Kekkaishi Manga Rant

I once said that Kekkaishi deserved a reboot. I was wrong. The manga contains limited additional material that was not in the anime. In fact, the anime only covered about the first third of the manga. Everything I felt was rushed and wanted to expand on in the anime was exactly same way in the manga; thus my hopes of character expansion in the Kokuboro were dashed. Then the weird stuff happened. I've got 100 chapters left to read at the moment (there are 345), but there's just so much to talk about already I couldn't wait.
The anime ended with the Kokuboro arc. After this point the manga took a turn for the perverted. I wanted to strangle Tanabe for allowing this to happen, questioning his frame of mind at the time. The subplot with the Tengu could have been done away with entirely since all it supplied was a whole lot of hentai. If they make a Kekkaishi-II, I strongly suggest they skip this. Something else they could downplay would be the scene where Yoshimori accidentally spies Tokine taking a shower. I'm not saying it can't happen, but I have enough problems with nudity in the Soul Eater manga; I don't need this too. Other than that, not much else is as objectionable about the male gaze; hell, the number of jealous women trying to end Tokine would give Disney a run for its money. In other words, nothing we haven't seen already, and though it's annoying there are worse things out there. I liked the Guillotine Island arc though. I don't like that they sideline Tokine so much in the series, but then Tanabe has said Yoshimori is the main character and not the two of them. Still, it isn't very fair what they do to her and I like that she can escape on her own and save herself 9 times out of 10. The plot, however, likes to point out that she is the weakest Kekkaishi (grandparents included) and continues to objectify her. Why do I like Guillotine Island, then? She later admits to Yoshimori that she likes cheesecake and he makes her one (though some of it is burnt). She also takes some advice to meet Yoshimori halfway and asks him to teach her how to bake (we have yet to see them do this, but, you know, more pressing matters, like plot and porn).
Then there's the issue of Gen. He died. It was very sad. It was worse in the manga since he had three older brothers who used to beat the crap out of him regularly for no reason. Anyway, as I expected, Sen became the new Gen in the group. After a while though he was changed out for another character as it was pointed out how much he looks like a girl (this was mostly during the hentai chapters). I personally don't see what's so girly about him. His eyes look exactly like Gen's, plus their names rhyme. His replacement Souji may look more like Gen as a whole and smell like blood like he did, but his eyes are not like theirs; instead they are dead and zombie-like, which he does not like people pointing out. We'll find out why later, I'm sure. Right now I'm more interested in seeing this through just to see Yoshimori's plans to seal off Karasumori come to fruition.

Update: Finished. Much like in Fruits Basket, one of the twists was that the legend they'd been operating on since the beginning of the series was a lie. In actuality, Tokimori Hazama is a dick. Is. As in he's still alive somehow in a spectral form. The best part was Yoshimori making him solid again so he could punch him for everything he'd put them through. I guess if they cleaned it up a bit it could still be worth it to see in anime form, but you've got to come up with a better resolution than having all the problems in this series be caused by guys who couldn't keep it in their pants (it's not just Hazama either but the founders of the Shadow Organization as well). In the same vein that Cardcaptor Sakura became Cardcaptors in the English dub, maybe Kekkaishi should've originally been called Kekkaishi Yoshimori. Turns out that his ability that we'd seen at the end of the anime was actually called shinkai and not zekkai like his brother's because he can create worlds with it and protect people rather than destroying everything around him. Koya also comes back and there are ghost cats in addition to ghost dogs for the two families. And this may just be a coincidence but bonus points for certain characters resembling members of Organization XIII from Kingdom Hearts (seriously there's a character named Zero who could pass for Axel and another named Shichirou who looks like Zexion when drawn at a certain angle, among others). Still, the ending was anticlimactic as Yoshimori ultimately wasn't the one to seal away Karasumori's spirit (it's his mom, who'd apparently been preparing to do the same thing for the past ten years).