If you have a nice TV screen, and a booming sound system then this anime is a can't miss. Blood the Last Vampire uses a mix of traditional hand drawn anime, with the special effects of computers added to it. The result is excellent, all the characters are drawn with normal 2D anime, but some times the cars or planes and even the environment are in 3D graphics. This leads to one of the anime's bigger problems, its length. I would argue that since the anime is so good, if it ended in less than an hour that would be a bad thing. The total length of the film is 40 minutes, but while watching it you can swear that it's only 20 minutes long. Just when you think that the anime just started it ends. This probably comes about due to the lack of many fight scenes. Excluding the end (which itself is also pretty short) the fighting is too realistic, one slash and your dead, the fights don't have momentum to build upon. But still even after watching it 8 times I still don't mind watching it again to see that samurai sword in action. The main character of the anime remains surrounded in a cloud of mystery, you are only fed a bit of info at the very end of the film. Even though you can get more story development out of the Manga, the anime should have been longer and should have included a better plot. At this length it seems like an episode of a series instead of an movie, the developers probably want you to read the Manga. The agents in the film don't play a major role, they seem to be working along with the main character but have no control over her. This in turn makes character development even more difficult.
With lots of blood being spilt the anime really kicks in with the fun factor. If you have a surround sound system, don't be afraid to turn it up, coz that's the way it's supposed to be watched. An overall good anime, but will leave you wanting more. Total score 8.1
