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.
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).
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.
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.
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, they made a new pact and became La Gran Sangre again.
Dragon, Mandril and Tony Blades, are the former members of a group called La Gran Sangre, which in other times dedicated to solve similar cases and to defend those who were in need.
A reckless band of female thieves, Diana, Venus and Medusa, who call themselves "las diosas malditas" (the evil goddesses) are sacking the national heritage.
To accomplish this he joins efforts with a new force of evil: Gringo, a powerful drug lord who embraces the fight against La Gran Sangre.
The songs were written and performed specially for the show by various artist many of whom belong to well-known Peruvian rock bands such as La Sarita and D'Mente Comun.