Okay, wow. So I went into this with a sort of closed mind. This is one of the top voted shows on Crunchyroll, along with Bleach and Naruto, among others. I am a fan of Bleach, I don't like Naruto all that much, and furthermore, other shows that are ranked highly on Crunchyroll include Reborn, which I can't stand, and yet Gintama which I think is great. So it's hit-and-miss with me as far as beloved anime, but I think I just read the premise for this show and thought it was going to be terrible...
From Wikipedia: "The story revolves arround Rin Okumura, a teenager posessing abnormal strength and endurance who was raised by Father Shiro Fujimoto along his younger twin brother Yukio. Soon after Yukio departs to study at the prestigious True Cross Academy, Rin learns that both he and his brother are sons of Satan, though Yukio did not inherit the demon blood."
I was just sitting there thinking "Really? The sons of Satan?" and I had a little facepalm moment, not even thinking that Christian mythology can make for some very awesome material. I am a huge fan of Hellsing and have been watching the OVA series ever since it started being released in Japan, so for me to just write off this show due to the fact that it's Christian mythos was not the best idea, because it kept me away from the show until just yesterday. Further, a comment I read on a forum somewhere induced more facepalm when a user said that they were so glad as a Christian that a show that wasn't so atheistic or anti-god had come around, and I honestly sat there and tried to think of shows that were anti-god or atheistic, and there's a few, but most of the time it's just that they sort of don't comment on the subject. I must admit, I sort of cheer when someone like Zoro from One Piece says he doesn't believe in any god or devil, only the power of man, but I am generally not antagonistic to those of faith, so I am a little upset at myself for letting the user's comment get to me in such a way that I further avoided the show since I had painted a picture of it in my mind as being some sort of overly religious shonen drivel. Think Naruto or Bleach mixed with that '80s cartoon "The Magic Book." That's how I pictured it. And yeah, Bleach is shonen drivel, but it's my shonen drivel, damn it! Oh, and also One Piece. Damn it!
Anyway.
I finally decided to check the show out so I could do a first impressions review, thinking that I would end up watching a couple episodes and then write up a report on how it's an overrated steaming pile. It is anything but that. The show starts out simple enough, introducing the characters. Rin has no idea that he is the son of Satan, but by the end of the first episode, he is aware of the fact and being chased by demons, led by Astaroth himself, who has possessed another boy that Rin knows. So suddenly, he barely has time to come to grips with it, Rin is told that he is not a human, and that he is the son of Satan, born of a human mother. He is also told that his brother Yukio is his twin, but did not inherit any of the demonic powers. A short time after this, due to a circumstance I won't go into too much or it would spoil the fun, Rin has to leave the church where he lived with Father Shiro. He is given a cell phone with a single contact in it, and that contact is Johan Faust, who is actually Mephisto Pheles, and is the chairman of True Cross Academy, which is a prestigious private school to which Rin's brother Yukio is going to be attending. Rin is told he can either kill Mephisto and run, or he can allow Mephisto to kill him, because leaving him alive is not an option. Rin proclaims that he wants to be an Exorcist, and that he is a human in heart, and wants nothing more than to "Beat the shit out of Satan." which is understandable since his life was pretty good and normal until recently, broken to shambles by Satan, and his own Satanic powers.Mephisto, shocked by this, agrees to bring Rin to True Cross Academy, where he will learn to be an Exorcist. This is only the beginning of Rin's journey.
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