
Although darker and macabre anime are popular among American fans, Japanese viewers generally prefer bright, cheerful, humorous and romantic anime. Shows including Tsukihime, Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari, Berserk, Devilman Lady, Texhnolyze, and Boogiepop Phantom, which have characteristics in common with Trinity Blood, don’t have sequel series.
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Typically, bleak, dark, Gothic, and sophisticated anime TV series don’t last beyond their originally scheduled production run in Japan because these shows only appeal to a small Japanese audience. However, considering that Trinity Blood is a show that appeals to only a relatively small Japanese audience, and considering that the Trinity Blood anime wasn’t a smash hit in Japan (I don’t mean that the series was a failure in Japan it merely succeeded as well as a show of this type can be reasonably expected to perform), I don’t expect the show to get a sequel. Since Trinity Blood is still so relatively recent, there’s certainly still a reasonable chance that a second series will be announced. Typically sequel or follow-up anime series are usually announced within roughly 12 months of the end of the preceding series. Among these 11 shows, only two have had sequels.
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Gonzo’s Bakuretsu Tenshi, Basilisk, Chrno Crusade, Full Metal Panic, Gankutsuou, Kiddy Grade, Sunabozu, Gatekeepers, Peacemaker Kurogane, and Speed Grapher have all been 24 episode series. It’s actually quite common for Gonzo TV series to have only 24 episodes. The Street Fighter II V series had 29 episodes. Kaguya Wants to be Confessed to The Seven Mysteries of Shuchin Academy Kamisama No Memochou. TV shows including Berserk, Final Fantasy Unlimited, Spiral, Tactics, and Peach Girl have only 25 episodes and no sequels.Īir Master had 27 episodes. Fremd Torturchen From Truant to Anime Screenwriter.

The Ai Yori Aoshi TV series was also 24 episodes, but it did get a sequel series.


In practical terms, an anime television series of roughly 24-29 episodes is usually considered “one season.” (Technically Japan’s TV broadcast year has four 13 week seasons, but generally half a year is considered one full length season for an anime TV series.)įor reference, recent anime series including Scrapped Princess, Melody of Oblivion, Kurau: Phantom Memory, Maburaho, and Honey & Clover have all had only 24 episodes and no sequel series. While most “single season” anime television series have 26 episodes, a series having only 24 or 25 episodes isn’t uncommon and doesn’t mean that the show concluded early or wasn’t a full season. Everyone dresses like a gun-slinging ghoul, a religious nurse or a sex-doll - key figures that reinforce the core Goth vein that richly runs through all aspects of this anime's design.Will there be more Trinity Blood anime because the series ended on episode twenty-four and not twenty-six, a full season? Moving throughout the ecclesiastical hierarchy, we get to see a wide array of outfits which merge superhero with clergy with catwalk. The Vatican especially is portrayed as a cloistered den of duplicitous bickering, illuminated only by the glittering costumes of the teen Pope and his acidic sibling advisors. The most hysterical and outrageous aspects of Catholicism are given the full treatment from a non-Christian Japanese perspective in Trinity Blood. Both attractive and engaging characters, they each nonetheless harbour deep and dark psychoses - human and otherwise.

We are introduced to the comical vampire-slaying (and devouring) priest, Peter Abel Nightroad, and the chilling though occasionally wry cyborg priest, Tres X. In this return to the violent 'religious war' of the original Crusades, a team of misfits are gradually assembled to combat the vampiric plague. In a futuristic post-Armageddon Europe, vampires rise as anti-Catholic terrorists to wage war on a newly empowered Vatican. Trinity Blood is heavily focussed on this phenomenon, and this first chapter delivers all any self-respecting Goth would demand. Ever since the late 90s 'Gothic Lolita' trend in Japan, much anime has catered to the sprawling subculture of Japanese Goths.
