Anime time bitches! Yeah kind of a new thing here. I mentioned a couple of them in my top ten tv shows post, but I'm pretty sure this is the first review of one so let's do this shit!
Alright so that dude front and center is named Rin Okumura and there's a reson he's front and center. Fucking spoilers, he's the main character. Bigger fucking spoilers he also happens to be Satan's kid. Yeah that's a thing. Hence why his head and sword are on fire and he has fangs. Everything really starts when daddy comes knocking and offs the priest who was raising Rin and his twin brother Yukio (the guy to the left of Rin). This makes Rin justifiably upset, and Rin vows he's going to become an exorcist and beat up his dad for killing his step-dad. Talk about daddy issues. That's basically the set up for the show. Most of the 25 episode season deals with Rin in training learning to be an exorcist, along with a few friends/classmates who are most of the other people in that picture.
Things change up a bit near the end when a couple of grand schemes are revealed and daddy Satan comes trying to take over the earth. Spoilers again, it doesn't work. And the reasoning behind this is just...... I don't know what the fuck the writers were smoking, drinking, or injecting to think that this was..... no that's not even it either. It's not like the batshit totally out of the buildings behind the buildings that are past the edge of left field. It's just, they reveal some backstory between a couple of characters and it's like..... did this suddenly become a Disney movie? The thing is just like.... really? That's the characters motivation? Fucking really? And it's just silly and sounds like it was made to teach a four year old a moral.
And it doesn't ruin the whole series, or even really make it bad, I honestly found the whole idea of it funny in a "you just have to be fucking joking" way. And in the event that's what was intended (which I doubt) then A+ to the writer. If I was meant to take that shit seriously...
Yeah that basically. Yeah it's really tonally dissonant with the rest of the show, and I can't wrap my head around why it was done that way and why nobody was like.... "Do you really think this is a good idea?" But like I said, it doesn't ruin the show and while it does make, mostly just one episode, really fucking silly, it's not the worst thing ever.
On the whole though I liked Blue Exorcist. For those of you who are wondering I watched the dubbed version not the subbed version. It is available on Netflix, or was last I knew, though that may be only the dubbed version. Fairly actiony without being too heavy handed about it and there are the calmer moments and the characters and character developments are *mostly* reasonable and for the good of the show. So if you like anime and want a new one, or maybe you aren't hugely into it, and are looking for one to try that's not too crazy, then maybe give this a look. But if you happen to fall into the second category don't judge all animes based upon this ones ending, I swear they don't all do that.
7.5 demonic children out of 10
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