The Worst Episodes of Blue Exorcist

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#1 - Truth
S5:E21/12/2025
Having lost her family in a fire and with nowhere left to go, Yuri meets Shiro, who is on the run from Section 13. Shiro is brought back by the exorcists pursuing him, and he makes a request of Mephisto. Meanwhile, Yuri is taken to the Asylum, a school for exorcists-in-training, due to her ability to see demons. As he watches the two grow up, Rin witnesses the true nature of the Asylum and Section 13.
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7.1/10(227 votes)
#2 - Proof
S1:E137/10/2011
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
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Director:Mamoru Enomoto
Writer:Ryota Yamaguchi
7.4/10(207 votes)
#3 - Gale
S1:E188/14/2011
Rin undergoes training to master his demonic flames, when a giant bird-like demon swoops in on him! After driving it away, all of the Cram School members are sent to investigate how the demon infiltrated the academy...
Director:Takahiro Harada
Writer:Ryota Yamaguchi
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Director:Takahiro Harada
Writer:Ryota Yamaguchi
7.5/10(2 votes)
#4 - Destiny
S3:E52/4/2024
Every branch of the Knights of the True Cross is thrown into chaos as Lucifer, the King of Light, declares war. At the same time, Yukio, Rin, and the other Exwires leave for Izumo's hometown in Shimane Prefecture to bring Izumo and Shima back home. Izumo has been kidnapped and confined in the Far East Laboratory, controlled by the Illuminati. As Izumo awakens, she finds Shima wearing an Illuminati uniform. Then, she also meets someone with whom she shares a deep connection.
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#5 - I Can't Rely on Anyone
S3:E62/11/2024
Takara summons Izumo's familiar, Fox God Mike, to talk about the past surrounding the Kamiki family and the Inari Taisha Shrine. Coming from a long line of shrine maidens, Tamamo, Izumo and Tsukumo's mother, serves as the head of the family who must bear the burden of controlling the fox demon, Nine Tails. Although Izumo possesses excellent divine power as a shrine maiden, she has no one she can rely on in her private life – she spends her days with her boisterous mother and younger sister. Those days fell into ruin when the Inari Light Foundation appeared and made its move.
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#6 - Hesitation
S3:E72/18/2024
Behind the façade of the Inari Tourism and Urbanization Project, the Illuminati gradually undermined the area. After learning about Izumo's past from Mike, Rin and the others head to Peace Town Inari, which they believe holds the entrance to the Illuminati's underground laboratory. Meanwhile, at the laboratory, Izumo is taken to a room where Michael Gedoin is waiting to undergo a complete medical examination. Izumo screams to create an uproar, giving her a chance to try and escape by summoning Uke and Mike. She runs away to get out of the underground laboratory – only for Renzo Shima to stand in her way.
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#7 - Determination
S3:E82/25/2024
Michael Gedoin, lost in his admiration and adoration for Lucifer, takes further action to ensure the success of his Elixir research. He devises a plan separating Rin and his team – leaving each member to fend for themselves. Although Rin faces off against a giant, grotesque Zombie in the underground laboratory's container, he hesitates to use his sword against it when he realizes the Zombie is a human corpse possessed by a demon. Yukio, Suguro, Shiemi and Konekomaru each must face off against their demons in the laboratory alone...
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#8 - Help Me
S3:E93/3/2024
With the laboratory container now destroyed, Rin and the rest of the team were able to regroup, but Michael Gedoin sets a bloated Zombie to attack them. Gedoin talks about how the Far East Laboratory is the central hub for the Elixir of Immortality experiments – exposing the truth about Peace Town Inari and enraging everyone in the process. Then, Izumo appears – heading against her will to undergo the surgical transplant of Nine Tails. Rin breaks out his Koma Sword to save Izumo. Rin punches Shima, sending him flying, for trying to prevent Rin from helping her. Rin extends a helping hand to Izumo, but...
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#9 - Friends
S3:E103/10/2024
Forcibly possessed by Nine Tails, Izumo strains her energy to cry for help as the demon's power overwhelms her. Rin answers Izumo's cry for help, exorcises the bloated Zombie and finds himself standing in the way of Michael Gedoin. Gedoin, confused and impatient with the unexpected situation, unleashes more Zombies on Rin and the others to buy time. As Yukio and the rest of the group come rushing to fight back, Izumo begins to be swallowed up by Nine Tails' madness, which she cannot subdue and is losing control.
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#10 - Pink Spider
S3:E113/17/2024
Izumo and the rest of the team succeed at thwarting the threat of the Illuminati, with the help of her mother, Tamamo. As the Knights of the True Cross gain control of Inari, the once-continuous turmoil and fighting finally calm down throughout the land. However, Renzo Shima leaves with the Illuminati as a member of their team. Suguro tries to explain that Renzo was a spy for the Illuminati to his elder brothers, Juzo and Kinzo, who've come to help from the Kyoto Branch – only to learn of an even more shocking truth from Juzo.
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#11 - Hidden True Feelings
S3:E123/24/2024
Shima returns home despite everyone thinking he had severed ties. Lightning questions his motives. Mephisto plans to face off against Lucifer. Amid these turns of events, Yukio hides that he met Lucifer in person in the Illuminati's underground facility, but Shima knows the truth. A sense of great unease grows stronger in Yukio's heart – Shima advises him to talk to somebody about it. In the meantime, Mephisto arranges for Rin and the rest of the crew to rest and relax at a spa resort in gratitude for their hard work.
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#12 - Alone
S5:E31/19/2025
Shiro believes that an exorcist's duty is to destroy demons, while Yuri believes that an exorcist's duty is to help people, and advocates for building friendly relationships with demons. Shiro, irritated by Yuri's attitude, harshly confronts her. Time passes, and the two pass their Exorcist Certification Exams. Shiro finally achieves his dream of leaving the Asylum and begins living alone and indulging in his freedom. Yuri watches on in concern, but another mission puts the two at odds once more...
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#13 - The Night Before
S5:E72/16/2025
A newborn Rin, covered in blue flames, attacked the surrounding exorcists one after another. Rin, shaken by the sight and on the verge of being overtaken by his demonic self, is sent to a certain place in the present by Mephisto. Meanwhile, Yukio, who has left the Knights of the True Cross, and Shima arrive at the Illuminati's aerial fortress, the Dominus Liminis. Accompanied by the executive in charge, Homare Todo, Yukio meets Lucifer. Simultaneously, someone from the Grigori Sedes comes to visit Shiemi.
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#14 - The Blue Night
S5:E82/23/2025
Shiemi cheers up after Rin suddenly appears before her. After hearing Shiemi's voice, Rin regains consciousness and heads back to the past to see the events all the way through. In the past, Satan's possessed body progressively deteriorates, beginning to break down and go out of control. The Blue Night begins at last. As powerful clergy around the world are engulfed in blue flames one after another, the Myodha Sect in Kyoto, the Three Sages in the Vatican, Shiro and the Knights in the Japan Branch struggle against the dire situation.
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7.5/10(2 votes)
#15 - Promise
S5:E113/16/2025
Shiro offers to leave the twins with Mephisto under the assumption that he has a plan to raise Satan’s children.
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7.6/10(208 votes)
#16 - Temptation
S1:E178/7/2011
As the hearing drags on, the Order finds itself unable to decide on Rin's fate, as Mephisto has proclaimed him to be "a weapon for counterattacking Satan." Just then, something happens…!
Director:Shinpei Ezaki
Writer:Ryota Yamaguchi
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Director:Shinpei Ezaki
Writer:Ryota Yamaguchi
7.7/10(259 votes)
#17 - Stop, Time!
S1:E2510/2/2011
Satan has transformed himself into a gigantic Gehenna Gate, and is attempting to absorb all of Assiah. Rin and Yukio, joined by Shura and Angel, attack the gate. Meanwhile, at the school, the exorcists defend against a myriad of demons.
Director:Tensai Okamura
Writer:Ryota Yamaguchi
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Director:Tensai Okamura
Writer:Ryota Yamaguchi
7.8/10(283 votes)
#18 - Brothers
S1:E35/1/2011
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
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Director:Shuji Miyahara
Writer:Natsuko Takahashi
7.8/10(252 votes)
#19 - The Phantom Chef
S1:E65/22/2011
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
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Director:Ryutaro Sakaguchi
Writer:Ryota Yamaguchi
7.8/10(243 votes)
#20 - Flock of Plovers
S1:E75/29/2011
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
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Director:Mamoru Enomoto
Writer:Natsuko Takahashi
7.8/10(246 votes)
#21 - Black Cat
S1:E106/19/2011
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.
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7.8/10(230 votes)
#22 - Demon of the Deep Seas
S1:E116/26/2011
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.
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7.8/10(204 votes)
#23 - An Ordinary Day
S1:E198/21/2011
The Exorcism Cram School students are having a ball with Shima's birthday-based fortune-telling. When they discover that Izumo's birthday is coming up, they hit upon the idea of throwing her a surprise party!
Director:Yoshiyuki Fujiwara
Writer:Ikuko Takahashi
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Director:Yoshiyuki Fujiwara
Writer:Ikuko Takahashi
7.8/10(208 votes)
#24 - Mask
S1:E208/28/2011
Southern Cross Monastery, where Rin and Yukio grew up, has come under attack by a mysterious assailant! Leaving behind these cryptic words: "I will never forgive anyone related to Satan," the masked assailant escapes...
Director:Kazuhide Kondo
Writer:Shinsuke Onishi
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Director:Kazuhide Kondo
Writer:Shinsuke Onishi
7.8/10(206 votes)
#25 - Demon Hunting
S1:E229/11/2011
In light of the recent incidents, Mephisto is dismissed from his post as director. The Order’s Supreme Advisors are ousted as well, paving the way for Ernst to become Pope. And the newly appointed Preceptor of the Japan Branch is revealed to be...
Director:Shinpei Ezaki
Writer:Ryota Yamaguchi
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Director:Shinpei Ezaki
Writer:Ryota Yamaguchi