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NEWS: Nightow's Blood Blockade Battlefront Manga Gets Anime


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Hawkmoth



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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 4:33 am Reply with quote
This...this emotion...is this what they call 'happiness'?
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Knoepfchen



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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 4:45 am Reply with quote
Haven't read the manga, but Trigun is and probably always will be in my top 3, so this is great news for sure.
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L'Imperatore



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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 5:14 am Reply with quote
Haven't read the manga either, but the way I look at it... it's kinda 'macho' action manga featuring adult Americans as main characters. Amirite?

An American-themed action anime from the creator of Trigun. This might make its way into Toonami. Or even a simuldub. Who knows. Cool
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 6:43 am Reply with quote
Murder, She wrote:

They've lived together for years, in a world of crazy crime sci-fi sensibilities.


So..... um........ these are New Yorkers........ right?
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 7:20 am Reply with quote
This be happy news indeed, a good 2nd option to a relaunched manga-based Trigun/Maximum series. Nightow's crazy genius is in full force in Blood Blockade Battlefront.
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 8:08 am Reply with quote
This should be good!

A Nightow series with up to date animation should look fantastic!!
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 8:12 am Reply with quote
From creator of Trigun. Hell yes.
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CorbeauKarasu



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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 8:40 am Reply with quote
I wanted to read more of this, but B&N seems to have stopped carrying the volumes. I guess that'll change after the anime comes out, though...
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Mr_42



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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 9:19 am Reply with quote
CorbeauKarasu wrote:
I wanted to read more of this, but B&N seems to have stopped carrying the volumes. I guess that'll change after the anime comes out, though...


How much have you read?

You can get the first 5 volumes from Amazon, with Vol 6 coming in September.
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Ulinox



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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 9:35 am Reply with quote
Oh wow I remember this from ages ago. Thought it was just a oneshot or something, didn't know he continued it, can't wait to see the anime!
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 9:57 am Reply with quote
CorbeauKarasu wrote:
I wanted to read more of this, but B&N seems to have stopped carrying the volumes. I guess that'll change after the anime comes out, though...

http://www.bookdepository.com/search?searchTerm=Blood+Blockade+Battlefront&search=Find+book
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 11:59 am Reply with quote
Article says
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After he finished Trigun Maximum in 2007, Nightow launched Bloodline Battlefront as a one-shot manga story in Shueisha's Jump Square magazine in May of 2008. He then turned it into a three-part mini-series called Kekkai Sensen -Mafūgai Kessha- in the same magazine in 2009. He has since continued the story as a regular series in Jump SQ.19 in 2010.


So, technically, the third version is being made into an anime, right?
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bj_waters



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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 5:11 pm Reply with quote
trilaan wrote:
Nightow's crazy genius is in full force in Blood Blockade Battlefront.


So true. He so deftly moves from comedy to action to outright bonkersness, and his love for American comics comes out so loud and clear in this series. For those who haven't read it, it's basically like every single early 90s Image comic series rolled up into one setting, but with 80% of the "GRIM AND SERIOUS" replaced with Trigun-style goofiness.

And now it's getting an anime series? Rawk! Count me in!

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, if the anime is done right, this could have a LOT of crossover appeal like Cowboy Bebop did. It will be interesting to see what happens for the localization.
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DangerMouse



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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 8:48 pm Reply with quote
Sounds fantastic bj_waters. Smile

L'Imperatore wrote:
Haven't read the manga either, but the way I look at it... it's kinda 'macho' action manga featuring adult Americans as main characters. Amirite?

An American-themed action anime from the creator of Trigun. This might make its way into Toonami. Or even a simuldub. Who knows. Cool


Yeah, totally up for more Nightow action anime!
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Suena



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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2014 10:04 pm Reply with quote
Oh, yes yes yes!

A lot of people seem to have not liked the series, but I suspect it's because it's not the sameas Trigun, and they're reading it just because it's by Nightow. It has its own unique charm Smile
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