Cinnamon Ass - Reborn Like a Zombie

Ep1 isn't actually an invented filler ep by Gonzo. Flight Night was the first story in the "Rage against the Moons" storyline arc in the novels. The novels are non-linear and have different storyline arcs that jump around all over the timeline. Oh and yeah Jessica's a guest character in the novel version of Flight Night too so she probably won't be returning. There are quite a few guest heroines from the novels and they're mostly credited with seiyuu in the official site so I guess they'll be appearing too. :D

Typical, I bollocks up yet again.

Cheers. Entry edited to reflect my complete lack of knowledge about, well, anything.

I haven't seen much of Hellsing, so I can't compare Trinity Blood to that, but Abel reminds me a bit too much of Vash from Trigun. (And later, in his 'honki mode' he looked a bit like Mo-chan from Master of Mosquiton... well, in bishounen version.)

Anyway, this seems to be an entertaining series (if not the most original one I've ever seen), so I'm looking forward to the next episode. I hope it won't take itself too seriously later on.

Dialect difference: you wrote:

'Abel fights the vampire and reveals that he is actually also vampiric in nature, codenamed "Crusnik", manifesting a massive scythe of blood which he uses to defeat the vampire ... after he reveals he is working for the insidious Rosenkreuz.'

Is it Abel that reveals he (Abel) works for Rosenkreuz, or the vampire that reveals he (the vampire) works for Rosenkreuz?

It would be the vampire revealing that, not that it did him much good. :)

Also, now that I've actually read the rest of the post (I was avoiding it because I haven't seen the actual ep yet but now I have), time for another correction. :)

The next ep will NOT introduce Esther, but another guest female - Alice. It'll also introduce the other person Abel works with - Tres Iqus. Esther will most likely appear in ep3 onwards like she did in the novels - in the start of the Star of Sorrow arc (ep3-4) from Reborn on the Mars.

I hope you realise, after current posts regarding the likes of Gankutsuou, Speedgrapher and now Trinity Blood, that you are running a serious risk of finding yourself labelled a Gonzo fanboy?

Aaaand more editing, hopefully making things a bit clearer and more accurate. I didn't manage to catch the vampire's name during the episode, which is why it got a bit confusing - I think he's called Meiz (assuming the guy that wasn't the Pope in the Vatican was called Francisco de Medici) but I'm not sure.

DigiKerot - I watched Basilisk. I didn't blog it. It would have been vitriolic if I had done. I hope that clears me of Gonzo-whoring ^_^

I'm wondering if this is worth seeing... Does this have really obvious CG and blocky animation? Is it super-cheesorama like Gankutsuou? Then I might just pass >_>

Now studios that are whoring would include Bones. (How easy is it to misspell that as a colloquial reference to male sexual organs in an excited state... rargh)

"Crusnik?" Interesting. Probably typical Japanese mangling of "Krsnik/Kresnik (Although to be honest, that's hard to say in English.)

A Krsnik is a slavic half-vampire, dedicated to destroing full-blooded vampires. (Yes, we've been borrowing that concept a lot lately in series and games)

Andyzero, really? I didn't know how to Romanise the pronunciation, but that fits. Cheers - I thought it was going to be a made-up word for the series, but obviously not.

I've watched up to episode 3 now and this series appears to be very promising. The plot is loyal enough to the novels - although as mentioned, the storyline does jump back and forth a lot. And the artwork is consistent with the mangas. As for Abel, I think he's a rather unique character.

The first Trinity Blood publication was in Sneaker magazine in the 1990's so it hasn't been recently created as a rip-off of any other wouldbe vampire series.

All in all, I'm very pleased with this series thus far. Thanks for the review!

A small correction, but Abel isn't the reason the vampire tore out his own heart. True, he sliced the vampire in half, but as mentioned in the dialogue, that wouldn't kill him.

The vampire, Alfred, had something programmed in him to ... well, self destruct should he reveal any information (in this case, about Rosenkreuz-orden.

Abel actually doesn't kill; he was about to arrest Alfred. ...I've been told he goes psycho when he kills.

As far as the priest guy of Trinity Blood is concerned, he's a so called Crusnik (that's what they call him in the episode I watched)
I once read this entire vampire encyclopedia, I was really interested in vampires, and it discussed all the different kinds. I still have that book, and I looked it up. It tells about the Krsnik/Kresnik (close enough to Crusnik) and the Kudlak, which are two vampires who appear together. And the Kresnik is a good vampire and the Kudlak is the evil vampire. (Kresnik represents good and the Kudlak represents evil.) And they were eternally battling each other, sometimes in the form of animals, like a horse, Kresnik would be a white horse and Kudlak a black horse. These vampires come from Serbia, which is around Yugoslavia. They appeared in tales like if the cropts went bad or someone died it was the Kudlak's fault and since Kresnik is good he always won the battle.

So, they got their idea from that. The book wasn't all that in depth but it's probably pretty accurate. And it makes sense, the priest is a good guy so they based him on a good vampire.
Not sure if a character that will be a Kudlak will appear in Trinity Blood but the Kresnik is there alright, the priest.

So basically, they didn't use the clichéd 'half-vampire' thing here again.

Trinity Blood is... weird. But the animation is damn good. Who's the robot gunslinger priest agian w/ Abel in ep 2? He's VERY cool...