow for a whole second 😂😂😂

CC about Blood+: "And so Saya decides to fight!" Me, someone who saw Blood+: "No she doesn't, don't lie."

Blood+ is one of my favorite anime’s. Fond memories of staying up late to watch it on Adult Swim in middle school.

Blood+ is amazing. Blood C makes me think of some random RU-vid channel making a show trying to be related to it but cant be too much or they'd get in trouble.

Man I saw blood plus...like 10 years ago and I forgot all about how much I liked it. I had no idea it was part of a "series"

Recently stumbled on Blood+ anime, and I've liked the earlier episodes (up to the 9th) so much I've recommended it to my MOM. It surely COULDN'T go wrong from that setup!! Not our proudest hours, although it was some quality time together. She didn't last that long, up to 18-19 I think. I made it through to 50. I don't regret it, I guess, but I'd never recommend it to anyone else.

That low tier god pic with love yourself next to it cracked me up

One of the best parts of Blood C was the opening, the lyrics are some great foreshadowing 😂 Since the Blood C movie was my intro to the franchise I did enjoy it even if it confused the hell out of me at the time. Blood + is amazing but I do wish they had used some of the runtime to flesh out the characters more, so they don’t feel quite as one dimensional. However, to be fair it is a huge cast of characters. Would have also loved to see more of Hagi, because cute depressed cello man is awesome 😂😂

I watched Blood+ as a kid but when I tried to look it up online I could only ever find Blood C. I thought I was going crazy because the plot had the same premise and the characters had the same names but the designs and art style had changed from my memories.😂😂 I eventually figured out it was part of a series but I didn't know about the movie til this video. Thanks for another add to the watchlist.

I loved Blood-C. Most of the reason is because I watched it as a cringe edgy kid back in high school. All the gore really hooked me in and yeah, it was slow in the first few episodes, but bits and pieces in the story made me anticipate something big in the finale (which was the rabbit gore fest). Also because I LOVE CLAMP. And they even made Blood-C part of the CLAMP-verse. Seeing Watanuki as a full-fledged successor to Yuko in the movie was AWESOME. But yeah, I do agree with most of your opinion with Blood-C. I only realize them now that I'm a bit more mature and not an dumb kid anymore. Haha!

I know you wont see this but i love the long drawn out explanations. Especially with your tone and humor. Definitely one of my favorites now

I remember when Blood first came out, but never followed up on it. Thank you for this

Honestly for the first animated movie from japan, the quality is insane given the fact that it looks like something you'd see in high budget anime movies of the late 2010s to now.

Great video Blood-C is one of my all time guilty pleasure and had fun reminiscing about the whole series

blood plus was so good to me. i didn’t have cable so it came across the tv at a hotel when i was like 10 years old. that, bleach, inuyasha. what a time

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS SERIES FOR AGES! I saw one episode on toonami ages ago and that one episode stuck with me forever.

Great video, thoroughly informative with very well timed humor. Love the long form as well. Keep it up my dude.

Blood C was one of the first anime I watched, I don’t think I ever knew anything else of the series existed and mainly forgot about it because of the weirdness of it.

I saw this thumbnail and all my Blood + nostalgia came gushing forth. I'm glad to finally find out what the other Blood titles were like. I might just have to watch the last Vampire and red the Blood + manga. I really did enjoy that series. And I think you're super cool too for making this retrospective. Enjoy your vampire content responsibly.

I remember being so confused watching Blood + then finding out about Blood the last Vampire and thinking it was a prequel to then find out they do not actually connect and now finding myself confused again with the arrival of Blood C. Thank you for the deep dive!

You JUST popped up on my feed. Gave you a watch. And I have to say, more long form vids. I LOVED this. And I didn’t even care for the Blood series. But this made me think “Huh. Maybe I’ll give Blood another go.”

I remember being a baby goth teen when my cousin convinced sat me to watch Blood: The Last Vampire. When Blood+ came out I really liked the different take, it became one of my favorite series of all time

I cannot find a way to watch blood+ ANYWHERE! It’s driven me crazy for years, this warms my heart

I kinda liked blood C, but couldn't make much sense of it. I was hoping the other series had something to do with it, and it's mildly disappointing that they don't, but Honestly, I think I prefer these being all different retellings, they are all interesting in different ways, I look forward to watching Blood+, many thanks for the recommendation

blood c was the only thing i watched from the blood series, and while i didnt particularly care for it, the soundtrack of the entire anime kept me coming back. i dont remember much of the series anymore but i still come back to its music 🫡

I love getting random "you may like these" videos recommends. Haven't thought about blood+ in years. Was interesting to watch and learn about the entire franchise since I didn't even know it was one lol

I have been thinking about this series for MONTHS. I'm so happy to consume this content. 10/10

Please make more videos about nostalgic anime with this format! I adored this whole video at 2 am 😭😭

I remember seeing the blood movie for the first time and thinking "damn the monsters are prettier than the damn humans in this animation"

I only watched Blood C, never realized that there were other parts associated. Excited now though cuz I remember how much I wanted more of blood C. Bouta watch the other 2 now

love your vids man. you should make more longer stuff like this. keep it up :)

Holy shit how am i just now getting this recommended to me. You are funny as hell and deserve wayyy more recognition and subs. This was fantastically made

I’m a big fan of blood-c, but I do agree with your take on it. Blood-c brutally (pun intended) from bad pacing, and poorly executed ideas. Though it’s the only show/anime that I’ve watched, in which the “only this Secret sword can kill the monsters” Bs. But it’s actual Bs. That’s a special sensation that only this series has provided me. Also blood-c is the only tv-anime since the 80s that’s has captured the raw brutality and insanity of animated violence.

everything else about blood c aside, the opening song slaps so hard

Referring to the last scene as "Raymans Rabbids are raving" helped lessen the trauma that scene inflicted upon me many many years ago when I was also shown it against my will.

Never been one to listen to reviews, but really enjoyed the entiretly of this video and how you broke down each version of blood and then showed some comparisons. Blood+ was my first one and really enjoyed it. Seeing what you said about the manga as a suppliment I thought was a interesting take and definetly want to look into it.

Blood c was my favorite, dang i need to watch that today

So I watched Blood plus a long time ago and knew it was related to The last vampire but did not realize Blood c was from the same franchise. Thank you for the video!

Excellent video!! This was one of my first anime’s I watched in 2005 so it brought back memories and I learned a lot!! You earned a new subscriber so I can’t wait to see your other content

Tbh, you shouldve delved into the character concepts as well. Blood-C made their characters fit and gave much more originality in terms of design except for the uniforms of course. Blood-+ is reminiscent of simple design but it works

It’s been 15 minutes and there’s already 2 Michael bay jokes. Genius

Diva, from the manga, makes more sense to me. And why she is my favorite character, and I love her voice.

As someone who has been trying to collect the physical copies of this series I am gnawing on this video

Love a good 1hr+ retrospective/review on anime. Hope to see more stuff like this on your channel! I’ve had more trouble finding longer form content on anime than any other medium, so it’s definitely a niche that could use more great creators such as yourself. Really enjoyed the video, despite my having watched only Blood-C and writing off the rest of the entries as too much gory and too little story for my tastes. You’ve convinced me to go back and give the other entries at least a chance.

Blood+ is one of my favorite animes of all time , thank you for talking about it ! I really really hope they release a bluray someday

Great video! Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

god dang im getting old... Blood+ would air on cable television when I was a teen

One time I was asked if Blood C was worth watching, I answered with: "I remember enjoying it a lot when I was 15 years old but now, 10 years later, I do not see myself getting past the first few episodes". (Actually even back then I nearly dropped it at episode 3 and only came back once the friends started dying) Seriously one dude in a review of just the first episode nearly realized the twist! He noticed how fake everyone was, like everyone was playing a part and they were all actors.

The entire reason I picked up this movie in high school and bought it from Best Buy, was we were stationed on Yokota AFB 3 years prior, and I heavily missed living there when we came back to the states. I was shocked how many establishing shots were true to Yokota AFB, to the point that I knew exactly where on the base they were. AND, having attended school on the base, I knew which class rooms she was in. I felt home, watching this movie. Later, a show was made, but the Yokota setting was gone. I still enjoyed it, but the setting was the core reason I bought and watched this movie in the first place.

I'm so glad you talked about the entire series! I grew up with Blood as one of my favorite movies as a kid. It and Animatrix were favorites of my dad and I, but I never heard of the rest of the series. I had no idea it was continued!

Blood also has a live action movie from 2009, created by Japan, Hong Kong, France and the US. We got to meet her mother too

Diva's song in Blood+ is still sooo good

Long live our great crusader, king of the sunday wifu.

55:34 🤔 it reminds me of my language class .. or reading 🤷🏾‍♀️ each student write one chapter & the next student will write the next. After everyone had a turn; the teacher will read the book out loud. The only rule was, you can't say the chapters before yours was a dream or anything similar to that. Because you can't undo the last writers work. That would be disrespectful. So basically we had a chimera book. A mixture of all the different terms. Horror, action, comedy, & so on. So parts got super brutal 😁 the teacher had to spell the words out because she didn't want to say them. The war part & the missing person kidnapped chapters.. that kinda stuff. We was in 6th grade I think 🤔

Ngl, Blood series is not perfect, but because it's exist and watched it, i love all of it despite the flaw! Maybe one day, either one of the series get sequel or new Blood wip, get better and recognition it deserve!

1:10:58 the solider dude ran out of bullets just as his lunch break started so he just peaced out