Audience reviews
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Sonicfan__
This wasn't a film. It was the first half of a film that was somehow released in theaters.
The animation was phenomenal and the voice acting was alright because a lot of the English voice acting was oddly delivered, but it's fine I guess. The plot was interesting, but then the film just ended abruptly right when things were getting interesting. It's a case where a film is actually too short for the story it wants to tell.
It's a film that definitely needs a longer version because it feels like the first half of a much larger plot that just never happened.
6/10
Read at the sourceHERMIT_PAIMON
48 minutes nothing just pure fun
Blood is a great anime and it is great to see digital animation. The story is good aswell as the character but it ends just when you get into it.
Most of the negatives reviews are only based on length, actualy it's a double standard of users they complain when movie short , they complain when movie is long despite of enjoying it and analyzing it in a proper manner .
You literally getting everything in 48 minutes peka ost , art style, character design etc now it's up to you how you perceive the movie , director not gonna explain everything like why she doing this , what's are origin etc . Director purpose was to make a short movie not make a web series .
I definitely recommend this to anyone and especially anime fans who haven't seen it
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I gave this one a shot mostly out of curiosity after watching The Last Dark, and honestly? Not bad at all. It's got that old-school style and I gotta say — for its time, the animation still holds up really well. The fights are quick, bloody, and straight to the point, which is exactly what I came for.
Saya’s cold and deadly presence fits the vibe perfectly. The gore scenes were tight, nothing over the top, but just enough to hit that satisfying edge. I also liked how the movie didn’t waste time. It’s short, but it gets right into the action, and the pacing actually worked in its favor.
That said, I didn’t feel as hooked as I did with The Last Dark. The story was fine, but it didn’t grip me the same way. It lacked that emotional weight or complexity that could’ve pushed it from “good” to…
Read at the sourceHidamariSeashore
Around 2021-2022, I watched an anime called "Blood-C", which followed a girl named Saya who fights against monsters. I'm aware that the description I gave was very basic and boring, but I think that describes how I felt about that anime; despite a very interesting plot twist toward the end of that series and a sequel movie that slightly improved the whole thing, I thought Blood-C was very boring. Despite that, I felt compelled to go back and watch the anime movie that started the franchise Blood-C is a part of, "Blood: The Last Vampire", which follows a girl named Saya who fights against monsters. I promise that this Saya and these monsters are different from the ones from Blood-C, but unfortunately, I can't promise that it's any less of a bore. Well, at least it's not so bad that it doesn…
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Blood the last vampire, an anime that is okay, I thought this was a prequel, sequel, or even a side story of blood c, because the mc's name is both "saya" Even though in this movie version there is no family surname like in blood c where the mc's name is kisaragi saya, and in blood + otonashi saya, in the last dark movie there is no family surname of saya / mc from this movie.
If you ask why you are interested in this side story/prequel/sequel of blood c, yes as simple as because the story always makes you curious, like how it will continue. Putting aside the brutal gore, the story has enough weight for us to speculate how it will go, the feeling is different, guessing because it is easy to guess, and guessing the continuation of this rather complicated anime, heavenly feeling is the ter…
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I was so excited to finally get around to this one, I immediately was interested in the characters and their possible backstories, the artstyle and the vampire concept.....but unfortunately it was over almost as soon as it started....and that was the real bummer...cuz i was actually into it. i didnt realize it was gonna be so short. so there was no time for backstories or character development. it was just boom boom boom done.
if it was longer and they dove into the characters more i probably would have given it a 7...cuz it had potential for sure
regardless, i still think its worth a watch at least one time
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Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
I see what they wanted to do, a darker setting with a schoolgirl, fine. It was awful, it had no soul whatsoever and felt so rushed it may as well have not been produced.
The art is fitting with its age and is pretty decent. The sound isn't bad either.
The characters are soulless and have no meaning, it tries to cover so much so quickly that honestly, it sucked. If they didn't try to build the world and give it reason and just let it be action then it would have been fine, but this way made it a worthless use of time.
3/10, The looks and sound are decent for its age, otherwise, it was pointless.
Read at the sourceTheAngryNerd
Review:
Story/Plot: Narrative-wise, this short film doesn't go anywhere, and the plot is very miniscule as well. Instead of finishing off with a proper conclusion, it dwindles down and comes to a complete stop. This left me very confused at the end. What was up with that twist at the end? It ends up feeling largely unfinished. Nothing is really explained, thus we don't know what drives the characters to do what they do, like Saya, who just seems to be killing demons just because she can. Rather weak in this department.
Characters: It suffers from the same thing the story does: The duration of the film. We aren't given enough background information, or more information in general, about any of the characters. All of them are flat and one-dimensional, even Saya, who's the main character and…
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Despite not being a fan of the vampire-movies genre itself, I must admit this movie is an awesome work of art and a great instance rearding that genre. Apropos of the plot, Mamoru Oshii did a great work (good story in spite of being told in just 45 minutes), but the main strength of the film lays in its execution and direction.
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About the plot, while pretty concise, the main idea behind it an the way it get developed according to the film's length is at least nice and ensures the idea that short doesn't mean incomplete or bad at all. There're of course a lot of questions and doubts that remain in the air, like how and when did all this stuff begin, why Saya has her own restrictions with respect to her nature, or what about the relat…
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Vampires don't sparkle.
Alright, got that out of the way. Blood the Last Vampire is a subtle vampire story, if such things exist. No ancient Dracula, no Victorian fashion, in fact other than being one we learn nothing about Saya or how she gained this curse. Our only hint is the line, "She is the only remaining original."
Saya would have a greatly expanded backstory in later reboots but this classic keeps her mysterious. We know she is hunting people who are traditionally more monstrous vamps for the U.S. government. What agency is a guess, for what purpose is unknown. And the ending makes us wonder as to her intentions.
Well drawn and environmentally dark, just a school girl with a sword and the will to use it. Find this one while it's still out there, watch it again if you've got it…
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Another one I haven't watched in many years, but I was curious to revisit it after seeing Blood-C. Back in 2001, Manga Entertainment were hyping this up as their next big movie. It's certainly big in terms of production values. But a movie? It stretches that definition to the limit by being just over the 40 minute mark when the credits roll. OAVs of that length are nothing unusual, but this one noticeably strains at the seams of its runtime. Frankly, it's like walking in halfway through an 80s Hollywood B-movie. The dialogue in the opening scene feels like gibberish that's never explained, and there's a general lack of context throughout. Plot is minimal, and characterisation is non-existent.
It also suffers from being a bilingual production. The American characters have that awkward patt…
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Excuse me, I don't usually write in English. If you want you can read my review in Spanish.
When someone intends to immerse themselves in the Blood franchise, it should be noted that the starting point is found in the 45-minute medium-length film directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo (Roujin Z, 1991; and Golden Boy, 1995-1996): Blood: The Last Vampire ( 2000). At the time this film triumphed, winning awards at film and animation festivals and praise from numerous fans and some critics. Part of this success was due to the fact that it was a film designed to reach foreign audiences, with attractive plot elements for a non-exclusively Japanese audience and the filming practically in English. But its success also lay in the use of digital animation for various stages of the production process, such a…
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It's not that I didn't like it,
It's that I didn't care about it.
I appreciated the animation (even thoght I didn't like the artstyle that much). It's all fine.
I just don't think I'll even remeber having watched this.
Maybe if I cared more about the characters.
Also, there's a lot of english voice acting in this movie, and it's not great, to say the least. It's not even "engrish", they sound like english speakers, but their voice performances are jus really not good.
At least it was short. I don't know wheter a longer runtime would have helped to flesh out the story and characters, but as it is, I'm fine with it being this short.
Read at the sourceHammerMeister99
Blood is an interesting movie. Not a particular great one, but hey, it's not half bad. It has some problems, but it also has a lot of bright points. I don't usually structure my reviews on here, but for this I decided to, so here's a list of pros and cons.
PROS:
-Beautiful animation. Seriously, for a anime movie from 2001, the art in this is gorgeous. It was like candy for my eyeballs, really.
-The sound design and music are both excellent. Honestly, this could pass as an art film, it looks and sounds artsy enough and it's vague enough to appeal to people who like their movies to be a little out there. If this were to come out today, people would eat it up just like they are Isle of Dogs, I guarantee it.
-Really awesome fight scenes. Saya proved herself to be a really capable fighter…
Read at the sourceSidewinder51
Rate a 5
English dubbed (note: English dubbed version contains some Japanese audio. It is embedded into the story that is why.)
Story
Bland. Does not build on tension. Only found one or two scenes to have light scares. Action focused not as focused on character build.
Art
animation/art fine. The dark touch applied to the art works well with the light horror concept.
Sound: a small annoyance with language change out but once you understand the plot it has to be that way. character: limited to all players. The only player that i felt had a good character profile is the witness. The witness mind you was a semi minor character.
Ending remark: Light based horror flick on vampires. Blood portrayal was not realistic which kind of destroyed the mood. Characters decisions made in the film were…
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Blood: The Last Vampire- just given the title, this movie carries with it the expectations, anticipations, and cultural osmosis of many years of cinema, anime, and literature from the vein of the blood sucking creature for which it's named. Everyone has heard of the mystical vampire- and we have had a cultural fascination with them for nearly 200 years- since John Polidori's "The Vampyre" was released. There's something enthralling about the sanguineous, and its association with the occult, something we just can't get enough of.
In 2000, Production IG went out on a limb and produced an anime original story about a vampire who fights and kills insane, frenetic, bloodthirsty beasts called Teropterids. Nearly invulnerable, impervious to bullets, crushing, and concussive forces, the Teropter…
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So one day I am in the foreign film section of the only physical store I know that sells anime and found this on the shelve for a small amount of change which I had to spare.
I never really thought of watching anime that goes back earlier than 2005 unless its something others tell me I have to watch or must watch. I made this choosing on my own and got my moneys worth but I have some slight complaints maybe because I don't know much about the blood series itself.
The story in this film starts off good like a proper action film then the twenty minutes that follow are the setup for the main conflict in the film. The finally of it all was pretty good where we got some nice action scenes and a bit of tension as the demons where clearly dangerous. My problem with film was that I liked it and…
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Since this movie was short, I will make my review just as brief:
It felt like I walked into the theater 15 minutes late, then part way in I forgot I had to be somewhere and had to leave 15 minutes early.
The animation and art design is quite nice, but the lack of character development and very minuscule plot left me feeling so bewildered and confused - I still don't understand why this was apparently so popular at the time it came out.
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Τhe blood franchise is either hated or loved by the anime community. And while some of it's titles are not so strong like the Blood C anime and it's movie that came after, ''Blood the Last vampire'' is probably the movie that even non fans of the franchise liked. The story is indeed interesting and because is the first entry of the series you don't need to watch any of the other anime of the series in order to watch this. It introduces you to Blood universe resembling more on Blood plus's though than Blood C's. The concept is the same a girl named Saya is fighting a non-friendly to humans species named chiroptera. The movie is mostly a fight between her and those creatures so you expect only to see action, action and action. Which is exactly what this anime gives. So don't expect any deep…
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You know, during my time doing these reviews I've looked at both Blood+ and Blood-C. Both of which had a lot of issues, but I felt were decent enough overall. The odd thing is that I've never seen the movie that inspired them before. This is one of those rare cases where the anime film wasn't based on anything but had a manga, light novels and several anime based off of it. Of course, that doesn't mean it's necessarily good. It might be. It could also be rather dreadful or decent enough like the anime it spawned. Only one way to find out, this is Blood: The Last Vampire.
We open our story with Saya working hard to hunt chiropteran because... she can? It's never really explained. She's sent to a school on an American base where chiropteran are suspected to lurk and that's where the story…
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