50 Fun Facts About Blue Exorcist

In the 2011 Blue Exorcist anime, the defeated demon king Amaimon is turned into which talking green pet?

A hamster is Amaimon's fate only on screen: he ends up confined to Mephisto's office, while in the manga Mephisto shuts him in another dimension until his temper cools.

Blue Exorcist's Mephisto Pheles, who also goes by Johann, takes his name from the demon of which legend?

Faust is the scholar who sells his soul to the demon Mephistopheles, and the academy chairman leans into the joke by calling himself Johann Faust V in public.

Which priest and top-ranked exorcist raises Rin and Yukio Okumura as his own sons in Blue Exorcist?

Shiro Fujimoto dies in the opening chapters when Satan possesses him, wresting back control just long enough to end his own life and stop the demon taking Rin.

When Rin Okumura's demon powers awaken in Blue Exorcist, he gains fangs and which other animal-like body part?

A tail appears the moment Rin draws his sword, along with fangs and flames that destroy almost anything he touches.

On Rin's first day at cram school in Blue Exorcist, which role is his twin Yukio revealed to hold?

Teacher is the last thing Rin expects: Yukio has trained in secret since childhood and is already a veteran exorcist while still a first-year student.

Kuro, the familiar Rin inherits from his late foster father in Blue Exorcist, is which kind of animal?

A cat once worshipped as a guardian deity by silk farmers, Kuro went berserk when people forgot him, and again on hearing that his master had died.

In Blue Exorcist, Rin befriends Mephisto's dormitory familiar Ukobach after a duel in which skill?

Cooking is Rin's one real talent: his late-night kitchen duel with the stove spirit Ukobach ends in mutual respect and a new friendship.

Which Tokyo-born manga artist created Blue Exorcist after leaving college to draw comics instead?

Kazue Kato dreamed of becoming an animator in high school, but her father doubted she was serious and sent her to college, which she quit for manga.

In Blue Exorcist, the True Cross Order's branches around the world secretly answer to which authority?

The Vatican has commanded the Order in secret for some two thousand years, and in the anime it is where Mephisto stands trial for keeping Rin alive.

In Blue Exorcist, the demon world ruled by Satan mirrors the human world and goes by which name?

Gehenna borrows its name from a biblical valley that became a byword for hell, and its demons can cross over only by possessing something in the human world.

In Blue Exorcist, which demon-slaying sword has sealed Rin's inherited powers since the day he was born?

Kurikara holds Rin's flames in check, so drawing it from its scabbard releases his demon form; Mephisto was the one who sealed the power inside the blade.

Amaimon, who becomes obsessed with fighting Rin in Blue Exorcist, holds which title among the Eight Demon Kings?

King of Earth gives Amaimon command of land and earthquakes, yet he ranks only seventh in strength among the eight.

In Blue Exorcist, an exorcist who fights by calling up and commanding demon familiars holds which Meister title?

Tamer is a title few can earn because it takes an inborn gift, and a familiar will turn on a summoner whose confidence wavers.

Blue Exorcist's Izumo Kamiki, born to a line of shrine maidens, summons two familiars in which animal form?

Foxes of pure white answer Izumo's call, yet in an early fight with a ghoul they turn on her the moment they sense her fear.

Which Blue Exorcist classmate spent her youth at home tending a garden with her grandmother?

Shiemi Moriyama enrols after Rin and Yukio exorcise the demon draining her life, and at first she fails tests by using her own homemade names for plants.

Renzo Shima, the carefree flirt of Rin's class in Blue Exorcist, dyes his naturally black hair which colour?

Pink hair suits the easygoing act Renzo puts on, a persona that hides a fighter able to summon high-level demons.

In Blue Exorcist, which title goes to the strongest exorcist of all, a rank once held by Rin's foster father?

Paladin passes to Arthur Auguste Angel after the old holder dies, and the new man is promptly ordered to interrogate Mephisto and capture Rin.

The second Blue Exorcist anime season, aired in 2017, takes its subtitle from which former capital of Japan?

Kyoto is where three of Rin's classmates grew up at the same temple, and the season sends the whole class there as a traitor moves to free a sealed demon.

Amaimon, the childish demon king of Blue Exorcist, is almost always seen with which sweet in his mouth?

A lollipop rarely leaves Amaimon's mouth, a habit that fits a demon king who takes offence the moment he is laughed at or ignored.

Which top-scoring Blue Exorcist student, nicknamed Bon, is heir to a ruined temple and vows to defeat Satan?

Ryuji Suguro shuns Rin on learning who his father is, then admits that what really stung was Rin not trusting his friends with the truth.

Which rock band from Shiga performs Core Pride, the first opening theme of the 2011 Blue Exorcist anime?

Uverworld kept coming back to the series: the band also performed the theme of the 2012 film and the opening songs of the second and third seasons.

Which composer, later famous for the Attack on Titan soundtrack, scored the 2011 Blue Exorcist anime and its film?

Hiroyuki Sawano wrote the Blue Exorcist score two years before Attack on Titan made his name, and came back with Kohta Yamamoto for the later seasons.

Which Japanese voice actor, also heard as Katsuki Bakugo in My Hero Academia, plays Rin Okumura in Blue Exorcist?

Nobuhiko Okamoto has said he became a voice actor because he idolised Rukawa from Slam Dunk, and he has played Rin since the anime began in 2011.

Which actor, the English voice of Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach, plays Yukio Okumura in the Blue Exorcist dub?

Johnny Yong Bosch first found fame on screen as Adam Park, the second Black Ranger in Power Rangers, before moving into voice work.

Blue Exorcist has run since 2009 in which monthly Shueisha magazine, launched just two years earlier?

Jump Square approached the artist directly once her first series ended, and volume seven of Blue Exorcist became the magazine's first manga to get a one-million first printing.

Which animation studio, a subsidiary of Aniplex, produced the first two seasons of the Blue Exorcist anime?

A-1 Pictures was set up in 2005 to handle a few family shows, and went on to animate Blue Exorcist through 2017 before another studio took over.

In Blue Exorcist, Yukio Okumura fights with guns as a Meister of which class, the most common among exorcists?

Dragoon covers anyone who fights demons with firearms, from pistols to bazookas, and Yukio pairs it with the healer's title of Doctor.

In Blue Exorcist, what must a student place on a summoning circle to test for the gift of calling familiars?

A drop of blood and whatever chant comes to mind are all it takes: if the student has the gift, a demon appears, which only two of Rin's class manage.

In Blue Exorcist, which plant spirit, able to grow healing herbs and barriers, answers a first-year's summons?

Greenman spirits are small, docile kin of Amaimon that grow plants from their own bodies, and this one walls the class off from an attacking ghoul.

To master his flames in Blue Exorcist, Rin practises lighting which objects under Shura Kirigakure's guidance?

Candles are the test of control: Rin finally lights two on purpose, and Shura praises him while warning that his training has only begun.

In Blue Exorcist, which demon ranks strongest of the Eight Demon Kings and leads a war on the exorcists?

Lucifer needs an elixir just to keep his failing body stable, and he orders his followers not to harm Rin for fear of Satan's wrath.

Renzo Shima shocks his Blue Exorcist classmates when he is exposed as a spy for which secret organisation?

The Illuminati sent Renzo a covert invitation a year earlier, but his brother later reveals he accepted it as a double agent working under Mephisto.

In Blue Exorcist, which body part of the sealed Impure King does the traitor Saburota Todo steal?

Its left eye sat in a vault of dangerous artifacts that Todo himself directed, and stealing it marked his break with the True Cross Order.

In Blue Exorcist, Arthur Auguste Angel wields which talking demon sword that dotes on him like a lovesick girl?

Caliburn is sentient and adores its owner, who in the comedy spin-off draws it simply to destroy any dirt that gets too close to him.

In Blue Exorcist, from where does the hard-drinking exorcist Shura Kirigakure summon her demon sword in battle?

A chest tattoo releases the blade when Shura chants, and a pact her ancestor made with a snake deity means she faces death at thirty unless she has an heir.

Nemu Takara, the quiet Blue Exorcist student hired by Mephisto as the class moderator, speaks through which object?

A sock puppet does all of Nemu's talking, and it may be the one in charge: it has been heard telling its trance-like owner to calm down.

In Blue Exorcist: The Movie, the child demon Usamaro, whom Rin takes in during a festival, has which power?

Erasing memories was Usamaro's gift to villagers he loved, wiping away their sorrows until they neglected their land and an exorcist sealed him away.

In Blue Exorcist: The Movie, Rin and Yukio are sent to exorcise which haunted vehicle that runs out of control?

A train full of trapped ghosts goes wild when Rin tries to save its passengers, and one small demon slips away after the fight.

Which name, taken from the lowest of Kabbalah's four worlds, does Blue Exorcist give to the human realm?

Assiah comes last of the four worlds in Kabbalah, where its name means action, and the series pairs it with a demon realm as mirror and reflection.

Before True Cross Academy, Blue Exorcist's Rin and Yukio grow up in which kind of home with their guardian?

A monastery is the boys' home, and its priests nudge the jobless Rin into applying for work at a supermarket shortly before demons breach its walls.

Which animation house, maker of the film I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, took over the Blue Exorcist anime in 2024?

Studio VOLN was founded in 2014 by a former Madhouse producer, and its name is short for Visiting Old, Learn New.

Blue Exorcist's creator drew the idea for her story from which 2005 film by Terry Gilliam?

The Brothers Grimm casts the fairy-tale collectors as travelling con men who stage fake exorcisms, and it steered the artist towards a story of demons and exorcists.

For which giant-monster franchise did Blue Exorcist's creator design the characters of a 2021 anime series?

Godzilla Singular Point used her character designs, and that summer she paused Blue Exorcist to adapt a novel series by Fuyumi Ono as a manga.

Which South Korean boy band sings Take Off, the first ending theme of the Blue Exorcist anime?

2PM released Take Off as their first Japanese single, and from episode thirteen the closing slot passed to the actress and singer Meisa Kuroki.

Which North American publisher has released the Blue Exorcist manga in English since April 2011?

Viz Media also carried the anime on its Neon Alley streaming channel from 2012, the year after the first English volume reached shops.

Behemoth, the leashed familiar that Amaimon sets on Rin's classmates in Blue Exorcist, is which kind of demon?

A hobgoblin on a chain is the one living thing Amaimon seems to care about, and it can swell into a far larger form when ordered to fight.

Early in Blue Exorcist, which King of Rot possesses the delinquent gang leader Reiji Shiratori to attack Rin?

Astaroth is driven out of the boy by Rin's foster father, a rescue spent on a gang leader who, for all his thuggery, comes from a rich family.

In Blue Exorcist, which tiny airborne demons possess dust and fungi and swarm around people with dark natures?

Coal Tars sit at the bottom of the demon food chain, but they far outnumber every other kind and become a real threat once enough of them band together.

In Blue Exorcist, ordinary humans gain the lifelong ability to see Satan's creatures only after which experience?

A demon's wound, known as a mashou or temptaint, leaves that mark for life, so cram-school students who lack one receive it under supervision.

In Blue Exorcist, which exorcist, who preferred caring for demons to fighting them, was Rin and Yukio's mother?

Yuri Egin tried to flee the Order with her unborn twins, was captured and branded a witch, and still defiantly protected her pregnancy.