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Kekkai Sensen Season 2 Announced for 2017

The newest issue of Shueisha’s Jump SQ.Crown maganze has announced that Yasuhiro Nightow’s Kekkai Sensen (Blood Blockade Battlefront) manga will be getting a second season of the anime adaptation. The new season will be airing in 2017.

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The second season of the anime will be titled Kekkai Sensen & Beyond.

The main cast of the first season will return for the second:

  • Rikiya Koyama (Kiritsugu Emiya in Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night) is voicing the role of Klaus von Reinhertz

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  • Daisuke Sakaguchi (Shinpachi Shimura in Gintama) as Leonard Watch

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  • Kazuya Nakai (Roronoa Zoro from One Piece) will voice Zapp Renfro

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  • Yuu Kobayashi (Sasha Blouse from Attack on Titan) is voicing Chain Sumeragi

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  • Ai Orikasa (Ryouko Hakubi in Shin Tenchi Muyo!) voicing as K. K.

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  • Shinji Ogawa (Franz von Stresemann from Nodame Cantabile) as Gilbert F. Altstein

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  • Yuuma Uchida (Yuuma Kousaka in Gundam Build Fighters Try) will voice Sonic Speed Monkey

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  • Hikaru Midorikawa (Kyousuke Natsume from Little Busters!) voicing as Zed O’Brien

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The majority of the staff also returns for the second season, however a new director will helm the series:

  • Director: Shigehito Takayanagi (Tokyo ESP, The World God Only Knows)
  • Script Writer: Kazunao Furuya (Debut role)
  • Anime Character Designer: Toshihiro Kawamoto (Cowboy BebopGosick)
  • Art Director: Shinji Kimura (Ao no Exorcist MovieSteamboy)
  • Animation Studio: Studio BONES (Hitsugi no ChaikaCaptain Earth)

Kekkai Sensen (Blood Blockade Battlefront) is a manga from Yasuhiro Nightow that began in 2008 as a one shot series. Kekkai Sensen was published in Shueisha’s Jump Square magazine, with a 3 part special releasing in 2009. The manga became a regular series in 2010 and ended after a total of 10 volumes. A sequel manga, titled Kekkai Sensen Back 2 Back began in 2015 and currently has 2 published volumes. An anime adaptation of the series was produced for 2015 that aired for a total of 12 episodes. Nightow is most known for this other manga Trigun, which ended that year with Trigun Maximum, the series also had an anime adaptation in 1998.

Here is a synopsis of the series from MAL:

A breach between Earth and the netherworlds has opened up over the city of New York, trapping New Yorkers and creatures from other dimensions in an impenetrable bubble. They’ve lived together for years, in a world of crazy crime sci-fi sensibilities. Now someone is threatening to sever the bubble, and a group of stylish superhumans is working to keep it from happening.

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A second season of the Kekkai Sensen anime, titled Kekkai Sensen & Beyond, is currently in production for 2017. Further details about the anime will be revealed at a later date.

You can visit the anime’s website here: http://kekkaisensen.com/
And follow their Twitter here: @kekkaisensen

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