Oh hey we have reached the second to last blog post for week one! Almost time to start week two! It should be exciting! Anyways, continuing on from yesterday, today were looking at two titles that I personally was looking forward to watching: Blood-C and No.6.
She's just taking a second to look awesome.
Now this was a show that I was looking forward to. I’ve seen the old “Blood: The Last Vampire” movie and while I have unfortunately passed up the other television show from several years ago “Blood+”, I was still looking forward to a good ol’ fashioned show about a vampire slayer. And not the Blade anime that’s out this season either. From what I recall about the old movie, Blood is about a young vampire huntress named Saya, and she spends the majority of the movie doing just that, slaying vampires. What’s strange to see however, after turning on the first episode of Blood-C, is just how much I was off from my original hopes.
Our heroine ladies and gentlemen!
Oh sure there is a demon huntress named Saya, and in fact there is a completely kick ass battle sequence that she has to prove just how awesome she is…however it happens after the first half of the episode where she comes off as the excited yet clumsy high school girl stereotype. I suppose I should have expected something of the link with Clamp involved and it’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it just makes me uncertain about Saya’s character in this iteration of the Blood Series.
"Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, Everything that's wonderful is what I feel when we're together!"
The fact that there is no real change physically when she goes from Clutz to Badass is also odd. Normally I would have expected a complete shift in tone, almost like for the first half she was pretending to be that stereotype as a way to fit in with her classmates and the rest of society. Until I remembered that she was clumsy at home in front of her father as well. The same father that’s giving her a sword and telling her to go fight demons. What a great dad eh?
BEST DAD EVAR!?!?!
When she’s fighting, as I’ve said, she’s a complete badass. Doing aerobatics and sword fighting like she’s been doing it all her life and it makes for great entertainment. We unfortunately don’t know what exactly she was fighting this episode or why, besides perhaps it’s a demon so it just must be killed. But hopefully the next several episodes will clear all of that up.
......Ok NOW you're a badass!
So far it could turn out to be really good. Not the strongest entry out of the gate this season to be sure, but it has potential.
Are they standing on water or air? WHY DOES GRAVITY NOT WORK IN ANIME NO MORE!?!
By this point I think I’ve figured out the one thing I dislike about writing these opinions on the first episodes of shows, and that is the fact that a lot of the time the first episode either tells you exactly what the show is going to be like, or in some cases like with No.6 just gives you as little information as possible as some sort of bait. Just enough to get you interested and slightly curious as to what the hell is going on and what may happen next. And then the episode ends, COME BACK NEXT WEEK FOLKS! Problem is, without much of a plot there isn’t much explaining to do and not much to base an opinion on just yet.
I think this image symbolises the plot. It's currently in the calm before the storm.
No.6 seems to be taking place in a post-apocalyptic world when there are only six cities left on the planet, each given their own numerical number. In this case it’s No.6, and we’re introduced to two characters, Shion and Nezumi. Shion is a twelve-year-old poster child. He’s in the special class at school and has been ranked as one of the most intelligent people for his age. Nezumi is an outcast. He has escaped from a “Correctional Facility” within No.6 and is on the run from something. He stumbles across Shion’s open bedroom window, through which he enters for shelter, only to meet Shion. And Shion being the naively trusting person helps to bandage Nezumi up, feed him and allow him to sleep in his room regardless of the fact that there was a warrant for his arrest spread throughout the community.
"We're going to be the best of friends in about two minutes."
The episode ends before we officially find out what happens the next morning, but from the description for the show that I have read, Shion gets found out and stripped of his privileges. The show would then take place from several years after the incident. This is also most likely the case since the opening is full of scenes of the two when they are much older, and Shion has white hair instead of brown.
I laugh at things like this. He's 12 and they are treating him like he murdered thousands of people. Then again...
I have high hopes for the rest of this show, considering its production studio hasn’t let me down yet (except for Wolf’s Rain, but that’s an exception I suppose). I haven’t seen anything yet to give it a skip, and I hope it doesn’t come to that after episode 3. But really, you never know for sure.
