Oh, look, vampires are real (again)! Fortunately, this time around, the vampires are of the more bestial sort with no glitter or glamour to speak of (no offense to friends of glittering vampires, of course).
In 1966, a series of vampire related deaths strikes Japan. The deaths all seem to occur around a US army base with the base high school as the center of the rather unpleasant events.
The secret vampire hunting arm of a nameless American secret service has the right agent for the job. The agent's name is Saya, herself a "pure" vampire (no explanation of this, her motivations or anything will be forthcoming, don't worry), who looks like a teenager, wears the necessary (though only for her and no one else at the school) Japanese schoolgirl outfit with a sneer and is more than adept at cutting those vampire mutants into little pieces.
Which she proceeds to do.
Blood is one of the more puzzling specimens of OVA movies. Obviously not too cheap and made by talented people, it is content with being exactly what its plot makes it look like - a short and gory action horror piece with a little winking fan service and some nods in the direction of a potentially interesting backstory without any real interest in things like depth, originality or characterization.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing; if anime of this type has enough verve, energy and style I have no problems with just going with the flow and having a little silly fun. Luckily, verve, energy and style are words which fittingly describe Blood.
Let's just hope I'll be able to say the same about the upcoming live-action remake. We all know by now how much I love remakes.
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