Kekkaishi
Tanabe Yellow
- Mangaka
- Tanabe Yellow
- First published
- 2004
- Status
- Completed
- Original language
- Japanese
- Genres
- Award Winning · Action · Romance · Comedy
- Content rating
- Safe
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Where it came from
Kekkaishi was serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday between 2003 and 2011, created by the mangaka Tanabe Yellow. The series follows Yoshimori Sumimura, a high school student who acts as a kekkaishi, a practitioner capable of creating protective barriers to trap and destroy demons. The narrative is set in the fictional Karasumori Academy, which is built upon a site of immense spiritual power, necessitating the defense provided by the Sumimura and Yukimura families.
Tanabe Yellow's design for the series emphasizes a blend of traditional Japanese occult folklore and modern shonen combat dynamics. The artwork is characterized by clean linework and distinctively geometric action sequences that visually represent the barriers used in the story. Upon its release, the manga was well-received for its balanced approach to pacing and character development, eventually winning the 52nd Shogakukan Manga Award in the shonen category in 2007.
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