![]() Actors doing the teenagers are overacting every scene, it is really painful to watch. I watched only 1 episode before giving up so my review is going to be based only on that. I think you can tell I didn't like this :) Should we let people die naturally as it has been since the beginning of time, or re-animate them with scientific advances that undermine the very laws of nature? You will soon discover the answer to this beautiful madness only by watching, CROWS BLOOD. Job well done there! Yasushi Akimoto has created a great show with very thoughtful ideas behind it all. The music for the show is really dark & has a very mysterious feel to it. My only real request is to eventually see their OST music somewhere soon. I hope they decide to do a second season or I can come across more shows like this in the future. I still have the rest of the show to watch & I thoroughly enjoy it. It is effective & works really well in a lot of scenes. This use of black blood reminds me also of a great horror film from New Zealand from the early 90s called The Ugly. The doctor comes off to me as a Japanese version of a grindhouse modernized copy of Doctor Death from 1973 & provides a promising solution to the human condition but only follows up with zombie-like girls striving on inner decay & black bloodied noses. The cast is very likable, especially the schoolgirls who are very sexy & adorable, but are capable of such hideous, despicable things. I'm sure it would rise in popularity if the show was also released on netflix. There has been a boom in horror / drama themed TV shows in the USA & this fits among them very nicely. I have to say seeing this style of visuals & story that could easily be a movie, have been pulled off really well for a TV series. See, I had a good feeling about this show, especially since I am a fan of a lot of Japanese gangster movies & their horror movies from the far east. Eventually I got all 6 episodes, no commercials, Japanese language, English subbed, & I cant be any happier. I knew there was 6 episodes & I would be damned if I did not see the rest. I watched the first 2 episodes and then stopped watching because it was not presented as it should be. Then once I got the time to DVR it I was sorely disappointed that the airing was dubbed in English & commercials in between. The commercials for it on El Rey Network during Halloween really intrigued me. With Quentin Tarantino, added a pacing score, & vulgar nuances of j- horror meets western production values, you would get something probably very similar to what is going on here in the ideally titled mini series, CROWS BLOOD. These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles. on the strength of this I hope it isn't the last. This was the first Japanese series to be aired as part of UK Channel Four's 'Walter Presents' strand of foreign dramas. Overall I'd definitely recommend this to horror fans looking for something a little different. in some ways it felt like a 'live-action anime' rather than a typical live action series. Tetsuya Bessho also impresses as Dr Seto probably the series' most real main character. Most notable are Mayu Watanabe who is very likeable as Kaoru and Sakura Miyawaki (of HKT48) is delightfully scary as Maki. ![]() ![]() The cast, mostly members of idol group AKB48, do a fine job even if they are clearly a bit old to be playing high schoolers. It develops at a good pace leading up to an impressive finale when the school girls are isolated in remote area during the annual field trip. The story is effective with a good reason given for Maki's condition and the way she spreads it. It does of course mean it won't be for everybody as there are a lot of very gory moments from start to finish. Usually gory, genuinely disturbing horror is restricted to films so it was nice to get a six part series that contains such material. As the series progresses it becomes clear that Maki is infecting other girls leaving them prone to violence and virtually immortal. She contacts journalist who helps her find out more. Student Kaoru Isozaki learns that Maki had been killed in an accident before her father, Doctor Akihito Seto, treated her with an experimental procedure. Aoi falls from the roof and crashes onto a concrete table in front of her friends she is twisted and broken but still alive within a couple of days she seems fully recovered. and that is before black blood drips from her nose! Soon after her arrival very disturbing things start to happen. There is something rather strange about her from the start. Students aren't too welcoming when Maki Togawa transfers in to their school. This six part series is mostly set in an all-girls Japanese high school. ![]()
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