Kekkaishi anime announced

[Andrew Cunningham]

Kekkaishi, the manga by Yellow Tanabe.
Big hit in Japan, but apparently a little under the rader in English. Sunrise's No. 1 studio animating it; director is Kodama Kenji, who did most of City Hunter and Detective Conan.
Sweet.

[Lego]

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Andrew Cunningham said:
Kekkaishi, the manga by Yellow Tanabe.
Big hit in Japan, but apparently a little under the rader in English. Sunrise's No. 1 studio animating it; director is Kodama Kenji, who did most of City Hunter and Detective Conan.
Sweet.

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Wow, lots of big guns coming out and doing shows. This fall is going to be amazing. I found this over at Akadot, so all credit goes to the reviewer:



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Kekkaishi by Yellow Tanabe follows junior high school student Yoshimori Sunimura, a demon-hunter that can create magical barriers that can destroy his prey. His rival and childhood friend, 16-year old Tokine Yukimura, is also a kekkaishi, however, she takes her job a lot more serious than Yoshimori, who seems to like creating cakes in the kitchen than hunting demons at night.

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[Peter_JR]

I have been reading the Viz version of this manga and had hoped to see it maded into an anime. While it follows the monster of the week storylines it has several long term mysteries and a bit of a boyhood crush by the main male lead.

[Andrew Cunningham]

Yeah, it started off a little slow, but each volume has been exponentially better than the previous one and it's now one of the best shonen manga running in Sunday.

[Helschadenfreude]

Yes!! /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif I'm so glad!