Review of Blood Blockade Battlefront

*Brief Review-Reflections* ~~ There is a bit too much *Baccano!* in here for my liking. *Kekkai Sensen* gets overboard with having too much fun in its rustic soulfulness, which though befitting the chaotic milieu of Hellsalem's Lot and for the benefit of creative direction, is too magnified that it forgets it has a story on a grand scale and characters playing different roles to progress it. Speaking of its characters, every one of them rather feel more like proxies for different types of comedic humor (with *straight man* the main filler of the uneventful minutes as always) than organic vessels of unique and entertaining personalities. They canbe further simplified as try-hard badasses with unexplained sources of combative capabilities of which sprouted skills named in the spirit of a *chuunibyou* done tastelessly, with all the coolness extracted due to how serious it's making itself to be in that avenue. In those 12 episodes, only a really small handful of them was shown to seem relevant to the narrative, with said narrative somehow distilled into the story of the Macbeth twins, and of the said really small handful, none of them come off as characters with enough substance to solicit attention. Each and every one of the cast is a bland Xerox copy of already existing, highly stereotypical, oversaturated anime traits without an imaginative twist to at least make them refreshing to watch for a single cour. Sadly, such a troupe under an episodic anime that hinders the progression of its own plot, worldbuilding, and character development, and whose main character ends the season with one of the cringiest acts I've ever beheld (a feat in and of itself, truly), could really only feel like a drag, could never elicit responses entertainment creators wish to impose.

P.S.: Amagranaf Rozontam Uv Li Neji, or Nej for short, is leagues ahead of the recurring characters in quality. For someone who only appears in a single episode to be considered as such compared to everyone else who keeps on filling up screentime, it tells a lot regarding *Kekkai Sensen*'s abysmal writing.