BLOOD-C #7

[chibiyuuto]

RAW version available here | Subbed version by Underwater fansubs available here.

Impressions (spoilers ahead

Comments

[chibiyuuto]

I think it's a fair guess that Saya's mother is the Saya from Blood: the Last Vampire. She appears in the flashback scenes, after all.

bloody

[anonymous]

Good episode, especially with no censored scenes this time.

I like the elder brain of this episode, it was interesting, especially beofre its death, when you can see a hulman face, so elder brain could be humans who turned into monster ?

I think the dog is Yuko, not Watanuki ( Watanuki couldn't leave the shop at this time ), it is very audacious from Clamp of linking this universe to the Clamp one.

An Episode without the twins, good episode, I think they'd have to be killed before.

Re: bloody

[chibiyuuto]

I liked the elder bairn from this episode too, it was the less grotesque one. It reminded me of Masamune from Sengoku Basara video game xD

I think it really is Watanuki, he can't indeed leave the shop so that is why he is taking that dog shape.

answer

[anonymous]

yes indeed, I didn't think about this possibility.

The scene when Saya talked with someone is very strange, especially when they spoke about experiments, I really think that elder brain are humans turned into monster.

I think that town is a fake town built to train Saya to strenghten her powers and elder brain are made from humans, so Saya could not kill human but humans who she wants to protect, very creepy

[rubyd]

But it was done in such a subtle way

I'm inclined to disagree ahahaha. It was really shoehorned in, and if people don't recognize it as a self-reference, then they might think of it as a ripoff of the other magical wish-granting mascot animal this past anime season (Madoka Magica) despite it being believably in-universe for CLAMP.

[rubyd]

Sure it's a staple of the magical girl genre, but damn if I do no equate Blood the Last Vampire = magical girl.

[radiomacrossing]

I have to say I'm probably in the minority that hates that CLAMP linked xxxHolic to this series (if it truly is Watanuki). I don't mind when they write non-canon parodies that include non-CLAMP works, but for a real series, this one just bugged me to no end. It feels like if CLAMP worked on a Gundam series and decided to link Rayearth to it. :p I guess I should be thankful that it wasn't Mokona or Kero-chan that appeared.

I was excited that there were references to the original BLOOD, though. Since the original movie/novels/video game storyline made references to using Saya's blood for a project with clones, I'm thinking that this Saya is another one.

[rubyd]

It feels like if CLAMP worked on a Gundam series and decided to link Rayearth to it.

Agreed! I really enjoyed the original Blood movie, which was pretty cool and gritty, but the tone of Blood-C feels like the opposite of that. It has become a CLAMP product under another franchise's name, when some people might have hoped for more from the franchise instead of a CLAMP show.

[sakura_fai1]

Oho~! A clone? That'll be cool, but how would that link to lost memories and Watanuki-dog? -_-

Agree, not too happy with the references either.