After Watching a clip of Blue Excorcist, Im interested in exploring yhe series.

I was flipping through channels at my hotel and landed on Blue Excorcist. I want to know how is it as a show and should I watch. I dont like animes where the stakes dont seem life threatening. It looked cool but I dont want to watch if people don't die or arecat least in serious danger. I quit Fire Force and Black Clover because both shows felt like more of a older kid watch (middle school) vs the serious life threatening watches (AOT, Bleach, Demon Slayer, etc.). Im in my 30's so fun loving isekai is not my vibe. Based on this rambling, should I watch or skip?

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Muted-Light-11622026-01-19 00:19

Its good. I think it was season 2 thats completely filler so skip that (double check on a filler checking site though)

Its not as good as Bleach or AOT etc. but worth checking out imo.

ActualRound76992026-01-19 00:26

There’s a lot of course correct needed here. First of all, the stakes ARE high for the characters, they feel that way to them. We the audience have the omniscient advantage In knowing whether they actually are or not.

Second, you’re watching battle shonen (battles, fighting, non stop action and stakes), it’s a sub genre of the shonen demographic. Shonen means “boys comics” so the target demographic for the broad genre of shonen is 9-18. The themes in all shonen appeal to a much wider range obviously, but that’s the target demographic.

Third, age is a weird metric to cut yourself off from titles. I’m 37m and two of my favorite shows this season are high school romance. If you have your preferences fine, but you also shouldn’t limit yourself because of your age, imo. A mature genre for you then would be Seinen since the target demographic is 18+.

Fourth, yeah people die in blue Exorcist, but whether or not it’s good is going to depend on you. Watch a few episodes and see how you feel!

MusubiKazesaru2026-01-19 01:10

I'd call it a below average series. The tricky thing in watching it is skipping the anime original arc/ending in S1 and going straight to S2. I'd say both of the shows you dropped are a good bit better.

YoungLangston2026-01-19 04:18

Then its a pass for me. Thanks.

MusubiKazesaru2026-01-19 04:28

Sure

F3arless_Bubble2026-01-19 01:51

Pass if you want life threatening. You want seinen not shonen. Thats the terminology you are looking for. Seinen are like Vinland Saga, Tokyo Ghoul, Jujutsu Kaisen.

Age is not the same as preference and that’s why this post is being downvoted lol

KendotsX2026-01-19 02:22

>Seinen are like [...] Jujutsu Kaisen.

That's a shounen. You could add K-on instead if you need a third seinen.

YoungLangston2026-01-19 04:16

I gotta look into that more. Does Solo Leveling fall into that category?

KendotsX2026-01-19 04:28

Shounen and Seinen are manga demographics. For example, JJK is from the same Shounen Jump magazine as One Piece and Dragon Ball.

Solo Leveling is a Korean manhwa. It doesn't fall under the same demographics.

MusubiKazesaru2026-01-19 04:30

Seinen, Shounen, Shoujo, and Josei are all demographics determined by the magazine that the series is serialized in. Solo Leveling is a web novel that got made into a webtoon. So it's none of them.

There's more and less mature titles from all demographics, though all of them will tend to have certain traits more than others, particularly the female demographics.

MusubiKazesaru2026-01-19 04:28

Vinland Saga was a shounen for a while too while you're at it.

YoungLangston2026-01-19 04:14

Thank you for giv8ng me the correct term. I will definitely pass then. Thanks man.

CivilSenility2026-01-19 02:11

Just watch it and decide for yourself of you like it. If you don’t, stop watching it…

abandoned_idol2026-01-19 05:22

I've seen 4 seasons of it.

It has tragedies and is very unique as far as battle shounen goes.

I'm surprised to see someone else in this thread describe Black Clover and Fire Force as better than Blue Exorcist, those 2 are clearly worse.

That said, I don't think I watched the most recent cour, they released 3 seasons back to back after a huge anime hiatus.

I'd recommend it, but it's not flawless (lots of side-arcs and side characters made it hard to remember the main plot over the course of 15 years). Probably better to watch other low hanging fruit.

Thanks for reminding me OP, I'll probably finish watching season 4 in the near future. I personally like the anime (and rarely care for battle shounen).

YoungLangston2026-01-19 19:54

Thanks for the refreshing and nuanced answer.