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Overall not as good as I hoped it to be but still worth the watch. It's very classic shonen. The story was pretty lacklustre in the end and despite having a lot of potential it didn't do anything interesting at all. Characters received very little to no development and were either illogically set in the ideals or annoyingly fickle with little middle ground. The best character in Shiro Fujimoto was unfortunately only in it for about 2 episodes with a few cameos later on too.

The biggest failure for me though is the motivations for pretty much all the characters in the show. The entire cast ... of protagonists motivations can be boiled down to getting stronger to "protecting my friends" / "get revenge on Satan". Takara was the most interesting character in this respect because we're still in the dark on him. He has a small but cool scene where he was just watching the fighting and quoting some lines from mythology or something. The way he acts throughout is as if he is far stronger and knows far more than he lets on. Mephisto I think is equally as good, basically acting as the Izaya Orihara of Blue Exorcist. Although far less in the shadows than Takara, its clear there's more to him and what he wants than just playing games with people.

The bad guys were even worse though. All the demons just fight or mess with people because hey they're demons it's what they do. Ernst came out of nowhere by suddenly seizing the entire Vatican totally inexplicably and somehow convinced all the exorcists that opening the gate to gehenna was in any way a good idea. Earlier on they even admitted that they had no way of fighting back against Satan which was the whole reason they let Rin stay alive and then they decide to go and sacrifice him to get to Satan. Sure they had the Messiah bomb but it was never shown that they tested it to check it's efficacy and guess what, it ended up doing fuck all. They tried to give Satan something by having his motivations come from Yuri who is this lovable person that's get wrongly persecuted. Which could've worked great by making us understand his side of just trying to bring the two worlds together but then he continues to act like a complete dickhead and attempts destroys the city.

On to some of the good. It was generally pretty well animated and the fight choreography wasn't too bad but the attacks and power ups did get a little samey. Voice acting gets no complaints and I liked the music during the show overall. The OP and ED were more than skippable though. The character interactions between the students specifically were well done and I got a few laughs throughout. Also the part with Blackie was done well enough to work a tear or two down my face, although that's maybe not saying much considering my disposition to cry rather easily.

5/10