On June 2, 2012, the theatrical version of the anime "Blood-cthelastdark" cooperated by Japanese animation production company Production i.g and the manga team Clapp was released nationwide in Japan. It has been 12 years since i.g.'s first animated film, Blood the Last Vampire. For 12 years, i.g's blood series has been expanding and continuing.
The stories seem to be about the adventures of young girls hunting vampires. However, even with the same theme, different versions of the protagonist have different personalities, interpreting their own wonderful and vivid stories. Let's take a look back at i.g's 12 years and take stock of the stories that tell about bondage and loneliness in the bloody war!
The technologically pioneering "Blood the last vampire"
In the early 2000s, Mori Oshii, the director of the anime Ghost in the Shell, published Blood Project. The project is mainly based on the vampire girl "Little Night" to produce a project for novels, animations, games, etc., and director Chris Nahan filmed the film version of "The Last Vampire" based on his theatrical version of "The Last Vampire".
As the first work of the "Blood" series, "The Last Vampire" laid the foundation for the theme, protagonist and background of this series. The film was made entirely digitally and used the most advanced "hd24p" digital technology of the time. This was the first time the technology had been used in a Japanese film or television production, so the 48-minute theatrical short film caused a big sensation at the beginning of its release.
This work, which won the Media Art Festival Animation Award of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan in 2001 and the Best Feature Award at the Stuttgart International Animation Film Festival in 2002, is the first film in the "Blood" series.
The story takes place during the Vietnam War in 1996, when murders at U.S. military bases were frequent. At this time, a young girl dressed in a sailor's suit named "saya" appeared, and she attended the local secondary school as a transfer student. However, in fact, The true identity of The Night is the ancestor of the vampire, the vampire who hunted vampires.
After she eliminated the socially endangered vampire (winger) and solved the crisis, the picture is frozen on the lonely back of the night. In the end, she was left alone, she was the last vampire...
The plot is not particularly attractive, the overly simple main line (the story of the girl hunting the vampire), but the focus is on the delicate emotional expression of the heroine's own loneliness, entanglement and determination. As for the film's age-inspired style, it is also slightly niche in the two-dimensional aesthetic, and the thick lips of Xiao Ye are estimated to scare away a vote of otaku who like Kyo Ani.
Jeon Ji-hyun's "Little Night Knife" Stills This "blood the last vampire" was later adapted into a live-action film "Little Night Knife", starring Jeon Ji-hyun, who studied martial arts for half a year to shoot this film and starred herself. The male god Wu Jing also played the role of a handsome villain in it, and the martial arts drama was very sufficient. There have also been certain changes in the plot, adding plots such as Xiao Ye's mother and the master in the deep mountains and old forests. The film did not get too high at the box office, and in addition to some weak special effects, the slightly thin plot may be the main reason.
In any case, as the first work of the "Blood Project" series, Oshii Mori took a tentative step with exquisite pictures and violent aesthetic lenses. Blood+, Blood+, Blood+, blood+, Chinese blood," and "Blood War," are 50 episodes of the 2005 production i.g. This is a sequel to Blood: the last vampire, but the story has nothing to do with the previous game — the only similarity is probably the inheritance of the "Girl Hunts Vampires" plot.
The protagonist, Otoko Night, is a high school student living on an island at the U.S. military base, who is adopted by a veteran, but she has no previous memories, and the story begins with the appearance of Haji, a young man carrying a cello box, and Night's identity and past gradually surface.
Compared with the simple single-line plot of the previous work, the plot of "Blood+" is more complex, and the mixed emotions and bonds described are more tear-inducing. Night's identity is an embryo conceived by 18th-century biologists with blood. She also has a twin sister, Diva, who has been separated since childhood. Eve was raised as a human being, as Darwin's adopted daughter, while diva was treated as an experimental object, given only the most basic food and water, and lived like an animal. And in an accident, Xiao Ye released the imprisoned Ge Ji, kicking off the tragedy - the blood-sucking monster "Wing hand" began to spread all over the world.
Time turns to the 21st century, and the night is waking up again. In order to make up for the mistakes caused by that year, Xiao Ye is determined to kill Katsuhime with her own hands and end the disaster brought to mankind as the "ancestor". As an anime work, "Blood+" has gone beyond the entertainment connotation of general animation, and the topics it describes such as family affection, bondage, and war after-effects are very thought-provoking.
Personally, I think that "Blood+" should be the most brilliant plot in "Blood Project", the framework of the complete plot is strict and the rhythm is perfect, with the ed sung by Yuan Chitose, the excellent bgm, is definitely worth a try. The dreamy aesthetic of violence ,blood-c and blood-c began airing on Japan's MBS TV and TBS on July 7, 2011. "Blood-c" is a joint work created by i.g and the well-known girl cartoonist group Clapp, and the "c" in the title also implies the meaning of the dream group of clamp.
The TV work tells the story of the heroine Changing Night, who fights against "antiquities" using the Mikan sword inherited from the Ukishima Shrine in order to protect others and her favorite father. At the end, Xiao Ye discovers his ancestor identity, unveils the masks of his teachers and classmates around him, and makes a bet with Qiwen Yuanren.
The theatrical version tells the story of Xiao Ye leaving the island for Tokyo in search of the revenge of the literati. The theatrical version also has the appearance of the character in the famous clamp "xxxholic", Junxun on April 1, which is a small Easter egg.
At the end of the story, all the mysteries are revealed. The Seven Originals actually loved Xiao Ye deeply, and did not hesitate to turn humans into antiquities to provide food for Xiao Ye, and even forced Xiao Ye to break the curse by killing people out of hatred... I had to give my knees to the brain hole of the nine-curved loop of the big mothers.
"Blood-c the last dark" should be regarded as a perfect ending to the "Blood" series so far, and there is no news that i.g is going to produce a new work. The theatrical version of the plot has ups and downs, the picture can be described as top-notch, and the appropriate Easter egg (Junxun's appearance) can also attract the fans of clamp, which is really a sincere work.
Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, vampire theme literature, film and television works are countless, and there are many anime works that tell vampire stories, such as "Vampire Knight", "Vampire League", "Vampire Ji Meixi" and so on. But compared to traditional vampire stories, the Blood series seems to be more willing to explore human nature through vampires. After all, vampires only exist in stories, and the bonds and warmth in human nature are the things that really exist and need to be realized.
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