I could start off by saying that the beggining was boring and bland, but I hardly remember the earlier episodes because of "blandness". You probrobly wont remember them either. Even bleach's first 10 episodes are more memorable.
The anime does pick itself up really fast once the main plot is.introduced though. Kekkaishi's main strength was its battles. Defeating the bigger and stronger enemies was never done by power ups coming out of nowhere or training in an empty space like every other shounen. Instead battles are won by refining techniques, stradegy, and teamwork with a lttle bit of willpower thrown in there. It was actually a breath of fresh air see an anime like this. But it really doesnt last long. These battles were this intresting.because a technique called kekkai. It basically was just the ability to make a cube appear out of thin write in any way you want and then make the box implode on itself and kill whatever is inside. They really pushed the imagination with this and it was a good watch for a while. sadly this gets replaced by a technique called zekkai. Zekkai is the most boring thing to watch.
basically this is what is said when zekkai is used: hey I have a barrier surrounding be that burns whatever it touches. Come on attack me. You know you wanna.
Really zekkai could've been used in better ways like using it at good timings before an attack and used in combination with kekkai. But no, its only one or the other and you have to stand still with zekkai. sadly this leads to an absolute embarrassment of a final battle that had an insane amount of build up to it. Some call it disappointment, I call it betrayal.
All this anime sums up to me is a long wait for some really good action scenes and it jumps the shark in the end anyways.
There isnt much story to speak of other than "they fight monster, then fight big monster, then fight fast monster, then fight regenerative monster, then fight monster with x power, then fight monsters that actually count as characters, then we get new guy, etc". There are other components like romance and family tensions but they never pan out to anything in the end so why bother. Except some very forced revenge plots near the end that make the characters look like total jerks and creeps just so we can see a few battles.
As far as characters, they are acceptable but nothing more. the only bad one to speak of is the main character. It is just so hard to stand how much of a prick he becomes near the end.
Overall dont waste your time with 50+ episodes just to see the most lazy ending ever.
