When high school students Kei Kurono and Masaru Katowere hit by a train while trying to save a homeless man, they didn’t go to some paradisiacal afterlife where they lounged on fluffy, white clouds eating delicious grapes and plucking harps. Based on the film Blood: The Last Vampire, Blood+ starts as a fairly by-the-books story of Saya, an amnesiac girl who encounters a world of blood-sucking murdermonsters, and evolves into a genre-bending, addictive, and often unsettling anime for people who love Buffy the Vampire Slayer and like seeing vampire fiction with a fresh twist–one where anemia is finally cool. While the conceit of a seemingly ordinary teenage girl fighting monsters by night may not be the most original in the world, Blood+ shows why it’s a narrative trope in the first place.
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