Kekkai Sensen (aka Blood Blockade Battlefront) is a Japanese shōnen manga by Yasuhiro Nightow.
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Why is episode 12 of Kekkai Sensen severely delayed?
Episode 11 of Kekkai Sensen aired on 20 June 2015. One would expect episode 12 (the last episode) to have aired a week later, on 27 June 2015. That... did not happen.
At present (17 Aug 2015), the last episode still hasn't aired. This is hugely…
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In episode 2 why is baka captioned with "Dick Suck"?
In Episode 2, Zapp Renfro gets an introduction screen which captions 馬鹿 and バカ as "Dick Suck". At first, I thought this was a troll caption, but it appears in official releases such as the Funimation! stream.
Does anyone know why this was…
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Is Hellsalem's Lot a reference to Jerusalem?
Hellsalem's Lot, the current name of formerly New York City, immediately strikes me as a reference to Jerusalem, since they sound extremely close.
In fact, in Japanese, they only differ by one mora:
ヘルサレムズ・ロット (Hellsalem's Lot) vs. エルサレム…
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What is the name of the tune that Black always whistles?
When watching episode 10.5 of Kekkai Sensen, I found that Black, when possessed by King of Despair, was whistling some tune. I'm sure that Black whistles that tune more than once.
I remember hearing it:
Before Leo meets Black in a train, and
When…
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Why aren't people leaving Hellsalem's Lot?
Hellsalem's Lot seems to be a dangerous place, considering how much destruction is shown. It looks like hundreds of people die every month, so why are they staying there? I guess it's possible to leave the city, considering Leos family was there and…
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What was the meaning of Leo's chant on episode 10?
In episode 10, around 15:10 mark, just when Leo is about to collapse from hunger before they finally agree to settle for the burger place where he usually goes, he chants something that appears in the subtitles as:
Onbutsu sowaka mareba eloim…
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Kekkai Sensen ep9, meaning of "playing it backwards in double-time/fast-forward"?
5:54 Zapp said "What's he doin', playing it backwards in fast-forward?" You could replace fast-forward with double-time according to another set of subtitles. He was referring to the vampire, but the vampire wasn't even doing anything. What exactly…
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