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New Blue Exorcist TV Anime's Returning Cast, New Staff, Plot, 2017 Premiere Revealed
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The August issue of Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Impure King Arc), will debut in 2017.
The returning cast includes:
Keiji Fujiwara as Shiro Fujimoto
Legendoor management company represents both artists).
The anime's official website will stream a promotional video later on Monday.
The anime will adapt the "Kyoto Impure King Arc" that started in the fifth volume of Viz Media describes the manga's fifth volume as follows:
In the late Edo Period, a demon known as the Impure King killed thousands of people. After defeating the demon, the Knights of the True Cross kept its left eye safely sealed away on Academy grounds - but now someone has stolen it! Hearing the thief has taken a child hostage, Yukio and Rin go to help. The investigation and pursuit will lead Rin and his friends to Kyoto and involve them even deeper in a sinister plot! But will his friends' knowledge that Rin is the son of Satan drive a wedge between them?
The issue also revealed a visual for the anime, and asked fans to look forward to an announcement later for the voice cast for Saburota Todo and MAMUSHI Hojo, two characters who will appear for the first time in the sequel.
Katō launched the manga in Jump SQ. magazine in 2009, and Shueisha published the 17th compiled volume on Monday. The manga inspired a 25-episode television anime adaptation in 2011, and an anime film in 2012.
The supernatural manga focuses on 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. Rin decides to fight his fate by ing the True Cross Academy to become an exorcist and defeat demons. However, when he draws his father's sword, it releases a dark power within him.
Viz Media publishes the manga in English simultaneously digitally as new chapters are published in Japan, and the company also releases the manga in print. run in Tokyo in August. The latest stage play will also adapt the Kyoto Impure King Arc.