(Ao no excorcist)
MINDSET:
Aw, no excrement why am I seeing this with eights and nines?!
SYNOPSIS:
Rin Okumura is living through he's slice of life as a pubed teen with he's family and brother, soon finding out that he's excremental we don't care a jack prehistorically grown ash father gotten the fecies kicked out of him by Satan. Now its up to our run of the mill protagonist to shaft satan at he's new high school who teaches the art of excrementations, sorry, I mean rex-cor-cis-mmm. And lots of other jazz that needs explaining that will drag out five minute review! And he's brother is an excorcist and Rin is the son of satan, cuz the author thought they were cool...
REVIEW:
Basically, if You imagine all of the tropes and most generic archetypes in all of shonen add “excorcist” because it sounds cool BUT make it shorter, we get this horrendous piece of abomination! BTW You make them worse (and obviously, here is why)
a majority or even all of the entire cast don't seem to have enough depth, the show focuses way to heavily on the protagonist, anyone else who get more screen time and some characters that none of us give a damn. They show there back stories giving a decent or sometimes half-ashed explanation on why they have become that person.
However, that do not develop, or develop enough to show our empathy and care. All or most of the characters in some way shape or form, does not show a large amount of complexity or depth, they are governed by Archetypes and show no sign of originality or multiple factors and traits.
(That Anime Snob has much more detail on this subject from he's ten dimensions video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob3ReizUo1c) Sure there are characters that do actually develop, however, they still had the same issue with lacking enough complexity and have not developed just enough for us to care when they are at a rough situation. Also, there are like 3 characters that meet this criteria out of like more than 10 side characters and villains!
If we talk about those “other” characters who seem to be the majority out numbering the three characters who show “some” overall depth, Blue Excrement does not repair the damage it has done by having a bunch of badly written characters with only three average characters! Those characters can go to a tentacle hentai if they truly become 100% forgettable pieces of writing!
Because this is a Shounen, it is the characters that will drive the plot on being actually good. So yes, the story is bad. Soo to summarise a lot of details while having a clear image, far too much of the story heavily relies on plot conveniences. Too much feels forced, it doesn’t feel as if stuff happens naturally like how the show portrays that not all demons are bad and are just trying to protect there territory like animals. That could have been very interesting if we seen there side of view. However, the scenes about the concept seem to be rather few and far between, and none of us even care and none of the more “monster-like demons” seem to develop.
And now because I felt like it, here are a few reasons why Naruto is the better show: (despite of them being both sh!t)
-Naruto gives actual character exploration and some development through quite a lot of characters. (until the author thought we need to mix in some Yaoi)
-Some back stories make actual sense and logic.
-They had this whole concept of teamwork (before Sasuke becomes gay) ninjas MUST co-ordinate to become successful. In Blue Exorcist, we all know that the protagonist is going to kill everything at the end, so why not bother if the going gets rough if he was the son of satan?
CONGRABULATION NARUTO... YOU ARE RETARDED, YET YOU ACTUALLY MANAGE TO BEAT SOMTHING THAT IS NOT A TRAINWRECK AND YOU ARE AN ACTUAL EXAMPLE ON HOW MUCH THE 21ST CENTURY SHONENS HAVE WORSEN OVER THE PASSAGE OF TIME.
*CLAPS VIGORUSLY*
SCORE:
3/10 – Characters. HOW Can WE CARE?
3.5/10 – Half of the show was filler. The story was still bad any ways.
6/10 – Good Animation
6/10 – WHY IS THE OP SO F**KING AMAZING?!
PERSONAL SCORE:
3/10 – I feel nothing when I watched this show.
