Light novel adaptation by Silver Link
Simulcast on Crunchyroll

Premise:Powerful vampire dude gets chased around by cute risk insurance girl.

Lifesong’s Verdict: Trigun With Vampires

Only without the personality. This girl has to follow around a super powerful vampire with a dark history and try to keep him from causing any disasters. I’m okay with the cliche setup, but this first episode feels terribly unimportant. The focus is on the relationship between the heroine and the protagonist much like KnK, but unlike KnK, Silver Link failed to make any sort of interesting connection between the characters.

These characters are basically dull as dirt on their own merits. It will be up to whatever situation they are trust into to make them and any story they are involved with worth investing any energy in. I suspect the next episode will lay down the ground rules for events to come. I expect little from this anime at this point, but I’ll give it another episode to show me the card up it’s sleeve before I write it off entirely.

Iro’s Verdict: Struck Out

I’m probably shortchanging myself for not using that verdict on Ace of Diamond, but I wasn’t planning on watching that show anyway. In any case, Strike the Blood is… pretty bad. All the ingredients are there, but it seems as if the staff just threw them all onto the same plate without mixing them properly or even cooking them. The only way I could see it being good is if it was my first anime ever and I wasn’t aware of the genre conventions this show clings to like its firstborn child. Give it a pass.

Plus, the only “Shinso” I have room for are from Type-Moon.