Blood Lad

Blood Lad
Cover of the first manga volume featuring Staz Charlie Blood (center) and the supporting characters (background).
ブラッドラッド (Buraddo Raddo)
Genre	Action, Black comedy, Supernatural
Manga
Written by	Yuuki Kodama
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
English publisher	NA: Yen Press
Magazine	Young Ace
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	September 4, 2009 – present
Volumes	9
Serial novel
Blood Lad
Written by	Yasaka Kei
Illustrated by	Kanata Yoshino
Published	July 1, 2013
Manga
Bloody Brat
Written by	Yuuki Kodama
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
English publisher	NA: Yen Press
Demographic	Shonen
Published	September 25, 2012
Anime television series
Directed by	Shigeyuki Miwa
Written by	Takeshi Konuta
Music by	Yuuki Hayashi
Studio	Brain's Base
Original network	Tokyo MX, BS11, tvk, Sun TV
English network	NA: Viz Anime NA: Neon Alley
Original run	July 7, 2013 – September 8, 2013
Episodes	10
Original video animation
Studio	Brain's Base
Released	December 2013

Blood Lad (ブラッドラッド, Buraddo Raddo) is a manga series created by Yuuki Kodama and serialized in Young Ace. The manga series has been licensed for distribution in English by Yen Press. An anime adaptation aired between July 7, and September 8, 2013 and was licensed in North America by Viz Media for streaming on their website VizAnime and home video distribution in 2014. Neon Alley also acquired the series for streaming on their web service.

Plot

Blood Lad follows Staz, a vampire from the surreal "Demon World", and Fuyumi, an ordinary girl who accidentally wanders into the Demon World through a portal. Subsequently after meeting each other, Fuyumi is killed by a carnivorous plant and turned into a ghost, causing Staz to take responsibility and pledge to help bring her back to life.

Characters

Main characters

Staz Charlie Blood (ブラッド・チャーリー・スタズ, Buraddo Chārī Sutazu)

Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka, Waku Sakaguchi (young)

The main protagonist of the series. He is one of the territory bosses of East Demon World. He is the descendant of a noble vampire who would go to the human world to suck blood, but unlike his honored ancestor, Staz shows no interest in this. He is an otaku obsessed with goods from the Human World, especially Japanese games, anime, and manga. Other characters view Staz as a lazy moron who does nothing and has too much free time, but acknowledge his strength and the danger their territory would be in if he were to give up his position. When he sees Fuyumi, he falls in love/bloodlust at first sight and wishes to spend more time with her and to protect her. But just as he gets to know her, she is eaten by a carnivorous plant and becomes a ghost which causes him to lose his initial attraction to her as he is only interested in humans. However, he then makes it his life goal to bring her back to life. In order to bring her back to life, he will do anything; even becoming her vampire bodyguard.

According to Bell, Staz has an untapped power. He later admitted that his brother, Braz, sealed his true power with a bullet he modified.

Fuyumi Yanagi (柳 冬実, Yanagi Fuyumi)

Voiced by: Iori Nomizu

The human girl who becomes lost in the Demon World after wandering into a portal that suddenly opened up in her bedroom. She becomes a ghost after being eaten by a carnivorous plant, leaving behind only her bones and clothes. She wishes to be resurrected and become human again, and accompanies Staz on his quest to bring her back to life. It is later revealed that she is Bell's sister as their mothers were doppelgangers who merged making them sisters.

Bell Hydra (ハイドラベル, Haidora Beru)

Voiced by: Emi Sarah Bridcut

Bell is a treasure hunter who can travel through dimensions using frames. She is a high level user of spatial and teleportation magic and the owner of the Black Curtain that brought Fuyumi to the Demon World. She uses these powers to hunt for treasure in both the Demon and Human worlds. She wants to catch the magic thief who stole her Black Curtain and make him her husband. At first, she thought Staz was the magic thief, but after several investigations, it is known that the magic thief is dead. She starts to fall in love with Staz after Staz fulfills her wish to see his true power (unintentionally).

Wolf (ウルフ, Urufu)

Voiced by: Takuma Terashima, Mikio Katō (young)

He is the hybrid werewolf (the English manga uses lycanthrope in place of werewolf) who controls most of West Demon World. He is Staz's friend and rival, having known each other since Staz ran away from Acropolis. He seems to be attracted to Fuyumi when he first sees her, but is very shy about it. He is of noble blood and was supposed to live in Acropolis, but admitted that he was abandoned because he is not a pure-blooded werewolf. According to himself, he is "a mix of lycanthrope and nobody".

East Demon World

Deku (デク, Deku)

Voiced by: Taichi Yonesu

Staz's right-hand man. He is often the one leading the gang when outside and patrolling because of Staz's laziness.

Mimic Yoshida (ミミック吉田, Mimikku Yoshida)

Voiced by: Kazutomi Yamamoto

The newest member of Staz's gang. He is a mimic and can transform into other people. He typically transforms into people he admires, such as Staz. He serves as Staz's double while Staz is away.

Saty (サティ, Sati)

A three-eyed woman who rarely speaks. She is the manager of the restaurant, Third-Eye Cafe, along with her partner, Mamejirou. She and Mamejirou have clairvoyant powers thanks to their third-eyes. Even without speaking, she was able to stop Staz and Mamejirou from fighting with an intimidating stare.

Mamejirou (豆次郎, Mamejirō)

Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō

A three-eyed talking demon animal who works at the Third-Eye Cafe along with his partner Saty. He is very talkative. He and Saty have clairvoyant powers thanks to their third-eyes.

West Demon World

Kiji (キジ)

Voiced by: Shūsaku Shirakawa

Tobi (トビ)

Voiced by: Kenji Roa

Franken Stein (フランケン・シュタイン, Furanken Shutain)

Voiced by: Tetsu Inada

A scientist within the Demon World. He is an expert on demon physiology and conducts experiments on demons. He is interested in experimenting on Fuyumi and was working on a secret project to create a supreme body for the phantom Akim Papradon.

Demon World Acropolis

Braz D. Blood (ブラッド・D・ブラッズ, Buraddo D. Burazzu)

Voiced by: Ryohei Kimura

Staz and Liz's older brother. He is the one who wrote the book of resurrection that Staz and the others believe can bring Fuyumi back to life. When they were younger, he conducted experiments on Staz to unlock his true potential. He later sealed Staz's powers away with a magic bullet that he shot into Staz's heart. While his intentions are always under suspicion from Staz, his true motive is to dethrone Wolf-Daddy's reign as King of Acropolis and hence to achieve this goal, he orchestrated the creation of Akim Papradon who he further used to test Staz's strength on.

Liz T. Blood (ブラッド・T・リズ, Buraddo T. Rizu)

Voiced by: Yuuka Nanri

Liz is Braz and Staz's younger sister. She has a great respect for her eldest brother Braz and a deep disdain for her older brother Staz. This is partly because Staz ran away from home and partly because Braz would spend all his time on Staz. She is the jailer of Acropolis and has the power to judge and imprison demons in her own personal dungeon known as Liz's Toy Box.

Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto

King of the Demon World Acropolis. He is Wolf's biological father and killer of the Blood siblings' father, the previous king.

Constable Beros (べロス巡査, Berosu Junsa)

Voiced by: Masumi Asano

Chief Goyle (ゴイル部長, Goiru Buchō)

Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio

Dimensional Highway

Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi

She is the mother of both Fuyumi and Bell. She is the result of a fusion between the separate mothers of both girls, who were each other's doppelgänger.

Voiced by: Yūki Kaji

Bell's brother and a fellow spatial magic user. He is a transporter and takes on jobs to transport goods to different locations.

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara

A powerful monster who is Neyn's husband and Bell and Knell's father.

Others

Akim Papradon (パップラドン・アキム, Papladon Akimu)

Voiced by: Kōji Yusa

He is a monstrosity created by Franken Stein after building on and improving on the research left by his relative. In order to obtain stronger parts for his body, he escaped from Franken's lab via spatial magic and began hunting and killing demons with exceptional magical properties in order to harvest their limbs. Akim's true form is that of a phantom and hence possesses the ability to manipulate the separate body parts which make up his physical form. Akim's entire creation was orchestrated by Braz in his conspiracy to dethrone Wolf-Daddy and hence anonymously delivered the corpse of a demon known as Pantomine to Franken to serve as the central container for Akim. Following his later research, Braz has Franken develop a much more powerful container for Akim.

A spy who was serving under Wolf-Daddy's direct order. He was killed by Braz who anonymously delivered his corpse to Franken Stein to serve as a body for Akim Papladon.

Fuyumi's father. He was aware of the Demon World's existence following his wife's fusion with Neyn and decided to give up being with her to Heads Hydra to instead raise Fuyumi on his own.

Media

Manga

The manga was written and drawn by Yuuki Kodama and serialized in Young Ace since September 4, 2009. The series was later licensed for distribution in English by Yen Press.

Anime

See also: List of Blood Lad episodes

The anime is produced by Brain's Base and directed by Shigeyuki Miwa, with series composition by Takeshi Konuta, character designs by Kenji Fujisaki, art direction by Masaki Mayuzumi and Toshiyuki Sakae and sound direction by Satoki Iida. The 10 episode series began airing on July 7, 2013 on tvk and were later aired on Tokyo MX, Sun TV and BS11. The series has been licensed in North America by Viz Media for streaming on their online service Viz Anime, which was revealed at Anime Expo 2013 along with streaming by Neon Alley and home video release in 2014. The opening theme is "ViViD" by May'n whilst the ending theme is "Bloody Holic" by Yuuka Nanri.

Reception

Spick Mich reviewed the German version of Blood Lad, stating that the manga's art style occasionally reminded him of Soul Eater and that fans of action and horror would like the series.

External links

• Blood Lad at Kadokawa Shoten Template:Ja icon
• Anime official website Template:Ja icon
• Blood Lad at Yen Press
• Blood Lad (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia