So yeah, I’ve run out of witty things to say about Blood-C this week. So I’ve crammed it with another rant with too little substance to warrant an entire post in an overcompensatory effort.
Several other sites have made the point that Blood-C, despite finally having a plot to speak of, is moving forward with enough indolence to frustrate even the slowest of gastropods. With Saya’s continued forays into the business of Elder Bairn extermination under the inarguable defense “They started it”, nothing much else is being done. None of the characters aside from Saya are getting any development, and the disappearances of Nene and Nono have gone almost totally unmentioned.
At this point there’s little in the way of development that isn’t just lazy exposition. Saya is reminded of her life elsewhere, the dog has the prerequisite connection to another part of the CLAMP-verse, because every CLAMP production needs that to please the masses… and their massive egos. The dog that’s been stalking Saya has finally fulfilled its purpose: A dispenser of exposition wherever appropriate. And… I think that’s all I can say about Blood-C this time. It isn’t bad enough to warrant an outrage, but it has nothing much of note this episode.
Seven episodes in, Blood-C is lacking something very important that I can’t quite put my finger on. I think it’s something to make me feel invested in the world, make me feel invested in Saya’s struggle to protect her village from supernatural entities that seek nothing but destruction for it. As it stands, it’s just a decent action series with hilariously superfluous drama, in need of some kind of compelling narrative to drive it forward. Also, the café owner continues to put the moves on Saya, and it gets progressively creepier and more obvious the more it goes on.
If this were just a slice of life monster slaying kind of show, that wouldn’t be a necessity. It would continue to be a boring repeat of the first four episodes, but it wouldn’t need much else. But since this is aspiring to actually have something mysterious and ongoing, there needs to be some kind of drive for the story. So yeah, there’s the extent of quality I can wring out of this episode. The fighting was pretty cool, I suppose, but even that’s starting to get a tad wearisome when it’s up against enemies that look like they were designed on a budget.
I’d ordinarily call it a wrap at this point, ending this post on a rather disappointing note, but there’s one other thing that I think I can rant about, and that’s the disappointing amount of Yuri in Yuru Yuri. For having the word in the title, there’s very little romantic interaction between girls that feels genuine. Of course I know that it’s nothing to be up in arms about, considering it’s another one of those “Cute girls do cute things” shows that doesn’t claim to be an authority on the matter, but it’s just too bewilderingly popular for me to ignore it.
So yes, I’m watching Yuru Yuri right now, and I’m just not sucked into it. Eight episodes in, the only person who it feels somewhat believable coming from is Kyouko, and that’s only because she’s done nothing but hit on her friends for the first two thirds of the damn show. Everyone else just feels like they’re doing it because the plot demands it, not because they really want to. There’s no visible chemistry between characters, so the hackneyed attempts at making it seem like there is just come across as utter failures.
I’d go into greater detail, but I can’t for the life of me keep writing this. So, to sum things up nicely, Blood-C needs to get its ass in gear and get to its all important story, and I don’t know why the hell Yuru Yuri is so popular. If you have any questions or comments about either section of this post, you know where to leave them.
Truthfully, I actually can’t believe that I am waiting in anticipation for the next episode of Blood-C. I want to see how things go between Saya and Tokizane, I do hope he won’t be turned into Elder Bairn chow. However, the action sequence in episode 7 was disappointing. It didn’t flow as well as it did in the first few episodes. Actually, I think it was lazily done.
However, it won’t surprise me that Saya will probably have to go up against her ‘loving’ but creepy father by the end of this series.
Nevertheless, I am fuming at CLAMP. I was a big fan of theirs in the past but crossing the BLOOD series with xXxHolic is unforgiveable. It was unpleasant to discover that the dog is actually Watanuki.
Well, let’s just hope CLAMP has composed an ‘actual’ ending for this series and not the opened-no-closure endings they have been in the habit of doing recently.
I think we both know why.
Ironically, a pulse.
I know the reason why it is, I just don’t understand how. It’s like planking, except more pointless.
Oh, anything that makes people HNNGH means it’s a good anime.
So very true. I mean when has popular/HNNGH ever equated to bad? Never, that’s when!