Blood C: The Last Dark [DVD]

The Last Dark is the theatrical finale of the Blood-C series and while the film was quite entertaining, I feel that it could have been far better. A year or so after the events of the series, Saya has followed Fumito to Tokyo where his company, Seventh Heaven, is heavily involved in politics and policing. While on the subway Saya saves a girl, Maya, from an Elder Bairn only to discover that she is part of a small organisation of hackers who are fighting back against Seventh Heaven.'Blood-C: The Last Dark' is an entertaining film that nonetheless feels far too brief to finish off the storyline of the series in a satisfactory way. The plot was somewhat light and there were many aspects that could have done with some more focus and development. The hackers of SIRRUT in particular could have benefited from some more exploration as other than Mana we discover little about them and sometimes come across as little more than plot devices. Yûka Amino, the only other survivor from the series, is another character who was very much underused with only a couple of brief cameos and the 'xxxHOLiC' crossover was a little too brief and came off as a little gratuitous.On the plus side, the animation for the series was very good with the CGI used for the car chase at the beginning and the final battle being particularly spectacular. The action was well choreographed with some nice moments but unfortunately, as with a lot of the films good points, the final battle (despite being beautiful) was far too short.The English dub of the series was good with Alexis Tipton, Robert McCollum, Martha Harms and Todd Haberkorn reprising their roles from the series and with most of the new cast doing good jobs at portraying their characters. Due to the brief 'xxxHOLiC' crossover, I did find it amusing that Colleen Clinkenbeard, who voiced Yûko Ichihara in that series, is voicing a rather minor character in this movie. The subbed Japanese version is also included for the movie as well of course.For special features the DVD contains a cast and crew commentary and a number of promotional videos and trailers for the movie. The DVD also includes the NoNeNoNe Theatre specials from the 'Blood-C' series (these are only subbed).Overall, while 'The Last Dark' was entertaining it could have been a lot better than it was with the animation not quite overcoming the underuse of certain characters and as such I would give the film around three and a half stars in all.

As I wrote in my Blood C series review this is the true ending to the series, I see this as more of a 'feature length episode'It was a strategic move to make more money but if you're like me then you wanted to see how it all ends.The animation looks slightly more polished but that's probably because this is a film, there's a homage in the beginning with a train scene that had me clapping with a sense of odd nostalgia.We finally find out just why everything that happened in the series happened and I understood the reasoning to a degree.The ending is....so-so but I think the openness of it was done for a reason. Plus whoo the school uniform is back though not as nice as the one from the series again I saw the reasoning.We see cameo's from other characters from CLAMP that I loved, it gives me a 'Kingdom Hearts' feel for some reason.This film had it's flaws but if you look past it they did a good job tying up some of the loose ends in the series with the little time they had in the film.

Words cannot describe how awesome this film is: from its unbelievable animation quality to its strong and relatable characters to its engaging and interesting plot, to its great villain Fumito (who's been redesigned here blatantly to look more like Johan from Monster for some reason), to its action sequences and use of very high quality CGI at times, to the attention to detail that they put into al of the background art. Everything about this film is astonishing, and it is among the best anime movies I have ever seen.

The animation was good enough but even if it is easy to watch follow the story overall compared to all the Anime I seen it just is boring to me even if it has a tiny bit of bite ( pun intended) cool to it it is not enough for me. I see some potential in it if I was a fan of Blood C.

Excatly what I was after

correct item arrived in correct time :)Happy!

Good quality DVD.. Accurately described enjoyed watching too been a long time since I seen the last blood! Thank you

The first ten mins is probably one of the finest ten mins in anime.