Viz Media announced in April 2005 that they had acquired the rights to translate and distribute Kekkaishi in North America.
Kekkaishi received the 2007 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga. The series is about teenagers Yoshimori Sumimura and Tokine Yukimura, heirs to rival clans of kekkai (barrier magic) users, who must defend their school from the spirits drawn to the sacred land it is built upon. Serial chapters have been collected in tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan, with the first released on 18 February 2004, all 35 volumes completed with the last volume published on 18 August 2011. It was serialized in the weekly Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 2003 issue 47 to 2011 issue 19. Kekkaishi is a shōnen fantasy manga written and illustrated by Yellow Tanabe.
The cover of Kekkaishi volume 1 as released by Viz Media on in North America.
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