Jiro and Kotaro are compelling enough characters, and their somewhat combative aide Mimiko also has her good points.
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Kataro's actual background is revealed in one of the series' more interesting denouements, but one which has a certain "ew" factor if it's thought about for too long.īlack Blood Brothers is one of those middling anime series which is undeniably entertaining but which rarely rises to any grand heights. Jiro has the added impetus of wanting to find a safe haven for his young brother Kotaro, a boy who evidently has some great destiny to fulfill as is repeatedly hinted at throughout the series' twelve episodes. That said, Black Blood Brothers is decidedly less salacious than Dance in the Vampire Bund, and it also introduces a fitfully amusing but tonally odd comedic element that seems distinctly at odds with the overall dramatic goings-on of various clans, their bloodlines, and Jiro's attempts to reingratiate himself into the Special Zone. Vampires sequestered to their own "special zone"? Fans of Dance in the Vampire Bund may be shouting, "Been there, seen that!" And there actually are some analogs between the two series. The surviving Kowloon Children were not allowed access to the Special Zone, and it is their attempts to infiltrate "honorable" vampire society that informs much of the anime version of Black Blood Brothers. What actually happened is that the non-Kowloon vampires had been sequestered to a Special Zone, a secret city where they were allowed to live (and/or un-die) in peace.
The Kowloons' reign of terror brought the existence of vampires into the public consciousness, and only after the war had been settled (with the Kowloon King's defeat) was the public at large led to believe that all vampires had been vanquished. The Kowloons were "special" vampires who could pretty much magically morph any bite victim into a Kowloon, whether that victim were a human or a non-Kowloon vampire.
The hero of Black Blood Brothers is vampire Jiro Mochizuki, also known as The Silver Blade, a vampire who a decade or so prior to the series' main timeline helped in an internecine war between vampire clans and managed to kill a notorious leader of the Kowloon Clan known as The Kowloon King. Black Blood Brothers, as with so many animes that ultimately wash up on the West's shores, was originally a light novel series, and that series provided a great deal of background information that the anime references without ever providing a wealth of detail about. While every vampire has that nasty habit of "vantink to drink your blood" (to not exactly quote Bela Lugosi), some of the fanged ones in Black Blood Brothers are generally fine, upstanding citizens, at least when they're not lying down in their coffins to catch a good day's sleep. Now don't get me wrong-some vampires are okay sorts, as any teenager girl infatuated with the Twilight franchise will no doubt insist, and that's the case (more or less, anyway) in Black Blood Brothers. In Black Blood Brothers, everything that's wrong with the world (and there's a lot wrong with the world) can be traced to those nefarious blood sucking walking dead, vampires. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, September 19, 2011īe thankful for small favors: for once a dystopian anime society is not the result of a nuclear holocaust. Starring: Takahiro Sakurai, Ryoko Nagata, Omi Minami, Miyuki Sawashiro, Mami Kosuge, Motoko Kumaiīlack Blood Brothers: The Complete Series Blu-ray ReviewĬan you sink your teeth into this vampire anime or does it suffer from iron poor blood? To protect those that he holds dear, the vampire will once more draw forth the Silver Blade.įor more about Black Blood Brothers: The Complete Series and the Black Blood Brothers: The Complete Series Blu-ray release, see Black Blood Brothers: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on Septemwhere this Blu-ray release scored 3.0 out of 5. Assisted by Mimiko, a negotiator between their species, Jiro will try to make sense of the chaos which surrounds them before they are caught up in it and destroyed. But the brothers find themselves in the midst of a battle between human soldiers, vampiric refugees and the re-emergence of the Kowloon Children. Today, Jiro travels with his younger brother Kotaro to the Special Zone, a place where vampires live freely in peace alongside humans, the troubles of the past long forgotten. Humanity had never witnessed such pure, animalistic brutality.
The rise of the Kowloon Bloodline, a new breed of monsters bearing an infectious bite, set the streets ablaze under the reign of their king.
It's been a decade since the sacred war between humans and vampires. Black Blood Brothers: The Complete Series Blu-rayīlack Blood Brothers: The Complete Series ( TV) (2006)īlack Blood Brothers: The Complete Series Blu-ray offers decent video and great audio in this enjoyable Blu-ray release
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