7.4/10260 votes#1 - The Devil Resides in Human Souls
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/17/2011
Rin Okumura is a teenager with a natural gift to get himself in trouble. Despite that he tries his best to meet the expectations of his twin brother Yukio and Priest Shiro Fujimoto, who acts as their guardian, until he finally learns about the dark secret behind his origin.
Director: Tensai Okamura
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.7/10238 votes#2 - Gehenna Gate
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/24/2011
Fujimoto and his companions try their best to protect Rin from the demons who are after him, but he ends up posessed by Satan, the most powerful of the demons and Rin's father. Seeing his guardian taking his own life to protect him fron Satan, Rin decides to fight back by unlocking his demonic powers, even knowing that by doing it he would not be a human anymore.
Director: Tadahito Matsubayashi
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.4/10220 votes#3 - Brothers
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/2011
As part of his training to become an Exorcist, Rin gets himself enrolled at the True Cross Academy. On his first day of classes, Rin becomes shocked to know that his twin brother Yukio is already an Exorcist and will be one of his teachers.
Director: Shuji Miyahara
Writer: Natsuko Takahashi
7.3/10209 votes#4 - Garden of Amahara
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/8/2011
Yukio sets out to the school's Exorcist-only shop to stock on some supplies along with Rin. There they find that the owner's daughter, Shiemi Moriyama, is being afflicted by a demon that dwells in her family's garden and, to save her life, they confront it by themselves.
Director: Junichi Sakata
Writer: Shinsuke Onishi
7.4/10211 votes#5 - A Boy From the Cursed Temple
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/15/2011
Having Shiemi as a new classmate, Rin's total disregard for classes brings forth the anger of another classmate of his, Ryuji Suguro, aka "Bon". After learning of Bon's story, Rin finds that they have more in common than he would like to admit.
Director: Toshimasa Kuroyanagi
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.2/10200 votes#6 - The Phantom Chef
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/22/2011
Rin and Yukio find that the responsible for their meals at the dormitory was Ukoback, a cooking familiar appointed by Mephisto Pheles to aid them. They also learn how Ukoback can be troublesome when he gets angry.
Director: Ryutaro Sakaguchi
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.4/10189 votes#7 - Flock of Plovers
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/29/2011
Eager to make new friendships, Shiemi asks her classmate Izumo Kamiki to be her friend and she pretends to agree, but Rin soon realizes Izumo is just taking advantage of Shiemi's kindness instead. Later, the students are reunited at the old dormitory to take part in the Exwire exam, where a demon attacks Izumo and her friend Paku by surprise and it's up to Rin and Shiemi to protect them.
Director: Mamoru Enomoto
Writer: Natsuko Takahashi
7.4/10190 votes#8 - Now a Certain Man was Sick
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/5/2011
Still troubled after her friend Paku decides to leave the Exorcist lessons, Kamiki gets involved in a fight with Bon and the entire class end up punished by Yukio. Just after Yukio leaves for a mission, the students are attacked by another ghoul and while trying to help the others, Rin learns that the monster was sent by one of his teachers who wanted to confirm that he is the son of Satan.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10185 votes#9 - Memories
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/12/2011
Mephisto Pheles reveals to the students that the ghoul attack was actually part of the Esquire exam and how they dealt with the threat will count as part of their evaluation. Yukio confronts Neuhaus about his reasons to force Rin to use his demonic powers during the exam and he claims that all he did was under Mephisto's orders. However, it does not take much for Yukio to realize Neuhaus' real intentions.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10194 votes#10 - Black Cat
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/19/2011
Blacky went beserk when she heard the Father Shiro died and kept telling the exorcists that they were all lying about his death though only Rin could understand her (He said it may because they are both demons). When Yukio was about to use the item that Father Shiro gave him before if ever this scenario happens, Rin told him to let him calm Blacky down. In the end, Blacky accepted the fact that Father Shiro died and Rin and Yukio found out that the item that Father Shiro gave Yukio was actually his catnip wine.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10179 votes#11 - Demon of the Deep Seas
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/26/2011
Rin and his classmates Izumo and Shima are sent for their first mission as Exwires to a coast town aflicted by the presence of a Kraken. Izumo stumbles upon a boy whose father set to face the Kraken six months before and is still missing. The boy plans to enact his revenge against the creature as he believes it killed his father, but he and the Exwires find out what really happened when they encounter it, much to their surprise.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10186 votes#12 - A Game of Tag
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/3/2011
The Exwires are tasked to look for the ghost of a child that is haunting Mephisto Pheles' amusement park. Rin and Shiemi manage to find the ghost first, but Shiemi ends up chasing it by herself while Amaimon, a higher demon and another son of Satan, steals Rin's sword and forces Rin to fight with him. Mean while another exorcist comes to defend him, and it is reveal to be an old friend of Rin's brother.
Director: Tadahito Matsubayashi
Writer: Ikuko Takahashi
7.4/10180 votes#13 - Proof
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/10/2011
Shura Kirigakure, a high level Exorcist and former apprentice of Father Shiro was acting as one of Rin's classmates tasked to investigate his connection with Satan. With orders to kill him if it were proven true, she is divided between fulfill her obligations and follow Shiro's request to look after Rin in his place if something would happen with him. Her doubts are cleared when she confronts Rin and finds that Shiro was actually raising him like a son instead of a weapon.
Director: Mamoru Enomoto
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.5/10173 votes#14 - A Fun Camping Trip
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/17/2011
The first semester has ended, signaling the start of summer vacation for True Cross Academy students. But there’s no rest in sight for Rin and the other ExWires: first they must take part in a 3-day drill to prepare them for actual combat, under the guise of a camping trip out in the forest.
Director: Ryutaro Sakaguchi
Writer: Ikuko Takahashi
7.9/10191 votes#15 - An Act of Kindness
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 7/24/2011
Rin and his classmates succeed at the task gave to them by their teachers, but the camp is attacked by Amaimon, who holds Shiemi hostage to force Rin to fight. Having no option but to go full force against Amaimon, Rin is forced to reveal his secret by exposing his true form in front of his friends. With the other Exwires fleeing astonished after learning the truth about him, Rin easily overpowers Amaimon, but loses control of his flames and goes on a rampage. The Demon-Slaying Blade is cracked in the process.
Director: Toshimasa Kuroyanagi
Writer: Ikuko Takahashi
7.4/10170 votes#16 - The Wager
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/31/2011
Shiemi manages to calm down Rin, who is captured by Arthur Auguste Angel, the current paladin, and taken to the True Cross Order Headquarters in the Vatican along Shura and Mephisto Pheles. Meanwhile, Rin's classmates become astonished when Yukio reveals to them that he and his brother are sons of Satan, but offer their help regardless, and they set for Kyoto looking for the descendant of the swordsmith who forged the Demon-Slaying Blade to have it fixed. Before the Order's upper echelons, Mephisto states that his reason for keeping Rin alive is to have him confront Satan, and just when he is trying to convince them to agree to his plan, an enraged Amaimon breaks in, eager to confront Rin once more.
Director: Junichi Sakata
Writer: Shinsuke Onishi
7.3/10166 votes#17 - Temptation
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 8/7/2011
Easily breaking through all defenses, Amaimon reaches the room where Rin is being held and Mephisto convinces the Grigori to agree with his plan. Using the reforged Demon-Slaying Blade brought by his classmates, Rin defeats Amaimon and the Grigori decides that he has six months to pass the Exorcist authorization exam, thus he begins a special training to learn to control his flames. Despite they helped Rin by having his sword fixed, some of his classmates still has some mixed feelings about him after learning of his connection with Satan, the most awkward of them being Konekomaru, who is approached by a dark presence attracted by his fear.
Director: Shinpei Ezaki
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.1/10166 votes#18 - Gale
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 8/14/2011
Rin and Kamiki are attacked by an unknown enemy and Mephisto Pheles orders the Exwires to check the barriers protecting the school looking for any breach. The enemy is revealed to be a demon who took advantage of Konekomaru's fears to infiltrate the Academy. Meanwhile, Shura locates a hidden door leading to a suspicious abandoned lab. When Konekomaru's heart succumbs to the demon, his friends rush to help him, and Rin manages to slay the monster and save his life. Ashamed of causing so much trouble, Konekomaru decides to leave the Academy and return home, but Rin and the rest of his friends reach him before he departs and convince him to stay.
Director: Takahiro Harada
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.0/10163 votes#19 - An Ordinary Day
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 8/21/2011
The Exwires learn that Kamiki's birthday is coming and they decide to make a surprise party to her. Despite all their efforts to make the party a secret, Kamiki ends up figuring the truth and claims that it should also be dedicated to those whose birthday already passed too. In the end, the party becomes a celebration to everyone's friendship.
Director: Yoshiyuki Fujiwara
Writer: Ikuko Takahashi
7.3/10167 votes#20 - Mask
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/28/2011
Rin and Yukio find that their friends from the monastery where they were raised where attacked by a masked individual who covered their entire bodies with an seemingly indestructible spider web. While pursuing the culprit, whose objective is to attack anyone related to the son of Satan to make him suffer, Yukio stumbles into Neuhaus who flees without further explanation. Despite having his sword sealed by the web, Rin insists to go after the masked one but is held back by Yukio and Shura, until he gets word that his Suguro, Renzo and Konekomaru are being attacked too and rushes to help them. By managing to control his flames properly, Rin defeats the attacker, who flees thanks to Neuhaus who reveals her to be his wife, and safely releases his friends.
Director: Kazuhide Kondo
Writer: Shinsuke Onishi
7.3/10165 votes#21 - Secret Garden
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/4/2011
Shiemi in the Exorcist Shop finds a woman lying unconscious in their garden. Meanwhile, Yukio meets an old man on a train, who claims to be his grandfather, and reveals the truth about their Mother who was burnt alive by the Vatican proclaiming her to be a witch. He takes Yukio to a secret anti-demon Dragoon Laboratory and suggests Yukio to join him now that Shiro is dead and Mephisto has been arrested. Prof. Neuhaus is being interrogated in the Academy's Great Cell by Shura where he tells everyone(including Rin) that his wife,(Masked Man) Michelle, is nothing but a corpse with a certain demon in her body, intending to kill Satan but she was not resurrected from death by him. Rin finds out the woman in the garden to be Neuhaus' wife but Shiemi stops him from killing her. Paladin Angel appears in the garden to kill the demon but confronts Rin. Later, Michelle dies protecting Rin from the Order.
Director: Ryutaro Sakaguchi
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.3/10164 votes#22 - Demon Hunting
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/11/2011
Ernst takes over as the True Cross' newest leader and appoints Yukio as the new Paladin. Armed with special weapons that drain the blood of the demons killed with them, the exorcists take part in a widespread crusade to erase all demons from Assiah. Rin and his friends start questioning why the order decided to take such extreme measures, but Yukio is determined to accomplish his task as Ernst claims that it is all part of their plan to destroy Gehenna, and with the Demon world vanquished, both he and his brother would become completely human again. However, Ernst's real objective is revealed when he uses Rin as a human sacrifice to bring Satan to the Human World, using Yukio's body as a vessel.
Director: Shinpei Ezaki
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.6/10172 votes#23 - Truth
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/18/2011
Ernst's plan to destroy Gehenna backfires when Satan reveals to Yukio the truth behind his and his brother's origin before taking posession of his body.
Director: Mamoru Enomoto
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.6/10168 votes#24 - Satan's Spawn
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/25/2011
Rin and his companions manage to flee from Satan who starts destroying the True Cross Academy with his flames. Knowing that Satan still stands beside the Gate because Rin has the power to destroy it, Shura comes up with a plan to distract him to give Rin an opening to do it, while the other students help evacuate the school. Their plan fails when Shiemi intervenes trying to dissuade Yukio with no success, but Rin manages to have his brother regain conscience and expel Satan from his body. However, the gate keeps getting stronger and it will not be long for Gehenna and Assiah to merge into one single realm.
Director: Toshimasa Kuroyanagi
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
7.9/10208 votes#25 - Stop, Time!
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/2/2011
Rin, Yukio, Shura and Arthur join forces to bring down the Gehenna Gate with no success. Meanwhile, demons keep coming through it and giving a hard time to the other Exorcists until the Esquires come with a plan to open a gate to Vatican, where is already daytime, and reflect the sunlight there to the Academy where is nightime to weaken the monsters protecting the Gehenna Gate. Rin and Yukio manage to seize these opportunity and when both unlock their demonic powers together, they fly through the gate and destroy it. One month later, things return to normal at the Academy and the Okumura twins return to the cave where they were given birth and pay a visit to their mother's grave. After visiting their mother's grave, they meet an "evil spirit" in a highway. Rin appears from a highway cave with Kuro. The evil spirit then attacks Rin and Yukio. Rin destroys the evil spirit's first body and then the spirit takes control over a truck. Yukio shoots at the truck, Rin tell hims that there is somebody in the truck. Yukio says its just a dead corpse, but Rin believes the driver is still alive and that it's an Exorcist's job to protect people and defend against demons. He tells Yukio and Shura to find its weak point and charges after the monster.
Director: Tensai Okamura
Writer: Ryota Yamaguchi
The Best Episodes of Blue Exorcist Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Devil Resides in Human Souls" is the best rated episode of "Blue Exorcist" season 1. It scored 7.4/10 based on 260 votes. Directed by Tensai Okamura and written by Ryota Yamaguchi, it aired on 4/17/2011. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Gehenna Gate".