English Dub Review: Blue Exorcist – The Blue Night Saga “Promise”
OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)
With The Blue Night over, Shiro gives Rin and Yukio to Mephisto, but he makes Shiro take care of them. Meanwhile in Gehenna, Satan continues his plans to gain a new vessel, which he tasks his children with, including Mephisto. Lucifer begins his plans to form Iluminati.
OUR TAKE
You remember how the last ten to fifteen minutes of Revenge of the Sith were basically just moving characters and objects around so that they could all line up pretty much perfectly in A New Hope? Well, this and the next episode are basically that but stretched over about forty minutes. That wouldn’t be so much of a problem on its own if it were just one episode, but two seems like a bit much to devote solely to that. We’re basically just about out of the story that this arc focused on, that of Shiro, Yuri, and Satan, and slowly but surely transitioning into the very beginning of the story, as well as where everyone we know who was active at that time but met later on. And for every character that I did recognize, that acknowledgement was a least a bit effective, most of all for Shiro as he navigates suddenly being a single dad. A shame that we don’t get to see more of ghost Yuri who popped up a little bit last time but I guess Satan just wiped away her soul, rather easily too after claiming to love her that much. But maybe she’ll meet her sons again at some point down the road.
As for Satan, he has pretty much fully become a maniacal villain whose only goal is getting a new body. While I do understand that’s where he was when the events of the story again, it really just understates how little his presence is in the present day that I can’t tell if this is meant to be some tragic thing or not. Was he an innocent being who could have been made to be good with the love of the right woman? Heck, putting aside the gross implications of that, until about halfway through, he didn’t have much of a presence in this story either since he was just a blue fireball. So, I guess I don’t really care about whether or not he gets a new body beyond the fact that he still seems likely to be the final boss of the story, though again, his lack of appearances before now would really make that feel unearned. The real heart of the episode is Shiro learning to raise the boys, especially since we know he’s doomed to die. But even THAT is kinda weird to think about because they had to throw in the stuff about him being a clone body of another demon, which really ended up adding nothing. But hey, at least he made Paladin. One episode to go and if you remember the very first one, you might have an idea of where we’re headed. Kinda fitting that we’re ending at the beginning.
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs