In Blood+ Volume Three, Saya’s epic battle against the evil chiropterans and her pass continues with outstanding animation, state of the art sound, and beautiful sound track by Three time Grammy Award Winner Mark Manzina. However, for people who have only seen the previous two discs this volume will result in a big disappointment. First, this volume weakly closes the Vietnam saga in the first three episodes with less excitement than what was expected, all the energy that was built up from previous episodes are quickly resolved in less than 20 minutes with action sequences that were less impressive than what we have seen so far in the series, but exciting enough to save the series. The remaining two episodes the character and story remains still without moving forward, or without showing nothing new or interesting, and instead of persuading the audience to keep watching the series, it actually discourages them with nonsense events and situations that takes the viewer’s mind away from the main story. I for the first time in this series, felt bored and sleepy watching it. The problem I found with this part of the story is that with all the possibilities the plot had, it seems that the writers decided to play it safe, also the character did not evolved at all like Riku’s ability was unexplained and left behind, Saya‘s past was not addressed, and her abilities did not seem to improve. The knew characters were just there, nothing was introduced only their names and meaningless interactions with the main character were, which make them somehow tedious, let us hope in the next episodes they get more involved. The Phantom fight was very predictable and as for the resolution, many people would find it exasperated, nonetheless, it shows some sick scenes and blood in the process like the one involving little kids in the third episode and a new level of enemies like Solomon and Diva that leaves the main story open for what seems is going to be a more entertaining saga, Unfortunately for the viewer, this tease seems to be interrupted by the last two episodes where Saya and friends return to Okinawa to take time off, here nothing important about the characters happens, only a new character gets indirectly involved, and the new destination is revealed. These episodes seem to be and epilogue for what seems Saya’s next adventure, however to me they seem more like fillers (Although, I am not familiar with the manga).
As I sated before Blood + is an exceptional anime series, the way is written and displayed extraordinarily, and although the third volume is not a mesmerizing as the previous ones it have some interesting scenes, I will recommend to not let this series go, for what I have read and hear it will drastically improved. these DVD will managed to entertained for a good three episodes, and set the mood for what is coming. As fan of anime I would say that all successful series have episodes that merely adds to the story, however sometimes there are hidden things here that are later referred to or let the audience deduct stuff, if anything, they will serve as a reference point for the next adventure, and of course it is impossible, and unprofitable for the distributors to take these episodes from the DVD. I think this volume is a most have for fans who are making the collection and did not bought the box set. They already have seen these episodes and know what to expect, if you like me have not seen the episodes but like the first ten I advice you to rent it, watch the first three and wait for volume four.
Movie Review By Milo
Release Date: October 21, 2008