Ahhh, so this is where Gonzo’s other funds have been directed. Yet another stylish-looking gothic series dealing with vampires, but this time around it looks to be more angst and less ass-kicking (compared to Hellsing, at any rate). We open with a short exposition on the future of Earth, where nuclear war has devastated the planet. However, the war is interrupted by the arrival of spacefaring vampires, who decided to take a rest stop here because they were really, really thirsty. Soon enough, it’s us versus them, and the vampires establish a permanent presence on Earth.
Onboard the ship Tristan, a penniless priest named Abel Nightroad chats up the flight attendant Jessica, who aspires to be a pilot someday. Jessica accidentally spills his sugar-laden order of milk tea, and promises to give him a sandwich in return when the bridge orders some coffee. On the bridge, Jessica manages to correct some of the navigator’s mistakes while she is serving him coffee, and the crew shares a few laughs, when a vampire bursts in. Helpless against his superior speed and power, the entire bridge is slaughtered save for Jessica, whom the vampire is saving for a nice snack. After he reprograms the ship to head to the Vatican, he prepares to suck Jessica’s blood. Unfortunately, the clumsy Abel has horrible timing and bursts in exactly when the vampire is in the classic “fangs about to puncture helpless maiden’s neck” pose, which naturally irritates the vampire to no end. As he zips towards Abel to exact his revenge, Abel “slips” and splashes some holy water across the room, paralyzing the vampire. Abel and Jessica escape to the backup bridge, where Abel performs some programming magic to change the ship’s path. Jessica is then given the opportunity to put her piloting skills to work, apprehensive as she may be.
Meanwhile at the Vatican, we learn that the vampire has demanded that his imprisoned comrades be released lest he crash the ship into the Vatican. The current Pope is a total wuss (“Nee-san…what should I do?”), and he’s being bullied into blasting the ship with a missile by one of his warmongering aides. The rather evil-looking aide argues that the Vatican can never negotiate with terrorist vampires, and the people on the ship would gladly die in the name of the Pope and God. His even-handed sister warns that such an action would have political repercussions since the ship belongs to another nation, but her plea falls on deaf ears. However, behind the scenes, she learns from one of her holy-sister cohorts that there’s a Kresnik on board the ship (kind of like Wesley Snipes in Blade I/II/III), and thus she sends “Gunslinger” to support him.
Meanwhile on the ship, the vampire catches up to Abel and Jessica (after first sucking the blood of all the other passengers) and faces off with Abel on the top of the ship. Here, it is revealed that Abel is a Kresnik, and he proceeds to mangle the vampire with his blood scythe in order to find out who’s behind the attack. He then uses some sort of power to compel the vampire to pull its own beating heart out and crush it with his own hands. Ouch. The problem of the incoming missile remains unsolved though, so Abel rushes back and advises Jessica to cut the engines so that the missile can’t track their heat signature. Fortunately, Gunslinger’s ship arrives just in time to blast the missile, and the day is saved.
Quite an awesome first episode all around! Abel is a likable main character, heavily reminiscent of Vash the Stampede from Trigun. The character designs are simply superb, especially the Pope’s sister Katerina, who simply oozes gothic. If you’ve seen the spectacular character art for the recent Castlevania games, it’s in a similar style. I can’t wait to see how this series turns out!
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The Vash-ness kinda annoyed me, but I hear it changes later on. At least Abel doesn’t seem to have the same qualms about killing =D.
I agree with Kabitzin about the “Vash-ness.”
I have to agree that the character design is awesome — the minigun-armed guy with the cross emblem looked uber
THAT YOU ENDER WIGGN o.o, this is rebby o.O, i was so oopsessed with the series and abels cross>.> YAY!! someone besides me who actually knows this new series >.>
Just watched the first episode (other 2 are DL’ing as I type this). A lot of promise here – good dark setting, intriguing premise, and nice animation/design. Trigun meets Hellsing….IN SPACE!!! (kinda)
Watched episode 4 of Trinity Blood. Totally awesome artwork and animations. A lot of beautiful computer graphics are involved.
A very promising series overall.
That vampire was programmed to self-destruct in that fashion if he revealed any “information”
*spoiler*
About the rozen kreuz
I don’t quite dig this mix of sillyness (or Vash-ness) and the serious dark mood. It certainly appeals on the graphical side although the little blond girl seems to be in the wrong anime. As far as I remember, mixing comedy with horror always turned things into crap. The second episode reminded me of Equilibrium – especially the scene in which the lobot kills ‘em all.
That scene IS a direct ripoff of Equilibrium!
sin palabras ,lo mejor q he visto en anime,podrian continuarla…
AH MY GOD!!! TRINITY BLOOD REALLY CAUGHT MY EYES! I CANT RESIST WITH THE ANIMATION BACKGROUNDS & CHARACTERS, EXPECIALLY ABEL NIGHTROAD TURN TO CRUSNIK. OH PLEASE I HOPE THERE’S MORE TRINITY BLOOD. T_T WHY TEHRE’S ONLY 24 EPISODES? I WANT MORE!! MORE!!
Hello, I am part of the Kill Toaster Foundation (I have nothing against Tres, I just like that part of ep.2 ^_^)! Yes Abel is very Vash-like, but at least he doen’t run around in the street screaming “LOVE&PEACE!!!!” or isn’t always like “Omg! I can’t kill people cause my fake mommy told me not TOOOOO!!!!”
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! Peoples… this anime is da shit. Specially when they say “Banpaia” which is japanese for vampire… it just makes me giggle. OH!! And the count of… memphis?? or what ever that cute little blonde boy vampire’s name is… HE IS SOOOOOO CUTE!! I want to jump him, rape him, and go home happy!!! * is a crazy fangirl yes in deedy *
TRINITY BLOOD IS SO COOL!!! I LYK THA STORY….AND the CHARACTERS….especially ABEL he is sooo cute!!……but why did it only have 24 episodes????
Yeah its really stupid only 24 episodes and there is more information to and it doesn’t come in the 24 episodes that information really stupid
The anime is SO awesome! All you people complainin, i js want to say SHUT THE HELL UP AND SAY MORE NICE THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Trinity Blood rocks and i cant wait until they come out with a toy of Abel’s gun. Maybe Tres’s too. Anyway, the first episode is sweet. Abel is so awesome when he goes Crusnik 02 ( I know it’s 02 because i have a magazine that explained all the characters in the three factions before the first episode even aired (oh yeah, I rock) so booya) I can’t wait to see even more vampire vs. uber-cool Crusnik and I don’t see how they are gonna put the whole story in only 24 episodes ( I don’t like it either). Whatever> I was hyper when I typed this. And evenm though my screenname is Japanese, I’m American by birth and have 0 Japanese heiritage. Now go watch more Trinity Blood.
I love this show so much
I LOVE TRINITY BLOOD! I JUST STARTED WATCHING IT BUT IT IS TYOTALLY AWSOME!!!
I LOVE ION FORTUNA! I HATE ESTHER! SHE GOES AROUND SCREWING EVERYONE! TO THE MAKER! PICK WHO SHE IS TO SCREW FOR ALL ETERNITY! MAKE IT DERITIECH! SO I CAN HAVE FATHER ABLE!!!
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND THE SON, AND THE BROTHER, AND THE SISTER, AND THE SECOND COUSIN TWICE REMOVED THREE TIMES PUT BACK, AND THAT ONE GHOSTIE, I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!!!!
YO THIS IS YUMI AGAIN! NO ONE LAY A HAND ON ION FORTUNA!!!! ISN’T HE A VAMPIRE? I THOUGHT HE WAS A HUMAN! (UGH!) MY CHARACTER IS A VAMPIEL HALF VAMPIRE HALF HUMAN, HALF DOVE DEMON!
MY NAME IS DOVIE. GET IT? DOVE DOVIE?…..YEAH. I LOVE ANIME AND I LOVE VAMPIRES SO PRAISE FOR THIS SHOW! I ABSOLULTY LOVE THIS AND MY FRIEND LEKIO IS MAKING A STORY ABOUT HOW THE T.B. GROUP AND THE INUGANG TEAM UP.>:)I’M FATHER ABLE’S DAUGHTER.
AND ME AND ION…..WELL WE…..UM…..WE…..YEAH. SEE, WE REALLY LIKE EACH OTHER AND WE…..MENTAL PICTURES! UNLESS HE HUMAN. MY CHARACTER HATES HUMANS! SHE CUSSES THEM OUT BETTER THAN ANYBODY ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. AND IF HE’S HUMAN, THEN I WILL BE UM, SOMEONE ELS’S DAUGHTER, AND ME AND FATHER ABLE WILL…..MENATL PICTURES.
I love this show!!!! Abel is the bomb, Cathernia is hardcore, Tres is cold hearted, Professor is a bit wack and rest….well what can I say, they’re awsome! This is the best anime show about vampires I’ve seen and I believe that since with 24 episodes and uncompleted manga(i think), there will probably be more episodes of Trinity Blood coming up to complete the information that has yet been revealed. Also sometimes they may make a movie to reveal the rest of the information that was not give. All the ather animes I have seen had came up with movies to explain some of the information in the series, if you guys get my drift. Yelp… gotta go!
WAT NON OF U THINK ESTER IS A GOOD CHACTER(great actulay) SHES THE BEST OF THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!
ESTER ROCKS SHES THE BEST SO STOP HATIN Her YUMI OH……AND TRINITY BLOODS THE BEST ANIME EBER NOTHIN BEETS IT thIS IS IM SAD
BUT ILL SOON HAVE It ON DVD IT ROCKS I CANT WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON IT IM CURRENTLY WACTHIN THE SAME EPISODE NIGHT LORDS PART THREE THE ISLAND O HER DARLING CHILDREN AT http://WWW.ADULTSWIM.COM OH AND YUMI I HOPE U NO ESTERS A SISTER NOT A SUGHT OK NOT THAT BIG OF A SLUGHT ……I LOVE THIS ‘*IN SEREIS!!!!
Okay GUYS i would just like to say i dont really know alot on Ion yet i have to do soo more reaserch and watch some more peisode but so far HE IS MY FAV!!! i mean his eyes and hair HOT HOT lol
i no somethings about ion
i love him he’s my fav. too but so is esther
I think that trinity blood is the coolest show ever I also think that there music is really cool I have all of there cd’s and I have the movie it is so sweet
I think that sister ester and seth are hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why hasnt anyone but me submited a blog are you all anime haters if yuo are your all FREAK’S!!!
I just stoped checking up on the blog.
Dear Docter Who
why the hell did you stop checking up on the blog
hi!! i’m not english, but i want to do a question:
who think that ion loves esther??? bye