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Trinity Blood Episode 6 - Sword Dancer

Because there's nothing like disrupting the flow of the virtually non-existant narrative to keep your audience interested (can you tell I didn't like this episode very much yet?) we hop to Amsterdam, where the head of the local vampires is a man named Karel who co-ordinates his activities with various other European vampires. He sends his minions after a nun named Agnes, who was the only survivor after a vampiric slaughter at her church who holds knowledge that Karel is after, but one of them is slaughtered by a mysterious Vatican priest named Huges, who wields a sword (hence the title). Eventually Agnes is captured and strapped to a contraption that lets Karel look into her memories, where he discovers something about a "Mem Link", before throwing Huge into a pit with a large, shadowy wolf to fight. Agnes throws him his sword (and gets skewered through the stomach for it) and Huge wins, before leaving Amsterdam for his next target.

You'd think they'd at least try and sustain the storyline a little, wouldn't you? As it was, I just didn't really give a damn, especially about Sister Agnes - these one-shot female characters are terminally dull and way too stereotypically nun-like to get invested in at all. Huges will probably turn up again given the point of this episode was just to show that he's cool and bishounen and all that jazz, and it wasn't as if the action sequences weren't as nicely animated as usual or anything like that, I'm just bitterly disappointed that we're jumping around all over the place given that the series is theoretically about Abel and Esther, 'tis all.