that was a great review!! i love this series too!! the ending so is nice!! my broken wings sooo rule!!
Trinity Blood tv Review
Trinity Blood (トリニティ・ブラッド) was originally a light novel series written by Sunao Yoshida and illustrated by Shibamoto Thores.
It was soon adapted to a manga series illustrated by Kiyo Kyujou and an anime.
Credit: KazablanKa
Story & Characters
The setting is after the apocalypse...
there is a so-called war between two groups....
The Empire (populated by the vampires or otherwise known as Methusulah's) and The Vatican (populated by the Terrans
... a.k.a humans...)
but then there is this mystery group which is trying to destroy the 'peace' between these two groups... known
as Rozenkreuz Orden.
The protagonist of this story is a travelling priest...he appears to be a bit clumsy, loves his tea with 13 sugars (and
still manages to taste the tea...!). This is Abel Nightroad. However, there is always more to this seemingly
'human' priest...in fact he is a Krysnik... a vampire who feeds on vampires....
he is part of this group lead by Lady Catherina of the Vatican, the group being AX.
other members of this group include Mistress, Tres Iquis...a cyborg... a psychic... some dude and a professor...and a
new addition, Esther Blanchett...
many names are derived from actual people... slightly weird... they use the names to influence the story... JM Barrie is
used for example to do with a storie about Never Land...
anyway...
so far. its good. but not all that special.
slightly slow..wish the action would be better to be honest. not enough action and blood spilling surprisingly is low.
Rating:
Art
The art tends to the dark side... a hint of a gothic quality to it at times....
but then, you have the big huge eyes of the girls... which doesn't seem to fit in...
but if your going for the harmless fun quality that is interjected into the scene, then fine, it fits.
all in all... nothing special about it really.
one thing i don't like is the way Mistress/Ms. Noelle looks like. too thin....and.. yea just don't like
her.
the fight scenes...too dark and quick to see anything spectacular....
the cool thing that visually experienced was when Abel was going slightly angry int he Silent Noise episode... was it
that one? no....well it was this scene where 'wings' unfurled when he 'released 40% of Krysnik) and then
transformed into this blood sword. now THAT weapon is interesting to wield.... it has this certain dark, evil feeling to
it... reminds me of bones.....
Rating:
Sound
i love the opening theme to this anime..
i loved it so much, that i had to click back and repeat the song.
it fitted beautifully to the story and graphics of the opening (tho graphics are repeated from the anime....i think
budget was getting low)
it was so dark/twisted...
it felt right.
the background music was good...fits in. nothing else to add to that.
the speech (original) is fine. fits in with the characters, goes high and light when joking around, cute and girly
enough for Esther Blanchett and seductive-ish for Ms. Noelle....
can't really imagine any other voices to be put with these characters. you just accept them from the start.
Rating:
Presentation
originality: not all that original to be honest.
its been likened to other vampire animes such as Vampire Hunter D, er, what was that other one.... erm.. Hellsing....and
there are other ones thrown into the mix.
however, i thought it was quite an interesting storyline, i've never seen a storyline exaclty liek this dealing
with a vampire feeding on vampires, who is fighting FOR the Vatican... and so on.
humour: forced if there is any. the clumsiness of Father/Lord Abel, is slightly pushed...i guess a cover up for the
serious/dangerous side to him when he is with others..appearances can be deceiving you know.
enjoyability: i enjoyed, if slightly confused and annoyed at times due to characters names coming up that ....
you'll understand with the whole JM Barrie reference coming up again.... i enjoyed watching it due to the music,
and general interest of where this whole thing is leading.
especially what it with that ending!!! don't watch the ending theme song....big clue giveaway or not...mind you,
why would they put that ending there if it wasn't going to happen...and why in the first place put it there. i am
one of those people who like to listen to the whole theme tunes...and watch the graphics... but i DON'T want to
know the ending!!!
*sigh*
despite 'knowing' the ending....it makes it all the more interesting...makes me want to watch it even more to
know why it happens and what that relationship between Esther and Abel is and how it happens.
i suppose that it one of the reasons why i want to carry on watching this anime.... and stil is enjoyable despite
knowing the ending....
Rating:
Final Verdict
6.6667 (above average)
Reviewed by fallenfate, Sep 18, 2005
Comments
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sukie Sep 18, 2005
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evangelon00 Sep 20, 2005
This is an awesome anime. To bad I can't watch it anymore, have to wait for the DVD's!
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TrigunPreacherGirl Sep 20, 2005
Hmmm...Thank you for the review; I didn't know a lot about this anime, other than it being compaired to other anime similar(One of my friends said "Abel's like Vash! Uwaaai!!!"). So, all in all, Domo Arigato Gozaimasu.
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revontulet Sep 23, 2005
Thanku for submitting this ^^ my best friend loves this anime and i wanted to know more about it :D! I downloaded the opening song, the brocken wings one, its awsome, thankies!
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fallenfate Sep 27, 2005
great tune isn't it???
but i prefer the first opening theme: Dress...
now that one, even tho don't understand the japanese...still good. -
blusirius Oct 27, 2005
Trinity Blood....if you can't like it, you can't hate it either. You learn to like because it's too good to be hated as an anime. ^^
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vatican92 Dec 04, 2005
I can't believe you gave F for the artwork. I'd understand if you gave F for anything else but the artwork?! How can you say you don't like Thores' art? It's the most wonderful thing expressed in art by a human!
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Countess-D May 29, 2006
Just saw until episode 8, gomen =_=...
It started, let’s say ok…but then “she” appeared! I know this is supposed to have a good plot and all but up until episode 8 nothing really crucial happened to make me keep on watching, plus I just hate that red-head so much I actually hurts =__=#
I do feel bad about the rest it had to offer, specially the character designs which are superv! Better luck next time!
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sin-shenlong Jun 05, 2006
aight yuh rate the art to poor, the art is the best thing about the series, at least a 9
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aspirationless Nov 03, 2008
I must say that the ending of the anime was really disappointing :( Well, but that was to be expected since the author died just then. I would say the manga and novels are much better.
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Diamond56098 Aug 22, 2009
I rank it as my second favorite anime (after Hellsing OVA). But I like it so much that I bought ALL the original novels and manga (as well as the artbook Fabrica Theologiae). I even have a CD with all of the music in the anime.
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UberDog Mar 23, 2015
Needs some work, but the review isn't all that bad, good job.
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