
Tokimori was forced to seal his own son beneath Karasumori. Tokimori used forbidden arts to try to give his son unearthly power, but the plan backfired, and instead gave Chūshinmaru the power to draw people's life force, killing everybody around him.

The real source of Karasumori's power is Chūshinmaru, an illegitimate son of the Hazama clan's founder, Tokimori Hazama, and the Karasumori clan's heiress.

Over the course of the story it is revealed little by little that the legend is full of lies. The Shadow Organization itself is an organization of ability users that is governed by a council of twelve, consisting of high level ability users. The ayakashi they must fight are becoming more and more powerful, but they managed to protect the land with the help from Yoshimori's older brother, Masamori Sumimura, and the Urakai. Yoshimori and Tokine suffered a lot of hardships in their responsibilities to protect Karasumori. Yoshimori and Tokine are to guard the land from the intrusion of ayakashi who try to "power-up" there.

Any ayakashi that stay on the land become stronger. Kekkai is a form of magical energy barrier which is primarily used to capture and destroy ayakashi that are drawn to this shin'yūchi. They are ability users (people who can use supernatural powers) who use a technique called Kekkai. In the present day, Yoshimori Sumimura and Tokine Yukimura, heirs of the Hazama clan, are the kekkaishi that protect Karasumori. Thus, Tokimori founded the Hazama clan, who inherited his techniques, to protect the land for centuries to come. The lord's power stayed on the land even when he had died. A demon exterminator, Tokimori Hazama, was called upon to protect the lord and his castle. The series is about Yoshimori Sumimura and Tokine Yukimura, heirs to rival families of kekkai (barrier magic) users, who must defend their school from the spirits drawn to the sacred land upon which it is built.Īccording to the legend, five hundred years ago, there was an insignificant lord who possessed a mysterious power that drew ayakashi (supernatural creatures) to him.

Kekkaishi received the 2007 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga. It was adapted as a 52 episode anime series by Sunrise, which was broadcast between October 2006 and February 2008. It was serialized in Japan by Shogakukan in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday from 2003 to 2011 and licensed for an English-language release in North America by Viz Media. "Barrier Master") is a supernatural manga series written and illustrated by Yellow Tanabe. Genre: Action, Comedy, Supernatural Tags: Magic Media: Manga, Anime, Game
