Blue Exorcist

Blue Exorcist
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Rin Okumura
青の祓魔師（エクソシスト） (Ao no Ekusoshisuto)
Genre	Adventure[1] Dark fantasy[2]
Manga
Written by	Kazue Kato
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Imprint	Jump Comics SQ.
Magazine	Jump Square
English magazine	NA: Weekly Shonen Jump
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	April 4, 2009 – present
Volumes	31 (List of volumes)
Further information Anime television series Directed by Tensai Okamura Produced by Hiroo Maruyama Kozue Kananiwa Shin Furukawa Takamitsu Inoue Satoshi Adachi (1–12) Tetsuhito Motoyasu (13–25) Written by Ryōta Yamaguchi Music by Hiroyuki Sawano Studio A-1 Pictures Licensed by AUS: Madman Entertainment NA: Aniplex of America SEA: Muse Communication UK: Manga Entertainment Original network JNN (MBS) English network NA: Neon Alley US: Adult Swim (Toonami) Original run April 17, 2011 – October 2, 2011 Episodes 25 + OVA (List of episodes) Manga Salaryman Exorcist: The Sorrows of Yukio Okumura Written by Kazue Kato Illustrated by Minoru Sasaki Published by Shueisha Magazine Jump SQ.19 (April 2013–February 2015) Jump Square (April 2015–April 2020) Demographic Shōnen Original run April 19, 2013 – April 3, 2020 Volumes 4 Anime television series Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga Directed by Koichi Hatsumi Produced by Tetsuya Endou Hiroshi Kamei Miho Matsumoto Natsumi Mori Takashi Takano Written by Toshiya Ōno Music by Hiroyuki Sawano Kohta Yamamoto Studio A-1 Pictures Licensed by NA: Aniplex of America SEA: Muse Communication Original network JNN (MBS, TBS, CBC, BS-TBS) Original run January 7, 2017 – March 25, 2017 Episodes 12 + OVA (List of episodes) Anime television series Blue Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Saga Directed by Daisuke Yoshida Produced by Miho Matsumoto Akari Yanagawa Yuki Ogasawara Wataru Tanaka Hiroshi Kamei Written by Toshiya Ōno Music by Hiroyuki Sawano Kohta Yamamoto Studio Studio VOLN Licensed by NA: Aniplex of America SEA: Muse Communication Original network Tokyo MX, BS11, GTV, GYT, MBS, THK, UHB, RKB Original run January 7, 2024 – March 24, 2024 Episodes 12 (List of episodes) Anime television series Blue Exorcist: Beyond the Snow Saga Blue Exorcist: The Blue Night Saga Directed by Daisuke Yoshida Written by Toshiya Ōno Music by Hiroyuki Sawano Kohta Yamamoto Studio Studio VOLN Original run October 2024 – scheduled Anime film Blue Exorcist: The Movie (2012)
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Blue Exorcist (Japanese: 青の祓魔師（エクソシスト）, Hepburn: Ao no Ekusoshisuto) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Kazue Kato. The story revolves around Rin Okumura, a teenager who discovers that he and his twin brother Yukio are the sons of Satan, born from a human woman, and he is the inheritor of Satan's powers. When Satan kills their guardian, Rin enrolls at True Cross Academy to become an exorcist under Yukio's tutelage in order to defeat Satan.

The manga has been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Jump Square since April 2009, with individual chapters collected in 31 tankōbon volumes as of June 2024. Viz Media has licensed the manga for North American production, with the first volume released in April 2011. Aniplex of America also released the anime's DVDs in English regions. The series was adapted into an anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures, broadcast from April to October 2011. An anime film, Blue Exorcist: The Movie, premiered in December 2012. A second season, subtitled Kyoto Saga, aired from January to March 2017. A third season produced by Studio VOLN, subtitled Shimane Illuminati Saga, aired from January to March 2024. A fourth season will be split in two cours; the first one, subtitled Beyond the Snow Saga, is set to premiere in October 2024, while the second one, subtitled The Blue Night Saga, is set to premiere in January 2025.

By December 2022, Blue Exorcist had over 25 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. The manga has been well received by readers, with sales having received a boost thanks to the anime's release.