Return to New Jerusalem—the dimension-twisted metropolis once known as New York City—with Vol. 7 of Yasuhiro Nightow’s Blood Blockade Battlefront manga, in stores this week. And in just two months, the Blood Blockade Battlefront anime will be premiering on Japanese TV. It’s being produced by Studio BONES…who made a certain series last year called Space Dandy!
Nightow, of course, is the creator of Trigun, and a veteran of the Trigun anime, Noriyuki Jinguji, is returning to design the props and weapons of Blood Blockade Battlefront. Character designs for the BBB anime are by the same guy who designed Spike, Jet, Faye and Ed…Cowboy Bebop’s Toshihiro Kawamoto! And we couldn’t ask for a better person to depict the weird, baroque streets of BBB’s New Jerusalem than Shinji Kimura, the art director of Michael Arias’s Tekkonkinkreet and Katsuhiro Otomo’s Steamboy! You can see some of his designs for the Blood Blockade Battlefront anime in this Japanese trailer. My bet is we’ll be seeing the anime in English soon…but you can beat the bandwagon and get into the manga right now!
—Carl Horn
Manga Editor
Return to New Jerusalem—the dimension-twisted metropolis once known as New York City—with Vol. 7 of Yasuhiro Nightow’s Blood Blockade Battlefront manga, in stores this week. And in just two months, the Blood Blockade Battlefront anime will be premiering on Japanese TV. It’s being produced by Studio BONES…who made a certain series last year called Space Dandy!
Nightow, of course, is the creator of Trigun, and a veteran of the Trigun anime, Noriyuki Jinguji, is returning to design the props and weapons of Blood Blockade Battlefront. Character designs for the BBB anime are by the same guy who designed Spike, Jet, Faye and Ed…Cowboy Bebop’s Toshihiro Kawamoto! And we couldn’t ask for a better person to depict the weird, baroque streets of BBB’s New Jerusalem than Shinji Kimura, the art director of Michael Arias’s Tekkonkinkreet and Katsuhiro Otomo’s Steamboy! You can see some of his designs for the Blood Blockade Battlefront anime in this Japanese trailer. My bet is we’ll be seeing the anime in English soon…but you can beat the bandwagon and get into the manga right now!
—Carl Horn
Manga Editor