(CR) Kekkai Sensen (Blood Blockade Battlefront) Season 2 Anticipation

[Stark700]

Kekkai Sensen (Blood Blockade Battlefront) is getting a second season! Coming for 2017. Very happy to hear this news.

Source
http://otakomu.jp/archives/463358.html

[Kuroageha]

Great news, I guess which content will they adapt.

[Endscape]

Great news! Really looking forward to this.

[Flower]

Now here is some good news to be sure! I thought season one was amazing, even with an ending I felt was "just okay" for me.

Looking forward to this one as well.

[Kuroageha]

Image of the announcement

[Stark700]

Director changed. It will be Shigehito Takayanagi.

https://myanimelist.net/people/10553...ito_Takayanagi

[The One Above God]

Aw yiss~ Didn't really expect one, so this made me happy.

[AntonKutovoi]

Originally Posted by Stark700

Director changed. It will be Shigehito Takayanagi.

https://myanimelist.net/people/10553...ito_Takayanagi

Ouch. He's got quite an "accomplishments" there.

[kuromitsu]

AWESOME, but please no more original characters with plotlines that barely have any connection to the rest of the world. That really brought the second half of the first season down.

[IceHism]

White and black were my favorite parts of s1 so I hope they add some original thing.

[zztop]

Originally Posted by kuromitsu

AWESOME, but please no more original characters with plotlines that barely have any connection to the rest of the world. That really brought the second half of the first season down.

IIRC S1's anime team said they felt the original story was necessary to provide an overarching continuity to S1's events for viewers to follow, considering the manga's plot structure is an anthology of loosely related adventures connected together by a common theme, similar to the Joker Game anime.

[AB079]

Really good news and very well deserved.

[Guardian Enzo]

I thought Takayanagi did a great job on Dagashi Kashi, despite the bitching of some manga fans. I think we'll be fine here.

I want to know what Matsumoto is working on that's got her schedule booked up...

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Originally Posted by AntonKutovoi

Ouch. He's got quite an "accomplishments" there.

What's the "..." for? All I see is good-to-great works out of him on that list AFAIK.

[kuromitsu]

Originally Posted by zztop

IIRC S1's anime team said they felt the original story was necessary to provide an overarching continuity to S1's events for viewers to follow, considering the manga's plot structure is an anthology of loosely related adventures connected together by a common theme, similar to the Joker Game anime.

I'm perfectly aware of that. But they went too far, and the result was like having two storylines running parallel to each other, with a different cast (Leo being the only constant), a different story to tell, and a very different tone. There was barely any connection between them, really, by the end it seemed like the anime was just not particularly interested in the manga cast, and what they really wanted to tell was the story about Black & White... which was, to be honest, not as interesting as they thought it was.

Basically, if they want to make original characters and original storyline to tie things together that's fine, but I'd much rather have something about a cast I find interesting and fun.

(Huh, clearly I'm still not over this. Kekkai Sensen was a great show, really, but it ended up being something of a disappointment for me.)

[Flower]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

I thought Takayanagi did a great job on Dagashi Kashi, despite the bitching of some manga fans. I think we'll be fine here.

I want to know what Matsumoto is working on that's got her schedule booked up...

I also thought Dagashi Kashi was a quite a good job overall.

Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor

What's the "..." for? All I see is good-to-great works out of him on that list AFAIK.

This I also kinda agree with - among other things there is included work on TWGOK s1 and s2, both of which were stellar adaptations in my opinion. Of course these are the more "recent" works of his ... Tokyo ESP ... well ... that's another story in my book. Perhaps that is what AntonKutovi is referring to?

[Wandering Soul]

Great news. Definitely looking forward to season 2. As for anime original stuff, I actually really liked the Black and White part of the story, they just could have connected it better to the rest of the cast.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by Wandering Soul

Great news. Definitely looking forward to season 2. As for anime original stuff, I actually really liked the Black and White part of the story, they just could have connected it better to the rest of the cast.

Yeah, agreed. It was good material - just not well-integrated with the rest of the story.

[AntonKutovoi]

Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor

What's the "..." for? All I see is good-to-great works out of him on that list AFAIK.

I watched two of his works: Tokyo ESP, which was downright horrible. Can't even think of anything in it's defence. And the second is Dagashi Kashi, which, while mildly amusing, didn't exactly had a good directing, to be honest, and often felt all over the place - so here's my reasons for concern.

[Kuroageha]

KNSS 1&2 were good but yeah, Tokyo ESP suffered bad in anime form and DG's Saya was a mistake it was like Keikkai first season with original content that had no real impact.