Audience reviews
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HERMIT_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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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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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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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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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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The most boring movie I ever watched in a while.
Art: Fucking SHIT. Every girl has fuckhuge lips, Saya is ugly as shit (so are all the other characters), the ugly 3DCG shows through.
Animation: There was what, 2 seconds of actual animation in this? And it was wobbly as fuck too.
Choreography: Shit. Saya is the slowest motherfucker alive when it comes to killing Chiropterans. She literally just walked up to the two vampires whilst they were staring at her. Just. Fucking. Walking. Wow how fucking intense!
Conclusion: What a fucking borefest. Another reason to hate 3DCG.
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I watched the movie out of curiosity after reading some interesting background on how the movie is a critically acclaimed one and how the series Blood+(2005) and Blood-C which is about to be aired on TV at the time of the review's writing traces its roots on it.
The story is about a girl named Saya, she has a very serious face that always looks angry, she wields a katana, and that she uses it to slash-to-death the demon-like creatures called "Chiropterate." What is more intriguing about her is that she works as an operative to a secret agency which locates and hunts down those demons. The setting is in an American Air force based in Japan and its surrounding civilian areas sometime in the 1960s. Little time is wasted in introducing the main plot as it begun with Saya successfully hunting…
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I had to stop watching about 5 minutes into the movie due to the terrible english voice actors. There is no japanese dub of this movie also, so I had to drop it altogether.
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Blood: The Last Vampire feels more like an extended one off episode of an anime, as opposed to a feature film. It's short running time (48 mins) basically ensures that there is not a lot of time for character development and plot development.
Blood: The Last Vampire is particularly noteworthy for two things; being an anime filmed almost entirely in English, and being completely digitally animated, a groundbreaking new way to animate when this came out in 2000. It even lead James Cameron, of Titanic and Avatar fame, to say "The world will come to consider this work as the standard of top quality in digital animation."
Essentially, Blood: The Last Vampire boils down to two things; action and animation. As alluded to earlier, the plot in this movie is razor thin and merely exists as a means…
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An anime of 48 minutes long does not at all have time to focus on characters or story, so I won't really rag on it for that. Instead I'll rag on it for other things, such as being a movie of 48 minutes. That is hardly two episodes. What could possibly be accomplished in this length of time? Well, there is one thing...
The movie should showcase incredible visual stimuli. That's all it can really be expected to do, and yet, Blood: The Last Vampire falls quite incredibly short. Sure, the art is different, and ok, maybe the settings are pretty good. It almost looks western. But my main complaint with it is that in this art style, everyone, all the people in it, are inescapably ugly. Saya is referred to as beautiful towards the end, and my girlfriend and I looked at each other and were like,…
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"Blood: the Last Vampire" is a good old fashioned horror/action flick... though it's only 50 min long, which is pretty darn short for a movie. Not that it's a bad movie at all. It fares pretty well despite the length, with no glaringly big flaws to pick apart.
Being an action heavy movie, the action is obvious a very important aspect, and it's something that "Blood: the Last Vampire" delivers on all accounts. The action is fluid and bloody, fast and furious from beginning to end, with very little respite in the middle. The thickly atmospheric direction is brilliant at times, especially in the opening scenes. The artwork is fittingly dark and generally good all round, though the drawing of the characters themselves weren't so hot.
In a break from tradition, "Blood" mostly uses English vo…
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This title comes from the Production I.G studio (Ghost in the Shell) so guess what? It looks and sounds great. It is probably worth checking out if you get the chance just for the lush visuals. It doesn't really seem like a real feature film though. It's only 40 odd mins long. There's no real plot, there's no attempt at developing any characters with any real depth, and there's absolutely no human emotion to be found anywhere. It hints at some kind of religious and political subtext but it never attempts to really explore those avenues. There is obviously a wider story going on underneath but you won't find it in the film. Apparently there's both a manga and anime series so maybe those ideas are explored within those. They certainly aren't here. It's literally 40mins of someone running aro…
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Blood: The Last Vampire represents something of a departure for Production I.G., and for anime as a medium, not in terms of plot or characters, but in terms of production. Traditional animation techniques were replaced completely by digital animation, whilst the character designs lost the standard "clean and simple" line structure that has been a mainstay of the animation field for many years. In addtion to these, the movie was also a departure in terms of audio, in particular because of it's dub, and also because of it's target audience (more on these points in a bit though).
But is is any good?
The story is a fairly straightforward tale of violence, with vampires, girls in sailor-fuku, and big things with wings thrown in for good measure. Blood is nothing if not direct with it's approa…
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I apologize to "die hard anime fans", but this movie was awful.
The visuals were amazing, a lot of action, which I liked, however the story severely lacked in substance. The plot consisted of a few vague concepts, open-ended and confusing statements, and gallons of blood. We never get any insight on what the main character is, or why she did what she did. I thought it was really good (aside from the voice acting) up until the ending. It was extremely short and ended quite abruptly. I honestly thought the ending credits were a delayed beginning credit sequence. I was expecting much, much more. Hopefully blood + isn't as bad, and hopefully it clears up the millions of questions this movie raised.
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One of the most impressive animated films in 2000, garnering a Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival, Blood: The Last Vampire is a beautiful dark anime that is lauded for its extravagant production values. But, of course, when the animation studio has the caliber of Production I.G.
In the beginning, we are introduced to Saya on a deserted train. She sits very still, unmoving. Then all of a sudden, the train stops and the lights go out. What follows next is a one-minute action sequence that is guaranteed to take your breath away and give you an idea just how bloody marvelous this film is when it comes to top-notch animation quality. And as though recognizing that this is, in fact, the film's main draw, the makers do not scrimp and we all get treated to fabulous shots that are pure a…
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After purchasing this I was a little dissapointed that it was only 45 minutes. But it really does have a lot of material in it.
But it feels more like a single episode of an anime. You don't really get to know the characters. You get to see some cool fighting. And get a little background information.
The animation is great. It looks really cool and works well for the story. The music goes well too.
One feature to this movie I thought was interesting was the voice acting. The movie itself is in English and Japanese. And the cast is mixed of English voice actors as well as Japanese. So there is no debate on which is better dub or sub, because this movie is dub and sub combined.
As a story it is alright, mainly because we don't get much detail. But the Blood The last vampire story is actu…
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This is a great anime for vampire lovers. The ending as is to be expected is pretty open-ended, although Blood+ can give you an additional fill if you want.
Over all this OVA excells. The story is so well-written, it might not have that much in the way of character development due to how short it is, but the way they present the vampires is very believable, the director himself stating how he wanted to present vampires as in-between evolution, something few anime do, or overdue as is the case of Trinity Blood, where there is evolution, but it is accompanied with near magical powers. Blood has none of this. The transformations are gruesome, and the end result a bat-like creature not unlike the one found in Batman. This is why the story and animation are great, they pull out all the stops t…
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This Anime wreaks of win...
From the delicious, and I mean delicious (If you\'re a chiropterin) character animation, to the sensational audio, this anime appears as if it is a comic, not that I read comics, just I heard that they say "in a flash" a lot during regular volumes...
The story is an Anime story that brings up a lot of questions that don\'t get answered, this is the best way to make an Anime, and adds to fan support, that\'s why FLCL\'s so great, because it makes no sense at all...
Overall, I\'m smelling win, and this win, is like no other,
If Blood : The Last Vampire were a pair of socks, I wouldn\'t need foot powder when I\'m in my 40\'s and about to take a nap...
If you don\'t see this, it\'ll be like when the Wicked Witch of the West got splashed with water, your world w…
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