Blood+

Katsuji Morishita's anime series Blood + is based of the movie Blood: The Last Vampire. The series follows a seemingly normal high school girl named Saya Otonashi. Under the care of her adopted family, Saya has been living the life of a normal high school student other than needing regular blood transfusions. Her normal life is ended after she is attacked by a Chiropteran and her step dad is killed. She then learns that she is the only one who can defeat them. Armed with her katana, Saya goes on a journey with her step brothers Kai and Riku, their allies, and her chevalier Haji, to rid the world of the Chiropteran threat and rediscover her identity and what she did in her past. Saya eventually learns that she has a younger sister called Diva and that they were both born in 1883. She also learns that the reason why her blood is able to kill Chiropterans is because she is also a Chiropteran, and she only has a short time to kill her sister and the other Chiropterans before she falls back into a thirty year sleep. Diva and Saya can turn people into Chevaliet's by letting them drink their blood. In the end Saya kills her sister and all of Diva's Chevaliet's, and gives Kai Diva's and Riku's children to take care of before she falls back into her long sleep. Overall I liked the series and the plot that it followed. I just wish that the series didn't end with Saya in a thirty year sleep, and I also wish they had dubbed the last scene of the series instead of subbing it.

Hellsing

Hellsing uses the same characters and settings but has a different story from Kouta Hirano's manga. The series is thirteen episodes in length. Hellsing is named after and centered around the Holy Order of Protestant Knights. Hellsing's mission is to search and destroy the undead and other supernatural forces of evil. Helsing is led by Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, who inherited the leadership of Hellsing as a child after her father died. She is a very stong willed person who most fear, she had to kill her uncle as a child inorder to survive which made her the strong willed person that she is. She is protected by the faithful Hellsing family butler Walter C. Dornez, who was once known as the "Angel of Death", and Alucard the original and most powerful vampire that swore loyalty to the Hellsing family. In the first episode Hellsing gets a knew member, former police officer Seras Victoria after Alucard shot through her to kill a vampire and brought her back as a vampire. As the story goes on she has to come to terms with the fact that she is no longer human and she now has to drink blood to survive. As the scale and frequency of incidents involving man made vampires  escalate in England and all around the world Hellsing has to eliminate the vampires and keep the information from getting to the public.Oveall I liked the series better than I liked Hellsing Ultimate. I just wish they had finished the series instead of making Hellsing ultimate to conclude the story.
 

Highschool DXD

Highschool DXD is based off of Ichiei Ishibumi's ligt novel Highscool DXD. The series main character is a highscool boy named Issei Hyodo. Issei attends Kuoh Academy because it was an all-girls school that recently turned co-ed, and the amount of girls outnumber the amount of boys at the school.  He lives a peaceful life until a girl named Yuma Amano asks him on a date. Since it's his first date and Yuma is his first girlfriend, Issei wants the date to be special. At the end of their date, they are in a park by a fountain where Yuma asks him if he wants to know what her wish is. Issei thinks he's going to get a kiss from Yumi, and he is speechless when Yuma whispers the words "Can you die for me?". She transformed into a Fallen Angel and killed him. She killed him because he possessed sacred gear which was seen as a threat to the fallen angels. He is soon revived as a devil pawn by Rias Gremory to serve her and her devil family. Issei meets a young girl while in town names Asia Argento and instantly falls in love with her and wants to protect her. Unfortunately for him she's a nun and he's a devil. But when the fallen angel's perform a cerimony to kill Asia and take her Twilight healing sacred gear Issei rushes to her rescue, but wasn't able to save her in time. Rias revives Asia as a devil because of her Twilight healing powers, and with a little help from Rias Asia moves into Issei's house. As the storie goes on we learn that Rias is supposed to marry Riser Phenex a full blooded demon. She didn't want to marry Riser so in order to determine whether or not they would get married they had a rating game, if she won the marriage was of and if he won she had to marry him. Issei was the last of her slaves to fall, and because she lost she had to marry Riser.  Her brother Sirzechs Lucifer who is not the original devil, but a more powerful replacement after the original Lucifer died sent one of his servants to tell Issei that if he cared about Rias, then he should just barge into the wedding and take her back. In order to defeat Riser and get Rias back Issei made a deal with the Red Dragon Emperor, and sacrificed his left arm for a temporary use of power. Overall I liked the series and cant wait for season two. I hope they eventually dub it as well, but ill settle for a season two.   

Casshern Sins

  In Casshern Sins robots have become self-aware. Their leader Braiking Boss ruled over the world with an iron fist. Luna is summoned by the people to bring the salvation of mankind. Braiking Boss saw Luna as a threat to his robot empire so he sent three of his most powerful warriors to kill  Luna, Casshern, Dio, and Leda. They all posses the same strength as each other, but Casshern was the strongest warrior because he lacked emotions. Casshern kills Luna plunging the world into ruin. Dio always hated Casshern because no matter how hard he tried Casshern was always better than him. Hundreds of years later the world's atmosphere is filled with poison, and most surviving humans cant reproduce. Robots begin to die like humans because the environment quickly causes their mechanical bodies to rust and corrode, and there are no factories to make new parts or new robots. Casshern disappeared after he assassinated Luna, and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is or what he had done. As he embarks on a journey to find out the truth about himself he meets many people that want to kill him and devour his flesh. They want to devour his flesh because he is immortal and they think that if they eat his flesh they will live forever. At the end of the series he stops the ruin and disappears never to be seen again, saying he will return if people ever forget about death. Overal I thought the series was okay. I just wish it had a better ending and a little bit longer and more detailed plot.

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood follows Hiromu Arakawa's Manga Full Metal Alchemist. Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood follows the manga much closer than Full Metal alchemist does. In Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood Ed and Al are still searching for a way to get their bodies back to normal just like they were in Full Metal Alchemist after Ed lost his arm and leg and Al lost his whole body, and his soul was bonded to a suit of armor. What they lost was the price for trying to use human transmutation to bring their mother back to life. They hoped that the legendary philosophers stone can help them get their bodies back, because it is rumored that with the philosophers stone they can ignore the rule of equivalent exchange. Just like in Full Metal Alchemist Ed and Al go on many adventures to find out more about the philosophers stone. When they find out what it takes to make a philosophers stone, they are devastated. They are devastated because the secret behind making a philosophers stone is mass human sacrifice. In the end after they defeat the first homunculus called father Ed gets his arm back and gives up his gate that he needs to perform alchemy to get his brother back. I liked the ending of Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood much better than the ending to Full Metal Alchemist. I think that Brotherhood  had a more developed and focused plot and storyline than Full Metal Alchemist, plus the speed that everything happened was much better in Brotherhood.

Full Metal Alchemist

The Anime Fullmetal alchemist is somewhat based of from Hiromu Arakawa's Manga Full Metal Alchemist. The first half of the anime mostly follows the manga but the plots start to become different  towards the middle of the story,when Ed and Al reunite with their teacher Izumi Curtis. Dante who is using the homunculi to help her get Ed and Al to make her a philosophers stone was a former lover of Hohenheim and Izumi's mentor is only in the anime. The anime starts off with Ed and Al searching for a way to get their bodies back to normal after Ed lost his arm and leg and Al lost his whole body, and his soul was bonded to a suit of armor. What they lost was the price for trying to use human transmutation to bring their mother back to life. They hope that the legendary philosophers stone can help them get their bodies back, because it is rumored that with the philosophers stone they can ignore the rule of equivalent exchange. Throughout the series they face many challenges to find out more about the philosophers stone. When they find out what it takes to make a philosophers stone, they are devastated. They are devastated because the secret behind making a philosophers stone is mass human sacrifice.  In the end Al's body is returned to normal, but Ed is sent to another world where he can't use Alchemy to return home. The movie Conqueror Of Shamballa somewhat fixes this, but in the end of the movie both Ed and Al are in the different world. Overall I liked the Series but I didn't like how it differed from the manga, and I didn't like the series or the movies endings.  

Highschool Of The Dead

High school Of The Dead is based off of the manga written by Daisuke Satō. This anime follows a group of high school students the school nurse, and a little girl that they rescue after her father is stabbed to death by other survivors.The high school students include Takashi Komuro, Rei Miyamoto, Saeko Busujima, Saya Takagi, and Kohta Hirano. The nurses name is Shizuka Marikawa, and the little girl that they rescue's name is Arisu Maresato. When this anime starts of everything is peaceful and normal, just another day of Takashie feeling sorry for himself because Rei dumped him. Then all of a sudden a teacher is bitten while dealing with what they thought was just a nut at the front gate, seeing this Takashi immediately goes to get Rei and  Hisashi from class so they can escape from class, within a matter of minutes after the teacher was bitten the whole school becomes infected.
While trying to make their way to the roof top Hisashi is bitten, but continues to press onward untill they baricade themselves on a rooftop. Takashi is the one that has to kill him when he turnes. Saya and Kohta are fighting zombies in the school, Kohta has a gas charged nail gun with a makshift scope on it to kill zombies, and Saya is using him as a bodyguard. Saeko and Shizuka are fighting zombies in the School as well. They eventually all meet up and plan to escape on the schools bus, while their getting ready to leave Mr. Shido and his group of survivors board the bus after he uses one of the students with a sprained ankle as a sacrifice so the zombies will be preoccupied eating him. Rei and the others despise Shido so they get off the bus and head to Shizuka's friends apartment. Her friend  Rika has a safe full of guns and bullets, not to mention a military Humvee. Before they leave they rescue Arisu and go on the run. Overall I liked the anime and hope they make a season two. As the anime went on it got more and more ecchi that was okay for a while but it eventually got old. I think that they started to focus on making the series more ecchi as it went on than about fighting zombies.
I really hope they make a season two. The OVA definitely didn't do the show any justice.