Blue Exorcist

Even though I personally mostly read novels, I am very open to different types of books which is why I decided to tell you about the great manga by Kazue Kato: Blue Exorcist (1)

Rin Okumara and his twin brother Yukio, are teenage orphans and grew up in a monastery with Father Shiro Fujimoto. Rin gets into a lot of fights and comes home often with his face bruised. Fujimoto encourages Rin to get a job but he isn’t interested in “normal” jobs. To the contrary of his brother, Yukio works hard at school and dreams to become a doctor.

One day, Fujimoto convinces Rin to go to a job interview to become a cook’s apprentice. But on the way there, he meets a gang with whom he got in a fight with the night before. They ask Rin how much money he wants for him to keep his mouth shut about the fight, but Rin refuses. The brain of the gang, possessed by a demon, gets mad and tries to hit him. But mysteriously, when the man hits him, blue flames come out of Rin.

                                                          Why?!

Fujimoto shows up and beats the gang and explains Rin that demons float everywhere around us and that there are even two different worlds: Assiah, the material world where we live, and The Ghenna, the world of the demons. The two worlds can’t interact. Demons can get into any tangible element in our material world.

But that still doesn’t explain why blue flames came out of Rin. Fujimoto claims that he is the son of Satan born from a human woman. Since he was born premature, he, and not his brother, inherited his father’s powers.

All of a sudden, Fujimoto changes and becomes possessed by Satan and sacrifices himself to save Rin. Rin, in furor, wants to do one thing: get revenge and kill Satan.

But in order to do this, he needs to become an Exorcist. So at Fujimoto’s funeral, he goes see the True Cross Academy's chairman, Mephisto Pheles, in order to enroll into his school that has Exorcist classes.

When he gets there, he finds his brother who is actually an exorcist and a teacher. He meets a girl called Shiemi Moryama who is the daughter of an Exorcist apothecary shop. She is possessed by a demon and Rin and Yukio help her get rid of it.

Inspired by them, Shiemi decides to enroll in the Exorcist class too…

You should really read this manga, the story is original and interesting and despite the fact that the story must look complicated it’s really easy to understand. The drawings are beautiful and very technical which is important for a good manga.

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