Blood Blockade Battlefront
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Cover of the first volume of Blood Blockade Battlefront, featuring Klaus V Reinherz
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血界戦線 (Kekkai Sensen) |
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| Genre | Action, Supernatural, Urban fantasy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yasuhiro Nightow |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Jump SQ.19 |
| Original run | 2009 – 2015 |
| Volumes | 10 |
| Manga | |
| Kekkai Sensen Back 2 Back | |
| Written by | Yasuhiro Nightow |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Jump SQ.Crown |
| Original run | 2015 – present |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Rie Matsumoto |
| Written by | Kazunao Furuya |
| Music by | Taisei Iwasaki |
| Studio | Bones |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | MBS, Tokyo MX, BS11 |
| Original run | April 4, 2015 – October 4, 2015 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Rie Matsumoto |
| Written by | Kazunao Furuya |
| Music by | Taisei Iwasaki |
| Studio | Bones |
| Released | June 3, 2016 |
| Runtime | 25 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond | |
| Directed by | Shigehito Takayanagi |
| Written by | Yasuko Kamo |
| Music by | Taisei Iwasaki |
| Studio | Bones |
| Original run | 2017 – scheduled |
Blood Blockade Battlefront (Japanese: 血界戦線 Hepburn: Kekkai Sensen?, lit., "Bloodline Battlefront") is a Japanese shōnen manga by Yasuhiro Nightow. It has been published bimonthly in the magazine Jump SQ.19 from February to April 2009 and moved to Jump Square upon the former's ending. The plot revolves around a young photographer named Leonardo Watch, who obtains 'the All Seeing Eyes of the Gods' at the cost of his sister's eyesight. After the incident, Leonardo moves to the city of Hellsalem's Lot to join an organization known as Libra to fight several monsters as well as terrorists. The manga has been published in the United States by Dark Horse Comics.
An anime adaptation by Bones premiered in early 2015, Funimation licensed the series for streaming in North America. Both the manga and anime were well received by publications due to its story and characters. A second season has been announced and will begin airing in 2017.
Blood Blockade Battlefront centers around the crime fighting organization "Libra" and their battles in Hellsalem's Lot, formerly known as New York City. Hellsalem's Lot was created when a portal to the "Beyond" opened, becoming a paranormal melting pot of monsters, magic and the everyday mundane life, and it is up to Libra to clear the streets of trouble and prevent the horrors of this city from spreading to the outside world.
The manga was originally released in 2008 as a one-shot chapter called Kekkai Sensō, which only featured very few members of the final cast and had a much different tone, focusing more emphasis on it being a vampire hunting story in a contemporary city. The publication originally began on January 5, 2009 in the Jump Square magazine with the title Kekkai Sensen − Mafūgai Kessha (血界戦線 -魔封街結社-?) where it ran until March 4, 2009, followed by another one-shot in October 2009 in Jump SQ.M magazine. In May 2010 the manga switched to Jump SQ.19 magazine for serial publication. Jump SQ.19 magazine ceased publication on February 19, 2015, and serialization resumed in July 2015 in the new switched back to Jump SQ Crown magazine.
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