Blood-C (CLAMP x Production IG)

[duckroll]

Well, I can't say I'm in love with the Saya design. It's a pretty generic CLAMP design, similar to Nina in Code Geass. What I'm more interested in is how they handle the overall cast of characters, and their take on a vampire hunter story. Considering how Blood in general is usually grounded in scifi and more realistic historical settings, I hope this one is a little bit more on the fantasy and supernatural side, because that's what CLAMP is better at writing imo.

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My favorite CLAMP designs are all male anyway. :P

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by duckroll

Spoiler:

My favorite CLAMP designs are all male anyway. :P

Same . Wouldn't mind seeing a CLAMP version of Solomon and Haji.

I'm all for more fantasy in a Blood series. Plus if this does go down the Blood+ timeline, then i'd love to see more stories set during her past adventures. I don't know if you've read it, though the two volume Blood+ Adagio is seriously good.

[chaos_alfa]

I would have loved if Blood-C would have continued the story of Blood+ with saya's nieces.

Seeing them deal with their nature and their deadlines to each other. (Their blood could kill the other)
And the eventual awakening/return of Saya and her reunion with Kai who would be around 50 years old then.

[duckroll]

It seems Blood-C is both a TV series and a movie. The TV series will start running on MBS and TBS this July, while the movie will be released in 2012.

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by duckroll

It seems Blood-C is both a TV series and a movie. The TV series will start running on MBS and TBS this July, while the movie will be released in 2012.

It will air on Nichigo or Thursday night timeslot ?

[duckroll]

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

It will air on Nichigo or Thursday night timeslot ?

It's not announced yet, but I would imagine Nichigo is very likely if Ao no Exorcist is 13 episodes. If not, then it might air at the late night slot instead and have more violence hopefully.

[duckroll]

Interesting. The director of Blood-C is Tsutomu Mizushima. He also directed all the XXXHolic anime entries with Production IG.

[Cloudy]

Originally Posted by duckroll

It's not announced yet, but I would imagine Nichigo is very likely if Ao no Exorcist is 13 episodes. If not, then it might air at the late night slot instead and have more violence hopefully.

If it airs in the thursday late night slot, this would be the 4th grimdark anime in a row for that block.

[Arabesque]

Originally Posted by duckroll

It's not announced yet, but I would imagine Nichigo is very likely if Ao no Exorcist is 13 episodes. If not, then it might air at the late night slot instead and have more violence hopefully.

I don't think that it's likely, considering that the source for the 1-cour is from Crunchyroll. I actually expect it to air at a late night slot as well, putting into account that the original Blood + anime didn't due all that well in the precursor slot to Nichigo, so there isn't much point to have it air there (and then there is the issue with the slot ratings being as low as a late night also ...)

Originally Posted by duckroll

Interesting. The director of Blood-C is Tsutomu Mizushima. He also directed all the XXXHolic anime entries with Production IG.

Tsutomu Mizushima ... part of me finds this a bit interesting, as I tend to think that he might be CLAMP's ''favorite'' director that they might have the easiest time to work with since the Holic adaptations seem to actually credit some of the members as having worked in the episode scripts.

Either way, this seems promising. I consider him to be a good director after the two seasons of Holic + his work on squid girl (especially the third part of episode 5) makes me confident in his work. And since he's familiar with CLAMP that will also be a good sign that there will be good communication between them.

Any word if the movie is a continuation of the series, or is it a ''recap'' movie?

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by duckroll

It seems Blood-C is both a TV series and a movie. The TV series will start running on MBS and TBS this July, while the movie will be released in 2012.

Originally Posted by Arabesque

Any word if the movie is a continuation of the series, or is it a ''recap'' movie?

I was about to ask the same question.

Tsutomu Mizushima have a bit of a history with xxxHolic anime, so i'm pleased with the pair teaming up again.

[duckroll]

No idea right now, but considering how Aniplex is willing to fund a movie of Sengoku Basara, I don't think it's beyond them to actually budget for a TV series and a brand new non-recap movie after that as well.

[duckroll]

Full staff credits:


Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Original Concept: Production IG/CLAMP
Story/ Original Character Design: CLAMP
Original Concept Supervision: Junichi Fujisaku
Series Composition: Nanase Ohkawa (CLAMP)
Script: Nanase Ohkawa, Junichi Fujisaku
Animation Character Design: Kazuchika Kise
Animation Director: Takayuki Goto
Art Director: Hiromasa Ogura (Ogura Kobo)
Director of Photography: Eiji Arai
Editor: Junichi Uematsu
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Sound Production: Glovision
Music: Naoki Sato
Animation Production: Production IG

[Shiroth]

Just this second read about Naoki Sato doing the score for this series. Oh my god. That is the greatest news ever. Naoki is without a doubt one of my all time favourite composers, and it's about damn time he worked on a new score.

So happy!

[duckroll]

The staff in general seems much more competent than Blood+'s staff. On the animation production end there are quite a few GitS:SAC guys, and it's impressive that CLAMP is really writing this, and not just scribbling some notes down for other writers to adapt. Getting hyped!

Here's the Japanese press release: http://journal.mycom.co.jp/news/2011/04/09/002/

And here's the key visual by CLAMP:

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[Katapan]

Daaaamn, this is basically I.G. going all out - which is a really exciting prospect. Way to get hyped for this summer when the most exciting spring shows have yet to even start! :P

[duckroll]

Official site updated too: http://www.blood-c.jp/

[Arabesque]

I think we can all assume that Mizushima has a CLAMP seal of approval tattooed on his body lol?

Originally Posted by duckroll

The staff in general seems much more competent than Blood+'s staff. On the animation production end there are quite a few GitS:SAC guys, and it's impressive that CLAMP is really writing this, and not just scribbling some notes down for other writers to adapt. Getting hyped!

Once again, thank you for all this information. I really appreciate the information you post.

The staff here is leagues ahead from Blood+ lol Seriously, I.G. looks like it's giving this the full treatment. Ghost in the Shell regulars, CLAMP being actually involved. 2011 is seriously shaping up to be a great year.

Originally Posted by duckroll

And here's the key visual by CLAMP:

Wonderful.

Originally Posted by Katapan

Daaaamn, this is basically I.G. going all out - which is a really exciting prospect. Way to get hyped for this summer when the most exciting spring shows have yet to even start! :P

Man, it looks like this s the trade off for the lackluster year 2010 by having 2011 be the best year in anime.

And it going to be AWESOME!

[Shiroth]

I am so hyped for this now. It's a bad thing if the first episode sucks, though with a staff list like that it's hard to see it doing so.

[duckroll]

Originally Posted by Arabesque

Once again, thank you for all this information. I really appreciate the information you post.

Don't mention it. I always feel it's good to have detailed information available so discussions are more in depth.

Now the only thing that remains is the time slot. I'm really hoping it's NOT going to be on the Sunday afternoon slot, because there's a much better chance for creative freedom and glorious CLAMP violence on the Thursday slot. Hopefully we get a confirmation soon about how long Ao no Exorcist is...

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by duckroll

Don't mention it. I always feel it's good to have detailed information available so discussions are more in depth.

Now the only thing that remains is the time slot. I'm really hoping it's NOT going to be on the Sunday afternoon slot, because there's a much better chance for creative freedom and glorious CLAMP violence on the Thursday slot. Hopefully we get a confirmation soon about how long Ao no Exorcist is...

But Ao no Exorcist is 2-cour (look at the bottom of the page, it says 2クール).