The WORST episodes of Blue Exorcist
Every episode of Blue Exorcist ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Blue Exorcist!
Humans live in the world of Assiah, demons in Gehenna. The two dimensions are not meant to interfere with each other, but demons still possess creatures in Assiah in spite of this. The humans who can fight these demons are known as exorcists. Rin Okumura is a boy who bears the curse of being Satan's illegitimate son. His foster father sacrificed himself to save him from demons. To avenge his foster father's death as well as to prove himself, Rin decides to follow the path of an exorcist and defeat his own father, Satan. To hone his raw skills, Rin enters True Cross Academy to train with other exorcist candidates.
#2 - Happy (Merry Xmas) Birthday!
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/2024
Lightning and Suguro bear witness to Section 13 as it appeared right after the Blue Night, and Mephisto reveals the truth about the research that was being conducted there. Meanwhile, Shiemi suddenly expressed her intention to decline to take the Exorcist Certification Exam and to leave the school.
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#3 - True Cross Academy Festival
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2024
True Cross Academy is busy with preparations for the school festival. Renzo Shima and Rin try to find partners to attend the music festival and dance party with, but they are continually rejected. Unwilling to give up, Rin attempts to invite Izumo. But she flat out declines because the annual Exorcist Certification Exam is approaching. However, Shiemi, who has passed the school's transfer exam and has become their classmate, appears before a completely depressed Shima and Rin.
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#4 - Hidden True Feelings
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/2024
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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#5 - Ambition
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2024
Despite the success in taking control of the Far East Laboratory, the Illuminati remain a major threat. The Knights of the True Cross repeatedly hold discussions among the higher ranks to create countermeasures. Meanwhile, Rin and the other students are informed that the Exorcism Certification Exams will now be held sooner than planned. After the events in Shimane, Suguro struggles with the fact that he's lost sight of the reason for becoming an exorcist. However, Arch Knight Lightning is appointed as a new instructor at the Exorcist Cram School...
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#6 - Pink Spider
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/17/2024
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 - Where Secrets Are
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2024
Yukio Okumura, Rin's younger twin brother and Intermediate Exorcist First Class, is summoned to a high-level inquiry meeting of the True Cross Order to be questioned about Saburota Todo, the mastermind behind the resurrection of the Impure King. Suspicious of the imposing atmosphere, Yukio recalls the words of his late adoptive father, Shiro Fujimoto. Meanwhile, the Exwires are tasked with exorcising "Mayuko of the Toilet." However, Izumo Kamiki holds a certain grudge against Shiemi Moriyama.
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#8 - Hometown
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2024
Shura suddenly goes missing. However, based on her last traces, Mephisto deduces the high possibility that Shura has returned to her hometown in Aomori Prefecture. As such, he orders Rin and Yukio to go there and search for her. After investigating, the twins arrive at Lake Towada in Aomori. Shura was facing off against Hachirotaro Okami, a powerful Hydra who claimed the large territory centered at the lake and the surrounding areas. Hachiro and his snake companions urge Shura to fulfill her promise to him.
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#10 - Determination
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2024
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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#11 - Destiny
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2024
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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#12 - The Night Before
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/2025
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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#13 - More Important Than the Body
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/2025
After his incarnation, Rinka absorbed knowledge at an incredible speed, recognizing himself as the Demon God Satan. Yuri tries to reason with Satan, who uses his power to control everything, but he refuses and disappears from Section 13. The Knights of the True Cross believe it is only a matter of time before Satan returns, since it is difficult to maintain a possessed body without the Elixir. But Yuri strengthens her resolve.
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#14 - Shiro and Yuri
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/2025
The artificial Gehenna Gate has completely opened, throwing the material world of Assiah into utter chaos as many humans have now begun to see demons. Amid everything, Yukio leaves the Knights of the True Cross and heads for the Illuminati. Rin decides that he must learn the secret of their birth. He embarks on a journey 40 years into the past with Mephisto's guidance. Rin witnesses the fated meeting between two individuals – an orphan who lives in an abandoned factory named Yuri, and a test subject from Section 13 named Shiro.
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#15 - The World's Astir
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2024
Rin Okumura, a boy aiming to become an exorcist yet born the illegitimate son of the demon god Satan, advises his classmate Sei Godaiin, who begins to see demons. Despite Rin asking Ryuji Suguro and the other Exwires attending the Exorcism Cram School for a way to make demons invisible, he is unable to find a solution. Meanwhile, Rin is invited to dinner by Mephisto Pheles, the Preceptor of the Japan Branch of the Knights of the True Cross and director of the True Cross Academy. However...
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#16 - Variant Leaves
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2024
As Lightning continues to investigate the Blue Night, he notices the names of three people. After the Blue Night, three men left the Knights of the True Cross Japan Branch and became priests living at the Southern Cross Monastery, the place where the Okumura Brothers grew up. Lightning and Suguro visit the Monastery to get a firsthand account of what happened back then. Lightning, willing to take strong measures against those who remain silent, closes in on the mystery of the Blue Night...
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#17 - If It Weren't for Me
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/2025
Yuri heads to Satan, who has holed himself up in Section 13. Satan accepts Yuri and chooses to live with her. To live together, he decides to abandon Section 13, informing his followers of his withdrawal. As Yuri prepares for their escape, she reunites with Jenny, who is working in Section 13. Upon learning about Satan and Yuri's plan to escape, Jenny plots to free the test subject children at the facility, but...
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#18 - Awakening
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2024
With the incident in Aomori concluded, things begin to calm down at the Knights of the True Cross Japan Branch. Lightning begins his investigation of the Illuminati with Suguro. Lightning suspects that there was something within the Japan Branch that was connected to the Illuminati and the "Blue Night." Meanwhile, after receiving Rin's confession, Shiemi worries that she doesn't understand the difference between "romantic love" and "friendship love." Unable to bear any further witness to this, Izumo makes a suggestion.
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#19 - I Can't Rely On Anyone
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/2024
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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#20 - Truth
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/2025
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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#22 - Hesitation
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2024
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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#23 - Satan Awakening
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/2025
Nine years have passed. During that time, Shiro, Yuri, Rick and the others gained experience and grew up. Meanwhile, in Section 13, Elixir experiments continued. Although Amaimon successfully possesses a new body, Lucifer is still unable to find a suitable body, and in his suffering, his attachment to material things grows stronger. However, in the midst of this all, a being that is "the universe itself" incarnates in a certain test subject.
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#24 - As If Begging For Tears
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/2024
With Yukio's clever wit, Rin and his friends are able to deceive Hachiro and successfully get him to break his contract with Shura. However, Hachiro loses all control in a rage, capturing Shura once more and heading toward the frozen lake. When the immortal Hachiro expresses his wish to die, Shura tells him they will sleep together forever at the bottom of the lake and embraces him. But as they sink into the lake, memories of the days she once spent with Shiro flash through Shura's mind.
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#25 - Help Me
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/3/2024
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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