The main character, Abel Nightroad, is clear rip off of so many better characters, namely Vash the Stampede, and he offers nothing new to the idea of a dual natured character. For full disclosure, I will admit that I did not watch the entire series, and I gave it chance but of the episodes that I did watch, none of them were any good.
I did not enjoy this series, in fact, I would go so far as to say I hated it. But if you are looking for any kind of depth with this series, you are bound to be greatly disappointed as its haphazard developments and lack of exploration on its major elements really kill its overall quality. Overall, Trinity Blood makes for a reasonable romp if you dig action anime. I also found it rather absurd that someone as whiny and pathetic of a whelp like Alessandro would be appointed the Pope of the Vatican. In particular, Abel's character is hinted to have plenty of personal demons from his past that he is trying to atone for with his involvement in the Vatican yet this story element is never explored. The series tends to drop enough hints over the nature of particular characters and plot developments yet never bothers to expand any further with them. The show tends to haphazardly press through its developments with little exploration over the reasons behind them and lack of foreshadowing as moments tend to pop up out of nowhere.
Unfortunately, this show's most critical flaw is that it doesn't really bother digging into its major elements of plot and characters beyond what is seen with Esther. Such visual flair also went into action scenes as the show has a good number of fluid and intense battle scenes involving battleships, vampires and/or humans. The presentation also looks quite slick for a TV series sporting clean and detailed character designs plus some impressively rendered settings such as the religious institutions of Rome and flying battleships via use of CG animation.
It also has some positives in character development through Esther's character as we see her gradually change throughout Trinity Blood via Abel's guidance and seeing another side to the vampires she hated due to a personal tragedy she faced. In terms of the setting, the series does well enough at setting up its mood with showing the shaky tensions between both factions with some among the factions wanting coexistence and others showing complete prejudice between the other. Trinity Blood (Rent-/ Watch+) It was quite disappointing to see how this series went along with things for its premise as it certainly had the potential to be something interesting with a futuristic war between vampires and humans.
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