The Blue Exorcist is like that one kid that sat in the back of the class that no one paid attention to until he did something. In this case, the kid did something awesome!
I hope this isn't the studio...
The story starts us off in a church with multiple priests in a panic over a Virgin Mary statue that appears to be bleeding from the eye (symbolism of something, I don’t know). It already has my interest; it’s going to get good. Hopefully, those silly priests won’t stop channeling the hymn — hymn of hope or divine hymn?! Both of the hymns have a relatively long cooldown! I told you, my main spec isn’t a healing priest!
Suddenly, it gets really good:
OH GOD ONE OF THEM BURSTED INTO YOGA FLAME!! Yes, this is what keeps my interest in anime. Keep it coming A-1 — don’t disappoint me by turning out to be a horrible steak sauce!
Me gusta this scene.
Then suddenly, yoga flames start shooting everywhere! The final victim, however, was the crowning moment of awesome. NO ONE IS SAFE!
Okay, he kind of looks like a cat using the litter box (he’ll bursts into flames a few seconds later while saying something about demons), but the baddie (possibly a demon) is basically saying that no one is safe (not even the pope). At this point, I’m all like:
Is it true?! Could there be a fun shounen to watch?
The opening was a really good hook. I mean, throughout the yoga flame scene, I was a fish that just got caught by an expert fisherman and am about to get reeled in. Unfortunately for the fisherman, I am a smart fish and can cut the line whenever I get bored. Hopefully the rest of the anime will keep my interest!
Yeah, the introduction is a bit funny, but this guy (the nerd lookin’ guy) right here:
He’s going to be a killjoy and you know it: “Onii-chan~ You shouldn’t do that~ Onii-chan, matte~yo!!!” Then it turns out that they are twins, and oh god, it’s like the inverted version of the main character. Anyways, Mr. Killjoy is a genius (who would have thought?!), and is the apple of the church’s eye (or something like that).
There’s another interesting part of the somewhat dull introduction:
This kind of reminds me of Duck Hunt but there's no snickering dog. :(
I want to say that the anime might be commenting on animal abuse in Japan, but I’m not very certain. Just make sure you don’t shoot pigeons or any pet. That’s just bad mojo, man.
The rest of the introduction is kind of boring, so while the main character finds out that people don’t believe in demons, I’m working:
Sometime later, the action comes back with the arrival of the guy who got his ass handed to him by our main character — I guess he’s persistent:
But he’s surrounded by these black dust bunnies, so the main character agrees to go give him a shower. Things go terribly wrong:
I guess the main character scrubbed him the wrong way, and we’re led to this point (literally):
No one wants to have a long, hot, throbbing pole shoved in their eye, so the main character did the only thing he could do: explode into flames and hope the guy doesn’t decide to quickly stick it in!
Of course, the rest of the gang (without the demon dude) runs since you probably don’t want to be around a guy who can spontaneously burst into blue flames and ruin your outfit. The one persistent guy’s still around though, and he likes what he sees:
Oh cool, it’s Astaroth, one of the Crowned Princes of Hell. How you doin’ guy? Oh, you want to take me back to my father? No can do, broski. I happen to really like my father, the exorcist.
Yeah, you might have heard of him — he’s kind of a big deal. And with one hand pointed like a gun from the exorcist, Astaroth disappears like an unpleasant sulfur smell in the night.
Also, a funny comparison by the exorcist:
The thing on the left has a serious case of the ugly. I mean really. Even for a demon, and it’s not even that evil looking. I have a Barbie doll that looks exactly like that, and no matter how far I toss it, it somehow reappears in my room.
Anyways, I really like the first episode of this anime; hopefully, the anime will be filled with action, since shounens really only have action going for them. Once the action is dead in a shounen, the anime is dead too… just like Fry’s dog:
I'm pretty much dead.
He’s going to be a killjoy and you know it: “Onii-chan~ You shouldn’t do that~ Onii-chan, matte~yo!!!” Then it turns out that they are twins, and oh god, it’s like the inverted version of the main character. Anyways, Mr. Killjoy is a genius (who would have thought?!), and is the apple of the church’s eye (or something like that).
I laughed at this part– A LOT. It’s so incredibly accurate you might as well write the show for us lol.
You know, I bet later in the show it’ll turn out that his twin brother didn’t get any powers since Satan doesn’t like killjoys and the twin brother becomes slightly jealous because his “older” twin brother got all the powers. Or something. It’s a shounen thing.
FFFFF YEAH. Oh…his brother is one of those bitchy killjoys btw. IDEK if thats a shounen thing lol.
I wasn’t huge on the first episode but liked the second a lot, which has a ton of action. That one really sold me on the series.
Yeah, I agree with you about the first episode. The first episode started a bit slow, but it started getting pretty interesting around the end!
Why don’t you review the The Disapperance of Haruhi Suzumiya? It’s really a good movie, even if you hate Haruhi.
Also, what about Clannad? I suggested that to you years ago and you still haven’t touched it =/.
1) The person who wrote this article (Nyoro~n) is not the same person who wrote about Haruhi (me).
2) Re: Clannad, I’m not going to write about any old series.
3) Oh, I’m sure I’d be too biased to write about Haruhi. ;v
As E Minor said, I’m not the same person as him. Our writing styles are totally different.
Also, I don’t really want to touch Haruhi or Clannad. That’d be opening a big can of worms that I wouldn’t be able to close. Maybe you should ask The Fin for it.
oh, allrighty then.
well isn’t it more fun that way? controversy rules in the anime blogosphere. most of this blog is about how anime sucks…you can delete the comments that are unwelcome, so i don’t really get the part about not being able to close the can…
1) I’m sure she’s just joking about the can of worms thing.
2) Contrary to popular opinion, I don’t target specific anime just to bash them. I write about what I watch, and I personally have no desire to watch the Haruhi movie. Regarding Haruhi in general, I already said my piece on the series and I’ve moved on. I’m not being paid like an Ebert to watch every single anime so I’m not going to.
Oh, and I praise anime plenty on this blog, but people don’t notice that. One negative post about Sora no Woto will get more comments than all my Aoi Bungaku posts combined. So really, this blog is not about how anime sucks. People just see what they want to see.
As E Minor pointed out, I wasn’t being entirely serious about not being able to handle controversy. I just don’t want to write about Haruhi or Clannad!
well okay. sorry then. too bad though…