Blue
Exorcist, Book 10
Author: Kazue Kato
Publisher: Viz Media
American
release date: July 2, 2013
Format/Genre/Length: Paperback/manga/paranormal/192 pages
Overall Personal Rating: ★★★★★
It’s back to True Cross Academy and on with classes
for the ex-wires! While in class one day, Rin finds a fellow classmate who can
also see demons apparently. His name is Godaiin, and Rin befriends him. Unlike
Rin, Godaiin is disturbed by his visions and only wants them to go away. Rin
promises to ask his exorcism teachers for a solution to Godaiin’s problem.
Meanwhile, Arthur Angel and his angelic battalion
have a situation on their hands, one involving the Impure Princess! I guess we
haven’t seen the last of this family! A new mystery arises, involving a
demon-eater, and the matter of Rin Okumura is temporarily suspended.
Rin receives a dinner invitation from Mephisto –
why, he has no idea. But he hopes Mephisto can help him solve Godaiin’s
problem. Mephisto puts things into perspective for Rin, then tells him he has
homework but neglects to tell him what it is.
Yukio finds the Consultation center of the True
Cross Academy Japan branch is busier than ever, and wonders why. Lord Pheles
summons Yukio and the ex-wires to a meeting at a decisively strange hour –
eleven PM! – in order to assign them a special lesson. They are to solve the
seven mysteries of True Cross Academy that the whole school has been talking
about. But the only way they can do this is if they cooperate with each other.
The first mystery involves a mysterious form dressed
in white that wanders the academy at night. The catch is that it won’t appear
before women, so the girls have to sit this one out. Speak of the devil, there
she is now! Go to it, ex-wires! Er, male ex-wires.
As the boys deal with this ghost, Mephisto is
summoned by Arthur Angel and his battalion to deal with a sticky situation
involving a Gehenna gate!
The ex-wires receive their next mystery assignment –
a toilet mayuko in the girls’ dormitory! This time, the boys have to sit this
one out, leaving Kamiki and Shiemi to take care of the matter. Why is Kamiki so
reluctant to admit that Shiemi is her friend? While the girls go to it, the
boys have their own preparations to make.
This series just gets better and better! We thought
the Impure King was a done deal, and now here comes the Impure Princess! We
only scratch the surface of that, rather delving into the seven mysteries of
the True Cross Academy. The first one, involving the figure in white, was
hilarious, while the second one brought out more of Shiemi and Kamiki’s
relationship. I think that bathroom spirit was a cross between Harry Potter’s
Moaning Myrtle and Mean Girls.
I enjoyed the encounter between Rin and Amaimon, though
I frankly admit to hoping to see Rin thoroughly kick that guy’s a** someday. I
enjoyed seeing Mephisto’s interactions with the angelic contingent. I really do
not like Arthur Angel, and I hope Mephisto will bring him down to size, over
and over.
The ex-wires are developing, learning how to work
together and get along. The more I read of this, the more I like it. Keep it
coming!
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