Kekkaishi

Kekkaishi
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Yoshimori Sumimura (right) and Madarao
結界師
Genre
Manga
Written byYellow Tanabe
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runOctober 22, 2003 – April 6, 2011
Volumes35 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed byKenji Kodama
Produced by
  • Koji Nagai
  • Naohiro Ogata
Written byHiroshi Ōnogi
Music byTaku Iwasaki
StudioSunrise
Licensed by
Original networkNNS (ytv)
English network
Original run October 16, 2006 – February 11, 2008
Episodes52 (List of episodes)

Kekkaishi (結界師, "Barrier Master") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yellow Tanabe. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 2003 to April 2011, with its chapters collected in 35 tankōbon volumes. The series is about Yoshimori Sumimura and Tokine Yukimura, heirs to rival families of kekkai (barrier magic) users, who must defend their school from the spirits drawn to the sacred land upon which it is built.

A 52-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Sunrise was broadcast from October 2006 to February 2008. Both manga and anime series have been licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media. The anime series was broadcast in the United States on Adult Swim from May 2010 to May 2011.

The Kekkaishi manga had over 17 million copies in circulation by June 2020. In 2007, the manga won the 52nd Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category.

  1. ^ a b "The Official Website for Kekkaishi". Viz Media. Archived from the original on April 13, 2024. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference ANN-end was invoked but never defined (see the help page).