Mars Red

OK, it's a little different than most anime about vamps, or even live action shows for that much. Unlike at least one other reviewer, I found the plot easy to follow. Here is all the plot items that I could even imagine MIGHT be confusing for someone (again, not confusing at all for me and I suspect not confusing for most).

-There is one episode where it is primarily a flashback backstory, and then there are some scenes here and there that also do so.

-Late in the series, it was a little difficult for a minute or two, to determine if a series main character was thinking back to memories or whether he was imagining events that never happened.

-There was a significant event, about halfway through, the sort of thing that divides everything into "before" and "after". Until the next episode I couldn't be sure if it was from a natural disaster or an explosion created by either the humans or a vampire.

All that aside, I wouldn't call this anime "great". It's pretty good. It's more on the serious side with little "fan service" nonsense. Sometimes predictable, sometimes not... which is significant to me as so many are very predictable. I don't expect this to fall on the "favorites" list of many people, but it's certainly not bad and will probably warrant some honorable mentions.

In short- not amazing but certainly not a waste of time. If you like more serious anime and especially if you also like he vampire genre (when more serious), you will probably enjoy this series.