Blood Blockade Battlefront

Alt title: Kekkai Sensen

TV (12 eps)
3.847 out of 5 from 17,822 votes
Rank #1,848
Blood Blockade Battlefront

After a breach between Earth and the netherworld opens up over New York, humans and creatures from other dimensions become trapped in an impenetrable bubble that surrounds the city. Forced to coexist in a new city known as Salem’s Lot, the shaky peace between humanity and the netherworld creatures is protected by an underground group of super humans known as Libra. When a case of mistaken identity brings not-so-ordinary delivery boy Leonardo Watch face-to-face with this group, he joins their ranks hoping to help prevent the destruction of the world by a group of monsters and madmen lead by a powerful being known as the King of Despair.

Source: Funimation

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Noriko
7.5

HAIII!~ (╯◕‿◕)╯*:・゚✧❤ Interested and wanting to Leonardo Watch this anime? Lemme help! Welcome to my Kekkai Sensen aka Blood Blockade Battlefront review! Let's see what bones brought us this time :D I am a good person! And I like my bones (especially collarbones)! BUT there are bones that I do not like lately and it's that DAMN STUDIO BONES that can either bring you a masterpiece show such as FMA or Noragami, or they bring you coffin princesses with bad eyebrows or they force someone to spin off Soul Eater just so fans could shut up for a while... *sigh* Now when it comes to this show, it definitely does give studio Bones vibes... from 2006... However, despite the show starting off lousy, I really liked how it all turned out. The story is interesting and funny, decent visuals and sound, fun characters. Let's get into details :D STORY So the story focuses on Brock from Pokemon Leonardo Watch, a teenage boy who wants to find his sister who's in a wheelchair in the world filled with mutant humanoid creatures. And so, by a cruel twist of fate he meets a person who gets him into an organization called Libra (my horoscope sense is tingling). With Libra, and his special eyes which see everything, Leo and the people from the organization fight the forces of evil together. The whole story is sort of episodic, each episode has a ''new event'' and they're all well connected and it all makes sense. I would even say the story is the best asset this show has. What really amazed me is how interesting, funny and simply entertaining this show is. The comedy is nicely delivered and there's a lot of it, which I liked. The animation pretty much lives up to the comedy which is sort of important, but more about the animation later on. What I really like is how unpredictable the story is, I would HATE if everything went on the way I expected it at first, since I had a bad first impression of the show. I was very sceptical with this story, but it really surpised me that it turned out like this. In conclusion, nicely done story with a decent amount of comedy and episodic storytelling. I liked the finale and the ending was decent. 8/10 ANIMATION Not bad, Bones. But I know you can do better! Was this show made in 2006? The animation does have a lot of details and I just can't say the whole animation is bad. However, judging on today's anime standards, this animation gives FMA and Soul Eater vibes which wouldn't be bad a few years ago. So the animation is good, but it ages back a few years. Aside from that. I love the environment. How they made NYC look like a dystopian paradise. Very realistic approach when it comes to the environment and even the famous architecture of NYC. I'd like to note how characters are animated. Very typical to the Bones studio (circa 2006). I kind of liked seeing that. This kind of character animation brings back memories when it comes to some Bones releases, and I can't say that's bad. So on the good side it's well done, lots of details and greatly done environment, but on the bad side, it doesn't fit 2015 standards. So I'll give it a solid 7/10 SOUND The overall sound is good. When it comes to the music, it's not usual to see this kind of music in anime. The whole Jazz/Blues soundtrack really fits New York City (despite this being in a future). And that's what I like! It's not unusual for Bones to have a decent soundtrack. When it comes to voice acting. Very professionally done. I hate to say, but my perfectionist side (basically 85% of me) noticed some bits and pieces that were wrong with the sound. First and third episode had some parts where the sound was off/out of sync, which REALLY ruined my first impression of the show. However, this didn't happen later on so I'm still content with the sound quality. I love the music, I like the voice acting, so I will squint a bit and give it an 8/10. CHARACTERS Lots of characters, and although I feel like some characters deserved a better development, I do think that the characters they developed nicely (Leo, White, Black) kinda ''patch up'' that issue. The main character has a superpower, the ''All seeing eye'' (ilumeneti confermd) ''Eyes of God'' that can see basically anything. Not very original, but I like the way they presented it. Usually main characters have superpowers that are either ''stupid looking but become powerful'' or ''gorgeous OP af lambo bambo magic sparkles $$$ kind of thing''. In this case his eyes look sort of... unattractive?... unusual? I don't know how to describe it, but in my opinion, it doesn't look good, but hey not everything can be pretty *shrug*... at least he's useful *shrug* I really like Aligula (one of the antagonists), her personality is what this show needed even though she didn't get much air time. I also like the girl (White) and how they unexpectedly involved her in everything. I won't go in details because that would probably spoil your experience. Another thing. Almost all of the characters from the Libra characters are likeable, but they lack development. I feel like there are too many characters to find out more about them (they could take notes from Durarara!!... just sayin'), and the fact that the story is sort of episodic doesn't help. I'll give it a 7/10 OVERALL Despite all the disappointment I had with this show on a first few episodes, this show is more than decent. I was almost convinced that I would drop this show on episode 3 or 4, but I'm so glad I gave it a chance. It turned out great in the end, and the Bones studio is still healthy and it didn't get osteoporosis yet ^^ Thank you for reading this review! I'd recommend this anime to Misty, Ash and Pikachu to support Brock in his new adventures! anyone who is ready for some futuristic, steampunk (well... kinda), New York City Ghoul, action packed, organization, monsters, filled with blood, blockades and battlefronts, hamburger, pokemon, anime... just do it. Be ready. Pretend it's black friday and you're alone in a mall. Just get rekt with this anime. Rate if you found this review helpful, funny, or just like it. I have more anime reviews so check them out if you want! Thanks and have a nice day ^^

Mirufiyu
9.5

If this anime isn't among your picks this season, you're really missing out. 5 episodes in, and this show just keeps getting better and better. The plot centers around an introverted photography enthusiast (he calls himself a reporter, but so far we have never seen him report to even a magazine) who joins a group of humans who have gained supernatural powers living in the craziest, dangerous city based off of New York merged with the portal to the underworld. The city is even worse than Durarara's Ikebukuro, and you wonder why there are even normal people living in it. Imagine Hamatora, but 5 times better but with a plot that strings together well (just ignore the resemblances between the protagonists of both shows). It also has unabashed comedy that isn't your usual slapstick and while it may not have the most original storyline, it has the best screenwriting I've seen so far. Those who keep criticising re-used frames and cheap angles in anime will love this. There are scenes in which the action and dialogue are so chaotic you don't know where to keep your eyes on, but that only means there's something new when you re-watch the episodes. The romance isn't obvious but will come as a nice surprise and isn't overly dramatic like most. I can't say much about the other characters yet, but goodness what a gem the protagonist is, especially for those who hate cocky or overpowered MCs but despise wimpy ones. The protagonist is definitely neither of those. Blood Blockade Battlefront (stupid-sounding as the name is,) or Kekkai Sensen has a little to offer everyone. It has tragedy, but not as tragic as Tokyo Ghoul so it still remains lighthearted in spite of some really awful things in it, and you won't get a sob story dragged onto you every two episodes as is becoming the trend in recent seasons. And such good choice on the opening and ending songs, though I've always been partial to BUMP OF CHICKEN. In short, watch this. Trust me, you won't stop grinning. People have even stopped trolling in the comments section for this show.

PurplePeopleEater
6.5

I can't say I really enjoyed this anime. The concept was good and the characters were decently interesting and I did like the little monkey and it was certainly better than listening to the drunken idiots across the street.......It isn't labeled episodic, but it felt episodic which is something I tend to dislike. This made the story feel choppy and like there were holes. This is also a 12 episode anime and like many other 12 or 13 episode anime, it feels somewhat rushed.  There are times when it feels like the story opens up a can of worms and doesn't bother to clean up the mess. In other words, it mentions something or introduces a new problem and then doesn't follow through. The story isn't well told or explained and the characters are shallow or 2 dimensional. It caught my interest at the beginning but I became a bit frustrated when the events of one episode did not carry over into the next and seemed almost disconnected entirely. With the lack of character development besides the main character, I found I wanted to know and like the other characters but didn't know them well enough to. Again, and I have said this before, I don't think most animes should be just 12 or 13 episodes long. I imagine that it part of the problem. In the end, I still don't fully get what I just watched. Also, I really liked the burger loving character but he only got one episode and was never seen again :( The animation was about average. I reallydon't like it when characters are drawn so it looks like their eyes are closed all the time. It's one thing for a minor character to have eyes like that, but the main character having it is worse. That is just my personal opinion on the matter. Like how do those characters even see. I get that his eyes are special but I doubt he can see through his eyelids!!! There are other ways to hide special eyes too. I just don't like it.  I know this show got a decent hype and some really great reviews, but that means nothing. This certainly isn't as bad as some of the other shows people get all hyped about like :cough: SAO :cough: but it's not overly amazing. I did aprecciate that the characters actually got hurt sometimes though. It usually bugs me when no one ever gets hurt when doing a bunch of crazy stuff. 

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