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Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Saga Anime Gets Sequel in October
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The stage event at AnimeJapan 2024 on Sunday for Ao no Exorcist: Yuki no Hate-hen (Blue Exorcist: At the End of the Snow Chapter). The stage revealed a teaser promo video for the anime.
contributed the opening theme song "Eye's Sentry," and Mulasaki-Ima performed the ending theme "Gakkyū Nisshi" (Class Diary).
Katō launched the Blue Exorcist manga in resumed in May 2022. The manga has more than 25 million copies in circulation.
Viz Media is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story:
Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous exorcist, Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth—the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin's veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan, but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy and becoming an exorcist himself. Can Rin fight demons and keep his infernal bloodline a secret? It won't be easy, especially when drawing his father's sword releases the demonic power within him!
The manga inspired a 25-episode television anime series in 2011, and the Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga television anime premiered in 2017 and aired for 12 episodes.
The franchise also includes several novels and a series of stage plays.
Source: Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Saga stage at AnimeJapan 2024
