Ao no Excorcist

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Name: Blue Excorcist, Ao no Excorcist, Ao no Futsumashi 青の祓魔師

Movie: Ao no Exorcist Movie
Status: Completed
Episode: 25
Release date (for eng subs): every Friday


Summary:
This world consists of two dimensions joined as one, like a mirror. The first is the world in which the humans live, Assiah. The other is the world of demons, Gehenna. Ordinarily, travel between the two, and indeed any kind of contact between the two, is impossible. However the demons can pass over into this world by possessing anything that exist within it. Satan the god of demons, but there's one thing that he doesn't have, and that's a substance in the human world that is powerful enough to contain him!! For that purpose he created Rin, his son from a human woman, but will his son agree to his plans? Or will he become something else...? An exorcist?

This story is about the challanges Rin and his brother, Yukio, faces. Rin is constantly being targeted from other exorcist who knows his true identity. He tries to hide the fact that he was Satan's son and his power from his friends and classmates, but sooner or later they would find out. His friends all have different feelings and reactions towards the truth. Yukio, faces with the problem of jealousy. He's jealous of his brother's power and wishes to have stronger power.

Summary from: http://myanimelist.net/anime/9919/Ao_no_Exorcist
Added on by: AngelaAgness


Personal ratings: 3
This show is generally very nice. However the last episode really killed the whole show. If the ending was not so bad, I would have given it a 4 or even a 4.5. 
When i watched the last episode, it made me think that watching this show was a waste of my time. I think that due to the little episode they have, they are not really able to fully explain and answer all the problems. 
I think, instead of abruptly ending this show, they should have made a season two. There were many questions of Mefisto (the principle of the school) and his brother, Amaimon. Even untill the end, it did not clear my doubts on them and they never shows their true identity.

What i really liked about this show is that not all the focus is on the main character. There are episode were they show more of Rin's classmates, their feelings and character. I also really liked how they showed that in the end, Yukio was not all that perfect a brother.
What i find that was truly a disappointment was that in the first few episodes, there was little or no action. They also showed very little on the combat lessons they attended.

I read the manga after I watched the anime, and to be honest, I really prefer the manga more. I think that there was a more proper development and story line in the whole manga, as compared the anime; because in the anime, it's like they take the main idea from the manga, and change it. But they change it in such a way that it can fit into one episode, which also means that it didn't really contribute to the main story line of the anime. 
I didn't really like their reaction to the whole 'Rin is Satan's son' thing. Because in the manga, they were really making a huge fuss out of it, which is the most normal reaction. But in the anime, the students didn't even think twice about it, only Konekomaru was in that whole 'I can't accept that, and I'm afraid of him' Situation. 
Also about Takahara. In the manga he actually plays quite a mysterious character in the story, but is also significant in that arc, because he is someone that is kind of like Shura. So I was kind of thinking that if they didn't really need him, than they shouldn't have even added him in the first place. 


Art ratings: 4
Generally very nice, however for some fighting scenes, Rin looks werid. Really liked how they did not make the characters look so stiff. (bouncy hair :D)


Recommended for:
Gender: Male & Female
Age: 13 and above
My Ratings: PG-13