English Dub Review: Blue Exorcist – Beyond the Snow Saga “In the Falling Snow”

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OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

The Exorcists are overwhelmed by the sudden appearance of a giant demon in public, and Yukio is pushed to the edge by his fleeting mental state.

OUR TAKE

Blue Exorcist continues to ramp up momentum as we inch ever closer to the end of the season…or rather the end of the first half of the season, since the Japanese release of The Blue Night Saga just started, so I guess we’ll be going right into that once it starts getting dubbed in a few weeks. In the meantime, we still have a handful of episodes for this arc to go, with some seeming major revelations that it seems we are not meant to know just yet, even after all the other reality shattering details about how the Demon Kings helped shape society to fight each other in this story’s world. Or maybe Yukio just got caught up on everything and that’s surprising to him. Also, Lightning’s been arrested, possibly for digging too greedily and too deep, and right after handing over all of that info to Yukio…because I guess a gift card would have been to gauche as a Christmas/Birthday gift. All that happening around what is apparently the first time a demon attack has occurred in public, since usually normal humans can’t see stuff like this going on. Why they can now and what they’ll think of it going forward is anyone’s guess.

But the emotional center of it all is Yukio, who continues to descend into what I can only call madness as he slowly unravels about this stuff with his and Rin’s parentage. And if that still seems like a bit too flimsy a reason for him to be acting like the nutcase he’s turning into, bear in mind that he’s been going on these weird semi-suicidal training trips since before that came up, so shit has been wrong with him for a LONG time by now. And it is highly likely that it is not going to be resolved within this season, or at least this half, which is probably why we’re heading right into twelve more episodes. And after that’s done…well, I suppose we’ll have to wait at LEAST another few years before they have enough material to adapt a whole new season again. And by THAT point, is the manga still going to be going? It’s been ongoing since April of 2009, almost SIXTEEN YEARS, so surely something is about to conclude or resolve or SOMETHING, right? Anyway, just a couple episodes left in this arc so let’s see where all that takes us and how it propels things into the next arc.