Please take notes that I talk about stuff that are spoilers for those who didn't saw the entire anime.
Blue Exorcist had a GIGANTIC potential to be a super fucking mega shounen series (like Bleach and Naruto and all that shit)... if only the story had been better developed!!!!!!
They made all the plot available in the manga at the time into a 25 episodes anime when it had enough for like, 5 seasons, not kidding:
- Season 1: History of the characters; basic explanation of supernatural creatures and differences between humans, nephilim, demons and other races; beginning of the Academy and explanation of the classes of exorcists.
- Season 2: Development of the characters; demonstrations of more spells and abilities of exorcists; advancement of the characters to ex-wires class; larger missions with stronger demons; those silly beach episodes to replace the ridiculous amount of fanservice in this damn thing.
- Season 3: First major villain, more character development, cooler fights, stronger teams, more involvement with other stronger classes. Rin finally have a team now that has the right division of classes with friends that are Doctors, Tamers, Knights, Arias, Dragoons.
- Season 4: Another exam for the characters to go up in exorcists classes, showing more of the abilities of each one of Rin main friends and some of the best teachers; development of evil villains and sects; Yuri discovers and develops his hidden demonic powers; beginning of the final plot.
- Season 5: Rin develops demon powers to the point of having strength equivalent to a Paladin; more epic struggles; more history; some important char dies; revenge race; discovery of links that connects the malevolent sects with Satan or with the corruption of the Vatican; some fucking explanation of what the fuck were Mephisto's real intentions; final fight against Satan and other villains with Ryu's gang helping Rin. Reconstruction of the Academy and the Vatican, creating a balance between supernatural creatures with humans (something very close to what happened with Legend of Korra). The love triangle between Yuri, Rin and Shiemi resolves with Shiemi and Yuri getting together. Ryu stays with his sweetheart too. There is so much fucking bait romance in this shit man, I swear to god!
IT WOULD BE A FUCKING AWESOME STORY. AND I JUST MADE IT UP IN LIKE 10 FUCKING MINUTES
But no.
This anime was released in 2011, had an even shorter season in 2017 (apparently with very similar mistakes) and until today there is no signs of a third season, so that's it! The studio shoved the entire manga in these racing episodes and kinda ruined the whole story. It was full of holes, loose ends, poor development, shitty fights, stupid cliches, and of course, those fucking annoying and unnecessary scenes of imbecile sexualization - since you can only be a strong female lead in anime if you show a lot of titties and pink babydoll panties with your skin shining like hell when no other character has the same shine applicated into their skin colors.
Now, imagine that the director of this garbage was the storyboard of epic things like Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, Samurai Champloo and Evangelion.
I'm getting too old to watch anime...
But lemme just say: I will definitely give a shot to the manga, hoping to see a better development, cuz I really, really loved the concept of Ao.
