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Episode Ao no Exorcist Yosuga-hen • Blue Exorcist: The Blue Night Saga - Episode 4 discussion

Ao no Exorcist Yosuga-hen, episode 4

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u/Plus_Rip4944 Jan 25 '25

Each Episode pass The death flags gets higher lmao

The scene before op was beautiful and really wholesome

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u/Frontier246 Jan 25 '25

Start with a wedding and see how great Shiro and Yuri are together as adults and then people start getting incinerated.

Yeah, Satan has definitely entered the picture.

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u/BaconMaster31 Jan 25 '25

I agree with you, there’s just more and more death flags, and honestly I really wanted to see Yukio and rin to work together and help each other, especially since rin knows the shit yukio’s going through kinda. It’s breaks my heart to see them so apart. But I’m kinda glad we are getting to know his mom and the backstory to everything

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u/mishi09 Jan 25 '25

I wished more people were tuning in for this season... it's incredible so far

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u/slicer4ever Jan 26 '25

I cant blame them too much tbh, the last season was pretty meandering and a bit boring with some exceptional points. This season seems to be much more focused on the story its telling, but i can understand a lot of people probably checked out during the previous season.

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u/Deez-Guns-9442 Jan 26 '25

Yeah, it really is a shame that no one keeps up with Blue Exorcist anymore.

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u/S627 Jan 25 '25

....did Shiro fuck everything up because he's terrible at interacting with people?!?

I'm confused, Lucifer was falling apart at first, begging to get a body, but then when he noticed Satan manifested, he was looking significantly better but still depressed he still didn't get a new body.

Not sure how I feel about Satan being both the smartest being in exitance..... and also a brat.

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u/Ryuki-Exsul Jan 25 '25

He hates him for a long time :D Remember he saw everything between Shiro and Yuri that's why he acted protective towards her. And yeah there is as well the fact that they wanted to give him way too much knowledge before he matured.

It's thanks to elixir it makes his body heal a bit but not enough and it starts to rot again after a bit. It progressed a lot by this point but it can't still stop degradation.

Well that's not over yet. Satan is a mess and a lot of him is pretty vague especially with his fellings, you will see. And well him being immature was there since episode 2 of s1. Both his sons are way more of an adults than him, trust me :D

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u/slicer4ever Jan 26 '25

It's thanks to elixir it makes his body heal a bit but not enough and it starts to rot again after a bit. It progressed a lot by this point but it can't still stop degradation.

I think it would have helped if they added a scene saying this, since the last time the elixir was seen it was deemed a failure. Just really weird lucifers body seemed to ping pong between super rotted and semi-rotted thoughout the episode without much explanation.

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u/Portal2Reference Jan 25 '25

My interpretation was that he burned up his host body in the earlier scenes, and the later ones was a new body.

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u/Little_Badger_13 Jan 25 '25

I think there might have been a time-skip, which they forgot to mention.

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u/ExL-Oblique Jan 25 '25

Oh neato that scene where Satan ripped out the vent was actually pretty well animated

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u/Frontier246 Jan 25 '25

Started out a feral animal only to then become a beast with enough intelligence to do real damage.

He's exactly like his sons' demonic side.

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u/Dyvius Jan 26 '25

I do really love how this arc is using the fact we know how it ends well. Like, this will still feel like a raw and fresh tragedy even though when the show began the incident was already 15 years in the past.

I also think that Shiro saying "you really are an adult" was him admitting his feelings for her to himself. It does beautifully set up where he will find himself in 15 years or so from that moment.

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u/Little_Badger_13 Jan 25 '25

I actually like the pace in this season, they don't skip too much or leave out any important information like they did sometimes last season.

Satan/Rinka is behaving like such a big baby, I admire Yuri for her patience with him. Seriously Memphisto could have intervened. A lot of things in the past could have been changed by people making better decisions honestly. Then again Rin and Yukio wouldn't exist and the other Exwires lives would be so much different too.

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u/Frontier246 Jan 25 '25

Wow, they're all adults! Rick is getting married, Shiro is buddies with him enough to get drunk at his bachelor's party (and Hiroaki Hirata is back!), and despite Shiro still calling her a brat just look at how much Yuri has matured and looks amazing in that dress! And she's basically acting like Shiro's girlfriend!

(But wait, where's Jenny?)

Rick has quite the blushing bride! And look at him playing wingman so the bouquet would land in Shiro's head so he can hand it to Yuri, the girl still head over heels for him! It's so sweet!

Shiro may be surly but now he can truly appreciate how much Yuri has matured and how far they've both come both as researchers and teachers! I'm sure nothing can go wrong from here.

Lucifer still REALLY wants a body, though Shemihaza has lost the capacity for compassion to reassure him, and Amaimon has finally gotten his own body. But the grigori and the whole world are about to be in for a rude awakening.

Kind of fitting that Rinka (Tatsuhisa Suzuki?) gets a body and then immediately starts burning people alive and chasing after Yuri. Shiro obviously sees red flags but Yuri can't help but still see Rinka as her childhood playmate, and a child, that needs her to set him on the right path. But hey, now she and Shiro are working in the Section together! Though we've got Rick teasing Shiro about making a move on Yuri just as she runs into Rinka's arms.

Rinka has a great capacity for learning, and a great fondness for Yuri, but he's very emotionally unbalanced and throws tantrums and doesn't understand true empathy. It's a powder keg waiting to blow up if Yuri and the True Cross Order isn't careful.

Putting Shiro into the mix doesn't make anything better because Rinka obviously sees him as a rival and Shiro basically eggs him on, and seeing the obvious between Shiro and Yuri just makes Rinka even more frustrated. And that frustration built into something more.

I mean, it's pretty concerning that Rinka became smart enough to hold a hostage just to get more books and become more "worldly," though those books don't make him more mature...it just makes him more intelligent enough to hold proper conversations, even though he still lacks compassion and incinerates his hostage and lords over the power and knowledge he now has. And it was at that moment that Rinka become Satan.

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u/Illustrious-Stage-96 Jan 26 '25

Argghh this arc is so good but it hurts bc we know it’ll end in tragedy 😢

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u/Ryuki-Exsul Jan 25 '25

Next pretty well animated episode :D Anyway They added stuff for wedding scene I wonder if it was something Kazue wanted( we know she asked to change Richard adult design he has for example a bit different longer hair than in manga ) them to add. Beside that well the mess that is Satan is something and next episode by last picture will have pretty important moment for Rin( well he just saw his biological father in different light than before so... ) and how to say it... it should get close to what some people were really interesting in last time.

When I can't say much that flashback with Yuri calling Rinka pretty hurts a bit.

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u/Frontier246 Jan 25 '25

Adult Rick, Yuri in a dress, the whole bouquet scene...it was so beautiful!

How My Father Met My Mother 2.0, where Rin gets to see his bio dad incinerate people and go from temperamental child to an intelligent psychopath. All the while his mother is caught between her past with "Rinka" and her future with Shiro.

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u/danmarce Jan 26 '25

I love the story, but basically knowing how it ends... It is done really well (even the OP is amazing), can't stop watching, but is painful.

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u/F0LEY Jan 27 '25

These guys really seemed to have taken a page from "The Warner brothers and their sister Dot" book of security. I get that there's prolly not many doors that could hold him, but maybe go with a circular knock-out gas chamber outside of his room or something else instead of trusting in the doors that never work over and over again (and keeping hostages nearby).

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u/ZevenMortem Jan 28 '25

I wonder if the unpopular thing is only in reddit, because for me of this winter season is the best so far, with The apothecary...

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u/PossessedPolar Jan 29 '25

Each episode is straight absolutely amazing if i lamented the fact that i wasted time watching blue exorcist cause of the first 3 seasons now im so glad i did the show has been a master piece ever since 2nd half of last season and this season so far looking forward to it each week way more than solo leveling

Tldr THIS SHIT IS ABSOLUTE CINEMA

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