The spring 2015 anime series Blood Blockade Battlefront finally finished its broadcast run earlier this month and now we’ve got a look at the packaging for the sixth and final release of the series. The twelve episode run has been spread across six discs, two episodes per disc. The DVD releases are priced at 5,800 yen while the Blu-ray releases are priced at 6,800 yen.
The first volume has been solicited to contain a two-page manga from original creator Naito Yashiro as well as a forty-eight page booklet. On disc extras at the moment are limited to just the clean opening sequence. The second volume comes with on-disc extras of the clean closing sequence, which an endless repeat function added. The third volume comes with on-disc extras of a new promo collection. The fourth volume comes with a commercial spot as its only on disc extra.
The show comes from the manga of the same name by Yasuhiro Nightow, who made a name for himself early in the previous decade with his Trigun work. The manga began in 2009 and has nine volumes released so far, with six of them out in North America through Dark Horse Comics. The anime adaptation is going to be produced by Bones with Rie Matsumoto directing based on scripts by Kazunao Furuya and character designs by Toshihiro Kawamoto.
Casting has included Rie Kugimiya as White, Rikiya Koyama as Klaus Von Reinhertz, Daisuke Sakaguchi as Leonard Watch, Kazuya Nakai as Zap Renfro, Yūma Uchida as Sonic, Akio Otsuka is “Lucky” Blitz T. Abrahms, Unsho Ishizuka is Patrick, Mamoru Miyano as Doug Hammer, Keiji Fujiwara as Deldro Brody, Banjo Ginga as Gilbert f. Alstein, Nana Mizuki as Michella Watch, Kazuya Nakai as Renfro and Hikaru Midorikawa as Zed O’Brien.
Plot concept: A breach between Earth and the netherworlds has opened up over the city of New York, trapping New Yorkers and creatures from other dimensions in an impenetrable bubble. They’ve lived together for years, in a world of crazy crime sci-fi sensibilities. Now someone is threatening to sever the bubble, and a group of stylish superhumans is working to keep it from happening.
[Source: Kekkai Sensen]
