Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
moonlight-ana
Officially finished Blood Lad! Final thoughts?
3.5/10
I picked this up as it had been sitting in my Hulu queue for quite some time now, the art was what caught my eye when I added it to the list and to be quite frank that's really the only reason I continued on with it.
Plot-
2/10
It really wasn't that interesting to me, I found the show hard to keep interested in as I didn't find it really intriguing, the plot itself did peak my interest but when I was actually watching it, I found myself anticipating the end more than anything. I never found Otaku culture in anime to be fascinating, the genre itself was honestly ruined for me a while back. I prefer every other genre than that. And even though it had action and comedy it truly wasn't my cup of tea.
Animation-
5/10
The art itself was…
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Please don't watch this anime.
I began to see this anime a few days prior and with only the opening I knew this was going to be horrible. Of course, I almost never drop an anime unless it's boring me to death, and because this anime was short, I managed to finish. It was a pain. By episode 4 I just wanted to finish. The problems?
The story was decent, it had somewhat cohesion and it had some interesting themes like doppelganger demons and spacial teletransportation but god it was boring. There was so much talking and the few little fights were just because of shows. If you eliminated them, probably the story would still make sense.
Sound, the voice acting was so boring, no personality for the characters (with or without the voice they still hadno character.) The opening and ending wer…
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I watched this show cause MAL suggested its similar to Noragami (being one of my favorite series) and Hataraku maou sama(not my favorite but i enjoyed it a lot). So i had somewhat high expectations who were crushed by the stupidity of this anime . I never got the 'plot' of this anime. I never found any character interesting enough to care. Staz was okay but he was the only somewhat interesting one. The girls were there doing nothing and just being 'eye candy' for the viewer. Cheap joke after cheap joke i struggled to finish a 10 episode series and im ashamed about that (i usually dont drop any series otherwise i might have done it) . Its the first time i give a series a score under 5 (my average is like 8.3 or something) but i found nothing good to grab onto as a saving quality of this ani…
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I couldn't stand this show. It was so boring, cliched, generic, uninteresting, annoying, unfunny, and just stupid. I didn't want to know what any of the episodes contained after what is established to be after the 2nd episode. I couldn't careless.
These characters were the worst thing about this show, I couldn't stand to think why they are even in the show, it all felt like excuses for entertainment. All of them were easy to look in the eye and know what they are, and that's great, I love a show that can establish something, but when you are obnoxious about it, then you are bound to make it tiresome and annoying.
The show carefully explains what this whole story is about, saving a human's life. Now it sounds serious, but they executed it like it was child's play. Wow, I am so interested…
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STORY: 6/10
CHARACTER: 8/10
ART: 6/10
SOUND: 5/10
ENJOYMENT: 7/10
OVERALL: 7/10
‘Blood Lad’ doesn’t resort to your typical Vampire genre anime, I mean rather than focusing entirely on Action, Romance or both, it immerses itself into Comedy, thus differentiating itself from the rest. The excellent portrayal of said Comedy really sets the light tone of the anime which favours the otherwise feeble story. The timing of the jokes was never rushed nor forced nor complicated. They were easy to follow and hilarious to watch so you are in store for some serious chuckles! Regrettably this seems to be the only strong point of ‘Blood Lad’, for the comedy bits start to partake a repetitive nature which brings down the overall nature of the show since it’s other aspects like Action and Romance are medi…
Read at the sourceHalo_Crystal
Before I start this review, I would first like to say that I did not enjoy this anime. I decided to try out the English Dub, and though I didn't mind it the voice-acting, there were points where listening to some of the dialogue spoken frustrated me. I had started this anime a while back and stopped watching for a bit as it did not peak my interest, but figured I should just finish it off because it is a short season. Let's get into this.
Story - 5
The story was meh to me. It didn't really interest me nor kept me engaged, especially with the main plotline. But I felt the side stories, the relationships between some of the characters were interesting just a bit more, but that is really all. I do like the idea that it is set in the demon world, giving the viewer a bit of new atmosphere... d…
Read at the sourceZaku88
There exists an alternate world full of demons which one can reach through magical portals. A somewhat air-headed human girl named Fuyumi accidentally travels though such a portal and is soon captured by demons. Luckily Staz, the head of the demons, is a carefree vampire who wants to break away from his clan's past and has no intentions of harming Fuyumi. Unfortunately, he's not terribly attentive and Fuyumi is soon gobbled up by a giant flower-monster. Greatly attracted to something unknown about Fuyumi, Staz vows to restore Fuyumi's ghost to her former body, which is now a frowning pile of bones.
Blood Lad is a light-hearted action/comedy with a fair dosage of ecchi. An extremely short and ultimately incomplete work, this is a good watch as a shonen piece. There is not enough depth or c…
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I found Blood Lad on accident and saw it was only ten episodes, so I said, Why not? Overall, it was alright, something to watch if you're bored but not something I would recommend.
The story was decent with some sprinkling of action, character conflicts, some humor. Most refreshing was the fact it wasn't your typical vampire story. Stay, our vampire protagonist, isn't fighting of his bloodlust for some human he meets randomly and falls in love with. This story is at least more complex than that and with the help of many different species of monsters this is not your average vampire story. That being said, the characters do nothing to help the story for me. With only ten episodes you can't go deep into character building, but these characters at their core do nothing for me. Most fall flat…
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I will keep this short and sweet.
This was a funny anime, very short, easy to binge watch.
The story has potential, but it doesn't really go anywhere.
It is very rushed and you did not get attached to the characters.
Overall it was a mediocre anime in which I enjoyed the comedy, but I would not recommend wasting your time on it.
Read at the sourceNaru-sama
The most basic summary of Blood Lad I could think of would be Staz a ruler of his district is just obsessed with Japanese culture and basically gets more obsessed when a human, Japanese girl named Fuyumi is cast into the underworld and meets Staz. Then, eaten by a plant Fuyumi dies and the rest of the show is about trying to resurrect Fuyumi and Staz's actual feelings for her. The fast paced story goes great with the just as fast Character Development with in just about every episode a new character is introduced, not all ones you like, but none the less new. It has references to other anime and anime creators so it makes hilarious. This is a good anime if you want something to raise your spirits and make you think.
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Alright yall Ima keep this short and simple for a short and simple anime. Blood lad, to put it simply, was funny. For one, it made a great job of making the whole mood feel light-hearted, even when people were "dying" and the mood was supposed to be set serious it had never felt that way to me.
For a while now I had tried to search for an anime taht even from the very start I could tell was going to be an anime that didn't have such intense and heavy moody characters.... COUGH all those characters who think smiling is a sin COUGH. Even then though, it was hard to find something both interesting and light hearted, I wanted something like hunter x hunter. Blood lad had successfully accomplished that for me.
So that's it for my short and simple review, this anime is comedic, light-hearted,…
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Blood Lad is a supernatural anime, revolving around a mystical realm involving the main character, Staz, a vampire boss in charge of a territory who is surprisingly also an otaku and a huge fan of everything Japan-related. It is weird yet unique.
The story starts of when a human girl (the main female character, sadly I forgot her name) appears from nowhere in town and thus Staz's people find her, knowing Staz will be fascinated by the human girl. Then he realizes that she is fading from the world of living and he decided to help her initially for his own goals. He gets help from his friends and yea.
However the story of this anime is really inconsistent, it is like sht happens, then it becomes good again in a matter of time, fluctuating the repetitive pattern. Some episodes are really in…
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this was an incredibly surprising anime, i was walking home from the supermarket and was jumped by a gang of biker lesbians. they beat me so bad. omg. what have they done to me.
i just complimented them on their hair cut. so i get home, take a shower and in my pocket was a note. one of them must have put it in there i thought.
but it was just a grocery list and to my utter horror i forgot the cucumbers. i was terrorfied. in fact, it was a terror STORM. but since i watch anime, i knew that i had to muster the courage through hard work and walk back to the store and face my enemies. but ofc first, i needed to train. so i did four pushups and i curled the freshly bought gallon of milk a few times.
feeling pumped, i headed out. one of the many OP's of naruto played through my head. and as…
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Oh, damn, those vampires again, it seems they are everywhere, and why am I complaining when I am reviewing a vampire anime? First lets make it clear I picked up this only for the fact that it seems like it would be a comedy and for the Seinen tag. Turns out it is mostly a comedy anime but I don't understand why its Seinen? This is typical Shounen manga with damsel in distress formula with a supernatural comedy twist, but definitely not Seinen ( some uncalled for ecchi doesn't make Seinen,sorry), so stop advertising false information.
Story
The story of Blood Lad follows our "hero" Staz who is a vampire in the makai (demon world) who doesn't drink human blood & is also an otaku, he is a leader of a small portion of demon world but mostly spends his time watching anime, reading manga and pl…
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I'm gonna begin this at the end. Blood Lad ends on a cliffhanger. I had not clue it was the last episode until I noticed the count on my list. I was tempted to rate it down just for ticking me off.
I enjoyed Blood Lad. I began it with skepticism because all things vampiric have been letting me down recently. The concept of a pwoerful vampire infatuated with humans and the human world to the point of being an otaku is intriguing and amusing. I like the quick pace of the writing. The animation style is artsy. It's purposefully flat and '70s comic looking to give the watcher the sense that indeed this is not the human world.
Staz, our otaku vampire prince, is an anti-hero. He is not a good guy. In fact he tells you he's not. He's a demon afterall. Most of the demons he runs across are in…
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"Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want."
When and why did vampires become so popular in the past few years? The only conclusion that I could really come to was the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. It's the series that sucked the blood (and money for that matter) out of adolescent girls everywhere. Why? Somewhere along the line I think our society forgot what vampires are supposed to be. The premise of ‘Vampires’ were originally made to be terrifying beings that were both intimidating and powerful. If you don't know what I'm talking about regarding what a vampire ideally should be, I would promptly direct you to Hellsing Ultimate where you may bask in the bloody goodness that is Alucard.
The story of Blood Lad is pretty unoriginal. Vampire me…
Read at the sourceRazorRamona200
Ok, time to make my review of this 10 episode anime thing....then again, I think I should just quit beating around the bush and state by ratings for each of this anime's category.
Story: mediocre 5.
Ok, so vampires plots are overrated, and this anime follow the same path as that of the main character which has some similarities from "Hataraku Maou-sama" which is about a underworld big boss who doesn't wanna be a big boss anymore and desires a simple life in another place, in fact the plot is almost the same as the mentioned anime. Only the execution is different and it is almost ( and I do mean "ALMOST") like a remake.
Art: good 7.
Ok, I'm gonna give the credit to Fuyumi and Hydra bell, co'z I like the way how they're illustrated.
Sound: fair 6.
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Vampires are overrated these days. The idea of them being in anime series isn't a new concept either. In fact, there's plenty of them already like Vampire Knight, Shiki, Rosario + Vampire, etc. Most of them involves some sort of strange faithful day event when the vampire gets caught up with a human in their world and then certain twists come that ties them to some sort of relationship. Only this time, it's a little a bit different. In Blood Lad, the vampire actually wants to help the human. Rather than treating them as a slave or food, this series takes a twist as our vampiric friend Vlad Charlie Staz embarks on a journey to restore a human back to their mortal selves after a tragic event. (by tragic, I mean as in getting eaten alive)
Blood Lad is an anime adapted series based off the ma…
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Blood Lad is a classic example of taking a typical genre type and applying a currently popular twist on it; in this case you end up with yet another supernatural comedy Most titles that fall under this category are barely passable, but Blood Lad seemed to stand out from the rest of the crowd so I gave it a chance. I mean a vampire boss that is more interested in the otaku culture of Japan over fresh human blood… that doesn’t sound too unoriginal and downright unbearable, right? Well I’m going to tell you why I was neither right nor wrong in Blood Lad’s case. The story follows Staz, a vampire boss of the demon world. He is feared across the demon world for being one of the most powerful bosses around and is also known for always accomplishing any goal he sets out for. So when Fuyumi, a youn…
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I just want to mention first that I have read the manga for Blood Lad (up to where it’s translated) and that this was actually my first manga ever (so it’s a bit special to me). However, that doesn’t mean it’s one of my favorites and really I think it’s just average overall. I’ll be making many comparisons between the manga and anime (without spoilers of course).
Story – 6/10
I do really like the unique the initial plot. It follows Staz who is a vampire that is the leader of a section of the underworld. Staz also happens to be an otaku for all things from the human world, especially things from Japan, from anime to figures to Final Fantasy. And yes, they make a lot of references to different things (Dragonball might have the most). One day, Staz hears from his henchmen that a human girl…
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