<Li> Blood: The Last Vampire (2009 live - action film) </Li> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Anime and Manga portal </Td> </Tr> <P> Blood - C is a horror anime co-produced by studio Production I.G and manga artist group CLAMP . It is the second anime series in the Blood franchise following the 2005--2006 series Blood+ . The original 12 - episode series aired during 2011, with a movie Blood - C: The Last Dark releasing in Japanese theaters the following year . The anime was subsequently adapted into two manga, a 2011 novelization, a 2015 stage play set between the events of Blood - C and The Last Dark, and two live - action movies . </P> <P> Blood - C focuses on Saya Kisaragi, an outwardly normal girl who serves as the shrine maiden to a country town; in reality, she is a skilled swordswoman charged by her father to defeat Elder Bairns, monsters who feed on human blood . As her battles grow more desperate and more people she cares for fall victim to the Elder Bairns, Saya begins finding faults in her reality, and eventually uncovers a disturbing truth about herself, the town and her surviving friends . </P>

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