Blue Exorcist manga will be available in Shonen Jump Alpha!

Viz Media announced at its Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha panel at San Diego Comic Con on Sunday that Kazue Katō's Blue Exorcist manga series and Jūzō Kawai's Takama-ga-hara manga series will join the lineup of its digital anthology Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha. Takama-ga-hara will run weekly in the digital anthology starting on July 23. 

Viz Media will release Blue Exorcist volume 8 (pictured at right) on July 30 as a digital-first exclusive. Shonen Jump Alpha will then host two chapters of the manga past volume 8 in each issue starting on July 30. The speed-up will then catch up with the chapters in Japan on August 20. August 20's issue of Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha will contain the latest chapter of Blue Exorcist two weeks after it ran in Shueisha's Jump SQ. magazine. Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha will then host new chapters of the manga monthly two weeks after they are published in Japan.

source: ANN

Blue Exorcist movie teaser!

Thanks to *Zukof from DA



The date of premiere is still to be announced.

Blue Exorcist movie is in the works!

Jump SQ magazine will give more details this week but it is confirmed!

 'The November issue of Jump Square Magazine that goes on sale in Japan next week will formally announce the development of an Ao no Exorcist (Blue Exorcist) motion picture. The TV series has been simulcasting online, and Aniplex USA will begin distributing the TV series on American DVD next month.'

 If it's in the works already, it could be out by next year! :)

The series by Kazue Kato has exploded with popularity and success!

Blue Exorcist latest manga volume and novel in top of charts!

The 7th manga volume of this acclaimed series has sold over 432,000 copies last month, and it ranked #1 in Oricon charts.

As for the novel, titled Blue Exorcist: Weekend Hero, sold 62,000 copies in its first week. The new development was illustrated by Kazue Kato and Aya Yajima.

 Shueisha ran a first print run of one million copies for Blue Exorcist's seventh manga volume, and it was the first manga from Jump Square magazine to reach that milestone.

 Since the television anime version premiered this past April, the print runs for this manga's first printings have grown more than seven times larger. Shortly after the anime was announced, the fifth manga volume shipped with a first printing of 140,000 copies last December.

Just before the anime premiered on April 17, the sixth manga volume shipped with a 260,000-copy first printing. Due to bookstores reporting that they were selling out of earlier volumes, Shueisha decided to dramatically increase the print run for the seventh volume. Viz Media publishes the manga in North America, and Aniplex is streaming the anime.

 Source: ANN, Oricon.

The results of the July Blue Exorcist poll

Which is your favorite Blue Exorcist (Ao no Exorcist) character?

Rin Okumura 208 (69%)

Yukio Okumura 52 (17%)

Shiemi 29 (9%)

Kamiki 15 (5%)

Bon 29 (9%)

Shima 32 (10%)

Father Fujimoto 31 (10%)

Mephisto 39 (13%)

Kuro the Black Cat 57 (19%)

Satan himself 6 (2%)

Konekomaru 6 (2%)

Amaimon 65 (21%)

Other (a character in the manga that I won't spoil) 18 (6%) <----- It was Shura.

Total votes: 299