Blue Exorcist follows Rin Okumura, Satan’s son, training at True Cross Academy to kill his father. Kazue Kato’s Jump Square manga has run since 2009. A-1 Pictures’ 2011 anime hits until it writes its own ending. Kyoto Saga returned to the manga, and Studio VOLN carried later arcs through 2025. This review tracks the blue flames, the brother bond, and why the page outruns season one.
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Episode two opens the revenge tour as a storefront. Elizabeth takes asylum in the Yutear Empire, borrows one hundred gold coins against her body, and founds Traitre Commercial Firm as Ellie Leis. Soap samples, church donations, and a formula split between a safe and a necklace bait Gazaru’s Jackman into stealing poison. The guild arrives. Father Luis arrives. Jackman liquidates everything. She was never the mark.
Episodes 3 and 4 form a continuous arc: a cemetery raid quest that collapses when the Ghoul Head devours the undead and evolves into a level 40 Mad Headder through Existence Evolution. With D-rank overseer Gowtan poisoned, Elymas commands the panicked examinees, solos the Wights, and unlocks Vital Slice. Promoted to E-class with 930,000 gold and the Daemonsrage Shield, this isekai clearly passes the four-episode rule.
Episode 5 of My Status as an Assassin rebounds after a weaker fourth outing. Akira, Amelia, and Night leave the elf kingdom for Brute, where pirate ninjas, Lord Gram, and a feared black cat set the table. Crow's grief and Night's Nightmare of Adlea past give the hour weight. Amelia calls out cowardice, then gets abducted anyway. Akira's furious Shadow Hell finally breaks his stoic calm.
Episode 2 opens with a DBZ-style recap, then Elymas refuses Arus’s party to hog EXP. He dumps points into Oath of the Heavy Armor, disarms a level 16 spider, and fires Rampart Reflection. Poison proves no man is an island. The F-rank guild mocks Heavy Knight until solo-farmed stones hit the counter. GoHands shoots the forest like Predator. Recap annoyed me. Episode 3 has me hooked.
A subtitle rewatch of Vampire Hunter D (1985) reframes the Streamline classic. Ashi Productions’ frontier gothic blends Western grit with vampire nobility, and original dialogue sharpens D, Doris, Count Magnus Lee, and L’armica beyond the dub. Uneven animation and Komuro’s synth score mark its era, yet every motive lands cleanly; what Macek softened still matters. D rides off; Doris never gets a goodbye—seven out of ten.
Episode 4 of My Status as an Assassin picks up the “child of blight” cliffhanger and turns it into a sister feud, a Holy Tree duel, and a flashback that overexplains everything. Akira won’t draw his blade. Amelia wants her name said out loud. Kilika fights on a lie her father built to spare her. The score carries a budget fight. The hooded instigator walks away.
Netflix’s The Ribbon Hero reimagines Osamu Tezuka’s Princess Knight as a theatrical, sometimes brutal feature from Yūki Igarashi. Princess Sapphire survives Silverland’s fall, scrapes by in Goldland, and awakens as the Princess Knight against the Nergal and a faith that feeds orphans to keep the peace. Unique designs, Takarazuka-coded acts, and gray morality outweigh CG seams. Dead stay dead. Hope costs. Recommended if Flip Flappers energy matters more than clean exposition.
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System opens with ceremony, betrayal, and exile. Elymas Edvaughn lands the “trash” Heavy Knight class, gets disowned, and walks into Rondalm knowing Magic World’s real meta. GoHands packs flashbacks, busy fights, and restless camera work into a brisk premiere. Between Malice’s cold smile and OP skill trees, Episode 1 sets a clear revenge engine—and makes the two-cour run feel worth the ride.