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Trinity Blood
Anime DVD Review
The bad news is Armageddon has come and gone. Europe was spared the brunt of the atomic blow. Biological weapons mainly hit it. We now have genetic mutations all over the place. The good news is that the church is finally doing something about the growing vampire problem. Using the latest in science and technology, they've come up with an elite team of vampire hunters. Behold! The Inquisition! Amongst their weaponry are such diverse elements as androids, mutant and vampire human hybrids.
I haven't even mentioned the Martian Colonies.
 Into this strange and terrifying world of the future strides Abel Nightroad. He's a young priest who could easily pass as the son of Vash the Stampede from Trigun and Robin Sena from Witch Hunter Robin. He's an active member of the Inquisition, and he has to make sense out of all the mystical things that swirl around him.
Abel's Inquisition co-workers would help if it weren't for the fact that they are mysteries all to themselves. Some are androids who follow their programming rather than his orders (even if that programming includes killing him). Some are cute, little mutants who have no problems with knocking him insensate. He isn't exactly a normal human being himself, by the way. The things he can do to vampires make them wish that someone would just stake them and put them out of their misery.
Watch Abel raise some Cain in Trinity Blood, an anime series based on a series of novels by Youshida Sunao. It's a complex web of action, intrigue, science fiction, and horror. The designs are very retro, goth, and oh so kewl. Tread carefully through the unhallowed halls of the day after tomorrow where supernatural nightmares dances with technological horrors in an unholy symphony of terror. You might want to wear a turtle-neck.
Reviewed by Lawrence Sufrin, November 2006
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