History Manga / Kekkaishi

* BittersweetEnding: The Urukai is reformed [[spoiler:under Masamori, Karasumori is permanently sealed away, Shichirou]] becomes the new head of the Ougi clan, the Sumimura and Yukimura houses are freed of their duties and have overcome their rivalry, and Sousui and Yumeji have been dealt with. However, [[spoiler:Yoshimori's mother]] sealed herself in with Karasumori to keep the seal permanent.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: After being fatally wounded by Kaguro, Gen is finally able to find peace and dies with a serene smile on his face.
** Princess and Byaku also meet their end this way as Kokuboro dissolves around them.

* HannibalLecture: Masamori gets a devastating one from Mudou.
** Mudou gives one to Yoshimori and Masamori in his first appearance. He then builds on it by offering Masamori a SadisticChoice - save his own life or his brother's - and this works in perfect concert with his previous mind games.
** Kaguro gives a couple to Gen, and later deconstructs [[MadScientist Aihi]]'s psyche when he decides to kill her [[ForTheEvulz for his own amusement]].

* LikesOlderWomen: Yoshimori likes older girl Tokine. Later in the manga, he saves another girl of similar age from a high fall and she briefly becomes his StalkerWithACrush. This has led to others accusing him of preferring older girls.

[[caption-width-right:334:Yoshimori and [[NonHumanSidekick Madarao]]]]

!!''{{Kekkaishi}}'' provides examples of:

* IAmYourFather: It hasn't been revealed to the little one yet, but in Chapter 312, Yoshimori figures out that [[spoiler:Tokimori is actually the father of the child-like lord of Karasumori]].

* JigsawPuzzlePlot: The plot of the manga has noticeably shifted to a vast and complicated power play within the Urakai. The pieces are falling into place, but the whole picture has yet to be revealed. And every time a new piece falls into place, more gaps in the overall scheme of things appear.

* SupernaturalSensitivity: Kekkaishi have the ability to sense when an Ayakashi enters the Karasumori site.

* SceneryPorn: The manga's volume covers. And that's just the beginning...

''{{Kekkaishi}}'' is an anime and manga series centering around 14-year-old Yoshimori Sumimura and his 16-year-old neighbor/childhood friend/"partner" Tokine Yukimura. During the day, they are just [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary]] (if slightly sleep-deprived) high school students, while at night they defend their homes and school grounds from monsters [[OurMonstersAreDifferent (Ayakashi)]] by conjuring [[FunctionalMagic multi-use barriers (Kekkai)]]. They're eventually joined by the half-ayakashi [[PowerTrio Gen Shishio]], and much later by Souji Hiura, a rather odd young man in his own right.

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: VicMignogna as Yoshimori Sumimura, LauraBailey as Tokine Yukimura, MaryElizabethMcglynn as Aihi, and Barbara Goodson as Tokiko Yukimura.

* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: [[http://www.ourmanga.com/Kekkaishi/209/kekkaishi_22_c209-066 "Please do not point at me"]]

* HealingFactor: Part of Gen's skill set. Ayakashi who don't have one can gain it via Karasumori's power.
* HeroicSociopath: As with {{Badass}}, this trope is also deconstructed with Gen.

* ShockingSwerve: The return of [[spoiler: Hazama Tokimori]] in Chapter 296

* {{Moe}}: Yuri.

** Kekkaishi really seems to love this trope. Everybody from [[NonHumanSidekick Madarao]] to the teachers at Yoshi's school get in on the act at some point.
* {{Daiju}} The series started out like this, but after a while the focus shifted to stopping Byaku.

* FoeYay: Kouya and Madarao, what with the way Kouya really wants Madarao back, and the way Madarao left him for Yoshimori's predecessor.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Yoshimori can be seen drinking up to ''four'' coffee-milk packets in one go. It's a necessity of his TripleShifter life style.
* [[Truecompansions BestFriends]]: Yoshimori, Tokine and Gen. Also, the Yagyou team.

* {{Nakama}}: Yoshimori, Tokine and Gen. Also, the Yagyou team.

* ChekhovsGun: In the manga, Yoshimori collects a bunch of Kouya's hair after his death, and gives it to Masamori for proper burial on the dog's home mountain. Much later on, we learn that Masamori has resurrected Kouya using said hair. Later still, he's even done something similar to ''Mudou''!
* ChekhovsLecture: It's brief, but it gets mentioned a couple of times that humans have turned into ayakashi in the past. It is implied that Gen's family's less than accommodating martial arts tradition may have effected the existence of his ayakashi side.

* GenreSavvy: The first {{MIB}} who attacks Karasumori. When fighting a {{Determinator}} who relies on HeroicSecondWind, kill him ''quickly.''

* EleventhHourSuperpower: Yoshimori pulls this off often, such as unleashing a [[spoiler: MASSIVE Zekkai to kill Kaguro]], and also [[spoiler: unlocking the ultimate [[SuperMode Musou State]] to save Karasumori from Yumeji's minions]]. [[Deconstruction Deconstructed]] when he tried to invoke this deliberately when the school was being swarmed by ayakashi butterflies. His solution was to create a massive kekkai and try to Metsu and destroy only the butterflies and nothing else. When Tokiko correctly [[WhatTheHellHero points out]] that he has no idea how to do this, he out right says [[HeroicSecondWind "You don't know what you can do until you try"]]. Tokiko had to [[SadisticChoice create a clone of Tokine and challenge him to destroy the fake and not the real one, with the same kekkai]], to get him to come to his senses.

** Grandfather Sumimura looks incredibly similar to [[Game/MegaMan Dr. Wily]] as well as [[{{Tekken}} Heihachi Mishima]] (albeit an obviously less buff version of the latter).

In America, the anime premiered in May 2010 on AdultSwim (with English dubbing) and on {{Hulu}} in early 2011 (in Japanese with English subtitles). The manga concluded in 2011.

* CakeEater: Yoshimori likes older girl Tokine. Later in the manga, he saves another girl of similar age from a high fall and she briefly becomes his StalkerWithACrush. This has led to others accusing him of preferring older girls. And there are, of course, his actual cakes.

* LimitedWardrobe: Practically all the characters who don't have to interact with the general human population on a daily basis suffer from this. Pretty much the only exceptions seem to be Yoshimori and Tokine, who can occasionally be seen wearing normal clothing in addition to their school and kekkaishi uniforms.

* GenreSavvy: The first {{MIB}} who attacks Karasumori. When fighting a {{Determinator}} who relies on MyNameIsInigoMontoya, kill him ''quickly.''

* FaceFault: Tokine does this ''a lot'', as do the two ghost dogs.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Gen

* YamatoNadeshiko: Tokine, especially the 'iron core' part. Her classmates see her as noble and pure and call her 'The Florence Nightengale of our age'.[[LadyOfWar She's really a scarily competent and rather ruthless ActionGirl.]] However, she does perform tea ceremonies with her grandmother in traditional traditional clothing.

* YamatoNadeshiko: Tokine, especially the 'iron core' part. Her classmates see her as noble and pure and call her 'The Florence Nightengale of our age'.[[LadyOfWar She's really a scarily competent and rather ruthless ActionGirl.]]

* GoNagaiSideburns: A manga-specific {{Omake}} reveals that one of Yoshimori's prototype character designs had these. His "ultimate shikigami" has 'em like whoa.