Being cut short to only 10 episodes this is basically advertisement for the Manga which is slowly progressing itself and not legally up to date or fully scanlated (30/50 chapters). The typcal Shonen-Quest is still at an early stage and we only got hints about the battle for a new king. The show itself is O.K. at best but doesn't bring anything new. I almost dropped it after the first two episodes. The thing is that it can be entertaining and look good but it often has bad designs or even cheap looking "monsters" (kids anime style) and the fanservice was annoying too unless you find huge cans classy... I don't see this being popular outside of it's airtime.

"Blood Lad" is an anime that I was really looking forward to because I thought that the drawing style and the character design of the main protagonist looked very appealing. The references to other animes sometimes made me exhale more forcefully from my nose. But unfortunately none of that is of any use if the anime loses itself somewhere and no longer knows what to do with itself. There is a goal to revive the girl, but the way to get there is clunky and boring. In addition, I'm not a fan of fan service at all, which unfortunately is very present here... I would not recommend this anime.