Episodes
50
Review
First some spoilers… OMFG, NATHAN IS ALIVE SOMEHOW AFTER GETTING SLICED IN HALF WITH SAYA’S BLOOD WHILE TOTALLY GORGEOUS SOLOMON DIES?! WTF?!. Okay now that that’s over…
First a summary: Saya Otonashi seems like a normal high school girl that lacks memory of events prior the one year she spent as the adopted daughter of George Miyagusuku, along with her brothers Kai and Riku Miyagusuku, but in reality, she is a Chiropteran queen- responsible for the release of Diva and the plague of rampaging blood-sucking Chiropteran monsters that have appeared in time outside the history books for centuries. She and her twin sister Diva were born from an extinct mummified creature found by Joel Goldschmidt in 1833, who raised Saya as a normal girl while treated Diva as a caged lab rat. Upon Diva’s mistaken release by Saya, Joel was killed, thus leading to his descendents to form the Red Shield and track down Diva, using Saya as their last hope and weapon as the twins’ blood are lethal to each other and cause the blood and body of Chiropteran and Chevaliers (Chiropteran servants created by sharing their blood to humans) alike to crystallize and break. Hagi, a boy introduced to Saya to discover her reproductive abilities grew up with her and became her Chevalier when he fell off a cliff and she attempted to save his life by sharing her blood, which she had known to easily heal her own wounds and prevented her from aging. After rediscovering her past events and slaughters, she continues the war with her twin sister and her Chevaliers Amshel, Solomon, James, Nathan, and Carl. (The reason Saya has only ONE Chevalier becomes more obvious at the end of the series. I do remember myself screaming at her to get more though. XD Apparently, she doesn’t like the ideas of stopping time for humans and cherishes their mortal lives.) It starts off slow, but this 50 episode series really gets hot later on. It all builds up to great character development and sick twists. For example Riku’s death didn’t hit me until the afterthought. (Probably because I read spoilers.) Once again, Solomon was gorgeous and his love for Saya being thrown away like that was a waste. I don’t understand why he didn’t tell her he got hit though. Kai, who annoyed the hell out of me with his realized uselessness grew on me at the end when he became useful and realized his love for Saya may have been more than just brotherly love. And Hagi… Every girl’s dream. A reserved and obedient hunk that promises to protect you for all eternity… Sorry Kai, they were made for each other. ^^
Rating
9.35
