And now, after painting my nails a lovely shade of violet, I’m free to give you all the following super-fast sort-of review:

I started watching Trinity Blood a few months back via Netflix, mostly because I thought–hey, I HAVE Netflix. I can watch all of those anime that I’ve been wanting to watch without forking out 40-80 bucks on them like I used to. Good for me!

Now, keep in mind I watched the first disc a good two years ago or so. I suppose it didn’t impress me much at the time because I didn’t continue (but more than likely I was simply distracted by another show). But the trouble with my personality is that once I start something, I absolutely have to finish watching (or reading) it. I can’t help myself. And it has to be truly…trulytrulytruly…bad for me to stop (after all, if it kind of sucks, I can always make fun of it later). And Trinity Blood isn’t bad. Just…vague.

Apparently the writer of this series (it was originally a series of light novels then a manga) died before it was ever finished so, of course, this means that the writers of the animation had to be as creative as possible about how they ended the story.

Apparently Father Abel (Abel Nightroad) found out his brother Cain (yes, you got it) was still alive (from his little sister, the empress of the Methusela …aka vampires-but-not-actually). This is apparently Bad Times. So first his brother kills him, but the cardinal (the main one…I forget her name) at the Vatican fixes all that (Abel is a special kind of Methusela…. I mean, aside from being a member of the royal family…except no one KNOWS that…so this regenerating thing works). They didn’t exactly explain why this is possible.

Anyway, at the end he re-confronts his brother and something-something-something Cain gets away and Abel is going to be searching him out to destroy him FOR ALL ENTERNITY….with the help of cute little baby Methusela who’s in love with Sister Esther (who turns out to be the princess of Albion…way to not hint at THAT, show).

Anyway, my real issue with Trinity Blood isn’t the story or the characters. I actually liked them all fairly well. It’s the fact that nothing is really explained. Being a relatively bright person (at times) I can make the connections, but there’s still a lot that you’re sitting around wondering about at the end. It’s a little exasperating.

Especially the sudden revelation about MARS and colonization projects, and I don’t even know WHAT that was about. *shrug* Thanks a lot, final episode.

I don’t know if the manga explains more or not. I still have volume one from a billion years ago, but I doubt that’ll do much to fill in the blank spots.

The wikipedia page on Trinity Blood actually explains everything so much better than the anime did (which is to say at ALL)– especially the Mars colonization and the Cruznik stuff….

NOW I see what was going on.

Oh, and did I mention that the nun with my name (my real name, that is) dies about halfway through the series? *sigh* Yeeaah.