Made after and inspired by the film Blood: The Last Vampire, Blood+ deals with blood, strange beasts, and one girl armed with a katana to slay them all.
Saya Otonashi is an amnesiac and anemic adopted by George Miyagusuku. She seems like a normal teenager running a normal life. Everything changes however, when a bat like menace, a Chiropteran, attacks her school. Reuniting with her chevalier Hagi, she is told that only she can slay these beings. Unwilling and reluctant at first, she becomes more cold and unreserved, through losses of allies and family, making her more than willing to not only kill more chiropterans, but to kill her sister, Diva.
The anime ran for 56 episodes, produced by Production I.G. and Aniplex. The licensing was done by Sony Pictures Television for the US, and was televised in the late night Adult Swim block. There are few subtle, but fair changes between the anime and the manga, Blood+ Adiago. Saya is voiced by Kari Wahlgren (who voiced other characters like Haruko Harahara of FLCL)
Blood+ has its fame, having this anime, a few manga, three games, and a soundtrack. The very film it was inspired from saw a live action adaptation in 2009, nine years after the animated work. In any case, a respectable 8.1 of 10 goes to Blood+.
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