Kazue Kato’s magnum opus Blue Exorcist manga is now more than a decade old. The series has been adapted several times in an animated format, including two anime series. The wait is over for fans as a third anime series is confirmed.
On Sunday, Day 2 of the Jump Festa 2023 event, the Blue Exorcist’s cast appeared at the NEO stage. They announced that Blue Exorcist would be adapted into a new anime series. The announcement was made with a twenty-second teaser and a visual.
While the release date and the cast have not been confirmed, the cast members who appeared at the NEO stage are speculated to return for the series. Further news will be updated on the anime’s official website and Twitter.
| Character | Character Voice | Previous Work |
| Rin Okumura | Nobuhiko Okamoto | Katsuki Bakugo (My Hero Academia) |
| Yukio Okumura | Jun Fukuyama | Koro-sensei (Assassination Classroom) |
| Shiemi Moriyama | Kana Hanazawa | Mitsuri Kanroji (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba) |
| Izumo Kamiki | Eri Kitamura | Cana Alberona (Fairy Tail) |
The author, Kazue Kato also expressed his excitement for the upcoming series via an illustration on Twitter.
It seems that you can make an anime again
thank you! (Kato)
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The first anime adaptation of Blue Exorcist aired in 2011 and ran for 25 episodes. In 2012, an anime film was also released. After that, a second series, titled Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga, aired in 2017 and ran for 12 episodes.
Kato’s manga began its serialization in Jump SQ in 2009 and is still ongoing. The manga took a hiatus in July 2021 but returned in May 2022. Currently, it has released Volume 28 in November.
About Blue Exorcist
Blue Exorcist is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Kazue Katō.
In the Blue Exorcist Universe, there are two different realms called Assiah and Gehenna. Assiah is where ordinary humans live, and Gehenna is the world of demons. The only way to travel between the two worlds is by possession.
Satan, the ruler of Gehenna, decides to conquer Assiah, but to do so, he must possess a human. Unfortunately for him, he does not find a suitable vessel and hence, sends his own son, expecting him to grow into a suitable vessel.
Rin Okumura, a regular teenager with quite a temper, has no idea that his actual father was Satan. Nor did he know about being a suitable vessel. However, after eventually discovering his fate, he decides to change it and joins an academy to train to become an exorcist so that he could foil Satan’s plans.
Source: Comic Natalie
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