Bloodivores #01 — Not-Vampires

October 1st, 2016

 

Definitely not.

I only made it in Time Whatever 24 as far as the screamed exposition about the premise while the protagonist screamed back that the narrator wasn't explaining anything. It pained me greatly, and there are bloody eight shows in total with first episodes today, although I'm definitely skipping UtaPri and there's a 50/50 shot I ignore Working after how awful its last two seasons were with this staff.

Impressions:

So instead of something incredibly obnoxious, here's something unbelievably dull. It starts in medias res with some schmucks fleeing from the cops, so it'll be a heist bit or something similar, right? Only if you consider talking heads to be the hallmark of a proper heist. It doesn't even last the entire episode. The second half is post-arrest processing, which means, you guessed it, more talking heads blathering on and on and on and on. Crooks, car chases, heists, vampires, and what do we do with it all? Whiny teens with zero self-awareness chatting it up.

They also keep bringing up the whole vampire… I mean bloodivore thing, but might as well have it be "people with anime hair" because it's just a stand-in for half-assed racism and an excuse to have deus ex machina collars attached to them. And they can't even do that right because they introduce it by having one of them go berserk in the middle of the street and chew someone's throat out. Yeah, plucky teens. Your kind is super discriminated against for absolutely no reason whatsoever. It didn't even do the cliffhanger intelligently.

 

Next Episode:

Now for something completely different… but probably not.

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  • The Phantom says:

    That has to be the dumbest cliffhanger ever, they screwed it up 5 seconds later with the preview.