Blood Lad – Anime Review
Shadows
Classification:
Directed by –
Shigeyuki Miwa
Studio – Brain's
Base
Year – 2013
Season 1 / 10
episodes
Warning this review could contain spoilers!
If the reader wasn't watched this anime,
this could reduce the enjoyment!
For instance Sasuke will kill Naruto in
season finale!
See the danger of a Spoiler? Now this was a
lie, only to show the power of a spoiler!
The reader was been warned!
Blogger Note: This was a
strange anime for me, during its air time, I watched 3 episodes and then put it
on hold (mainly because of shows like Danganronpa, Watamote and Attack on
Titan) then for review purposes I decided to see him in marathon,
again I watched 3 episodes with a 2 weeks break, to finally watch it in two
nights.
"Something, Something and an Otaku
Vampire"
Loose notes
After the long
time that I took to see Blood Lab, to write this review I stayed thinking the
why. In this run, I never thought to put it in the dropout list (fortunately
only Free went to that list in 2013). This anime was pretty odd,
the anime is competent don't take me wrong, but, their main focus was on
comedy, but I think they failed big time but they also has surpassed
expectations with its original contents!
The Opening
For me the opening
is practically equivalent to the soul of the anime, a bad open can ruin the
entire program, a good one could help to hide little defects in his storyline!
Blood Lad presents us a competent (at least for me) opening, where the characters in the anime
and some of his components are presented!
I like this opening and the song, is not
worthy to go to my mp3, but like the anime is pretty competent.
Analysis
If I needed to define this anime in one
word, only one comes to my mind competent.
Blood Lad, presents us a world of
supernatural, where all is divide in clans with strong bosses and one of this
boss is an otaku vampire that meets a human girl.
The weak point of this anime, for me, is
that, it define (in the firsts episodes) like an comedy with some elements of
some animes like Dragon Ball we even see SonGoKu favorite move! This fact,
made me look for anime references in every scene, and (probably wrong) I think
I see elements of Hunter Vs Hunter and Bakemonogatari at least.
The strong point was the competence of the
story presented, a nice story, involving vampires, werewolves, spatial
manipulators, ghosts, Frankenstein and even humans!
The anime with only 10 episodes, presented
us, several characters development, made us care for them, all elements are
there to be a good anime! If they had a few more episodes and a closure ending,
it could be a great anime, instead of only a competent one.
?Future Seasons?
By the time of this review, at least one OVA show is
released, I still didn’t see it, but considering the way the anime ended, there
are much interest and story to a second season with at least 12 episodes (I
hope) :P.
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