If there was a series that felt like Funimation was really pushing it hard and fast for awhile during its initial release and many, many, reissues since then it was Black Blood Brothers. The show has now found itself a new home as Funimation’s partnership with Crunchyroll has them shifting the Japanese language version to streaming there while the dub remains on Crunchyroll.
While this isn’t a really old license in some ways it is one that’s a bit more limited so viewing options are open to those members in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, and the Netherlands.
Plot Concept: It’s been a decade since the sacred war between humans and vampires. The rise of the Kowloon Bloodline, a new breed of monsters bearing an infectious bite, set the streets ablaze under the reign of their king. Humanity had never witnessed such pure, animalistic brutality.
Today, Jiro travels with his younger brother Kotaro to the Special Zone, a place where vampires live freely in peace alongside humans, the troubles of the past long forgotten. But the brothers find themselves in the midst of a battle between human soldiers, vampiric refugees and the re-emergence of the Kowloon Children. Assisted by Mimiko, a negotiator between their species, Jiro will try to make sense of the chaos which surrounds them before they are caught up in it and destroyed. To protect those that he holds dear, the vampire will once more draw forth the Silver Blade.
