Anime Reviews

Beyond the Boundary

Title: Beyond the Boundary (Kyoukai no Kanata)

Owner: Nagomu Torii

Genre: Action, romance, comedy, supernatural

Rating: 7/10

Summary:

After a long and tiring day of high school, Akihito Kanbara leaves the campus only to find one of his classmates--Mirai Kuriyama--about to commit suicide by jumping off the top of the building. He sprints to the roof of the school and manages to talk her away from the edge, only for Mirai to turn around and stab him...literally.

She is surprised to learn that Akihito is a "half-shade," the child of a paranormal demon appropriately called shade, and a human; resulting in his immortality. It is at that moment that Akihito learns that Mirai is a Spirit World Warrior, a person who defends society from shades, and is the only survivor of her family clan. From there on out, Akihito begins to help Mirai gain the confidence to kill shades so she will stop trying to kill him as practice.

Shades are manifestations of human animosity and negative emotions, so as long as humans exist, shades will also. Most shades unknowingly coexist with society, but every now and then one will have an uprising, prompting Spirit World Warriors to hunt it down and gain a profit.

However, a rare happening is about to take place, and more shades than manageable are using it to their advantage. In order to prevent the loss of all shades and humans, Akihito and Mirai are going to have to team up and take down the prevailing darkness.

Opinion:

This series was a nice, laid-back show to watch for a couple days. It kept you on edge, but wasn't a over-the-top, edge-of-your-seat kind of show. It was...fun, to watch.

But let me tell you, (you had to have seen this coming by now) I have so many things to say about it that are just perfect.

First up, what's the first thing I think?

Demons made of human emotions = Bleach

Two worlds overlapping and demons, with a cute romance = Blue Exorcist

Able to manipulate your own blood into a weapon = Deadman Wonderland

So, my theory is this: Beyond the Boundary is fundamentally Bleach, Blue Exorcist, and Deadman Wonderland combined. IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE! Don't try to tell me it doesn't.

I just dare you to try and tell me I'm wrong. Go ahead. I'm waiting. I REGRET NOTHING.

Second up on my list is this: I shit you not, in one episode, Mirai trips probably eight times. And then she falls into a mop bucket...after knocking over a roomful of supplies first. She's just so clumsy that it's startling! I almost wanted to start a campaign for seriously clumsy people, because I now feel like it's a real condition. I shall name it... Butter-finger...itis. Perfect.

Do you guys have anyone you know who is incredibly clumsy? I know I do. That being, my incredibly (admittedly adorable and naive) little sister, Emma, who is currently twelve and has the body of an uncoordinated nine-year-old.

I swear, she has the worst uncurable case of Butter-fingeritis I have yet to see. If you don't believe me, check this out.

This happened about two summers ago, okay? My family loves camping and quadding, anything that involves the bush or a good ol' barbeque. Yeah, I'm true Canadian, camping out for weeks in the Canadian rockies eating my maple syrup on top of pancakes every morning with a side of my own CANADIAN bacon. Fuck your bacon, America! I see moose and bears on a daily basis (okay, maybe not--but I've seen a lot of them!).

Anyways, we had a few of these antique tin bucket-candles filled with wax, and when you burn them they kept the mosquitoes away. So one of these tin buckets was almost done, because it was filled to the brim with molten wax and the wick was almost burnt out.

What does my sister do?

Books it out of the RV in her flip-flops and kicks over the bucket of molten wax because she didn't see it. That wax covered her entire legs from her toes to her knees, and burnt her badly. She couldn't take off her flip-flops or she'd burn her hands, so neither could we. She sat there screaming and crying in hysterics waiting for the wax to cool. We had to wait until the wax was dried into her blistered legs before we could begin to peel it off. It was nothing but that pink, fresh, kind of wrinkly but smooth flesh underneath a deep burn. Her legs were so pink she couldn't even walk for two days.

Now, that's only one of the many things she has done. I have so many hilarious stories with what she has done, but I don't want to be grandma and bore you guys. If you want to hear more funny stories, say so in the comment section because I won't say any more in this chapter.

My final thing is this: for whatever reason, Akihito and Mirai never said each other's names. I don't know why, they just didn't. Instead they called each other "senpai" the whole time, which had me laughing pretty hard. Why, you may ask?

I must've smoked something, because I just laughed my ass off when they screamed, "SENPAI!" at each other. While I sat there clutching my gut, I kept saying to myself, "Notice me, senpai!" and couldn't stop.

I was even on Skype with a friend while watching it without headphones on my laptop, so when Mirai shrieked, "Senpai!" as she tripped it played out loud. What does my dipshit friend do?

He screams, "NOTICE ME SENPAI!" at the top of his lungs back at me until I can't breathe and I'm basically clapping like a retarded seal.

So, that's it for this chapter. I'm sorry I didn't talk about the anime very much (which I do a lot these days and it's probably starting to piss you guys off). I hope it was a funny chapter and you enjoyed, so here are some warnings.

A fair amount of blood because of Mirai-senpai's weapon, of course. Wow, I'm smiling even as I type the word "senpai." There are a few more scenes with hallucinations and murder though, and maybe one or two dark things that go along with it. I honestly don't think there's any language, and a small bit of sexuality with one shower scene, and then Akithito's obsession with girls that wear glasses and Hiromi's sister complex issue.

Vote if you think this was a pretty shitty chapter but it made you laugh anyways. Oh, and vote if you like Canadians.

How can someone not like Canadians, eh?