Kekkai Sensen ()

Kekkai Sensen (血界戦線)

The scene continues from last month’s Spoon 2Di Magazine (Amazon Japan | US), with the members of Libra stopping at Dianne’s Diner for a quick bite to eat after shopping. Animation director and key animator Koichi Hayashi (林宏一) is once again the artist.

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I love how Abrams doesn’t notice how other people are reacting to his actions.

How do you think Leo knew about Libra before he joined them? This has been bugging me ever since

Leo had been in the city for about 6 months before the start of the series and there are a lot - like a lot a lot - of rumours flying around about Libra. I mean, for a secret society, they’re not exactly subtle.Like idk why he thought Libra would be the answer to his prayers, but I imagine the that it was probably due to a combination of his own desperation to reverse what was done to Michella and all sorts of rumours about Libra that may or may not be true and Nightow just wanting to get the ball rolling.

Writing Tip #2: Good-Guy protagonist

We’re back and definitely not by popular demand. Even if no one wants to hear I’m still making these damn things because they’re just might be one or two people I can help by doing this. So I’m doing it and if you have a problem with that than deal with it.

The topic for this one is going to be personally covering my least favorite Archetype for a protagonist. An Archetype that has become so FUCKIN common you can see it literally everywhere. It drags on my nerves to an unending degree.

This kind of protagonist has these following points normally most if not all that make them who they are:

Goes out of their way to help people

Likes teaching life lessons

Hold’s morals above all else

Refuses to kill

Friends are the best thing since sliced bread

Rarely if ever fails

Dead mentor

I’m pretty sure you all ae getting war-like flashbacks to all of the protagonists like that. Ranging from Superman to most YA protagonist in novels. This kind of character isn’t limited to just books but spans every single form of story-telling. The issue with this kind of protagonist are that they’re is NO REAL PERSON LIKE THAT. It sacrifices relatability for having a morally just protagonist which is an issue in of itself.

My choice for the best iteration would be Klaus Von. Reinherz from Kekkai Sensen(Blood-Blockade Battlefront)

He does the Good Guy Protagonist justice, by not being completely unrelatable. He’s shown to have a wild side being able to actually enjoy fighting, and it also shows us that this good guy nature can be abused. With him sometimes letting it go straight to his head. the pragmatism of being able to say “sometimes you have to kill” and openly showing that he rather dislikes it, but is willing. The most important way they do this is by having HIM not the protagonist, but a mentor to ours. It fits his archetype without making it get in the way of believability.

If I had to pick any story for this type of character it would be in a YA adventure with him as the mentor. It highlights the strong points while diminishing the weak ones. You can have him be the main for many novels, but be absolutely sure to keep flaws in mind to ensure that the characters believable.