Words cannot express just how batty nuggets this last episode got in terms of plot and character derailment. Actually, they can, which is why I’m writing this post. In this final twelfth episode, Blood-C has finally thrown its pitiful story to the dogs, instead opting for filling the finale with twenty-something minutes of creative dismemberment and well choreographed fight scenes. What’s sad is even when playing to the show’s only strength, it still comes across as a lackluster effort, the result of a team fed up with the cold reception that their vision has gotten.
So, as many of us have suspected, the creepy café owner is the mastermind behind this thin illusion, and his guimauve is anything but innocuous. Needless to say, I fucking called it. Instead of delicately dealing with the matter of the other characters, Blood-C took the route that it was so enamored with in the past and killed them off in progressively gruesome ways that were (Somewhat unfortunately) censored by rogue lens flare. It was also nice knowing that we were supposed to dislike these thin caricatures from the start, and seeing them all reach the same sticky end was nothing short of satisfying to watch.
The revelation that it was all a sociological experiment to see if Saya would behave the same in a different situation isn’t very revelatory at all. It does nothing but further confirm audience suspicions as to the true intent of the originally idyllic world that Saya was cast into and forced to defend. The Elder Bairns, as nobody is surprised to learn, are pulled into this contract and allowed to feed on a select number of humans without going over that amount. Saya just kind of fucked over the human end of the deal, which the Elder Bairns are confused over for some reason. These are about the only meaningful spoilers, and I don’t think they amount to much of spoilers at all.
So with every single character dead except for Saya, Saya’s bishoujo friend, and Creepy Café Guy, you’d think that things would wind down and end on an anticlimax like most shows have this season. If you thought that, you’d be dead wrong, and are in for quite the surprise.
Just when you think things are starting to wind down, with Creepy Café Guy escaping in an armored convoy of equally creepy folks driving creepy cars, Saya fights her way through a giant bunny that’s the unholy cross between Frank the Bunny and Rabbot from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. As she runs, the bunny splits into several different bunnies, and proceeds to massacre the remaining townspeople in (You guessed it) increasingly creative ways, culminating with an entire city block being blended in a flesh sac. Seriously.
After Saya deals with this outbreak like it’s nothing, she jumps onto Creepy Café Guy’s fleeing helicopter and proceeds to get her eye shot out. After plummeting to the earth, Doganuki finds her and grants her the ability to not fall under the spell again, giving her another chance at repeating the entire fucking thing again.
This was actually not a bad episode. It lost its shit in the last ten minutes, but there are far worse ways it could have ended, and I certainly found it almost exhilarating at times. Once again, Blood-C’s biggest flaw is the lack of audience investment. While the action is fun and the story could have potential, it’s all let down by the shallow, two dimensional characters. If Saya weren’t also as genetically close to the color beige as possible as far as excitement goes, her struggle to figure out her identity would have held a lot more weight. As it stands, as far as the audience can tell, nobody’s really affected by what goes on, and that’s boring. It really says something when you can cut out two-thirds of your show’s runtime, and likely cut out nothing essential to understanding the series as a whole.
The fight scenes are decent, but they’re not worth sticking around the whole damn thing for, and craziness does not necessarily equate to quality. I wouldn’t even recommend this to somebody looking for a ‘So Bad It’s Good’ kind of show. It’s just middling in its mediocrity, this final episode breaking the mold in an impossibly equally listless manner.
Strangely enough though, I could totally see Blood-C being scrunched into a movie format while pulling things off much better. Much of the series was spent with events that were just padding, and the constraints of a movie would eliminate that almost entirely. So while I say that this show should be eaten alive by sharks and every record of it eliminated from human memory, I think the movie would fare far better if it had a tighter sense of focus, and much less wankery.
Now, who wouldn’t like to see this episode made into a death metal concept album?
i completely just don’t understand the point of the whole anime, i thought it was setting the scene and introducing the characters- but we’re now at 12 and everybody is dead so i can’t imagine there being a second season or the last 12 episodes would have be pointless..lol i can’t even explain myself, i’m so perplexed about the story
And it shall be called “Embrace of the Demon Bunny”
Someone.Fund.This.
I have to say though, I won’t be forgetting this series for a while. And probably for all the wrong reasons too.
I’ll remember it for the giant albino rabbits going on a rampage, and likely for little else, except for being monumentally dull most of the time.
God it’s over ! Finally i can let this crap disappear from my brain now.
I want to donate to you inushunde for watching this crap and wasting your life spawn on it.
I know 5 bucks ain’t that much but it’s better than nothing …
Now you know how I feel. This was second only to Sacred Seven in terms of being almost interminable to watch.
Congrats to Clamp for doing the near impossible. MD Giest has a new rival in disturbing bad anime with pointless killing.
well i guess what Clamp style is …. right eye missing and other Clamp characters in the series .. like the dog :D
hmmm it was a good series ..but ..ending like that ….. its tooo short and tells me that they jsut wanted to ended
Sounds like an awful series and that lady should know better not to put cranberry sauce on her neck.
Redesign of Saya’s character was pretty good and dark which was admirable though i liked the blood+ saya better, characteristicwise…But dammmm this Blood-c series was a pretty big disappointment to me. It doesnt relate to any of the older Blood series except that Saya is a hunter but now she is like a demon hunter. Not a bad concept but the monsters are cheesy and lame like the story…the cerberus that has two ears that becomes weird long arms, the killer bunny with sharp teeth that replicates after being slashed and eats the the entire town. whats next, daffy duck morphes into a large man eating duck?…And who or what was that little cat at the end of ep-12 and why was it talking? what was the story of a cat?(confused?)…It had its pretty blood vore scenes but cmon, Saya is my favorite anime heroine and this was worst concept of the blood series…the monster(elderbairn) idea i dont like. Maybe if they were different like similar to chiropteran i dont know…I saw that short promo of the BLood-c the last dark movie which was giving it an older feeling to it that i liked and was pretty exciting. So there may still be hope for this story. I am eager to see how this anime movie turns out…But somebody plz tell me who was the little cat at the end? what was its motif?