Fifth Ao no Exorcist trailer released!!

On the very same official website of this series, there's a fifth promo available with more scenes and characters!



The premiere date is April 10!!!!

The Ao no Exorcist contest on DeviantArt is on!

To celebrate the fact that the anime premieres on April (tentatively April 3rd since it's going to air on Sundays), we, at our group #Ao-no-Exorcist on DeviantArt are organizing a contest in which the winners get some nice prices!

Here's the info from our Ao No Exorcist page:

NEW CONTEST!

Contest Title: Risin' up, the Anime!

Theme: The AnE Anime! Artworks based on the trailers are good shot.
Start: March 1st*
End: June 1st*
*Dates may change if needed be.
Rules:

During te contest there will be a file named "Contest",that's where you must submit your art.
Before or after you submit your art you must comment on the blog post with something like: "I submited <link> for the contest." Just to let me know, so I can put your name and the link on the post. ALL SORTS OF ARTWORKS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Drawings, written works, whatever.
 The theme is the AnE anime, I highly recoment you all to watch the trailers again and base yourself on this.
It would be apreciated if you'd put on the Artist Comment part something like "This deviation is for the contest on the Ao no Exorcist group." with our link or banner, something like that.
It has to be Ao no Exorcist related.
It has to be an original piece, no stealing.
It has to be something made for this contest, not something you had already submited on the group.

 PRIZES!

 FIRST PLACE.
- Their Artwork on our Featured spot!
- Their Artwork featured on  Nakamura's blog, [link] !
- Get to choose 3 of the prize donators to make yourself a prize!

 SECOND PLACE.
- Their Artwork on our Featured spot!
- Get a prize from one of the prize donators to make yourself a prize!

 THIRD PLACE.
- Their Artwork on our Featured spot!
- Get a prize from one of the prize donators to make yourself a prize!

 FOURTH PLACE.
- Their Artwork on our Featured spot!


 PRIZE DONATORS!
- Just to remember you, those guys can also take part in the contest, just can't get a prize from themselves!

 dragonlurker
 mayamei
 Danyeda
 L3gitimat3
 jkingbudha


What are you waiting for? Do your best!

Feel free also to join our group anytime and always check out the latest updates on both the anime and manga of this great series by Kazue Kato!!!

New Ao no Exorcist stream trailer!!

This would be the third trailer from the upcoming series, as it shows more details on the dialogues and more insight on Rin.

The quality of the animation is top-notch! This series will be a hit!

The trailer is available here, at the official website of the series.

An alternate, abridged version is on youtube:

More details on the upcoming Ao no Exorcist anime!

A new interactive site of the upcoming anime has been launched and it can be accessed here

The site features a countdown clock to the premiere and a little teasing game in which you have to kill the 'particle demons' possesing your screen!

It's definitely is a good time to be a fan of this manga! I thought it would take longer to become an anime!

Blue Exorcist will get an anime!!!! Finally!!!!!

This series by Kazue Kato, also known as Ao no Exorcist for manga readers, will have an anime adaptation for next year, while the manga will be licensed by Viz Media to come out in April for North America.

This was announced by the official site of Shueisha's Jump Square Magazine, which just uploaded the January cover of the magazine with this great news.

As we know, this is the story of Rin Okumura, a boy raised by a famous exorcist named Father Fujimoto. After an argument between the two, Rin discovers he is the son of Satan.

OMG!!!!! I'm excited!!!! I knew that this would happen sooner or later with the success that this series is having!!!!!

*hyperventilates then passes away*

Weekly review: Beelzebub manga

I can't wait till this awesome series premieres as an anime next year.

Just like Ao no Exorcist, it is quite an alternative take on the 'son of the Devil' theme that we are used to see in classic movies like The Exorcist or The Prophecy.

We are used to think that the son of a demon is supposed to be the cusp of everything that is evil, but what if it really isn't so? That's the challenge that these stories present, with imperfect, human characters, yet with a sense of what is right.

Beelzebub is the story of Oga Tatsumi, a high-school freshman punk, pretty much like Kurosaki Ichigo from Bleach, who constantly fights and gets in trouble with gangs and social clichés in his high school, considered one of the worst in Japan, Ishiyama High.

Ishiyama High is more like the scenery of power struggles between gangs and its leaders, and we never see a teacher there, meaning that its students are all on their own in their perfect anarchy experiment.

One day Oga was kicking the living crap out of a group that defied him, and took them to the river to 'do the laundry', drowning them repeatedly in order to wash their blood stained clothes. (Erm, bear in mind that this is a dark comedy)

Until he sees a corpse emerging out of the river. Everyone is scared the hell out and runs, except Oga. The corpse splits in half like a capsule and reveals a really cute naked baby, who 'falls in love' with Oga's cruelty and dark aura.

He doesn't know what's going on and accepts to take care of the baby, who will be attached to his back until he finds someone darker and more cruel than him.

The baby is the son of the Devil in Earth, and to meet his true destiny, he must be raised in the worst enviroment possible in order to ensure the destruction of humanity. That's why Hilda, a Gothic-lolita caregiver and warrior from Hell, meets Oga to ensure that objective.

Thus the trouble and fun ensues :-)

Viz media will release Ao no Exorcist in April!

According to U.S publisher Simon & Schuster, the first volume of author Kazue Kato's Ao no Exorcist (also known as Blue Exorcist) will be released by Viz Media on April of next year. This is great news since it will mean that this manga will have more diffusion across international audiences, and it clearly deserves it!

Ao no Exorcist started being serialized by Shueisha's Jump Square magazine in April of 2009. It is the story of Rin Okumura, a boy who discovers he is the son of Satan.

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