Strike the Blood Episode 2 Review

“Right Arm of the Saint II”

Hey guys, its time for another Strike the Blood Review! One week sure seemed long, didn't it? Anyway, let’s jump right into it!

This week, we basically were given more insights into both Yukina and Kojou.

1) Yukina and the Lion King Organization

Basically, as already mentioned in the previous episode, Yukina is part of the Lion King Organization. But this week, we are given more insight into this. It seems that there are only supposed to be 3 of the master vampires, but somehow a fourth one has appeared, being Kojou, and Yukina has to observe his actions and if he poses any huge threat, she is to eliminate him. Kinda a huge responsibility if you’d ask me, considering how serious Yukina takes her job! By observing she literally does it 24/7, even moving next to Kojou’s apartment to keep an eye on him. What’s even funnier was that when Kojou was just planning to go to the convenience store she had to jump out of her bath to go with him… And oh my god, her uniform’s all wet, and we can see through it… Anyone, let alone Kojou, would get turned on by that! This is going to be such a fun series, I can just see it now. Also, I wonder if this would turn into a romance anime? Considering Yukina would spend a lot of time with Kojou. Let’s stay tuned to find out.

One controversial thing that I would have to point out, is how ignorant Yukina is to the surroundings. Take the shopping centre scene for example. She didn't even know what a golf club was, and even claimed that she could use the detergent as poison… What does this show? Yukina is sort of isolated from the world strictly for her training as an attack mage, which is kinda sad in my opinion.

2) Natsuki-sensei

Kojou’s teacher, who is apparently an attack mage whose rival is the lion king organization. From what I can see, there is likely to be an exciting battle between the lion king organization and Natsuki-sensei’s organization, since they are rivals and all, and the battle is likely to be regarding killing some demon. I can't wait to see what’s going to unfold.

3) European Church

There was some exorcist from the European church who came to defeat a demon that wreaked havoc. However, according to the law, apparently you’re not allowed to attack demons that are wounded, but yet he wanted to kill that demon, which led to Yukina trying to stop him.

Yukina almost gets defeated but just barely survives, with Kojou coming to the rescue. Just within the short time that Yukina spent with Kojou, she was already wondering if Kojou would be sad if she died there… More romance <3.

However, Kojou himself was nearly defeated and somehow transforms into the forth progenitor, and we’re left with a cliffhanger.

Of course, the questions we are left with and are likely to be answered next week would be,

1. Just how powerful is Kojou and why did he transform
2. Why is the European Church here

And yup, before I conclude the review, I would like to give a shoutout to Taneda Risa, the voice of Yukina. She did a fantastic job, and probably made Yukina one of my favourite characters so far.

Overall rating: 9/10

What we got this week was an awesome action scene as well as more development and background to both our main characters, Yukina and Kojou. Which was done well with good pacing as well as “showing and not telling”.

Ace エイス