History Anime / BloodPlus

* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Completely [[spoiler: averted with Diva and Riku.]]

* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Karl to Saya in the anime; Solomon to Saya in the manga

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Inverted, red is Saya's color and blue is [[BigBad Diva's]]

* ActorAllusion: CrispinFreeman playing a [[{{Hellsing}} loyal servant to a female master in a show about hunting vampires.]]

* CreepyChild: Err, well creepy Vietnamese children who were exposed to Delta 67. The end result was mini chiropterans who were just NightmareFuelUnleaded.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Kai for Saya and Riku. [[NotBloodSiblings Well with some confusion related to his feelings for Saya]]

* BittersweetEnding:

*** Also, Hagi.Through a flashback,[[spoiler: it is shown that the reason he went from being somewhat stoic to made of stone was because his blood turned his One True Love and reason for living into a murdering psychopath who forgot who he was and cut his arm off during her rampage.]]

* DressHitsFloor: The pivotal scene between Diva and Riku in the episode 'Boy Meets Girl'.

** George and David's OddFriendship back when he was alive.

* SpoiledBrat: Saya initially thanks to Joel's superficial attempts at parrenting. Meeting Hagi got her to mellow out into SpoiledSweet.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Hagi goes around hitting people with a ''cello case''. '''''With''' a cello in it.''

** The Schiff who led the others out of captivity is named [[TheBible ''Moses'']].

[[caption-width-right:350:Haji and Saya, with a Chiropteran in the background.]]
Saya Otonashi is seemingly an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent in Okinawa, aside from her amnesia and anemia. All she wants is to compete in track and spend time with her American adopted father George and her (also adopted) brothers, moody Kai and innocent Riku. However, Saya's world changes forever when she's attacked by a Chiropteran, a hulking, bat-like humanoid monster. This prompts a rescue by Haji, a mysterious, handsome [[TheStoic stoic]] who seems devoted to protecting Saya. Haji kisses Saya, forces her to drink his blood, then gives Saya a sword coated with her own blood. This event cause a strange transformation in Saya; her eyes glow red and she becomes a fighting machine, quickly killing the Chiropteran. Afterwards, answers are refused while even more strange accidents occur all around Saya; eventually, she is forced into leaving her home to help a secret organization called Red Shield stop a mysterious entity only known as Diva. However, not everything is black and white, and Saya soon begins to doubt her reasons to fight, her allies, and her own humanity.

* BadassLongcoat: Haji in "City of Nightwalkers"

* {{Bishonen}}: Haji and Solomon

* BodyguardCrush: Haji's love for Saya

* BrattyHalfPint: [[spoiler: Haji]] when he first met Saya. Granted those circumstances would make anybody grumpy.

* CharacterDevelopment: Kai evolves from an EmoTeen to a mature, confident hero. Saya and Haji get a bit as well

* ExtremeDoormat: Haji, until late in the series
** Subverted. All of the Chevaliers appear to be Extreme Doormats, but they actually aren't. Ultimately, Haji wants to fulfill Saya's wish, but he doesn't coddle to her every whim and is perfectly capable of disagreeing with her in order to protect her. The other Chevaliers are almost the opposite. They spoil Diva by giving her every little thing she wants, but they are primarily motivated by selfishness and continually manipulate her for their own benefit.

* GoodOldWays: Haji, and [[spoiler: Riku once he becomes Saya's Chevalier]], if only in clothing styles.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Sapient Chiropterans in general. Saya takes advantage of it in a battle against Karl [[spoiler:running herself through to stab Karl and poison him with her blood]]. Diva once got shot on purpose just so Amshel would buy her a new dress. And Haji seems to get ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice at least every other fight.

* IAmNotLeftHanded: [[spoiler: Haji]] [[WillfullyWeak deliberately]] keeps the full extent of his Chevalier abilities in check because of Saya's horror when she first saw him use them, but will go all-out [[GodzillaThreshold when the situation demands it.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Happens to Haji repeatedly. Also [[spoiler: Amshel,]] who got impaled by the spire on top of the Chrysler Building. He got better, at least for enough time to get himself KilledOffForReal.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Haji goes around hitting people with a ''cello case''. '''''With''' a cello in it.''

* InstrumentOfMurder: Haji borders on this trope. He regularly uses his cello ''case'' as a weapon/shield. The cello itself is only used to perform music. One does have to wonder how it hasn't been smashed to pieces inside his case though.

* KissOfLife: Played with; to awaken Saya's Chiropteran powers to save her from the first Delta-series Chiropteran she encounters, Haji gives her some of his blood by putting it into his mouth and kissing her. [[spoiler: This is later revealed to be a sort of MeaningfulEcho of how she turned him into a Chevalier in the first place, giving him some of her blood to save his life after he fell off a cliff-which ironically was her fault, since she tried to grab a flower over the edge just to give it as a birthday present to the first Joel.]]

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Avoided. Several [[GoodThingICanHeal Chevaliers]] avoid any major reactions when they undergo injuries. These injuries include [[spoiler: Solomon and Haji]] having arms sliced off and Solomon having a giant hole ripped through his stomach. However, many of these aren't major injuries in the first place as they [[HealingFactor heal extremely quickly]].

* MistressAndServantBoy: [[spoiler:Haji and Saya's]] relationship began this way.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: What Solomon would love to do to Haji.

* MysteriousProtector: Haji, early in the series. Less so once TheWorfEffect kicks in.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler: Haji]] and the bombing of the opera house.

* ThePromise: Haji's promise to Saya that [[spoiler:he will kill her after she defeats Diva]]

* PullingThemselvesTogether: Chevaliers border on this trope. Solomon and Haji have been able to reattach their severed arms and use them just fine.
* TheQuietOne: Haji.

* RedRightHand: Subverted; Haji's right hand does give away his true nature as a Chevalier, and freaks Saya out when she first sees it, but he is still a heroic character.

* SenselessViolins: Averted; Haji keeps Saya's sword in his cello case, along with an actual cello, and plays it more than once. He's very good, too.

* TheSleepless: Chevalier don't need to sleep. Saya has occasionally wondered how Haji spends his sleepless nights.
* SlipknotPonytail: Haji whenever he's taking a beating.

* SpoiledBrat: Saya initially thanks to Joel's superficial attempts at parrenting. Meeting Haji got her to mellow out into SpoiledSweet.

* TheStoic: Haji and David, but especially Haji.

* WillfullyWeak: [[spoiler: Haji chooses not to use his higher end Chevalier powers because his initial usage terrified Saya. His [[RedRightHand right hand]] being [[ShapeShifterModeLock stuck in claw form]] is a source of shame for him.]]
* WingPull: [[spoiler: Haji, when Saya falls off a skyscraper]]

* TheWorfEffect: Poor Haji.

* YouShallNotPass: Haji does his damnedest to perform one of these in episode 21, "Sour Grapes," against the Schiff. And again, more successfully, in the finale.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Diva and her Chevalier, in contrast Saya's family, the Red Shield, and the Schiff.

* ActorAlluson: CrispanFreeman playing a [[{{Hellsing}} loyal servant to a female master in a show about hunting vampires.]]

* GeniusSweetTooth: Van Argeno is eating candy so much one wonders if he has any real teeth left.

* GoGoEnslavement: After losing consciousness because of a fight, [[spoiler:Saya is abducted by [[StalkerWithACrush Solomon]] and stripped of her clothes in her sleep. He claims it was because they were ruined. However, he gives her a nice gown after she does wake up.]]

* GoGoEnslavement: After losing consciousness because of a fight, Saya is abducted by [[StalkerWithACrush Solomon]] and dressed in a white gown ''while still asleep''.

** [[YourMileageMayVary possibly]] also Kai, as he has matured and is less boyish-looking after the TimeSkip.

* ForcefulKiss: How Hagi gives Saya his blood in the first episode can, at first glance, [[YourMileageMayVary be mistaken for this.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Happens to Haji repeatedly. Also [[spoiler: Amshel,]] who got impaled by the spire on top of the Chrysler Building. He [[IGotBetter got better,]] at least for enough time to get himself KilledOffForReal.

* PullingThemselvesTogether: Chevaliers border on this trope. Solomon and Haji have been able to reattach their severed arms and [[IGotBetter use them just fine]].

** MoodDissonance: This is immediately followed by the first TitleSequence with its J-pop theme music, then a scene with an unaged, perfectly sane Saya as an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent.

* RapeDiscretionShot: When Diva rapes Riku.

''BloodPlus'' is a 50 episode long anime which is loosely based on the OAV ''BloodTheLastVampire''; the film and the series share the basic premise, the characters of Saya, David and Lewis (all of whom are re-imagined in ''BloodPlus''), and the Chiropterans, but otherwise have little in common. With a beautiful soundtrack, a dark and smoothly flowing storyline, and empathetic characters, ''BloodPlus'' is a memorable and wonderful series.

* [[{{ptitlev7j92pykrb48}} If I Can't Have You]]

** Nathan makes a passing statement that implies [[spoiler:that he is not actually Diva's chevalier, but actually the chevalier of Saya and Diva's ''mother'']]. Saya's blood might not have ever been a threat to him.

* TragicKeepsake: Kai wielding George's handgun, Joel's dysfunctional watch and Saya's sword, when [[spoiler: it becomes reforged with a crystal from her adopted father]]

* TragicKeepsake: Kai wielding George's handgun, Joel's dysfunctional watch and Saya's sword, when [[spoiler: it becomes reforged with a crystal from his adopted father]]

* FreudianExcuse: Diva's so fucked up because [[spoiler: she spent her life as a test subject locked in a tower. And only received anything like human contact from a person that saw her as a specimen. Her feud with Saya stems from the fact that she seeks revenge on their adoptive father, the first Joel Goldschmidt, who callously neglected her at the same time he raised Saya in freedom and luxury.]]

* FreudianExcuse: Diva's so fucked up because [[spoiler: she spent her life as a test subject locked in a tower. And only recieved anything like human contact from a person that saw her as a specimen. Her feud with Saya stems from the fact that she took her revenge on the one who locked her up, and he happened to be Saya's adoptive father.]]

* SenselessViolins: Played with; Haji keeps Saya's sword in his cello case, along with an actual cello, but never uses it himself. He does use the ''case itself'' in combat, mostly as a shield.