YMMV / Blood Stain Child

• Awesome Music: "Sirius VI" from Epsilon combines angelic trance arrangements and Sophia's J-pop-inspired vocals with the monster energy and bombast of the band's established melodeath sound, all with Ryo's crazy vocal delivery. Hell, the entire Epsilon album can qualify as this.
  • For fans of the Sadew V1 era, "Freedom" from Mozaiq, which is a showcase of Sadew's vocal ability and the compositional skill of the band.
• Broken Base: While the band's sound has been generally respected by fans, even after their Genre Shift into electro-metal, the same can't be said for Sadew, who is either lauded as a powerful Type 3 Metal Screamer on par with Anders Friden of In Flames or criticized for being even more of a Dreadful Musician than Ryo ever was.
  • The addition of Sophia as the band's vocalist from 2010-2012 caused even more of a Broken Base among the band's fan community, with some fans praising her serene, almost angelic female voice while others criticizing her for replacing the band's predominant vocal style from screams to cleans.
  • Sophia's departure in 2012 seems to be fueling another Fandom Rivalry between fans of the new vocalist Kiki and Sophia worshippers who think Kiki isn't a worthy replacement.
  • Another contentious line-up change saw both vocalists leaving, creating another broken base. Fans were more ambivalent about Kiki's departure as she had only recorded one single with the band, but the departure of founding member and long-time bassist and harsh vocalist Ryo was not received well. Combined with the release of the "Nexus" video featuring new vocalist Saika and new bassist Yakky, several fans have accused the band of selling out to go in a more mainstream Visual Kei direction and abandoning the trance/death metal formula that they refined over their previous three full-length albums.
• Epic Riff: The intro to "Sirius VI" and the eurobeat-esque synths from "Freedom" and "Innocence".
• Moment of Awesome: They managed to achieve this on a level similar to early In Flames by combining hard-hitting Melodic Death Metal with the very poppy side of electronic music and J-pop. Initially people didn't think it would work very well. Needless to say, the surprise success of Idolator brought a whole new edge to modern Melodic Death Metal, both in Japan and all over the world.