Episode Count: 12
Studio: Madhouse
Genre: Action.
Story: The storyline follows Eric Brooks, half-vampire, half-human, also known as Blade, who is out on a mission of revenge and redemption. While on mission in japan, he stumbles upon the long reaching-chain of conspiracies and infiltrations perpetrated by a vampire secret society known only as Existence, whose Leader, a four-fanged vampire named Deacon Frost, Blade is hunting.
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Wow, I am surprised there is still not a thread about this considering this, alongside kamisama dolls are the only interesting things in the current season, not to mention thhat another supposedly "vampire anime", BloodC already has a huge thread and I have yet to see any vampires in that one.
So far, as Marvel adaptations go, this is one of better ones, a bit better than wolverine and a lot better than x-men and iron man. Wolverine was a good action show with a great premise, but it delved into the action cliches way too much. X-men had a great set up on one of greatest arcs in the comic books, potential of interesting interaction following the demise of Jean Gray, Logan-Scott rivalry/hate, etc, yet ruined it all with a very unlikeable marysue new character addition. Blade so far is a lot more balanced than that, providing a good deal of backstory, non-useless characters and good atmosphere. Its also quite creative in the fact that it does not only use traditional vampires, but the country-specific mythologies too. Not to mention, hey a black non-stereotypical male finally gets to be a badass main character in anime.
It actually pains me on just how much the anime-elitism bias seems to be blocking marvel adaptation reception overall though. That and people's ignorance(people keep confusing Hollywood movie marvel with comic book marvel, sow hen they find out wolverine lived in japan for years, was a samurai, married and had children and is not exactly a huge berserk-baw-hulk-person or that Blade is not wesley snipes, they go into shock)