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Japanese manga serial by Kazue Kato

Bluish Exorcist
Ao no Exorcist.jpg

Manga volume one cover featuring Rin Okumura
青の祓魔師（ エクソシスト ）
( Ao no Ekusoshisuto )
Genre Adventure,[1] dark fantasy[2]
Manga
Written past Kazue Kato
Published by Shueisha
English publisher

NA

Viz Media
Banner Jump Comics SQ.
Mag Bound Square
English language magazine

NA

Weekly Shonen Jump
Demographic Shōnen
Original run April four, 2009 – present
Volumes 27 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by Tensai Okamura
Produced by
  • Hirio Maruyama
  • Kozue Kananiwa
  • Satoshi Adachi
  • Shin Furukawa
  • Takamitsu Inoue
Written by Ryōta Yamaguchi
Music by Hiroyuki Sawano
Studio A-1 Pictures
Licensed by

AUS

Madman Entertainment

NA

Aniplex of America

UK

Manga Entertainment
Original network JNN (MBS)
English language network

NA

Neon Aisle

United states of america

Developed Swim (Toonami)
Original run April 17, 2011 – Oct 2, 2011
Episodes 25 + OVA (List of episodes)
Manga
Salaryman Exorcist: The Sorrows of Yukio Okumura
Written by Kazue Kato
Illustrated by Minoru Sasaki
Published by Shueisha
Magazine
  • Jump SQ.19 (Apr 2013–February 2015)
  • Jump Square (April 2015–April 2020)
Demographic Shōnen
Original run April 19, 2013 – April 3, 2020
Volumes 4
Anime idiot box series
Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga
Directed by Koichi Hatsumi
Written by Toshiya Ōno
Music by
  • Hiroyuki Sawano
  • Kohta Yamamoto
Studio A-1 Pictures
Licensed by

NA

Aniplex of America
Original network JNN (MBS, TBS, CBC, BS-TBS)
Original run January 7, 2017 – March 25, 2017
Episodes 12 + OVA (List of episodes)
Film
  • Blue Exorcist: The Movie (2012)

Blue Exorcist (Japanese: 青の祓魔師（ エクソシスト ） , Hepburn: Ao no Ekusoshisuto ) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Kazue Kato. The story revolves around Rin Okumura, a teenager who discovers he and his twin brother Yukio are the sons of Satan, built-in from a human adult female, and he is the inheritor of Satan's powers. When Satan kills their guardian, Rin enrolls at True Cross Academy to become an exorcist under Yukio'southward tutelage in order to defeat his father Satan.

The manga has been serialized in Shueisha'southward Jump Foursquare magazine since Apr 2009, with individual capacity collected into twenty-seven tankōbon volumes as of July 2021. Viz Media has licensed the manga for North American production, with the commencement book released in April 2011. Aniplex of America also released the anime's DVDs in English regions. The series was adapted into an anime television serial produced by A-1 Pictures, and broadcast from April to October 2011. An anime moving picture, Blue Exorcist: The Picture, premiered in Dec 2012. A second season, titled Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga, aired from January to March 2017.

The series has been well received by readers with sales having received a boost cheers to the anime's release. Publications for manga and anime compared the serial with other shōnen manga but yet praised the serial.

Synopsis [edit]

Setting [edit]

The world of Blue Exorcist consists of 2 dimensions, attached to each other every bit a mirror and its reflection. The showtime is the material world where humans live, Assiah ( 物質界（ アッシャー ） ), and the other is Gehenna ( 虚無界（ ゲヘナ ） ), the world of demons, which is ruled by Satan. Originally, a journey between the worlds, or fifty-fifty a contact between them, is impossible. However, whatever demon is able to laissez passer to the dimension of Assiah through the possession of a living being in it. Even so, demons have historically wandered among humans unnoticed, visible simply to people who have had contact with demons before.

In contrast, there are Exorcists, people who train to destroy demons who act in a damaging way in Assiah. With more than ii thousand years of existence, this group has several branches all over the world being secretly under the command of the Vatican itself and acting in a clandestine manner.

Plot [edit]

The story revolves around Rin Okumura, who, forth with his younger twin Yukio Okumura, was raised by Father Shiro Fujimoto, an Exorcist. One mean solar day, Rin learns that he and Yukio are the sons of Satan. Witnessing Shiro dying to protect him, Rin draws the demon-slaying sword Kurikara ( 倶利伽羅 ), which restrains his demonic powers. From that moment on, Rin non only gains demonic features like fangs and a tail, but also the power to ignite into blueish flames that destroy near anything he touches.

Rin wishes to become an Exorcist like his guardian to become stronger and to defeat Satan. He enrolls at the prestigious Truthful Cross University ( 正十字学園 , Sei Jūji Gakuen ), an exorcist cram school, which is actually the Japanese branch of the Truthful Cross Order ( 正十字騎士團 ), an international organization dedicated to protect Assiah (homo realm) from the Gehenna (demonic realm). Much to his surprise, Rin finds that Yukio is already a veteran Exorcist and is i of his teachers. Thus begins Rin's journey to become an Exorcist, accompanied past his brother and his fellow students who quickly become his close friends.

Production [edit]

Kazue Kato took inspiration from the 2005 picture show The Brothers Grimm, as she tried to work the bending of brothers fighting against monsters into a story. She somewhen decided on making the story about demons and exorcists, thus conceiving Blue Exorcist.[3] Due to exorcists being the main idea of the story, the manga features a lot of Biblical references. In an interview with Anime News Network, Kato said: "I should not run abroad from these references if I'thou working in the Exorcist genre."[3] An ending was planned by Kato but the exact length of the series has yet to exist decided based on the manga'due south popularity in Japan.[four]

In 2016, Kato stated, "I think there might be iv more arcs. I have a crude storyline complete for the ending, merely I haven't figured out all of the details. I take a few things where I'm not sure what to determine to do."[5] In July 2021, Kato announced that the manga would enter on an 8-month hiatus until April 2022, to work on a 6-chapter manga mini-series adaptation of Fuyumi Ono's Eizen Karukaya Kaiitan.[6] In February 2022, it was announced that the manga is fix to return in May of the same year.[7]

Media [edit]

Manga [edit]

Blue Exorcist is written and illustrated by Kazue Kato. A ane-shot chapter, titled Miyamauguisu House Case ( 深山鶯邸事件 , Miyamauguisu-tei Jiken ), was kickoff published in Shueisha'due south Spring Square on August 4, 2008.[8] [9] Blue Exorcist has been serialized in Jump Foursquare since April 4, 2009.[10] Shueisha has collected its chapters into private tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on August 4, 2009.[11] As of July 2, 2021, twenty-vii volumes have been published.[12]

The series has been licensed past Viz Media for release in North America, with the first book released under the Shōnen Jump Advance imprint on Apr v, 2011.[13] [fourteen] 20-six volumes have been released as of Oct 5, 2021.[fifteen]

The series is also licensed in France by Kazé,[16] and in Poland by Waneko.[17]

A spin-off series written by Kato and illustrated by Minoru Sasaki, focused on Rin's blood brother, Yukio, titled Salaryman Exorcist: The Sorrows of Yukio Okumura ( サラリーマン祓魔師 奥村雪男の哀愁 , Salaryman Futsumashi Okumura Yukio no Aishū ), started in Jump SQ.nineteen on April 19, 2013.[xviii] After the magazine ceased publication on February nineteen, 2015, the series was transferred to Spring Square.[19] The series finished on Apr 3, 2020.[20] Its chapters were collected in four tankōbon volumes, released from February four, 2015,[21] to June iv, 2020.[22]

Anime [edit]

An anime adaption for the manga was announced on November 27, 2010, on Shueisha's Jump Square official website.[23] The anime was produced by A-1 Pictures with Hitoshi Okamura as the producer. Originally, the series was scheduled to air on April ten, 2011, on MBS, replacing Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto; however, due to the March 11, 2011, Tōhoku convulsion and tsunami the serial' circulate was delayed until April 17, 2011.[24] The anime ended on Oct 2, 2011.

The opening theme for the first 12 episodes is "Core Pride" past Japanese stone band Uverworld,[25] while the opening theme from episode 13 onwards is "In My World" past Japanese stone band ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D. The ending theme for the first 12 episodes is "Take Off" by South Korean male child ring 2PM,[26] while the ending theme from episode 13 through episode 25 is "Wired Life" by Japanese singer Meisa Kuroki.

Aniplex announced they would simulcast the series in North America through video sites Hulu, Crunchyroll, Anime News Network and Netflix starting on April 20, 2011.[27] Aniplex of America released Bluish Exorcist on DVD in four sets, starting by releasing the offset DVD on October 18, 2011.[28] An OVA was released in 2011, chosen Ao No Exorcist: Kuro no Iede. The series began broadcasting in the United States and Canada on Viz Media's online network, Neon Alley, on October 2, 2012.[29] The series began airing on Adult Swim'southward Toonami block on Feb 23, 2014, and finished airing on August x, 2014.[thirty]

Later half dozen years, a 2nd season titled Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga was appear in June 2016 and premiered on January 7, 2017.[31] [32] [33] Koichi Hatsumi directed the sequel, while Toshiya Ōno wrote the scripts, Keigo Sasaki designed the characters, and Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto equanimous the series' soundtrack. A-i Pictures returned to produce the animation.[34] [35] Information technology was also announced that at that place would be five new characters in the sequel. The opening theme song was "Itteki no Eikyō" ( 一滴の影響 , lit. "Drop's Influence") by Uverworld, while the catastrophe theme song was "Kono Te de" ( コノ手デ , lit. "With This Hand") by Rin Akatsuki.[36] The series has been licensed by Aniplex of America.[37]

The first anime series contains an anime-sectional story arc starting in episode 16. The original ending contained within the offset season's final nine episodes is retconned in the 2d flavour, with the anime story timeline once over again following the narrative of the manga. The 2nd season adapts volumes 5 through 9 of the manga.[38]

Flick [edit]

An anime moving picture, Blue Exorcist: The Movie, was released on Dec 28, 2012, in Japan.[39] The English language dub cast reprised their roles for the moving-picture show.[40]

Other [edit]

A phase play based on the series titled Alive Human activity Ao no Exorcist: Mashin no Rakuin ran for nine performances at the Nippon Seinenkan hall in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward from May xi to 17 during 2012. Satoshi Owada directed and wrote scripts for the play. Main characters Rin and Yukio Okumura were portrayed past Ryou Kimura and Kimito Totani respectively.[41] A light novel titled Ao no Exorcist: Weekend Hero was written past Aya Yajima and illustrated by Kato. It was released by Shueisha on September 2, 2011.[42] A visual novel for PlayStation Portable, Ao no Exorcist: Genkoku no Labyrinth was released on Apr 26, 2012, past Bandai Namco Games.[43] A smartphone game, Blueish Exorcist: Damned Chord was appear in December 2018, merely in Nov 2020 it was announced that the game was canceled.[44]

Reception [edit]

Manga [edit]

Equally of Nov 2016, Blue Exorcist had over fifteen million copies in circulation.[45] The manga has been popular in Japan with the 7th volume receiving first print run of i million copies becoming the first Jump Foursquare manga to reach such milestone. The release of the anime besides drastically increased the manga's sales to the point that Shueisha decided to increment the print run for the seventh volume.[42]

Critics take praised the Blue Exorcist manga, with Comic Book Bin reviewer Leroy Douresseaux feeling the offset volume had potential, enjoying the comedy in the work and the characters and their interactions, recommending it to teen readers.[46] Danica Davidson from Otaku U.s.a. felt that while the serial employs disturbing storytelling, Rin's heroic traits despite being Satan's son make the plot more highly-seasoned to the readers.[47] Kato's artwork has been praised by Anime News Network 'due south Carlo Santos for the way each character has distinct traits while background images are well designed.[48] Deb Aoki of About.com praised Kato'south art and the series' "multi-dimensional globe that melds European architecture, Japanese civilisation, mod applied science and Tim Burton-esque whimsy", also stating that information technology is a "multicultural mishmash" of Harry Potter, Cirque du Soleil, Blade Runner and Alice in Wonderland, only she called the action scenes "a bit chaotic, and sometimes hard to follow".[49]

Anime [edit]

Despite noting that the story uses several clichés, Carl Kimlinger from Anime News Network emphasized how the execution was well-performed, resulting in entertaining episodes, especially its fight scenes, which were noted to be one of the anime'due south strongest points.[l] Sandra Scholes of agile Anime noted similarities to other series similar Trinity Blood, Fullmetal Alchemist and Bleach, but wrote that the story and characters have "plenty of their ain to tantalize us to spotter" and wrote that it is "a truly shonen series, but there is room for some emotional scenes".[51]

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External links [edit]

  • Blue Exorcist official manga website at Bound Square (in Japanese)
  • Blue Exorcist official anime website (in Japanese)
  • Blue Exorcist official English anime website
  • PSP Game official website (in Japanese)
  • Blue Exorcist (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Exorcist

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