#blood: the last vampire

[astragifs]

#saya #blood: the last vampire #2000s anime #classic anime #animangaladies #horror anime #anisource #dailyanimatedgifs #animeedit #animationsdaily #horroredit #fyanimegifs #fyeahanimegifs #oldanimeedit #tw flashing #🔮☆gif.

[mokacheer]

#blood the last vampire #blood: the last vampire #saya #anime gif #anime girl #anime #by moka #2000s anime #oldanimeedit #dailyanimatedgifs #anisource #fyanimegifs #animangaladies #animangahive

[otomokatsuhiro]

#blood: the last vampire #oldanimeedit #2000s #films #gif #dailyanimatedgifs #animangaladies #fyanimegifs #animangahive #anisource #*alyssa

[may8chan]

Blood: The Last Vampire - Hiroyuki Kitakubo 2000

#Blood: The Last Vampire #Hiroyuki Kitakubo

[reverendclown]

Found a new obsession

#blood: the last vampire

[orchidblack]

Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

#blood: the last vampire #production i.g #anime #horror

[priohuq]

Okay, this is gonna be the kinda post that probably none of you follow me for, but you do follow me and now you must reap the consequences of that decision.

I've been watching Blood+ recently. It's an anime from 2005 vaguely based on Blood: The Last Vampire.

That's all the background context I care to give here, you have access to the same wikipedia I do.

Minor spoilers and major rambling follow. So if you like anime about girls killing monsters with a katana, maybe go watch it first. I'll wait.

Recent episodes (Here meaning, episodes I saw recently, regardless of actual release date) haven taken place in London/The UK. And, I was quite surprised at how accurately it seems to portray the UK?

Burger King, beer and soccer all exist internationally, but who the hell knows about Boots outside the UK? (If it's actually very well known then I'm about to find out just how sheltered from humanity I am and cry a bit.)

I also noticed some of the background noise on the streets of London seemed to actually have English voices in it?? Could have just been a stock sound effect, or maybe one of the creators went so far as to actually go to the UK and recorded some audio while there. Either way, it's a level of detail I really didn't expect to hear. I also have no idea how to look into what actually happened behind the scenes, if such things are on record.

Anyway, I get to episode 35 and I see this building.

The sign is way too blurred for me to read, but something about this building makes a spark in my brain. The scene that follows this shot, taking place inside the building, suggests that it's some kind of taxidermy museum. I'd recently had a conversation with a friend, about a museum I'd get taken to as a kid, which also had a lot of taxidermy in it. So I guess it was on my mind. (If you're curious, it was the Horniman museum. The walrus there taught me how to fear.)

My autism fully engaging, I take to google maps to see if this is even a real place. I went through EVERY MUSEUM IN THE UK with taxidermy in it. There were actually only like five, it really didn't take long.

It exists. Sadly lacking the sign with a zebra on it. It's the Natural History Museum at Tring and it contains dead things.

While looking into this place on wikipedia to write this up, I found that until 2007, it was called the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, which seems to match what the unreadable blurry screenshot above might say. The museum was initially the private collection of a Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild, who happened to also be a big fan of zebras it seems.

My guess is that at least one person involved in the production of Blood+ had been to the UK, maybe even this museum in particular, and it ended up in the show. Again, I haven't looked up behind-the-scenes info, and don't even know if it's on record.

Something I do find interesting, is that in my admittedly very brief google searches, I couldn't find any references to this. Part of the problem is that "Blood" is also a word, so my searches were pulling in some medical related results. But even the Fandom (ick) wiki for Blood+, in the synopsis for the episode, just calls it a museum. That same wiki has pages for the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York, and the Vietnam History Museum in Hanoi, as they appear in other episodes.

I doubt I'm the first person to find this information, but I guess the cross section of people who saw Blood+, people who recognise or hunt for British museums they see in anime, and people who talk about these things on the internet is very small.

Seeing real places in media can be fun. I once spent a few hours looking up locations shown in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth on google street view. On a different occasion I came across a collection of google map pins for the different locations in Steins;Gate.

I don't know how popular Blood+ was, or how good this museum is. I just find it weird that I couldn't find any record of this connection at all. But it's also more than possible that people did notice it, and I just couldn't find it. It feels like it should at least be a poorly worded item on an IMDB trivia page.

#anime #rambling #blood+ #blood: the last vampire

[curiousrentals]

Blood+ | ブラッドプラス, 2005-06

“Haji!”

#blood+ #blood plus #blood: the last vampire #ブラッドプラス #junichi fujisaku #horror fantasy #vampire #00s anime

[zubiizu]

Jun Ji-hyun on the set of Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

#blood: the last vampire #jun ji hyun #gianna jun #vampire #behind the scenes

[astragifs]

#saya #blood: the last vampire #2000s anime #classic anime #animangaladies #horror anime #🔮☆gif. #anisource #dailyanimatedgifs #animeedit #animationsdaily #horroredit #fyanimegifs #fyeahanimegifs #oldanimeedit #tw flashing

[kaipanzero]

Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

#Blood: The Last Vampire #Blood #Saya #Jun Ji-hyun #전지현 #Chris Nahon #Hong Kong #movie #gif #2009

[my-anime-list]

Blood: The Last Vampire

There exists a malicious creature known as teropterids that masquerades as humans, solely to consume their blood. Fortunately, there exist groups committed to eradicating them for the safety of the human race. Saya, a secretive and enigmatic individual, is the most proficient slayer of teropterids. In 1960s Japan, she is dispatched to a U.S. army base that could potentially be infiltrated by these monsters.

#blood+ #Blood: The Last Vampire #anime online #anime #b

[may8chan]

Blood: The Last Vampire - Hiroyuki Kitakubo 2000

#Blood: The Last Vampire #Hiroyuki Kitakubo

[standardquip]

Video:Blood: The Last Vampire, Le Portrait de Petit Cossette Audio:Lady Gaga – Bloody Mary Premiere Date:2018

These were parts for a MEP (multiple editor project) that eventually got deleted, losing all the full MEP info with it. But enjoy the MEP parts I made for it, lol! Happy Halloween.

#sqvid #amv #anime music video #blood the last vampire #blood: the last vampire #le portrait de petit cossette #lady gaga #bloody mary #Youtube

[thegoddamnedmagpie]

Man this movie is grimy, i love it

#the one episode rule #anime podcast #anime #blood: the last vampire #Youtube

[curiousrentals]

Blood-C | ブラッドシー

“Before her capture, Saya made this wish: I want to stay myself. I granted it, but time to reach for the next wish, Saya.”

#blood-c #ブラッドシー #blood: the last vampire #tsutomu mizushima #clamp #horror fantasy #vampire