The first chapter didn't make me like the protagonist at all, and subsequent ones have done little to improve my opinion. He reminds me too much of the New 52 version of Billy Batson. The normal high school thing wore thin after one chapter.
I would not complain if the protagonist got Killed Off for Real and the "crybaby" took the main character role; he's a bit more interesting.
Come to think of it, Yoichi is the best character. Without him around, I'd be rooting for the vampires and their high-tech central lines. (Medical speak. It's a thing they put in your neck if they think you're sick enough that makes it easy to draw blood from you. For tests. Yeah... that's it... tests.)
Finally posted DB Scarlet Mirror: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13689952930A49781400&page=97#2423Time for another thread resurrection!
The anime feels slow right now, but that's no deal-breaker for me.
Shinoa's the best character on the humans' side so far. I just love it when she trolls the heck out of everyone not named Yoichi.
Need more intel on the vampires, but Ms. Tepes seems interesting.
So sloooooooow. High production values, some decent visual flair, and the spoilers I've stumbled across are interesting, but there's entirely too much nothing in any given episode
Needs more vampires, too. They've been more entertaining and more interesting than the humans
At one chapter per episode, this is gonna end way too early in the plot for anything important to happen. I don't know how to feel about that.
Split-cour, though. Or is 24 chapters too short?
Split-cour? In that case, the second half will be largely uneventful at current pacing and end just before the current arc. I suppose that's why they got the original writer on staff - this anime just feels too early in general.
edited 3rd May '15 6:26:27 PM by burnpsy
When do they start actually fighting vampires and go on missions? This current "Blue Exorcist 2.0" arc is putting me to sleep.
"I'll show you fear, there is no hell, only darkness." My twitterAfter the next episode.
So, that was kind of okay. More interested in what it suggests might be coming up
Asuramaru is clearly a vampire. Probably related to Krul?
Given the comments about Yuu being experimented on, and earlier about seraphs of the end, I'd guess he and Mika were human experiments that somehow caused the disease?
I'm reading the manga and have watched a few episodes of the anime, and while it's not bad, Yu has got to be the most generic and least interesting manga protagonist I've ever read/watched.
edited 23rd May '15 9:41:27 PM by LSBK
Huh, Asuramaru looks like a vampire. So that kinda means Yu's borrowing power from the source of his hatred. How ironic. But as long as he gets to waste some vampires, that's a-okay!
Oh, Guren. You care about those whelps, don't ya? And I'll just exit the stage before he opens a can of hurt.
You know...when I first heard about this series, I thought it was gonna be like Attack On Titan and about survival and an ongoing war with characters who are shaped by it.
Instead, I got a standard Shonen action show that seems to be reading off a checklist of cliche's....Please tell me it gets better.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.I'm current on the manga, it never stops being cliche but I do think it does a better job of getting engaging with the cliches.
A mix of Attack On Titan and a toned down version of Fairy Tail is probably the best way for me to describe.
That......doesn't instill confidence, but I'll give it a shot.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.Wow, this show is goddamn terrible. Rhere’s slow beginnings and then there’s this. The last episodes have been nothing but boring exposition and bland characterization, coupled with hackneyed attempts to shock and terrible humor.
It's interesting how in a series with this much fujoshi-bait, the girls are so much more entertaining than the guys. On a related note, I think I ship Mitsuba with Shinoa
I have to admit, that was some pretty good "camera" work, not showing Shinoa was peaking until the last minute.
I'm also liking the way Yui transitions from Sasuke-esque avenger to a genuine hero/anti-hero.
Oh, and this anime has finally pasted the Bechdel test.
edited 16th May '15 7:41:11 PM by Belisaurius
She just appeared, but Mitsuba's already the 2nd most interesting character. Like her voice as well.
There's someone more interesting than her?
Shinoa...I feel like this is a quantam paradox; what kind of Shonen has the females more interesting than the males.
That's...unheard of.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.Harem series, for one...
Oh, you meant combat shonen? Mahou Sensei Negima.
So, things happened this episode, but they were all kind of disappointing. And it felt like the direction got worse
The vampires didn't put up much of a fight. And said and did stupid things. Lame. Seems like nobles are the only ones who get things done.
Okay, I'm probably late to the party, but this episode just sealed something for me; Yu's the most one-note shounen protag I've seen in a while. His vengeance and moments of heroism are painfully stale.
I've found nothing on this manga in tvtropes so far. It doesn't have its own page or forum topic. So... yeah.
I've been reading it, but I doubt it'll find its audience. Earth is down to less than 10% of its population, the survivors are being attacked by monsters or enslaved by vampires, elite members of the army have to contract with demons to earn phlebotinum weapons capable of hurting the vampires, and the main character is... learning about friendship and teamwork.
Maybe that makes sense in Japan.
Finally posted DB Scarlet Mirror: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13689952930A49781400&page=97#2423