17 Facts About Blood-C

Blood-C is a 2011 Japanese anime television series co-produced by studio Production I G and manga artist group CLAMP.

Blood-C focuses on Saya Kisaragi, an outwardly normal teenage high school girl who serves as a shrine maiden to a country town; in reality, she is a skilled swordswoman charged by her father to defeat Elder Bairns, monsters who feed on human blood.

Blood-C was designed to share only thematic similarities with earlier Blood projects.

Blood-C is set in an isolated rural town on the shore of Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture.

Blood-C had sworn an oath not to kill humans and in turn hunted her own kind, but Fumito captured her and subjected her to an experiment.

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Blood-C was a collaborative production between Production I G and CLAMP.

When developing plans for Blood-C, it was decided to shift its setting based on positive feedback from the change of setting between Blood: The Last Vampire and the franchise's first anime series Blood+.

Blood-C was first announced in March 2011, with its core staff and its approximate air date in July.

Blood-C was one of three anime cited—alongside Highschool of the Dead and Terror in Resonance—in a warning given by the Chinese Ministry of Culture to video streaming sites due to the series high violence.

Blood-C was later put on a blacklist by the Ministry of Culture alongside 37 other anime and manga series in 2015, prohibiting its physical and online distribution in mainland China.

Blood-C was more mixed about the odd juxtaposition of innocent school life with the high violence of Elder Bairn encounters.

Blood-C was unsure about the ending, saying it tidied up the series' mysteries but required watching the movie to understand the story.

Blood-C ended his review by calling Blood-C "a beautifully drawn show with excellent action and a legitimately compelling mystery".

Blood-C praised the way the series maintained its horror-based atmosphere in between the action sequences.

Blood-C greatly enjoyed the horror and action aspects, but felt that the character-driven segments in early episodes threatened to drag down the whole experience due to mundane content and poor characters.

Blood-C found the darker elements hidden so well in early episodes that it made the series boring to watch, and that the ending would divide opinion due to its drastic alteration of how events in the series played out and its discussion of both horror tropes and the standard elements of the Blood franchise.

Blood-C called the English dub "understated ", finding that it reinforced the overall atmosphere and only suffered due to the original writing.