I've come to the conclusion that Marvel comics and anime should never mix. After watching this and Iron man the anime and giving up basically part way through. First things first, the opening credits music and closing music is bland heavy metal music with nothing really to it. Apparently they couldn't afford any performers for the openings or closings to these things like regular anime.
The second thing, I'm not really wanting to make this a main point, but this anime is so tame, it's basically PG-13 compared to the movies with Wesley Snipes. I realize with some comic book characters like X-Men/Iron-Man, I don't expect massive violent content or anything. But Blade the anime involves vampires and it's mostly bloodless. You can at least try Japan to skirt the boundaries with this title considering the content.
Third thing, the vampires have human agents everywhere in this damn thing, it's rather unbelievable, the second episode is guilty of this of having nearly everyone in the Japanese law enforcement of a major city being human agents for Frost and other vampires, including the Lieutenant of the police! And they imply even further up the scale to the government. This is never brought up again as they just move out of Japan and drop this little bit full of possibilities next episode. It's even funny that the police guy in the second episode literally once he finds out his partner is another freaking human agent for the vampires, just punches him out after he threatens him once.
Kudos to them for researching different type of vampires from Asian countries instead of having him just battle vampires, no it has to be harpies or something in one episode. Oh and killer felines in the second episode. This gets to be rather silly. Where's Whistler? Oh wait he's been replaced by a Van Helsing character.
A lot of Blade's origin is covered again, because apparently no one has seen the Wesley Snipes movie at all. Well it's OK considering all the stuff involving Blade's past is the only emotionally interesting stuff to happen in the anime in the episodes I've seen.
Makoto's stupid grudge against Blade is rather cliché. The animation is good well that's about it, the music sounds like stock cues from a DTV movie. Again, mostly the anime is way too PG-13-ish in it's content, I mean you can put some mature content in it. Instead most of the vampires don't bleed or anything they just bust into ash or burn away when stabbed or killed.
The show also seems to jump over anything to do with Dracula from the comic books but that's OK. I mean it would have been nice if Dracula showed up as a baddie in this too. But I guess we are just on Frost still.
Not much in the way of background of much of the characters besides Blade and Van Helsing. Otherwise the others are rather cardboard. The action scenes aren't that spectacular either.
The second thing, I'm not really wanting to make this a main point, but this anime is so tame, it's basically PG-13 compared to the movies with Wesley Snipes. I realize with some comic book characters like X-Men/Iron-Man, I don't expect massive violent content or anything. But Blade the anime involves vampires and it's mostly bloodless. You can at least try Japan to skirt the boundaries with this title considering the content.
Third thing, the vampires have human agents everywhere in this damn thing, it's rather unbelievable, the second episode is guilty of this of having nearly everyone in the Japanese law enforcement of a major city being human agents for Frost and other vampires, including the Lieutenant of the police! And they imply even further up the scale to the government. This is never brought up again as they just move out of Japan and drop this little bit full of possibilities next episode. It's even funny that the police guy in the second episode literally once he finds out his partner is another freaking human agent for the vampires, just punches him out after he threatens him once.
Kudos to them for researching different type of vampires from Asian countries instead of having him just battle vampires, no it has to be harpies or something in one episode. Oh and killer felines in the second episode. This gets to be rather silly. Where's Whistler? Oh wait he's been replaced by a Van Helsing character.
A lot of Blade's origin is covered again, because apparently no one has seen the Wesley Snipes movie at all. Well it's OK considering all the stuff involving Blade's past is the only emotionally interesting stuff to happen in the anime in the episodes I've seen.
Makoto's stupid grudge against Blade is rather cliché. The animation is good well that's about it, the music sounds like stock cues from a DTV movie. Again, mostly the anime is way too PG-13-ish in it's content, I mean you can put some mature content in it. Instead most of the vampires don't bleed or anything they just bust into ash or burn away when stabbed or killed.
The show also seems to jump over anything to do with Dracula from the comic books but that's OK. I mean it would have been nice if Dracula showed up as a baddie in this too. But I guess we are just on Frost still.
Not much in the way of background of much of the characters besides Blade and Van Helsing. Otherwise the others are rather cardboard. The action scenes aren't that spectacular either.