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Trinity Blood

In 3080 AD, human being faced a huge disaster called Armageddon. The disaster almost destroyed whole of the civilization on Earth. And then, the Armageddon caused a long and big war between 2 Terran and Methuselah or human and vampire.

The Terrans treated Methuselah who had strange power and long life ain’t nothing much than a monster. Beside, Methuselahs thought that terran was only a food source for them.
After a long war, finally the Terrans could ‘push’ the Methuselahs to Byzantium. And the time passed by. The war had been just a history that forgotten by people.

The terrans lived their life in the world which started to heal and the methuselahs stayed in Byzantium Teikoku. But that wasn’t meant the war was over. There were still Methuselahs who hunted terran for their food. Not only fear but there were also problems which increased the stress and conflict between Terran and Methuselah.

To stop tragedies that keep continued, Terrans built ‘fort’, Vatican, in Rome. One of the division was Ax (Division of State ecclesiastical Affairs) that leaded by Catherine Sforza. Even though Ax was just a little division but it was consist of experts who had no competitor in their field.

They were: the cyborg and war machine; tres Iqus; No.1 expert of sword fighting, Hugue de Watteau; the genius man William Wordsworth a.k.a ‘Professor’; Leon de Asturias (Dandelion); Noelle Bor (Mistress); Vaclav havel (Know Faith); Kate Scott (Iron Maiden) and Abel Nightroad a gentleman who always smiling but had a monster inside of him, called Crusnix.

During did their duties, Ax found that there was an organization that didn’t expect peace for terrans and Methuselahs. They were ‘Rozenkreuz Orden’. Rozenkreuz Orden wanted to change the world by destroy it first.

So, the war continued between Vatican, Rozenkreuz Orden and The Empire (Methuselahs).

Trinity Blood, an anime series based on a series of novels by Youshida Sunao. It's a complex web of action, intrigue, science fiction, and horror. The designs are very retro, goth, and so cool. Tread carefully through the unhallowed halls of the day after tomorrow where supernatural nightmares dances with technological horrors in an unholy symphony of terror. You might want to wear a turtle-neck.

Source : (Animonster magazine, no. 86, May 2006)