Trinity Blood Chapter II Episodes 5-8

Product Description Those in need of salvation can be the hand of grace as well? As the struggle for existence continues, members of the AX are hard pressed to keep pace with the mounting catastrophes. But even in the midst of global strife, life continues undeterred. Contains 4 exciting episodes: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Sword Dancer, Never Land, and Silent Noise Amazon.com As the vampire-fantasy Trinity Blood continues, the focus of the story shifts, although Father Abel Nightroad, the itinerant priest and agent for AX, the covert branch of the Holy Office, remains more or less at the center. He's joined by Sister Noélle, who wears a revealling outfit that's part nun's habit, part nurse's uniform; Leon, whom he springs from prison; and assorted other agents. All the characters are either bishonen (beautiful boys), voluptuous babes, or deformed monsters. A series of murders, assaults on cathedrals, and vampire activities sends Abel, Noélle et al. all over Europe. A combination of Gothic fantasy and pseudo-Catholic mumbo-jumbo, Trinity Blood suffers from a plethora of characters and a fragmented plot that fails to cohere. The story includes often silly references: one villain is Sir James Barrie, who's created faerie-vampires using the "Tinkerbell System." The created vampire storyline recalls Hellsing, on which Trinity Blood is obviously modelled. (Rated TV 14, suitable for ages 16 and older: graphic violence, grotesque imagery, tobacco and alcohol use, offensive religious imagery.) --Charles Solomon