Blood Blockade Battlefront Volume 3

Blood Blockade Battlefront #3

by Yasuhiro Nightow, Chris Warner (Editor)

Sci-fi insanity from Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of Trigun and Gungrave! Traffic in New York has never been a picnic, but with the Big Apple destroyed and rebuilt as the dimensional-gate madhouse known as Jerusalem's Lot, gridlock is a little more complicated. When the city's forty million jailed paranormal criminals are about to be set loose by a monster truck - literally, a monster truck - the super agents of Libra may have to contend with a rush hour of apocalyptic proportions!

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Comics, Science Fiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published May 2, 2011

About the author

内藤泰弘. Traditional transliteration would be Yasuhiro Naitou. Author uses "Nightow" for better pronunciation by English natives.

Reviews

[andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

stephan is popular 😯

[Ottery Chocolat · Rating 4 out of 5]

This manga is seriously cool. The artwork is wonky at times, and the alien characters all have a tendency to look a lot alike, but all that aside, it is a very interesting manga like nothing else out there. And that's saying something, when you take into account that manga is, by it's very nature, a weird genre in and of itself.
The characters are all appealing and unique in their own way. Though they unfortunately don't get a lot of time to shine individually in this volume. The world is an interesting place to visit, full of occult themes but still grounded in our present (or possibly slight future). Jerusalem's Lot is a crazy city to live in and all manner of insane things happen.
I love that the stories are self-contained and it isn't like some giant overarching story line that requires you to read all of the of the volumes in order. What I'm upset about however, is that I'm reading my libraries copy and this seems to be the last volume they have. When I went to see if I could purchase the succeeding volumes I was slapped in the face with very expensive copies of the next volumes since the books have not been reprinted since they were first released. It would be very nice if Dark Horse, if they still hold the license would reprint the books. I'm e-mailing them about it, if anyone else is interested please do so, too. The books are genuinely funny and cool and as I said before, there isn't anything like it in the whole of English available manga.
I'm seriously enjoying the series and can't recommend it heartily enough. The artwork is good, the stories are all interesting and new, and the characters are cool. But whats best is that this isn't going to go on forever, and it's stories don't drag on for countless volumes like other manga (which I love but again, seriously, wtf. End once in a while, okay?).

[Amanda Setasha · Rating 2 out of 5]

I actually really disliked most of this one... The art style doesn't go well with the plot.
The fight scenes are messy and it's hard to tell what's going on.
There's a new character that is kind of interesting, but it's really off putting that his blood is a weapon with a mind of it's own and slits his own wrists to use it....

[Pauline (Kiriiti's Blog) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ces trois tomes ont été compliqués à lire. On rentre, certes, vite dans le vif du sujet mais les combats sont brouillons et illisibles. Je n'ai pas non plus adhéré au design des personnages ou même au coup de crayon du mangaka tout court. Je n'ai été intéressée ni par l'univers, ni par les personnages, ni par l'histoire. Ce n'est pas pour moi et j'arrêterai là l'expérience.

[Kathleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nightow does it again! The apocalypse never had this many jokes in it before, I'm sure. A nice mix of pretty faces and outlandishly ugly aliens, plus an invisible werewolf? What will they think of next?

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5
Blood Blockade Battlefront continues to be a fun series that matches comedy with action. It's always interesting to see how the characters use their blood battle arts amid new situations. I am excited to spend more time with these characters and continue to get to know them better.

[Emma G. · Rating 3 out of 5]

The characters in this series aren't bad, but three volumes in there still really isn't any development for anyone, especially Leo who is still just getting tossed around from wacky situation to wacky situation. It's fine, I just want a little more depth

[Casey Hansen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series still feels like Nightow is trying to find a direction, still feels like short stories not heading towards a overall plot line at this time. This continues with great art but as with trigun its gets very crowded and hard to follow at times.

[Love · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love chess and so when it was introduced as a major factor in one of the stories I loved it :D :)