TRINITY BLOOD: DVD 01

Adult Swim has been recently airing for awhile the "Trinity Blood" anime series. I haven't had time to see it on adult swim, so i went ahead and bought the first dvd for the heck of it. Some of my friends that watch it say it's BA g unit. So to see what the hype was all about, I listened blindly without doing any research. who doesn't like a surprise? i do, but not when it sucks. So before i go into the fun stuff, it's obvious i did not like the first 4 eps on the first dvd. This is a bent, broken review.


Right off the bat, you are introduced to Abel Nightroad (codename: Crusnik). and from instant, first impression, this dude echoed a "Vash" wannabe from Trigun. He is super super nice, and absent minded, almost to a point of silly, pretty much like Vash reacts and even talks as well. That kinda got on my nerves, cause vash is such a cool character idea. But hey, there's a billion of anime wannabe's and look a likes, why not add another one? You somewhat connect with Abel throughtout the four episodes in the beginning, but it doesn'tn really feel like you get anywhere with the series. You find a few secrets out, and get a small glimpse of what kind of system of their present world.

Their world, is somewhat futuristic, the Vatican church, is again in power, as well as military power as well. To have some examples, it goes from airships, to super coms, but they still use coins and money. fyi. Anyway, this 'vatican' seems to give off the effect it did back in the past, with being all powerful and a little abusive with it. There is also robots with human form as well. Their pretty emotionless too.

The background plot purpose seems to follow as: there are vampires feeding off humans, and the vatican and their AX agents, like "Abel" are used to kill the vampires. However, Abel is not just a humble catholic priest who touches little boys, which he appears to be and travel as, minus the little boys part. He is actually a "Crusnik". this is a super power vampire, that feeds off vampires. kinda gay, but it's not so bad as it seems for the story. He transforms into it by pronounces some percentile and power output, leading on that he isn't even using his full potential in the first episodes. Anyway, he feeds off the vampires blood, like vampires feed off humans, i have not found out if he is dependent on vampire blood yet. Also ,since Abel is a priest, he is super super poor, and always hungry, hence stomach growl. cliche.

These four episodes, have good character designs, well done flow of motion, and decent cg mixed with 2d. i find a lot of cg mixed with the new anime recently, very annoying, but with the way the industry is going, it cannot be helped. What i found odd about the episodes, was that the girl you get introduced too is left at the end. You figure once you finally connect that she would travel with abel, but guess not.

The music in this series so far, was so so, to decent. There is one track that seemed fairly well off, but what was gay, was that they used it about 4 times, within the 3 eps. that always makes me mad when pple re use the same track unless its for effect or for remembering a past event. but they just throw these out there for no reason. cheap. But the voice acting so far, is done pretty well though.

Overall: i didn't like the series too much, as of this far. but that's not saying much for just four episodes, it might just be a sleeper. getting a slow start. It just seems like today, all you need is good graphics and an average storyline to slap together a series now a days. My advice, watch it on tv, dont' buy it yet. waste o money. it might still have something. oh there's blood too, if you like that.

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