Blood-C

Writing this review because this really sucked and I'm hoping people don't make the mistake of reading this. I haven’t seen the original anime or Blood+, so I’m unfamiliar with this setting. I started reading because of CLAMP (and Watanuki)’s involvement. Blood-C is about Saya Kisaragi, a shrine maiden who hunts monsters. She has a father and close friends that she wants to protect and keeps fighting night after night despite the risks. The monster hunting part along with a bit of SOL was neither unique nor well told in my opinion, but it wasn’t bad either. Going through the story I found it hard tounderstand what exactly the antagonists were trying to do, which was really irritating. There's never any purpose or logic behind the characters' action. The ending tries to conveniently justify all events in the plot with an absurd reasoning. It’s one of those endings that leaves me going “Huh? What the...”. I feel like whoever was responsible for the plot was very much forcing it to be a fairy tale ending that goes against the whole story's concept. I'm not saying a dark story can only have dark endings but the turnaround felt unnatural. Also, many of the characters don't really serve any purpose. The art was decent. Wouldn't really say it's a saving grace though. It felt as though the creator came up with an interesting concept on a whim and dumped it onto a paper while it’s still undeveloped. The messy plot and setting seems like a good representation of what was going on inside the creator’s mind. It’s a story that gets worse as you keep reading. Just don't start.