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Rage against a lot of things, including yourself

Blue Exorcist vols. 26 and 27 by Kazue Kato

August 11, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 10: Rage Volumes 26 and 27 of the Blue Exorcist manga heavily feature a lot of wrath of various kinds. Self-loathing is especially prevalent, but there’s also jealousy, human-demon conflict, and sibling rivalry taken to an extreme. The whole series both Rin and Yukio (twin brothers, and half-demon spawns of none other than Satan himself) have hated themselves for things about their background that they or may not have fully understood (and definitely not at the same time), as well as resentment against their […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Blue Exorcist, cbr16bingo, demons, exorcists, Kazue Kato, manga

CoffeeShopReader's CBR16 Review No:49 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Blue Exorcist, cbr16bingo, demons, exorcists, Kazue Kato, manga ·
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Maybe I’ll have to keep going with this a while longer

Blue Exorcist vol 25 by Kazue Kato

March 14, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So I was getting ready to give up on Blue Exorcist on account of it getting borderline maudlin which is pretty bad in combination with upping the ‘drama’ to some pretty dark yet soap-opera-esque levels. I’m actually pretty sure I may have skipped a volume, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t miss much. It’s probably just as well because it looks like things are finally turning a corner with a lot of the things that were turning me off on the series. The basic story […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Blue Exorcist, demon hunters, demons, exorcists, Kazue Kato, manga, shonen, vol 25

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:24 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Blue Exorcist, demon hunters, demons, exorcists, Kazue Kato, manga, shonen, vol 25 ·
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Fighting Demons with the Power of Music

March 12, 2017 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The Magia the Ninth series has a thoroughly ridiculous premise, which is why it’s so much fun. It’s also only 2 volumes which makes the end pretty open-ended. I found myself wishing for maybe one or two more volumes to fill in a few of the many gaps. Basically a high school student whose parents were killed by a demon runs into the head demon hunter of the Church of the Masterpiece, Ludwig von Beethoven (cranky, ambitious, powerful, but maybe nice too). Beethoven, along with […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: classical music, composers, exorcists, ichiya sazanami, manga

CoffeeShopReader's CBR9 Review No:18 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: classical music, composers, exorcists, ichiya sazanami, manga ·
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