A new feature on Poisoned Rationality, "What I'm Watching" will cover the anime, tv shows and DVDs I'm watching each week.



Trinity Blood is what happens when pretty everything meets music I enjoy and a careless disregard for the Catholic religion that I find amusing....with vampires who only drink other vampires blood.  Incidentally vampires have been outed in the future, after a devastating human-vampire war 900 years previously and are known alternately as Methuselahs.  The vampires who drink other vampires?  Crusniks.  Sounds Russian right?  Anyhow Crusniks are special in that they're technically not really vampires, they have abilities given to them thanks to experiments during the Mars colonization project.

Originally I began watching this show because of well...the voice actors.  Its a Funimation product and back in the mid-2000's that was pretty much a guarantee enough I'd watch it.  What drew me in however is the gorgeous artwork.  Not just the anime, which has some of the most vibrant, lush and beautiful artwork ever, but the light novel and manga illustrations are equally breath-taking.  Look it up--the immense detail that goes into the outfits alone...

This isn't for people who take their religion seriously.  The show never mocks, belittles or slanders the Church, but it takes great liberties.  The Pope for instance is 16 years old while his one advisor (seen above with the blond hair) is a Cardinal and female.  Also the Vatican is kind of aggressive, blood thirsty and battle-hardened.  Aside from the awesome ships they deploy on a regular basis, they have an entire elite guard force that equates to a futuristic Templar brigade.  Its probably also a sin that most of the Priests shown are gorgeous specimens of malehood and all the nuns I've seen would put Pamela Anderson's chest to shame.

The anime is 24 episodes long, fully released in America and easy enough to obtain.  If you have the ability to I suggest finding the LE editions of the individual DVDs only because there's pretty tarot cards with each set and a very informative and useful guide book in each set as well.  If you don't want to make the investment just yet, its on Netflix free to watch.