La Gran Sangre ("The Great Blood") is a Peruvian action adventure television series about a fictional group of social outcasts who work as soldiers of fortune in the city of Lima, Peru. Despite being thought of as mercenaries, the trio always act on the side of the good guys and help those who are in need. The series innovative visual style inspired by comic books consists on a combination of live action scenes and short animated sequences (creators have stated Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels and Quentin Tarantino movies as influences). This, along with an action-packed plot and appealing characters turned it into a big success all over the country. The show ran for four seasons on Frecuencia Latina Peruvian television network. Additionally, in August 2007 opened the first movie in this series. Origins While shooting a car chase scene for the mini-series "Lobos de Mar" Jorge Carmona and Aldo Miyashiro thought about making their next project about a group of urban heroes. Ivan Lozano, the art director developed the character design using animation giving the creative duo the idea of combining live action with animation and comic book language. Premise La Gran Sangre is the name that Dragon, Mandril and Tony Blades, gave themselves after making a pact in which they swore to protect the oppressed. Friends since they were kids, each one of them had to live very difficult experiences in order to discover their true calling as justicieros (vigilantes). The group became a legend in the streets of Lima, known and respected by everyone, the three heroes protected the city for a long time, until Tony supposedly betrayed the others causing the breakup of the group. The once inseparable friends ended their brotherhood and the criminals returned to the streets. After breaking the blood pact that united them, they took different paths and swore not to see each other again. Years later, when La Gran Sangre was nothing but a myth to many, a desperate businessman whose 15-year-old daughter had been kidnapped accomplished what seemed impossible: find Dragon, the former leader of the group, now a martial arts expert committed to help teenagers from a rough neighborhood keep away from drugs and gangs. Dragon was reluctant to search for his old friends, but finally he realized they were the only ones that could save the girl's life, and after much struggling to convince Mandril and Tony,