Big disappointment! read the manga instead!

Written by marvizgam on February 22, 2012 at 12:24 AM

When i first saw the trailer for Blue Exorcist it peek my interest that i immediately read the manga just to see if it really was that interesting and i immediately liked the storyline and couldn't wait to watch it get animated. The story about twin brothers, Rin & Yukio Okumura, who decided to become Exorcist in order to avenge the death of their adopted father who is killed by no other than their "true" dad who happens to be the king of hell himself, Satan, definitely caught my attention. Another interest part is that only one of the siblings, Rin, inherited demonic powers while the younger brother, Yukio, manage to become a meister in both dragoon and doctor class. There is also the part where both brother is trying to keep their demonic heritage a secret from the rest of the Vatican order due to the fact that large a number of powerful exorcist was killed by Satan during the so-called "Blue Night." Unfortunately, the series suffered from weak and mediocre sub-plots, crappy fight scenes and low character build-up partly. At first i manages to stay true to the manga adding a few scenes like the one where they got attack by "zombie dogs" and the church being target by a possess and derange bully which were actually great, however, due to the slow paced of the manga it decided to create a story of it own which despite the effort it didn't go well with the actual story and resulted in crappy shallow ending. We didn't see Rin's struggle to keep his flames in check, his friends confusing after learning he was Satan' spawn (specially Bon & Konekumaru), or Yukio being tempted to embrace his demonic side by another fellow demon-spawn exorcist gone rogue. We didn't see any of the other characters personal history (except for Sheimi) like Bon's issue with his dad and clan or Renzo's carefree attitude in order to hide his insecurities. All of these could have been incorporated in the series and if they just followed the manga and ended with a Season 1 instead of creating an ending that didn't give the series much justice.