Kekkai Sensen is developing a real swagger now. I’m venturing gingerly back into anime with Blood Blockade Battlefront – it’s been a rough couple of days to say the least (food poisoning). I don’t know how coherent my thoughts are going to be, but this seems like a good show […] Read more
Kekkai Sensen is so cool it’s illegal in 67 countries and two protectorates. I’m running out of superlatives for the stylistic accomplishments of Blood Blockade Battlefront. I guess it’s not shocking that a pastiche of BONES, Gainax, Nightow, Baccano! and Matsumoto Rie would be off the charts, but it could […] Read more
Episode 3 of Kekkai Sensen is more of the same, and oh so different. I’m more or less in the same boat with Blood Blockade Battlefront that I have been from the beginning. That is to say, the style is way ahead of the substance for me, at least so […] Read more
Turns out BONES + Matsumoto + Nightow = the coolest thing since the other side of the pillow. OP: “Hello, world!” by Bump of Chicken I’m pretty staggered by the sheer braggadocio of Kekkai Sensen after two episodes. Frankly, I’m not sure I’ve seen anything this brashly stylish in anime […] Read more
That was one fascinating mess. Kekkai Sensen has been one of the great unknowns of the Spring schedule for me, a series from a great studio (Bones) with a hugely promising young director (Matsumoto Rie, Kyousousgiga) from a legendary mangaka (Nightrow Yasuhiro, author of Trigun). The staff and cast are […] Read more