First Thoughts: Blood-C

For an anime done by Production I.G. and CLAMP, I haven’t been too thrilled with the first two episodes of Blood-C. I’m a big fan of CLAMP’s work in manga such as Cardcaptor Sakura, Legal Drug and XXXHolic as well as being a fan of Production I.G.’s Kimi ni Todoke and Eden of the East. Saya, the main character of Blood-C, is a maiden who attacks evil beings at night. During the day, she is a normal student with her friends, a guy who likes her and the lone wolf who she tries to befriend.

To state it simply, Blood-C is like a lot of CLAMP’s other works. Saya is a clutz and very athletic like Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura and a little like Hikaru from Magic Knight Rayearth. She is also oblivious to everything like many of the characters in CLAMP’s works and I can’t help but think that Saya is such a cliché character. The only difference is her actually appearance. Tokizane, a classmate of Saya’s, is a lot like Syaoran in the respect that he is a lone wolf. He doesn’t talk much and he seems to think something of Saya, but there is no way of knowing what or why. It almost seems like he knows something, but nothing has been mentioned in the first 2 episodes out of 13 that could explain it.

The plot for the show is practically non-existent.  I honestly have no idea where they are planning to go with the show. Saya is attacking these evil beings that neither her father nor she knows what they are and why they are there.  She gets food from the café that is across from the temple, but the guy at the café’s role in the whole story is very unclear as of yet. Not only that, but she seems sort of interested in Tokizane, but even that is vague. She tries to get him to eat some egg and he is reluctant to do so.  She almost completely ignores Tomofusa who is in love with her. He seems like a character that is only in there just so there are more characters instead of furthering the plot.

The art is the best part of the anime so far. It’s one of the only reasons I’m still watching the show other than wanting to know whether the show is going to go anywhere or if it’s only going to be Saya attacking monsters every episode. I’m probably only going to watch one or two more episodes before deciding whether it is better to drop. So if it doesn’t get anymore, I’m just going to give up.