Blue Exorcist Volume 19 Review
Overview: Mephisto Pheles has freed his brother Amaimon form imprisonment and set him loose on True Cross Academy to serve his own agenda. While the exwires deal with Amaimon’s surprise reappearance, Lewin Light A.K.A. ” Lightning.” continues to investigate the mysterious Section 13 and its connection to the Blue Night event that seems to be the source of all the current troubles. Together they delve deep beneath True Cross Academy shedding light on long-lost chambers shrouded in darkness and the terrible secrets that were buried there for a reason..
Pages: 194 Pages
Story and Art: Kazue Kato
Lettering: John Hunt
Recommendations:
This book felt a little hollow. It tried to have a few light moments, and it tried to have a few serious moments. Neither were enough to really pull off what they wanted to accomplish with the two extremes. Part of the story is the work being done to uncover things hidden from the students, and the other part is trying to figure out who can be trusted. They are both linked, and I suspect that in future volumes we will find out some things we were not expecting.
Overall, if the episode had gone all in on being light, that would have been fine. It also would have been fine if it had gone fully serious. The combination of the two in this volume didn’t give enough of either of those areas to make this work. It left me not feeling like I got enough of either, and that left me disappointed.