Trinity Blood, Chapter IV (Episodes 13-16)
Blood flows as the action inTrinity Bloodshifts from Rome and Western Europe to Carthage and Constantinople, the capital of the vampire empire. Esther Blanchett and Abel Nightroad forge an unlikely alliance with the vampire nobles, Asta and Ion. They're working for Cardinal Catherine and the Empress to promote better relations between the Vatican and the Empire. Pitted against them are the troops of the Department of Inquisition; Auto-Jägers, zombies created from vampire corpses; the Empress' Janissaries; and any number of turncoats. Blood, bombs, knives, and shells fly. Apparently forgetting his vow never to kill again, Abel single-handedly destroys two aerial warships and their crews. At times, the plot seems to be careening along like an unattended grocery cart on a steep hill, but no one can denyTrinity Blooddelivers plenty of action. (Rated TV 14, suitable for ages 16 and older: graphic violence, grotesque imagery, nudity, tobacco and alcohol use, offensive religious imagery.)--Charles Solomon