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Kekkaishi, Vol. 16 (Kekkaishi #16)

by Yellow Tanabe

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By night, junior high student Yoshimori Sumimura is a "kekkaishi"--a demon-hunter who specializes in creating magical barriers around his prey. By day, Yoshimori's got some other demons to battle: an addiction to sweets and a seriously crotchety grandfather Yoshimori's pretty 16-year-old neighbor and childhood friend, Tokine Yukimura, is a

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Paperback, 192 pages

Published February 17th 2009 by VIZ Media LLC

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Aug 25, 2011

Estara Swanberg rated it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The end fight against the demon warrior and on Tokine's side against the mercenary twin brother brings Yoshimori to the realisation how hard it is to be the one who has to wait for news when your friend/beloved/comrade is in the enemy's fortress fighting for their life. Nice table turning there ^^.

I loved the way that Misao really took care of her friend until finally the grown-ups found the two and only then did she break down in tears - I liked seeing Masamori's more tender side, e...moreThe end fight against the demon warrior and on Tokine's side against the mercenary twin brother brings Yoshimori to the realisation how hard it is to be the one who has to wait for news when your friend/beloved/comrade is in the enemy's fortress fighting for their life. Nice table turning there ^^.

I loved the way that Misao really took care of her friend until finally the grown-ups found the two and only then did she break down in tears - I liked seeing Masamori's more tender side, especially since he has such a twisted relationship with Yoshimori.

There's the dark turn that the next Shadow Council session takes in that we finally get some more of Masamori's viewpoint on both Shadow Council and Karasumori - where Yoshimori wants to seal, Masamori wants to destroy. As Yoshimori actually says in a scene two pages later, if Karasumori only wanted to let off steam against the demon warrior, he could have told Yoshimori and then he would have fulfilled its wish, because it's not as if he hated the place...

We get another lovely comedy interlude with a maneating girl (whose virtue lies in the fact that she honestly believes her own delusions and does all the things she does out of utmost desire to be one with her beloved) whom Yoshimori can't get off his back. It has the nice benefit of getting Tokine to see him in a slightly different light personally, to become a bit more aware of his outside growth and that it's understandable when a girl falls in love with him now. Sweet ^^.

And then we get a dramatic one off in a meddling of Yoshimori's mother with Karasumori and a land deity water dragon, all for the good of both. We never get to see her full face and she vanishes as soon as she arrives, so this is even more fushigi mystery! This chapter also has the lovely role of showing the varying approaches Tokine and Yoshimori have towards visiting huge yokai ^^ AND we get a flashback to the time when Karasumori lived as a noble (in Heian era Japan, from the looks of it).

And - as seems usual for this series - the next story starts in the last chapter with Yoshimori accepting a request of his brother's to help him watch a shrine, while Masanori enters the world of the land deity that the shrine leads to.(less)

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Apr 08, 2010

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I'm glad that Masamori is turning out to be a nice guy after all.

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This book was about a kid who has a sercert life and he is a demon fighter, and he has to save the town from a giant that is distorying the town.
This book can be connected to dragon drive because it has action and it has a really good storyline and when it ended I wanted to read more.
I give this manga book a 4 because it was good but not great and it was also the book that got me hooked on the manga book.

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