May 3, 2007
Very violent, very gory. The story could have been more developed.
Youki Kudoh, Rebecca Forstadt, Fitz Houston
Japan, 1966. Saya is part of a secret team destroying daemons. She is sent undercover as a student at the Yokota Air Base in Fussa-shi, Tokyo, just before Halloween. She discovers that two of her clas...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 22, 2005
Stats: 975 reviews
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November 16, 2006Rather excellent work from Manga studios. Blood features some dazzling animation, particularly in the parallax scrolling, and has a suprisingly decent American voice cast. The only issue I have is that it is short, very short, most notably as the plot seems to get propelling duri...( read more)
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July 28, 2006Stunning animation and dark, scary settings are this anime horror short's strong points. It's goregous film to watch, though hunting for a plot will generally turn up less than nothing and its "ending" is bound to disappoint. Hopefully a sequel is in the makes--I would like to ...( read more)
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May 29, 2006While the story is a bit abrupt, and the film quite short, Blood stands out mostly for its incredible artwork. It incorporates two-dimensional artwork into appearing three-dimensional which such astounding fluidity that you'd never realize it was hand-drawn.
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November 8, 2009Pretty cool idea for a Manga and its pretty entertaining too. However, running around 43 minutes without credits, I really felt that it was way too short. They should have expanded the story more because considering that the movie was so short, I would have liked to see more bac...( read more)
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October 30, 2009Fast paced action with lots of blood and guts and little story. I believe this movie was based on a single incident in the manga, which is why it feels so...truncated, and lacks any real depth of character or plot. All the information you get is that A is hired to kill the rest ...( read more)
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October 27, 2009It's short with an underdeveloped story, but still nice Manga movie. The caracters have potential and this could have been the intro for a series of movies about Saya.
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August 6, 2009The original Japanese anime that the recent film was based on. I watched this about a year ago but wanted to watch it again as i've seen, and enjoyed, the live action version. Firstly, this is alot shorter, only 45 minutes long. But in that time it manages to cram in plenty of ac...( read more)
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June 11, 2009
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
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March 12, 2009i just love the movie...any upcoming season??????tnx to the director,i just love the theme songs specially "this love" love it so much.
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