The narrative jumps around like a jukebox skipping tracks, but every jump lands exactly where it needs to. You'll miss details the first time through, then realize on rewatch that the show was telling you the whole story from the start, just not in order. Immortality doesn't feel like a superpower here, it feels like a curse that bonds strangers into a found family, all of them trying to survive the same blood-soaked night from different angles.

Blood marks the journey of the Flying Pussyfoot, a transcontinental train setting out from Chicago in the early 1930s. In New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his reluctant assistant Ennis search for lost bottles of an elixir that grants immortality, while a war between mafia groups grows worse. Back in 1711, alchemists aboard the Advena Avis are about to discover what eternal life costs them. These threads seem unrelated in time and place, but they belong to one larger story of alchemy, survival and immortality. Linking them are Isaac and Miria, a pair of kindhearted would-be thieves who cross paths with people carrying their own hidden agendas. Adapted from a light novel series, the story mixes action, mystery and the supernatural across overlapping timelines.