Blood Blockade Battlefront

Blood Blockade Battlefront
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Klaus V. Reinherz
血界戦線 (Kekkai Sensen)
Genre	Action[1] Science fiction[1] Urban fantasy[2]
Manga
Written by	Yasuhiro Nightow
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA: Dark Horse Comics
Imprint	Jump Comics SQ.
Magazine	Jump Square (January 5 – March 4, 2009) Jump SQ.19 (May 19, 2010 – February 19, 2015)
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	January 5, 2009 – February 19, 2015
Volumes	10 (List of volumes)
Further information Anime television series Directed by Rie Matsumoto Produced by Wakana Okamura Daisuke Furuya Ryōsuke Mori Naoki Amano Mai Murakami Ryū Hashimoto Toshiaki Kaneko Written by Kazunao Furuya Music by Taisei Iwasaki Studio Bones Licensed by Crunchyroll SEA: Plus Media Networks Asia[3] UK: Anime Limited[4] Original network MBS English network SEA: Aniplus Asia Original run April 5, 2015 – October 4, 2015 Episodes 12 + OVA (List of episodes) Manga Blood Blockade Battlefront: Back 2 Back Written by Yasuhiro Nightow Published by Shueisha Imprint Jump Comics SQ. Magazine Jump SQ.Crown (July 17, 2015 – February 19, 2018) Jump SQ.Rise (April 16, 2018 – April 28, 2022) Demographic Shōnen Original run July 17, 2015 – April 28, 2022 Volumes 10 (List of volumes) Anime television series Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond Directed by Shigehito Takayanagi Produced by Wakana Okamura Daisuke Furuya Ryōsuke Mori Yoshihiro Otsuki Fumihito Fukino Hiroshi Kamei Written by Yasuko Kamo Music by Taisei Iwasaki Studio Bones Licensed by Crunchyroll SEA: Plus Media Networks Asia[3] Original network MBS English network SEA: Aniplus Asia Original run October 8, 2017 – December 24, 2017 Episodes 12 + OVA (List of episodes) Manga Blood Blockade Battlefront: Beat 3 Peat Written by Yasuhiro Nightow Published by Shueisha Imprint Jump Comics SQ. Magazine Jump SQ.Rise Demographic Shōnen Original run October 26, 2022 – present Volumes 2 (List of volumes)

Blood Blockade Battlefront (Japanese: 血界戦線, Hepburn: Kekkai Sensen, lit. 'Bloodline Battlefront') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Nightow. It revolves around a young photographer named Leonardo Watch, who obtains 'the All Seeing Eyes of the Gods' at the cost of his sister's eyesight. After the incident, Leonardo moves to the city of Hellsalem's Lot to join an organization known as Libra to fight several monsters as well as terrorists.

Nightow first published a one-shot chapter in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Jump Square in May 2008. A three-chapter series, with the subtitle Mafūgai Kessha, was published in the same magazine from January to March 2009. Blood Blockade Battlefront was later serialized in Jump SQ.19 from May 2010 to February 2015, when the magazine ceased publication; Shueisha collected its chapters in ten tankōbon volumes. A direct sequel, titled Blood Blockade Battlefront: Back 2 Back was serialized in Jump SQ.Crown from July 2015 to January 2018, when the magazine ceased publication, and the series was transferred to Jump SQ.Rise, where it ran from April 2018 to April 2022; its chapters were collected in ten tankōbon volumes. A third series, titled Blood Blockade Battlefront: Beat 3 Peat started in Jump SQ.Rise in October 2022.

A 12-episode anime television series produced by Bones was broadcast from April to October 2015. A 12-episode second season was broadcast from October to December 2017.

In North America, the first manga series has been licensed for English language release by Dark Horse Comics, while the anime series has been licensed by Funimation (later Crunchyroll). Both the manga and anime were well received by publications due to its story and characters.