It’s been a few years since this title was talked about but the folks at Aniplex Japan brought out a new Blood-C box set back in March and here we are talking about the show again. UK distributor Anime Limited has revealed that they’ve picked up the rights to the series and the film, Blood-C: The Last Dark. The TV series is launching today there to stream on Amazon Prime while both are being worked on for a combined collector’s edition Blu-ray set toward the end of this year, tentatively. They mention that they’re hoping to get some extras that weren’t released in English before and that has us wondering if it was the newly commissioned commentary track that the 2020 Japanse release included as a brand new extra.
Check out our review of the feature.
Directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani based on the screenplay by Junichi Fujisaku and Nanase Ohkawa, the film had its character designs by Kazuchika Kise, who also served as the chief animation director, with the animation produced by Production I.G.
The Japanse cast includes Kenji Nojima as Fumito Nanahara, Nana Mizuki as Saya Kisaragi, Ai Hashimoto as Mana Hiiragi, Hiroshi Kamiya as Kuroto Mogari, Junichi Suwabe as Kuto, Kana Hanazawa as Hiro Tsukiyama, Masumi Asano as Yuka Amino, Yūichi Nakamura as Iori Matsuo, Yuko Kaida as Haruno Yanagi and Yuuki Kaji as Shun Fujimura.
The English cast includes Alexis Tipton as Saya Kisaragi, Robert McCollum as Fumito Nanahara, Colleen Clinkenbeard as Haruno Yanagi, J. Michael Tatum as Kuto, Jad Saxton as Mana Hiiragi, Josh Grelle as Shun Fujimura, Justin Cook as Iori Matsuo, Martha Harms as Yuka Amino, Mike McFarland as Kuroto Mogari and Tia Ballard as Hiro Tsukiyama.
Plot concept: A peaceful countryside village on a lake shore. Klutzy but good-hearted Saya has been living there as far as she can remember, and has never seen the outside world. This doesn’t really seem to bother her, as she stays with her caring and beloved father, and all her classmates and the teacher at school are so nice and friendly. But Saya’s eventless daylight life abruptly shifts into pure mayhem at night as she skillfully wields her sword to confront the Elder Bairns, creatures featuring the most diverse shapes, but with one thing in common -they feed on humans.
After each victorious battle she returns back home drenched in blood, yet the following morning everything starts again as nothing had happened -a nice cup of coffee and some delicious guimauves at the local café, her cheerful classmates at school… Then, small cracks start appearing on the surface of this abnormal normality, as an Elder Bairn speaks to her puzzling words she can’t make sense of. As Saya is apparently unable to connect the events occurring around her, she can’t possibly imagine that the real horror has yet to be unveiled…