The official website of upcoming anime adaptation of Yasuhiro Nightow’s Kekkai Sensen (Blood Blockade Battlefront) manga has revealed a brand new visual for the April TV anime series. The site has also revealed two new commercials previewing the animation of the anime.
The official website of the anime has revealed two new commercials, a 15 second commercial and a 30 second version, both of which preview one of the insert songs from the anime.
Commercial 1:
CM 2:
The main cast of the Kekkai Sensen anime were earlier revealed and includes:
- Rikiya Koyama (Kiritsugu Emiya in Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night) is voicing the role of Klaus von Reinhertz
- Daisuke Sakaguchi (Shinpachi Shimura in Gintama) as Leonard Watch
- Kazuya Nakai (Roronoa Zoro from One Piece) will voice Zapp Renfro
- Yuu Kobayashi (Sasha Blouse from Attack on Titan) is voicing Chain Sumeragi
- Mitsuru Miyamoto (Maiza Avaro in Baccano!) voices Stephen A. Starphase
- Ai Orikasa (Ryouko Hakubi in Shin Tenchi Muyo!) voicing as K. K.
- Shinji Ogawa (Franz von Stresemann from Nodame Cantabile) as Gilbert F. Altstein
- Yuuma Uchida (Yuuma Kousaka in Gundam Build Fighters Try) will voice Sonic Speed Monkey
- Akira Ishida (Kotaro Katsura in Gintama) as Femt
There has been additional cast members revealed whose characters they will voice haven’t been revealed yet. They include
- Rie Kugimiya (Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)
- Keiji Fujiwara (Tatsuya Kimura from Hajime no Ippo)
- Hikaru Midorikawa (Lancer in Fate/zero)
- Mamoru Miyano (Rintarou Okabe from Steins;Gate)
The website has also revealed a few messages from the manga’s creator Yasuhiro Nightow, the anime’s director Rie Matsumoto and its character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto.
The main staff of the anime were earlier revealed and includes:
- Director: Rie Matsumoto (Kyousogiga)
- Script Writer: Kazunao Furuya (Debut role)
- Anime Character Designer: Toshihiro Kawamoto (Cowboy Bebop, Gosick)
- Art Director: Shinji Kimura (Ao no Exorcist Movie, Steamboy)
- Animation Studio: BONES (Hitsugi no Chaika, Captain Earth)
The first promotional video of the anime was revealed at Jump Festa 2015:
And the second promotional video earlier in the year:
Kekkai Sensen (Blood Blockade Battlefront) is a manga from Yasuhiro Nightow that began in 2008 as a one shot series. 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. Kekkai Sensen was published in Shueisha’s Jump Square magazine, with a 3 part special releasing in 2009. Since then the manga became a regular series in 2010 instead being published in Shueisha’s Jump SQ.19 magazine. To date the series has a total of 10 compiled volumes.
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.
The Kekkai Sensen anime will be airing from April 5th at 2:28am JST on MBS during the Spring 2015 anime season. Additional information about the anime will be revealed soon.
You can visit the anime’s website here: http://kekkaisensen.com/
And follow their Twitter here: @kekkaisensen
“Kekkai Sensen”, “Blood Blockade Battlefront”, images and all associated brands and titles © 2015 Yasuhiro Nightow, Bones Inc., Shueisha and the Kekkai Sensen Production Committee