Ao no Exorcist

[weeaboo]

Discuss "Ao no Exorcist" here. I haven't watched it yet, so I'll leave it to you.

[redroses2]

I just watched it - and I love it.

Rin is an adorable thug. Poor thing can't hold a job, but he's a real sweetie under the rough exterior, but it's not as though he's trying to hide it. People just can't see it because they're too busy thinking of him as a bad person.

It's also kind of interesting to see what happens to you in Japan if you don't go to school like anime characters tend to be doing in anime. It looks like it sucks just as much, if not more, than it does here in the U.S.

[redroses2]

I've finished watching Ao no Exorcist.

My overall opinion is that while it is engaging and has interesting characters with detailed backgrounds, the plot itself is too rushed. It feels like so much could have happened in between episode 1 and 2, and in between many of the later episodes. It feels as though so much of the character development, while present, is mostly left up to your imagination.

Also, I personally feel like Yukio's characterization kept flip-flopping. One moment he's kind of a big jerk, the next you're cooing over him because of how much he cares about his brother. Then there are the times where you seriously question his reasons for doing things. As someone who likes to latch onto ships as soon as possible (simply because it's fun), I kept getting bothered by the fact that it took me about 13 episodes in a 25-episode-long series to find evidence I was happy with for a ship for Rin and Yukio that wasn't twincest. I immediately jumped onto the Bon x Rin ship - I could have gone on the Rin x Shimei ship or the Rin x Izumo ship, but I was already shipping Izumo with Paku, and Shimei didn't really feel like she had romantic feelings for anyone for a really long time. (Seriously, I wasn't shipping her with anyone until the very last episode.) While I do have another ship for Yukio now, even now I still can't shake off the feeling that Yukio's feelings towards Rin were a bit incest-y.

Rachel has different views on the shipping and the relationship between Rin and Yukio, and then Katherine Xiao can probably also share some insight with how she views it.

But it's still a good anime, so if the rest of you haven't watched it yet, I really recommend it.

I have to admit that my favorite episode is the very first one. I really would have liked to see how the story would have gone if Rin was kept in the dark about his demonic roots longer but the audience is fully aware of it and OH THE DRAMA~