Two other reviews

The Japanese animated feature Blood: the Last Vampire, was under an hour. Where it was strong, hinting at bits of story rather than have a "this is the long, boring part of the movie detailing blah, blah, blah". It moved fast and was fairly complete. It left you doubts, as though there was another part coming. The sound was good, mixed with jostling camera moving to simulate quaking. Only a few parts of the movie had choppy animation, otherwise it was more fluid than typical graphic novel to film transition. I would probably watch it again, but not right away. It thankfully didn't spend much effort with parts of no consequence or red herrings.

Trinity Blood (so-called official website) is a Japanese animated serial (not cereal). I saw episode 4, having not seen the others. I think this was like an early college submission of a Voltron cartoon series. It was as hacked and pointlessly dialogue-heavy as Voltron with spits of violence. The graphic nature of the violence and the evil of the characters is greater. Still, the story of space vampires, the Vatican having their own assault team (so that's where Van Helsing got it) is patentedly bad.

A vampiric nun (nun who was turned) sought at the end of this episode to go to the Vatican and help the reltions between the humans and vampires to keep them from hating each other. Now, this being part of the dialogue, you'd turn it off right there, but sadly it was at the end.

Let's figure this out ... vampires feed on humans (regardless of the specific mythos of the story, be it blood, flesh, whatever) and the humans are supposed to like that? Yeah, "the negotiations never took place" + would be the end results of that.

Summary: Trinity Blood, not so good. Blood: the Last Vampire was okay, if you like anime and vampire stories. It is interesting to note that the main character, a vampire herself, used the term "demons" rather than vampires. The other oversight was a traumatic situation where the main character is fine saying "**it", another guy in equal peril says, "shoot".

+ Star Wars: Phanton Menace