Blood Blockade Battlefront: Even These Are the Worst and Best Days Ever

血界戦線 #10.5特別編「それさえも最低で最高な日々」 (Kekkai Sensen: Soresaemo Saitei de Saikou na Hibi)

4.7(1)

OtakuDen

6.8(19,466)

MAL Score

Ranked #5804

Popularity #3975

Action
Fantasy
Super Power
Urban Fantasy
Vampire

Episodes: 1
Duration: 24 min
Aired: Jun 14, 2015
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

*Blood Blockade Battlefront: Even These Are the Worst and Best Days Ever* serves as a recap of *Kekkai Sensen* episodes 1–10.

Through Leonardo Watch’s perspective, the episode revisits his time with Libra as he looks back on the extraordinary events he’s been swept into.

Otaku Consensus

Episode 10.5 works best as a calibrated re-entry point for Blood Blockade Battlefront rather than a replacement for watching it: Bones’ kinetic action staging, the comedy-action rhythm, and Leonardo Watch’s point-of-view framing keep the recap from feeling like a bare clip reel. The dominant criticism is that the franchise’s storytelling can feel diffuse or underpowered next to its animation, cast chemistry, and set-piece energy, making this special useful but fundamentally nonessential.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Even These Are the Worst and Best Days Ever if you want a compact refresher on Blood Blockade Battlefront’s first ten episodes without losing the show’s key selling points: Bones’ punchy combat animation, eccentric urban-fantasy texture, and fast comic timing. It is especially useful for viewers returning after a break, collectors deciding whether to revisit Season 1 before moving on, or fans who care more about character energy and super-powered spectacle than tightly serialized plotting. The appeal sits near the chaotic city-anime lane of Durarara!!, but with more flamboyant battle choreography and a stronger monster-fantasy flavor. If your favorite part of Kekkai Sensen is watching style, powers, and personalities collide at high speed, this recap preserves that charge better than most midseason summaries.

Key Characters

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Leonardo Watch
Leonardo is the special’s organizing lens, turning the recap into a subjective look back rather than a neutral episode digest.
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Libra
Libra functions as the ensemble engine fans respond to most: a team dynamic built around eccentric powers, rapid banter, and high-impact interventions.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
The special is officially positioned as Episode 10.5 and aired on June 14, 2015, making it a mid-run bridge rather than a post-series recap.
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Bones’ production identity is central to its reputation: even the recap is associated with the parent series’ polished action cuts, exaggerated motion, and crisp supernatural impact work.
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The structure uses Leonardo Watch’s perspective, a choice that gives the recap a personal memory-frame instead of simply compressing events in chronological order.
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Its reception mirrors the wider Blood Blockade Battlefront divide: fans regularly praise the entertaining cast, cool powers, openings/endings, and fights, while detractors point to a story that can feel merely functional.
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The special has notable home-video visibility: Anime UK News identifies it among the on-disc extras for the limited Collector’s Edition, alongside textless opening and ending sequences and trailers.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Anime UK News notes that the limited Collector’s Edition includes a glossy 120-page art book and a rigid box, placing this recap in a collector-focused release rather than treating it as disposable filler.
Fun fact 2: The same release includes two FUNimation Shorts, described as segments featuring voice actors and staff discussing the series rather than animated mini-episodes.
Fun fact 3: On MyAnimeList, the special sits at a 6.83 score from 19,256 votes, with a rank of #5464 and popularity position of #3846, reflecting modest but substantial interest for a single recap episode.
Fun fact 4: The title’s English wording appears in slightly different orderings across coverage, including “Even These are the Best and the Worst Days Ever” in Anime UK News’ home-video writeup and “Even These Are the Worst and Best Days Ever” in database listings.