Blood-C

Plot synopsis:
Blood-C is set in an isolated rural town on the shore of Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture. Saya Kisaragi is the shrine maiden of the Shinto shrine run by her father Tadayoshi, and is outwardly a friendly and clumsy high school girl—her circle of friends include neighbor and cafe owner Fumito Nanahara; school friends Yūka Amino, twins Nene and Nono Motoe, class president Itsuki Tomofusa, the taciturn Shinichirō Tokizane; and Saya's schoolroom teacher Kanako Tsutsutori.
But while living a normal school life by day, Saya and her father spend the night defending the village against Elder Bairns, monsters who possess inanimate objects to stalk humans and feed on their blood. Saya's skills in the "art of the sword" enable her to defeat the Elder Bairns, but those capable of speech accuse Saya and the humans of violating a covenant dubbed "Shrovetide". Saya also encounters a talking dog which says it is here to grant someone's wish, and suffers from blanks in her memory and is pained by headaches whenever she tries to remember.
Saya's battles with the Elder Bairns become increasingly desperate as they begin attacking during the day, and both Nene and Nono fall victim, leaving Saya deeply hurt. Shinichirō eventually learns of Saya's burden and offers to help, but is later killed himself. An attack on Saya's school results in everyone but Saya and Itsuki dying before Saya can kill the attacking Elder Bairn. Saya later realizes that only her class and their teacher Kanako were present in the school. Due to the blanks in her memory and comments from the Elder Bairns, she begins questioning her identity and mission.
After the attack that kills Shinichirō, Kanako asks to see Tadayoshi's library, which contains information on the Elder Bairns. They find that the library is a fake, then Kanako confronts Saya with the living Nono, Nene and Shinichirō before forcing her to drink Elder Bairn blood. It is revealed that the town's entire population, including those close to Saya, were actors in an experiment organized by Fumito, and that Saya is actually an Elder Bairn in human form. She had agreed to take part in the experiment, swore an oath not to kill humans, and then was implanted with false memories of her past "human life," all with the goal of seeing whether her inner self could be altered so the oath could be broken. Whenever Saya began relapsing and remembering her past, Fumito used drugs and hypnosis to make her docile again, and all the Elder Bairns she faced were controlled by Fumito using her blood. Kanako had wanted to save Saya and prove the existence of Elder Bairns, suborning Nono, Nene and Shinichirō to help her.
Fumito, Itsuki and Yūka then confront them, with Fumito unleashing an Elder Bairn that brutally kills Nono, Nene and Shinichirō for their treachery. Saya saves Kanako from the Elder Bairn while killing it, but Kanako is then killed by Tadayoshi, revealed to be a human-Elder Bairn hybrid driven berserk by an overdose of Saya's blood given by Fumito. Saya—now back to her true self—is forced to kill Tadayoshi, and witnesses Fumito release an artificial Elder Bairn which slaughters the town's population before Saya kills it. Fumito's soldiers attempt to shoot Saya, but Itsuki sacrifices himself to save her as he had grown to love her. Fumito and Yūka—who participated so as to achieve political power with Fumito's help—escape on a helicopter. When Saya tries to stop them, Fumito shoots her. Recovering on the lakeside, Saya learns from the dog that her wish was to remain herself when in Fumito's experiment, and that she must now pursue her next wish. Saya sets off in pursuit of Fumito.

Tags: violence, alternate reality, flashback

Review:
Dont know why people actually hated this..
Gory anime with starrt 2 3 episodes uninteresting but story lives upto the point that u want to keep on watching this fantastic anime.
An indeed clifff hanger ending but i heard that theres a movie that continues.
An awesome anime in my perspective and opinion.
Still Waiting To See. I've followed Blood since the 2000 film which was dark, brooding, and angry; a truly sensual treat to the senses, primarily because of its equally dark, brooding, and angry main character.
When the 2005 anime series Blood+ was released I watched excitedly, ever hoping for the appearance of the Saya from the movie version.
While the series developed well and the story was engrossing, the Saya from the series never reached the level of the her motion picture counterpart.
I can't say it was a disappointment because the series was so well executed.When I found Blood-C, I hoped to find yet another incarnation of Saya who might stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the 2000 film version.
I'm still waiting.
I can't say I dislike the series because it has elements that are enjoyable to watch and a story the moves slowly toward bigger things.
Still it lacks the intensity of the film or even the first series.
In that the series is still ongoing, I can't say whether it will develop into the master work of the film or Blood+.
I continue to hope and, for now, continue to watch.If you enjoy the Blood concept, Blood-C may be enough to hold your interest and, as I said, hopefully it will develop into another arm of the original, engrossing idea..
A Very So-So Series.
I will start out by saying I haven't seen anything related to the Blood Franchise until now.
Blood-C is a collaboration between Production I.G and manga team CLAMP which is where my interest to see this came from.
Unfortunately the series suffers what I both like and hate about CLAMP.
Blood-C in the end proves to be only a bloody and violent mismatch.Blood-C for the most part doesn't skip out on the action, it's very violent and very bloody however where it really lacks is in the storyline.
CLAMP besides their unusual noodle art CLAMP's signature style is also well known for cute romance stories involving cute girls and cute looking boys.
For the Blood franchise I can't tell if you it's appropriate, however I can tell you as far as this story goes any scenes with implied romance lag horribly.
That is the apex of the problems with Blood-C is the ridiculous pacing problems and a seeming inability to build an atmosphere and keep it.
The kind of cuteness worked for Cardcaptor Sakura and even Tsubasa Chronicle and even XXXHolic, but for some reason for a series like this, it feel very out of place.The first five episodes are a joke of how much they abuse this cute girl version of Saya with her walking to school, singing and eating sweets then going off to hunt monsters at night and returning soaked in blood.
Rinse and repeat you will find this series growing stale very fast even if you are a patient viewer.
With each episode you question Saya's competence to be a fighter against these supernatural beasts and it's even more egregious in the eight episode where a monster appears in the school yard and she stands there doing nothing, while her classmates get slaughtered left and right.The monster fights provide some excellent action and animation, gallons of blood and a little scariness but like so much of the story lacks any good suspense.
Much of it has CLAMP's finger prints so glaringly over it that it's a gaudy series.
Great animation and great music but a very lackluster story.
For sure not one of CLAMP's better works and certainly not one of I.G's shining series either..
What a waste!.
The anime series Blood-C is a collaboration of Production I.G and Studio Clamp.
As a result it has the Clamp style super thin long limbed, heavy breasted, mostly female cast.
But the storyline and character for Saya - an already established character from Blood the Last Vampire and Blood+, has been abandoned.
In this 12 episode series, The first 10 episodes are identical, with only a different monster rising from the ground for Saya to kill.
As one of the monsters says to her: "pathetic" - and he is so right.
Only in episode 11 are there any hints as to what is actually going on, and then everything is dumped out all at once in episode 12 (which is good stuff, but should have been spread out, foreshadowed - anything to make the rest of the anime interesting).
This is just an extremely long trailer for the movie Blood-C: The Last Dark..
A very proper gory anime to watch out for!.
I swear at the end of this anime, you get chills everywhere when people start to get killed by monsters who were caused by the "nice" sneaky coffee man Fumito.
Like Princess Monokoe, this is at least of the most gory animes out there that I have ever watched!
Saya is pretty much the baddest b*tch throughout the series.
I like that she has changed her good girl attitude from the beginning of this series into such a strong serious warrior behaviour.
You do expect surprises when it comes to personality changes in characters especially in anime!I really can't wait to watch Blood-C: The Last Dark and see Saya beat Fumitos ass for being such a sneaky lil b**tard to her lol.
Great series.
This has to be one of the goriest of the anime series.
A program about a girl (Saya) who is enlisted by her father to become a sort of mediator between the humans and the Elder Bairnes.
Elder Bairnes meaning demons who eat humans.
But sometimes, these demons take too much liberty and eat too many humans to be desired, hence Saya who is trained using the sword to quell her foes.
But somewhere in the middle, is a coffee shop owner who is a friendly type to Saya who gives her coffee and a unique soft marshmallow like treat and listens to her problems now and again.
But during her second year in high school, murders heap beyond her control by the elder bairn's, and she must find and fight some of the most vicious creatures she has ever witnessed.
However, sometimes after or during a fight, her temples give her pain, as if remembering something horrible in her past.
She doesn't even know her own mother's name, if she's ever had one in the first place.
Using this knowledge along with a talking spirit dog who is trying to help her memory, Saya realizes that all is not what it seems.
This story looks like it is heading to an answer such as -- what if the people she knew were already dead?
Living in a town where no outside interference occurs.
With all the bloody messes and mass murders, you would think top notch police help would be called in.
But, these people might be the product of past murders or sinful people who were condemned to live out their lives unbeknown-st to them that when their number is up, the elder bairn's are called in to clean them up as they see fit.
But Saya might have lost her memory in the process of coming to this sleepy town.
And in so doing, her father, might have kept the truth from her and taught her the ways of the shrine to stop the elder bairn's because of her unique talents.
Such as mentally transforming herself into a perfect killing machine.
This is another clue to her past, as in, what if she is an elder bairn?
A demon trained to stop demons and protect her friends.
This is a great story, twists and turns, lots of blood and gore, and a mysterious shadow in her mind for which she cannot get a hold of yet.
Not recommended to those under 14.
Highly recommended to those who love this kind of genre..
SHE IS LIKE COMPLETELY AWESOME.
I have not seen the series, so watching the final episode I was slightly lost, although much is explained during the feature.
Blood C consists of both regular animation and 3d graphics.
Our super hero Saya is after the bad guy Fumito who is connected to an organization called the Tower.
They are in cahoots with the government in enacting curfews in order to capture Saya.
Saya in turn hooks up with a group of computer hackers who are trying to bring down the system and Fumito.
In order to kill Bill, er ah Fumito, Saya must first get an Uma Thurman blade.The characters in the feature seem to be geared toward a younger audience, but one that is old enough to watch the blood, violence, and cartoon nudity.
This is a series I might obtain should they get it all together as one unit