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<\/p>\nLet\u2019s be honest here, folks. The second season of Blue Exorcist<\/i> isn\u2019t going as swimmingly as people would\u2019ve hoped for. Considering the last episode accomplished absolutely nothing, in terms of story progression, and the episodes before it have been moving at a slug\u2019s pace, this is leaving me wanting a LOT more out of this show. Just give me something worthwhile, show, that\u2019s all I want. Not too much to ask for\u2026 right?<\/p>\n
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Well, evidently, it is, as the show\u2019s A-part centers around a flashback with Bon\u2019s father and Rin\u2019s father, their first meeting, secrets being passed, the clergymen chasing Rin\u2019s father off, et cetera\u2026 this went on until the 11-minute mark. What good is there to pad out a flashback sequence? It doesn\u2019t benefit anyone or anything, it just keeps the narrative paused and without progress. This is time that could be better spent showcasing the characters having some engagement or interactivity within the main narrative, not padded-out flashback fluff. Beyond that, this is time that could be better spent watching something else, something like\u2026 like the new Gintama<\/i> dub, which is REALLY good and pretty hilarious, not to mention well worth checking out and watching. They\u2019re going up in batches on Crunchyroll every week, so go out of your way to\u2026 wait, I\u2019m getting sidetracked, back to Blue Exorcist<\/i>. Anyway, Todo brought his traitorous accomplice to the home of the Impure King\u2026 alright\u2026 with a startling revelation: if both Eyes are brought to \u201chim,\u201d then the Impure King can be restored. With that, Todo\u2019s use for Mamushi seems to be over, but in comes Bon\u2019s dad for the big save\u2026 wait, could it be? Is something actually happening<\/i> in this show, finally???<\/p>\n
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I guess it\u2019ll have to wait a moment, because the show cuts to another<\/i> flashback, during the Blue Night, or as I call it, \u201cThe Incident,\u201d when Bon\u2019s father\u2019s father was dying, when an eagle\u2026 valkyrie\u2026 phoenix\u2026 uh, woman person\u2026 showed up before him, and I just have to say this here and now, her character design is awful<\/i>. There\u2019s nothing overly notable about it, nothing too memorable, and the face is as flat as flat can get, it\u2019s just\u2026 lifeless. In fact, that\u2019s this season as a whole, it\u2019s so bereft of life and presence, from the animation to the narrative flow to the character development, it just feels like everything is operating on autopilot, completely mechanical with next to no expression. Anyway, Bon\u2019s dad traded some secrets or whatever to the eagle valkyrie phoenix woman, and in returned, she became his frigging Stand. I swear, EVERYONE has a Stand nowadays; it\u2019s not overly impressive when any Joe Schmo can get one, (#MakeHamonGreatAgain) But what came out of this was a pretty impressive fight between Todo and Bon\u2019s dad, if a short one; sadly, not a lot of it could be seen, as per Japanese television regulations, flashing lights have to be turned down so that viewers won\u2019t have seizure attacks. It seems to be all for naught, though, as the Impure King is slowly awakening into what I can only call a badly-rendered 3DCG blob of deep-fried Coca-Cola foam. So now it\u2019s up to Bon\u2019s dad to slay the beast, right? Well, no, as Todo appears from out of nowhere and\u2026 stabs him in the throat\u2026 and then devours his phoenix Stand, flames and all, like he\u2019s Natsu\u2026 and with his increased power, flees the scene with more evil intent\u2026 wait, finally something happened that has consequence, importance, and significance to the story?<\/p>\n
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THANK GOD ABOVE!!!<\/p>\n
It took this long, but FINALLY something awesome and important happened in this show! So now it looks like Rin\u2019s going to have to slay the Impure King and restore balance and order and civility and all that crap. But when is he going to beat the s**t out of Satan, like he always says he would? He hasn\u2019t even said that line ONCE in this season so far, but I\u2019ll still be holding out for it. Well, there was about 5 minutes\u2019 worth of story in this episode, but you know what? It was an awesome 5 minutes\u2019 worth, things happened that had consequence and moved the story progression forward, that\u2019s all<\/i> I wanted to see this show do. Now just keep that up for the rest of the episodes, please.<\/p>\n
Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga is available\u00a0on Crunchyroll, with new episodes every Friday at 1:30pm Eastern, and is also available on Daisuki.net, Hulu, and Amazon Video\u2019s Anime Strike channel.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s be honest here, folks. The second season of Blue Exorcist isn\u2019t going as swimmingly as people would\u2019ve hoped for. Considering the last \n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,143,60,142],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","tag-anime","tag-blue-exorcist","tag-crunchyroll","tag-winter-2017"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8GYHU-fJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.surrealresolution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-14-at-7.26.14-PM.jpg?fit=1914%2C1074&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}