Whats happening at the end?? its it being rushed everything justt happens really fast!!! Im not sure but it seemed a little incomplete

Great manga, all the way through. I didnt care for the last chapter, not because the ending sucked but rather the main characters only get 3 pages of the "ending". Kinda annoying. Otherwise was a great work, could easily have continues or have a spin off if the author chose to.

This manga has taken me on a long, long drive... However, it has the possibility as continuing and not ending there. Since its shounen. However, I guess its got to end, right? Sigh...

Plot:Very interesting and original in it's own way.Basically sth like a hyper upgrade of Inuyasha.Starts a bit slow but unfolds better as time goes by.Sometimes it's a little perplexed without any particular reason though.

Character development:The characters are developed pretty nicely and considering the fact that you will meet more than 60 different characters there is a good management of them.But most of them are your typical shounen ones so no originality here.Also i don't like the shounen syndrome where the protagonist doesn't dirty his hands.What i mean is that Yoshimori is the guy who wants to protect everything but doesn't have the power to do so.So when the situation is sink or swim (when he is dealing with half ayakashi or humans) and knows the risk that if he doesn't kill them sth worst will happen,someone else pops up and does the cleaning job done.Or that some bad guys get away when they can be apprehended.I would rather the series had Masamori, his elder brother as the protagonist who is someone similar to the flame alchemist from FMA rather than the moron Yoshimori.But that's never gonna change.Fighting shounen will and always have a teenage student as a lead character with a million flaws so as the story progresses he gets over them little by little, and not a conscious person.Masamori and Mudou definitely the best 2 characters of the story.

Artwork:Well...Average.Not too detailed on the characteristics of the faces take Yukimura for example.The scenery is ok but also sth not very impressive.But i don't care much since i read manga for the story and not for their artwork.

Be prepared though.This series has a lot of chapters and is a little slow at first.
Also sth tells me that after 342 chapter the ending will suck.


PS: Boo boo boo boo.The ending felt like a waste of time, bad,rushed and inconsistent (meaning the last 10 chapters or so which makes sense if you also read the spoiler above).I felt like I wasted my time reading the whole manga.

... Last updated on May 25th, 2011, 4:33am

I can see why some would not like it (my sisters judge it because they don't like the art and the way the heroes start out fighting with "boxes") but I think this is definitely one of the better series out there. It does start out really slow and it can occasionally be a little stupid but as the series goes on it gets much more complex and interesting. The characters really flesh out and become human and the villains become less flat. The morally gray areas of politics are also introduced. What I like the best is that the characters do find out more unique ways of using these "boxes" and change their form, specialty, strength, etc, and their ability to use them diverges. The main character is funny and yes, naturally strong though he can't get his head in the game at first, So yes, it's exciting, with a good plot, many loveable characters, and I even liked the ending, which for me is pretty rare.

... Last updated on May 30th, 2011, 5:42pm

I think the manga is quite original and interesting enough to pull us in with so many intriguing plots and arcs. Every part of it just makes some development to the characters, and the readers can also see the running idea of Kekkaishi. The artwork isn't much of premise and sometimes the inner side of some characters is chilling down my spine (namely Masamori), but I think overall the progression is good. Compared to its peers in the same category, the manga delivers the same ecstasy but I personally found this bit better with its constant dark atmosphere and unpredictable conclusion. And I like it best when the scanlators are on the job, no offense.

I'm not sure why people don't like the slow start. I quite enjoyed it. That said, I hope Kekkaishi comes to an end sometime. It would be very nice to have a good ending to this awesome series.

The only problems I had with it were that Yoshimori spends about the first half being a blundering doof, and the second half being really too powerful for his own good. Especially in the anime, where his tendency to fall over and screw up seems to be somehow magnified a couple hundred times, despite having transcribed right from the manga. However, it's mostly overlookable in the manga.

... Last updated on September 18th, 2010, 10:07pm

Kekkaishi starts off rather feebly, with a cliche shounen cast of characters and settings. It almost seems to be a bastard child of Bleach until after the 100 chapter mark, when the Kokuburou Arc comes to an end and so does the "Monster of the Week" chapters. That is the turning point of Kekkaishi as the cast and world expands beautifully and transforms from a shounen cliche into an truly interesting manga.

The longer it runs the better it gets, if you find the weak beginning hard to follow you can always watch the anime as a slightly more bearable shortcut since it covers the manga until Vol 12. Despite its weak start it steadily improves as the chapters increase: the art, the plot and the characters all improve and develop so don't be too hasty in judging it.

Honestly I consider Kekkaishi to be the one of the best examples of the shounen cliche done right.

Yes, I understand that it may be a bit slow at the start and only picks up after 50 chapters. However, if you have the patience for it, just read it through, and it would be paid off.

The real story starts at around chapter 50, and many readers who have not read the other 250 (and counting) chapters find it boring, overrated, etc. BUT! Don't EVER judge a book by its cover, even if it is 50 chapters long. Personally, I feel that this series deserves as much compliment as the other top series.